By Mark | October 24, 2016
This past weekend marked the 22nd meeting of my one-day-a-year pseudo-band, the Monkey Power Trio. For those of you who might not be familiar with our origin story, it all began back in 1995 with a promise between old friends one hot, summer afternoon in Brooklyn. On the spur of the moment, we’d decided to […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Monkey Power Trio, Observations, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, aging, Black Mirror, Brooklyn, bulldoze the suburbs, Carrol Gardens, celebrity sighting, Cherokee, collaboration, community watch, conservatives, creative process, Dan Richardson, Dave Miller, dead birds, depressing stuff, Donald Trump, exurban, Forsyth County, Foxy, fringe suburbs, Georgia, golf carts, Hillary Clinton, Jim Cherewick, Kellie, Left Behind, Linette Lao, litany of ailments, Mark Maynard, marriage, Matt Krizowsky, McMansions, Mike Bell, Monkey Power Trio, neighborhood watch, old friends, Pelican Cove, Phil Hendrie, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, psychic abilities, Pussy Grabber, Queen Latifah, racism, suburbs, Summing, The First Hour, tradition, Trail of Tears, weddings |
I had the occasion a few months ago, when doing some research into “the ham of my people” (country ham with redeye gravy), to stumble onto the work of Amy C. Evans, the award-winning, Mississippi-based oral historian of the Southern Foodways Alliance. On a whim, I sent her a random collection of questions, and, as […]
Posted in Food, History, Mark's Life, Other | Also tagged A. L. "Unk" Quick, Alisa Lay, Allan Benton, American Studies, Apalachicola, Atlanta, Bacon, Bill Tinker, boudin, Burger King, Caju, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, chicken, Collins Oyster Company, country ham, crawfish, Crawfish Shack Seafood, documentary film, Down the Bayou, Edna Stewart, Florida, Florida’s Forgotten Coast, fried chicken, Georgia, Gloria Quick, gumbo, Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken, ham, Hieu Pham, Hurricane Katrina, Joe York, John Saucier, Kentucky, Leann Hines, Levee Run Farm, Liberty, Louisiana, Memphis, Mimi Gladys, Mississippi, New Orleans, Oral History Association, pork, remoulade, satsumas, Saucier’s Sausage Kitchen, sausage, SFA Founders’ Oral History Project, Souther Foodways Alliance, Southern Boudin Trail, southern food, Southern Studies, Sugarcane, tamale, Tennessee, the south, University of Mississippi, Vietnamese food |
In spite of what I may have told you, I didn’t just fly into San Antonio a few days ago to piss on the Alamo, and then immediately return home. As much as I like the idea of zipping into a city, pissing all over their most sacred public artifact, and then zipping right back […]
Posted in Mark's Life | Also tagged 1863, 1919, abandonment, Abraham Lincoln, Alamo, Alex Rattray, Arlo, Blue Star Arts Complex, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, cocktails, coonskin caps, FDR, fertility, Gary Sweeney, Gillian Fassel, goat gland, goat testicles, goats, Great Depression, Greg Hischak, infertility, Jennifer Albaum, John R. Brinkley, Lindsay Martin, Linette, Meat Loaf, morphine, musicals, Ozzy, Pee Wee Herman, pissing on things, plays, quackery, R. Kelly, Roads Courageous, San Antonio, San Pedro Playhouse, Santa Anna, slavery, sloppy joes, snake oil, speakeasy, testicles, Texas, The Granary ‘Cue & Brew, theater, Tim Rattray, Trapped in the Closet, travel, travel tips, William Barret Travis, Wolfman Jack |
By Mark | September 3, 2009
Clementine said this to me as we were walking into a barbecue place tonight for dinner. I was imagining a big plate of ribs, and she just kind of blurted it out as I reached for the doorknob. Earlier, I’d been telling her how, because of my bad back, I had to exercise more and […]
