Thursday night’s philanthropic sausage eating event was incredible. Not only did we raise a hell of a lot of money for the FLY Children’s Art Center, but we had a damn good time doing it. Following are my somewhat disjointed and admittedly incomplete notes, interspersed with whatever images, audio and video I’ve been able to […]
Posted in Food, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Arbor Brewing, arts education, beards, Brad Perkins, cheating, Chris Sandon, Cre Fuller, eating challenges, FLY Children's Art Center, FLY Creativity Lab, food television, FOX News, fundraisers, Jake Morgan, James Engman, Jason Youngs, Jay Zocher, Jesse Kranyak, Julian Weisensel, Justin O'Neill, Knifebeard Sausagehawk, knitted beard, Kristin Schrader, Linette Lao, Mark in the press, Meg Miramontes, Melissa Wingett, Morgan Cox, neck beard, New Holland Brewing, Paul Schreiber, people we know from television, pork, roller derby, Susan Martin, television, Terry Londy, tofu sausage, VG Kids, vomit, WEMU, Wurst Bar, Wurst Challenge, WWJ, WXYZ |
By Mark | January 1, 2014
I received the best compliment in my life a few days ago. A stranger approached me on the street, looked me right in the eye, and said, “I appreciate your beard.” He didn’t say, “I like your beard.” He didn’t say that my beard was, “cool.” He said that he appreciated it. It was like […]
By Mark | November 30, 2009
I was sitting at the bar at Haab’s a few weeks ago, enjoying a beer, when thickly-bearded local troubadour Patrick Elkins sidled up alongside me and whispered in my ear that, at that very moment, a crew was assembled at the Dreamland Theater, busily working on a “Mark Maynard puppet.” Or, he may have said […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Shadow Art Fair, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Anthony Hopkins, ball shaving, Doug Skinner, Dreamland Theater, Fats, History of Ypsilanti puppet show, Magic, man boobs, Mark Maynard puppet, Mark's perceived enemies, Michigan Design Militia, Naia Venturi, Patrick Elkins, portrayals of Mark Maynard in popular culture, puppet me, thickly-bearded local troubadours |
