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 […]
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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 […]
As usual, Emi Slade killed it at this year’s Shadow Art Fair. She calls this one Captain Beefheart. I don’t know how well he did sales-wise, but it looked like our friend Marty “the lighthearted sadist” Flint was having fun introducing young and old alike to the world of bondage. Bearded local librarian Ben Miller […]
Posted in Shadow Art Fair | Also tagged Andy Claydon, Ben Miller, Captain Beefheart, Corner brewery, Cre Fuller, Crimespree, Crimewave, Cthulhu, Dreamland Theater, Emi Slade, exposed sex organs, fax, five-headed shadow creature, fortune telling, Heidelberg Project Mobile Photo Video Booth, hermaphrodite, Jason Voss, Jessica Sheeran, Jim Cherewick, John Zeichman, loaves of bread that look like Mark Maynard, MFRN, Micah Loyd, Midwest Feminist Revolutionary Network, Naia Venturi, pain, puppets, sex organs, stuffed animals, Thom Elliott, Tim Furstnau, Tyree Guyton, Vinnie Massimino’s Fax Party |
I don’t want to take on one more project, so this idea is free to anyone who wants it… Next year, there should be a Totally Awesome Feast in conjunction with Totally Awesome Fest. We should close a street and do it up right. Maybe cook a tofu pig in a pit, or something. As […]
Posted in Food, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged beard basket, cooking with beards, local food, local food production, Mark's big ideas, Patrick Elkins, photos of men with beards, the local food army, thickly-bearded local troubadours, Totally Awesome Feast, Totally Awesome Fest |
10:29 AM Who knows what the future holds, but, for now, I’m going to be working the first formal complaint booth at the Shadow Art Fair. Complaints are just $1 a piece, unless you require that action be taken, which costs an additional $4. (After ignoring complaints for the first 12 Shadows, it felt like […]
Posted in Shadow Art Fair, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Alfonso, book ideas, business ideas, complaints, Corner brewery, Coupon, Dustin Krcatovich, Elbow Deep, gay, Gay Baby Names, John Maggie, Johnny Apricot, Mark's big ideas, Nathan Hoste, Patrick Elkins, poop, pooping wizard, The Rocket, Woodruff's |