I know there are other things that we should probably be talking about right now, like the “wall of moms” in Portland or the flood of disinformation headed our way about vote-by-mail, but I feel, for the sake of my sanity, the I need to step back, and write about other stuff for a while. […]
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Mark’s Covid Diary… July 26, 2020
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, anxiety, Arlo, assassination, astronauts, Bad Day at Black Rock, black lives matter, business wig, Columbo, coronavirus, COVID-19, Detroit Tigers, Donald Trump, fuck, fuck the police, Greenfield Village, haircut, hammock, Henry Ford Museum, JFK assassination, John Dillinger, John F. Kennedy, last breath, leaf blower, Linette, Mark's health, OCD, pandemic, parenting, Pearl Harbor, Portland, racism, Smithsonian Institution, Spencer Tracy, Starkweather Chapel, Thankful Maynard, The Three Investigators, Thomas Edison, Three Investigators, Video Games, vote by mail, walking, wall of moms, Ypsilanti Farm Bureau 18 Comments
The neon sign from my grandfather’s old bike shop is once again hanging in Frankfort
Remember how, a few days ago, I told you that the site of my paternal grandfather’s old bicycle shop in Frankfort, Kentucky had recently been reopened as a brewery? Well, since I posted that, I’ve come into possession of two more photos. The first is of my grandfather, Augustus Charles Maynard, counting change at the […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged Bing Crosby, Charles Augustus Maynard, Cycle Center, Don Knotts, family history, Frankfort, Goodwood Brewing, Kentucky, Mark's ancestors, neon 7 Comments
Telling shit from Shinola… It’s not as easy as you might think
I don’t think I’ve ever weighed in one way or the other on Shinola, the somewhat controversial Detroit-based marketer of expensive watches, bicycles and notebooks. As I recall, I may have once noted how incredibly douchey I found the spectacle of four economic development professionals, at some point during a public forum on the future […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit, Uncategorized Also tagged authenticity, Bedrock Manufacturin, bougie crap, cultural appropriation, Fossil, gentrification, handmade, luxury goods, manufacturing, marketing, Rebekah Modrak, Shinola, Tom Kartsotis, watches 92 Comments