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 […]
Tag Archives: Black Mirror
Finding out that she only loves you for your corpse…
Someone should remake Love American Style for the modern era the same way that Charlie Brooker brought back the Twilight Zone for a new generation in the form of Black Mirror… And the first episode, I think, should draw its inspiration from the following story. If you haven’t read the news, it would appear that […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized Also tagged Afton Elaine Burton, Charles Manson, Charlie Brooker, corpses on display, Love American Style, marriage, Twilight Zone, Valentine's Day 9 Comments
Krampus 2014 recap
Late last week, I got a call from a writer at National Geographic. She wanted to know why the people of Ypsilanti had decided, five years ago, to summon the spirit of Krampus back to earth. Now that Krampus events are becoming more commonplace around the United States, she wanted to find out where it […]
Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Brian Bruxvoort, Casey Dawson, Charlie Brown, cloven hooves, Corner brewery, Daily Nightmare, Devil worship, Dirty Snowball Sundaes, Dreamland Theater, faces on fire, Go Ice Cream, ice cream, Jessica Sheeran, Jim Leach, Krampus, Krampus Ball, Mike Perini, National Geographic, Pandora's Lunchbox, Peanuts on Ice, Rhyta Musik, Ryan Dawson, war on Christmas, White Bear 19 Comments
If we hadn’t killed the Shadow Art Fair, this is what it would have become
Thank you, Banksy, for keeping the dream alive with Dismaland. And, no, I don’t really think that my Shadow Art friends and I could have pulled off anything this ambitious. I do think, however, that this was the direction in which we were trending… dark social commentary. I recall several meetings, for instance, where we […]