By Mark | December 1, 2020
My son Arlo turns 9 years old today. This (above) is what he looks like these days. This was taken a few days ago on one of our long, late morning walks around Ypsilanti between his two online class periods. I suspect, at some point, he’ll tire of hanging around with me, but, as of […]
By Mark | August 25, 2018
At some point during the 1952 thriller Sudden Fear, Joan Crawford breaks into the apartment of her husband’s lover with the intention of stealing both a gun, and a sample of the woman’s handwriting. While I’ve watched the scene a number of times, it hadn’t occurred to me until last night to actually slow the […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged David Miller, film noir, Gloria Grahame, horse racing, horses, It's a Wonderful Life, Jack Palance, Joan Crawford, Mark's big ideas, Mildred Pierce, movie recommendations, murder, Sudden Fear, Violet Bick |
I’ve always known that one day I’d write a children’s book. I didn’t know until today, however, when I read the news story about the raccoon spotted riding on an alligator’s back through a Florida swamp, what it would be about. The image accompanying the article immediately brought to mind the weasel who flew a […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects | Also tagged Boon the Raccoon and Easel the Weasel, Cannonball Run, carnivores, children, children's books, crazy ideas that just might work, death pact, Mark's big ideas, raccoons, suicide, suicide by alligator, Thelma and Louise, weasels |
By Mark | October 19, 2014
As a rule, I try not to talk about local businesses unless I have something good to say about them, which is why, over the 12 years or so that I’ve been posting here, I’ve never mentioned the “agri-entertainment complex” that is Wiard’s. Call me old fashioned, but I like my cider mills without paintball, […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged agri-entertainment, apple cannons, apples, Arlo, Batavia, cider mills, Clementine, dollar store Disney, donuts, Everett Wiard, furries, George Wiard, haunted houses, hayrides, human dalmatians, Lyman Wiard, mineral water, New York, Night Terrors, orchards, paintball, panic attacks, scare-tainment, soda, Thomas Wiard, Wiard, Wiard Plow Company, Wiard's, Willow Run, Willow Run Bomber Plant, Ypsilanti Bottling Works, Ypsilanti's Mineral Water Sanitariums |
By Mark | January 22, 2014
I spent much of this past weekend cleaning house. In the process, I found the following: An old drawing that I did of Linette, which I think is really beautiful, and surprisingly accurate. My old favorite photo of myself, which I thought that I’d lost forever. (I don’t believe they still make the synthetic silk […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Photographs, Uncategorized | Also tagged children's literature, Clementine, cool drawings, Corner brewery, fake IDs, giants, Linette, Mark Maynard Archives, Mark's big ideas, pet euthanasia, photos of Mark, Santa Claus, sexy photos of Mark, Shadow Art Fair, strangers, switchblade, young Mark |