By Mark | November 6, 2018
9:00 AM I’m home with a sick kid, so thing may not go as planned, but I’m hoping to vote soon, and then head back home to do some remote phone banking through Swing Left for Amy McGrath, the Democratic candidate for Kentucky’s 6th district, which covers Frankfort, where I lived as a baby, Georgetown, […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged ACA, Adam Schiff, Amy McGrath, Andy LaBarre, Arlo, Atlanta, Bill Schuette, Black Panther Party, Brian Kemp, Clementine, Congress, Dave Trott, Debbie Stabenow, Devin Nunes, Donald Trump, Election Day, election interference, election reform, election results, elections, Elissa Slotkin, fake news, Georgia, get out the vote, Gretchen Driskell, Haley Stevens, health care, House Intelligence Committee, Jeff Irwin, Kansas, Kentucky, Kris Kobach, Landline, Lena Epstein, Michigan's 11th congressional district, Michigan's 7th Congressional District, Michigan's 8th Congressional District, midterm elections, Mike Bishop, Pennsylvania, Peter Larson, phone banking, Piss Alley Rollers, Pita Pita, play structure, Pod Save America, political violence, racism, Riverside Park, Rust Belt, Sidetrack, Snellville, Stacey Abrams, Swing Left, Ted Cruz, Tim Walberg, voter fraud, voter suppression, voting, Wisconsin |
By Mark | February 11, 2018
I’ve now been with Linette for exactly half my life. Today marks not only the 50th anniversary of my birth, but the 25th anniversary of our first date. Saying that I shouldn’t just be sitting around the house on my 25th birthday, Linette drove out to Ann Arbor, picked me up, and took me for […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 25, AARP, Abbott and Costello, Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein, Arlo, birthdays, bowling ball, bowling league, Citizen Kane, Clementine, depression, Dinner at Eight, Dorothy Avery, it sucks getting old, John Farres, Ken Boyd, knitting, Mark's birthday, monsters, OCD, Orson Welles, Piss Alley Rollers, Super Sweet Social Bowling League, Tracy Wells, Webber's, Wixom, Zsa Zsa Gabor |
By Mark | October 8, 2015
Michigan filmmaker Donald Harrison, who, up until recently, ran the Ann Arbor Film Festival, just recently purchased a home in Ypsilanti, and made the move east from Ann Arbor. Here’s our official immigration interview. MARK: Remind me when we first met… It’s been well over a decade ago now, right? DONALD: Indeed, I remember first […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Awesome Foundation, Crimewave USA, Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged A League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Charlie Chaplin, dating, Detroit Bowling Hall of Fame, Donald Harrison, Film, Harry Houdini, Henrietta Fahrenheit, Jennifer Albaum, Many Voices, Monticello, ping pong, public transportation, Risa Gotlib, San Francisco, Sharad Patel, Southfield, Super Sweet Social Bowling League, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Tyler Weston, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ypsi immigration interview |
By Mark | August 16, 2015
What would you do if, in the early morning hours, before anyone was out and about, you found a bowling ball in the middle of a Depot Town sidewalk while walking your dog? Would you A) seize the opportunity, do your best Fred Flintstone impersonation, and hurl it down the sidewalk with giddy abandon? Or […]
I try not to rant too much here. Believe it or not, I restrain myself for the most part. I try, as best as I can, to limit my posts to subjects where I believe I have positive, constructive things to add. That’s not so much the case tonight, though. There’s nothing positive left to […]
Posted in History, Mark's Life, Rants, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1964, fast food, Golfside, good design, hideous places, historic preservation, local economy, retaining Ypsi businesses, sense of place, sign museum, South Dakota, Starkweather House, Washtenaw Avenue, Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners, Wes Prater, Ypsi Arbor Bowl, Ypsilanti Historical Society |
