By Mark | February 29, 2020
About a year or so ago, when I was done interviewing Sean Tejaratchi, the man behind Crap Hound, for my History of Zines project, I asked him who else I should be talking with from Portland’s golden age of self-publishing, and he suggested that I try to track down Dan M. and Alex Hubbard, who […]
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alex Hubbard, Alvadore, anthropology, bellboy, big death, Bill Brisko, Chloe Eudaly, clip art, cot, coworkers, Crap Hound, dead bodies, Death, donuts, Drawbridge Inn, Ford Galaxy, funeral home, funeral homes, Glenn Dixon, hearse, History of Zines, Joe Snell, Kalon Cream, Kinko's, Lewis & Clark College, Loewen, magnets, minivan, mortuary science, photocopying, Portland, Reading Frenzy, Sean Tejaratchi, Six Feet Under, the death industry, The Removal Technician, The Untold History of Zines, theft, zines |
I was woken up at a little before 7:00 AM this morning to the sound of an explosion. Linette pushed me out of bed, telling me to check on Clementine. She was sure, given the ferocity of the blast, that a tree had fallen across the back of our house, and she was fearing the […]
By Mark | September 10, 2015
This evening, after getting home from work, I took my dog for a walk. We were making pretty good time along the route we usually take, until we reached the intersection of Michigan Avenue and South Washington Street, when we were approached by a local business owner who wanted to talk about the upcoming vote […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged bad police work, car accidents, car crushing, crash, death by cop, fear of death, Michigan Avenue, mortality, South Washington Street, speeding, Tap Room, Ypsilanti police department |
By Mark | November 3, 2014
The weekend before last marked the 20th meeting of my one-day-a-year audio art collaborative, 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, […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged bad luck, blue green algae, Brooklyn, bulldoze the suburbs, Chemlawn, Cupcake Fistfight, Fireball Whiskey, fringe suburbs, good luck, lakes, songs, suburbs, Water Street Sculpture Park |
11:00 Super busy. No time to write…. Someone must have smuggled in a cello or something. I can hear it coming from across the room, and it sounds great. 8:44 I’ve got great videos that I want to post, but it looks like my camera battery has died… I’m pissed off. 6:20 The special Shadow […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Crimewave USA, Food, Local Business, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Shadow Art Fair, Ypsilanti | Also tagged bag lunch, bathroom interview, Cd. Juarez es the # 1, cycle powered cinema, dollar dozer, interview, Juarez, money hole, My Life in Ypsi, Ryan, severed heads, Shadow Brew, Zingerman's |
