By Mark | February 11, 2017
The above photo of my mom and dad, I’m told, was taken when my mother was about six months pregnant. So, according to WebMD, my skin would have still been transparent, and I would have just been starting to produce white blood cells to help fight disease and infection. My parents, as you can see, […]
By Mark | November 25, 2016
A few years ago, I made the decision not to write anything new for Thanksgiving, but, instead, to recycle something that I’d written the year before. And, ever since then, I’ve been posting the same damn thing. Well, here it is again. I was tempted to remove some of the old references, and replace them […]
Remember how, several months ago, I told you that a 25 year old video of my Ann Arbor noise band, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, had surfaced in Oregon, and how music journalist Dustin Krcatovich had made it his mission in life to track it down? Well, he was apparently successful. After teasing me with a few […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, History, Mark's Life, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged Blackjack Records, cultural artifact, Dan Richardson, Dustin Krcatovich, exploding lawnmowers, Fears of Practice, historic artifacts, Matt Krizowsky, Miles Larson, Old Town, Pat Maynard, Pete Larson, Peter Larson, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, property theft, Rick Snyder, Scott Derr, Skink, The Collector, Wolf Eyes |
I don’t want to suggest that my kids have never heard me laugh. They have. In fact, I laugh quite often, in my own little way. I shake my head and chuckle. I occasionally allow a guffaw to escape. I don’t think that my son and daughter have ever had the occasion to hear me […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio | Also tagged Arlo, Clementine, Cleveland, crying, Dan Richardson, Fred, Jeff Kay, laughing, laughter, Ma Florian, Mark Maynard Archives, Monkey Power Trio, Newton High School |
By Mark | December 4, 2012
A year ago yesterday, Linette and I we welcomed our son Arlo into the world. Like his sister, once he made up his mind that he wanted to join us, he came shooting down the birth canal like a rocket. I think I must have mentioned it here before, but, eight years ago, when Linette […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Photographs, Uncategorized | Also tagged Arlo, Arlo Gutherie, baby names, birthdays, circumcision, Clementine, Curtis Florian, Friday Night Lights, home birth, Linette, Mark's penis, midwifery, miscarriage, natural childbirth, penises, Photobooth, tintype, water birth |
