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Shall we have a mayoral debate on Water Street?

By Mark | April 16, 2014

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been approached by several people wanting to know if I had plans to host a mayoral debate prior to the Democratic primary. It would seem that, since I’ve helped to put a few together in the past, people kind of assume that I’ll be doing it again. The truth […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Amanda Edmonds, debates, elections, mayoral debate, Pete Murdock, Water Street, Water Street Commons, Ypsilanti City Council, YpsiVotes | 17 Comments

Shadow Art Fair performances announced

By Mark | July 11, 2013

I just received word from Ian “MC Trashpedal” Fulcher that the line-up for the The Final Shadow Art Fair has been locked in… Here’s what Ian has in store for those of you who find yourselves trapped outside, in the beer garden, on July 20. (The descriptive phrases are Ian’s… so don’t ask me what […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Shadow Art Fair, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Actual Birds, Almus Magnus, Annie Palmer, Casual Sweetheart, Chelsea Jordan, Dan Florida, Dave Richards, Dustin Krcatovich, HISS, Ian Fulcher, Klayton Dawson, Laserbeams of Boredom, MC Trashpedal, Mulugeta, Oak Openings, Patrick Elkins, Rainbow Vomit Family Band, Raphael Brim, Rebel Kind, Shelley Salant, SHEMA, Sleep Slang, Stef Chura, Thom Elliott, Van Houten | 5 Comments

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Charlie Slick

By Mark | March 30, 2013

I don’t know how to break this to you, so I’ll just come right out and say it… It looks as though beloved local pop idol Charlie Slick will soon be joining the ranks of those leaving our community. Following is his official exit interview. MARK: I’m thinking of requiring everyone who wants to leave […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged alcohol, Axel Rose, balding, big women, black licorice, Brian Eno, bubbles, Canton, Charles Slick, childhood, childhood memories, circuit boards, comedy, Detroit, Downtown Home and Garden, drugs, Drum Buddy, Dustin Diamond, electrical engineering, exit interviews, flipping coins, glitter, Global Warming, Green Acres, hair, hair and tooth loss, Hotel California, I Dream of Genie, infomercials, inventing, inventing our way out of disaster, Justin Timberlake, Kentucky, Krampus, lesbians, math, Monticello, Mr. Ed, music, music scenes, Nick at Nite, Oakland, pop music, Portland, Puget Sound, Quintron, reinventing, Rock and Roll, Sagittronics, Sherwood Bar, Sigourney Weaver, stand-up, strong women, Totally Awesome Fest, visionary musicians, Washington State, Washtenaw Community College, Water Hill Music Festival, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews | 22 Comments

The totally confrontational Totally Awesome Fest press conference

By Mark | April 25, 2012

Ypsilanti’s more densely bearded, somewhat less murderous, and considerably less black version of Don King, Patrick Elkins, called a press conference yesterday to announce the lineup of the 8th annual Totally Awesome Fest, which begins this Friday evening at 5:00, in the field behind VG Kids. I suppose, in retrospect, that it should have been […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Absolute Beginners, Animal Magic, Ben Miller, child labor, Chris Sandon, delinquent hipsters, Detroit Party Marching Band, Don King, Dreamland Theater, Duane the Teenage Weirdo, Electric Waterfall Castle, Fucking Awesome Fest, holograms, interviews with Mark, Jambo Man, Jamboman, Little Weasel House, Lord of the Yum-Yum, Manhole, mascots, microfiche, music festivals, pancake walk, pancakes, Patrick Elkins, Patrick's Weird Beard Goes Wandering, Penelope, Playboy Mansion, pooping in the river, press conferences, Ripper Field, Swimsuit, The Bungalow, thickly-bearded local troubadours, Totally Awesome Corp, Totally Awesome Fest, Tupac, VG Kids, Ypsi festivals | 18 Comments

The abduction of Jambo Man

By Mark | August 11, 2010

This last weekend, while I was enjoying myself in Milwaukee, folks here in Ypsi had themselves a big shindig under the moonlight on the banks of the Huron River. This now annual event, as you might recall, got off to a wobbly start a few years back, when it attempted to get off the ground […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Andy Ypsilanti, Battle of Ypsitucky, Depot Town CDC, Diazotrophical Liberation Armada, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop statue, Jambo Man, Jmaes Osterberg, Manhole, Manhood, Michigan Roots Jamboree, music, music festivals, Patrick Elkins, Patty Hearst, puppetry, shadow puppets, SLA, Stanley the Mad Hatter, Symbionese Liberation Army, Wayang Kucing, Ypsi festivals, Ypsilanti cats, Ypsitucky, Ypsitucky Jamboree | 89 Comments

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Shall we have a mayoral debate on Water Street?

Shadow Art Fair performances announced

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Charlie Slick

The totally confrontational Totally Awesome Fest press conference

The abduction of Jambo Man

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