As I explained a while back, we’re currently in the process of making our way through this 180 year old home of ours, and deciding which of our possessions should remain, and which should be jettisoned into the ever-churning gyre of filth and garbage that surrounds us. Well, what follows is my justification for continuing […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1995, Arlo, Baby Eyes, Jehovah’s Shit List, Kling Kling Bang Bang Pop, Monkey Power Trio, October Throughout History, records, The First Hour, The Theme from the Film: Daddy What Was Monkey Power, You Like-a the Cheese? |
By Mark | January 1, 2019
I spent a good deal of time between Christmas and New Year’s Day working on our house’s front entryway. I’m not sure how the idea came to me, but, at some point before leaving work for the holiday, it occurred to me that, having now lived here for about 20 years, I should probably start […]
Posted in Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized | Also tagged anxiety, foyer, graffiti, house cleaning, Linette, love, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, tails |
By Mark | December 2, 2018
If the Jesuit motto, “Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man,” as popularized in Michael Apted’s Up Series, has any merit, the time we have left to influence our son Arlo, who turned 7 this morning, is fast running out. As of right now, we have just […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 7 Up, Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein, Air Time, Arlo, birthdays, farts, feet shaving, Fuddah Fuddah, Greenfield Village, humor, icee, Jesuit, Michael Apted, migraines, refrigeration, shaving, The Three Investigators, Totally Quotable Arlo, Up Series, Whoodie Boodie |
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, bowling, Brian Kemp, 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 | October 3, 2018
[above: Lon Cheney looking like Stevie Ray Vaughan in Todd Browning’s 1927 silent film The Unknown.] Apparently the cell phone data plan Linette and I had, when it was just she and I, no longer works now that our teenage daughter has a phone as well. Every day, it seemed, we were getting texts telling […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged #metoo, 1927, Alonzo, armless knife throwers, AT&T, AT&T Watch, bills, cell phones, Cojo, data, data plans, deformity, extra thumbs, feet, Freaks, hands, horror movies, intertitles, Joan Crawford, Lon Cheney, men in hats, missing limbs, movies, movies with surprise twist endings, Myrna Loy, Nanon, reality television, silent films, The Thin Man, The Unknown, Todd Browning, Tufei Filthela, Turner Classic Movies, unlimited data, vivisection, William Powell |
