By Mark | October 5, 2016
Seventeen years ago this week, after seven years of living with one another in sin, I married my friend and collaborator Linette Lao. Sadly, as it took place in an age before smartphones, little evidence of this wondrous and magical event exists today. We are fortunate, however, in that we do have this one image, […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Photographs, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anniversary, Arlo, Box Bar, Crimewave USA, Cross Street Station, Doug Coombe, Honey Boo Boo, Leisa Thompson, Linette, Linette Lao, Mama June, Matt Krizowsky, Mill Race, Northville, Plymouth, pumping gas |
It’s been a few weeks now since Freeda, our 14 year old pit-lab mix, died, and the kids and I decided yesterday morning that the time had come to dig a hole in the back yard near where she liked to lay, build a little wooden box for her ashes, and give her a proper […]
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, Charles Maynard, Cleveland, crying, Dan Richardson, Fred, Jeff Kay, laughing, laughter, Ma Florian, Mark Maynard Archives, Monkey Power Trio, Newton High School |
You would think that since we, the five members of the Monkey Power Trio, only get together one day a year to write and record music, that we’d have a lot of free time on our hands to do other band work, like sending out records and the like. The truth, however, is that, after […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized | Also tagged college radio, Death, dogs, dying, Freeda, KDVS, KFJC, Left Behind, Monkey Power Trio, pet euthanasia |
By Mark | February 17, 2016
If you’re interested in finding out what presidential candidate Bernie Sanders talked about on Monday, when he was here at Eastern Michigan University’s Convocation Center, there’s quite a bit of documentation out there. Of what I’ve seen, my favorite is an article in the Washington Post titled “‘Single-issue’ candidate Bernie Sanders touches on 20 issues […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Bee Roll, Beezy's, Bernie Sanders, Convocation Center, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, Howard Dean, Linette Lao, long lines, Presidential politics, rallies, standing in line |
