By Mark | January 16, 2015
A few days ago, in a post about the increasing number of economic refugees making their way from Ann Arbor to Ypsilanti, I noted a new program being considered by the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority (DDA) that would put a small army of paid “ambassadors” on the streets of tree town, opening doors for […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Uncategorized | Also tagged Al McWilliams, Ann Arbor Ambassador Program, Ann Arbor DDA, Block by Block, Briarwood Mall, homeless, homelessness, Jean Henry, mallification, Mary Morgan, panhandling, PORT, Project Outreach Team, public nuisance, Segways |
I know I should be looking for my house and other landmarks of personal importance, but all I can think when watching this arial footage of Ypsilanti is how laughably ridiculous people are who leave comments on the website of the Ann Arbor News about how terrifying this city of ours is. I know this […]
Posted in Ypsilanti | Also tagged drones |
In December, I posted something about a brilliant piece of satire directed at the company Best Made and its line of high-end, artisanal axes. The artist behind the work, who called himself Peter Smith-Buchanan, I thought, lived in New York. As it turns out, however, the artist lived just down the road… Today’s interview is […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture | Also tagged anxiety, artisanal goods, authenticity, axes, bearded entrepreneurial hipster outdoorsman, BEHO, Best Made Co., brand identity, class, cultural tourism, culture jamming, design porn, family recipes, gender, identity, illegal art, interviews, manly, parody, Peter Buchanan-Smith, Peter Smith-Buchanan, pioneer fetish, plungers, porn, Re Made, Rebekah Modrak, Risto Moisio, River in the Catskills, Shinola, shopdropping, Stamps School of Art and Design, taming the wilderness, Thomas Cole, toilet plungers, turkey croquettes, University of Michigan, ZaneRay Group |
By Mark | August 21, 2013
As it’s been a while since we’ve discussed America’s rapidly consolidating and progressively evil funeral industry, I thought that I’d share this comment, which was left a few days ago on Reddit, in a thread about industry secrets, by an unnamed individual claiming to be a funeral director. [I’ve added several links, but otherwise the […]
Posted in Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged A Family Undertaking, All Saints, anus, big death, biohazard, casket, chemicals, coining new words and phrases, Corporate Crime, cremation, cremation societies, Death, deathcare, Dignity Memorials, embalming fluid, Erika Nelson, eye caps, FTC Funeral Rule, Funeral Consumers Alliance, funeral homes, funeral supplies, funerals, Generations Funeral Service, green burial, Josh Slocum, leakage, monopoly, Muehlig Funeral Home, napping in caskets, natural burial, pollution, purge, pyramid schemes, sales, SCI, Secrets, Service Corporation International, STEI, Stewart Enterprises, toxic waste, trocar, vagina, water quality |
