By Mark | October 8, 2017
Before Amy Fusselman made a name for herself in the world of publishing as the author of books like Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space and Risk for Americans Who Are Nervous, Distracted and Afraid to Die (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), The Pharmacist’s Mate (McSweeney’s, 2013), and 8 (McSweeney’s, 2013), she produced the delightfully […]
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I’ve complained recently that we haven’t been getting a lot of calls during the show. Well, apparently all of that complaining has paid off. The phone didn’t stop ringing this episode. The first call came in before Jim Cherewick had even finished singing the opening theme. It was Matt Jones, calling from his basement, where […]
Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged board games, Bulb Records, Chin Azzaro, Chris Sandon, Deja Vu, erotic photography, gentrification, Girls of the Big 10, Jim Cherewick, Kurt Anschuetz, Miller High Life, Nancy Perry, nude photography, Pete Larson, Playboy, ponchos, porn, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, Red Roof Inn, snoring, Stan Malinowski, Suzanne Somers, swap meet, tallboys, The Who Guy, Yen Azzaro, Ypsiopoly |
Several days ago I was approached by a young woman named Megan Maurer, asking if she could interview me for her master’s thesis. I agreed on one condition. I told her that, for every question she asked me, I’d ask one of my own. What follows are her responses to my questions. MARK: As I […]
Posted in Environment, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AAATA, AmeriCorps, Beezy's, civic engagement, civic life, community gardens, cultural anthropology, Deja Vu, dissertations, Dos Hermanos, environmentalism, FernGully, gardening, gateway drugs, graduate school, Growing Hope, immigration interview, Indian restaurants, Kenyon, Kenyon Lords and Ladies, local food, Megan Maurer, More Buses, Ohio, Philander Chase, Portland, public space, race, research, social justice, Sustainability, tamales, urban gardening, Ypsi immigration interview |
By Mark | November 20, 2013
Today’s interview subject, Mike Shecket, has the distinction, I believe, of being the first person to leave Ypsilanti as a direct result of Obamacare. It sounds like bullshit, I know, but it’s actually true. So, if you were looking for one more reason to either love or hate the President, now you’ve got it…. Here’s […]
Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Affordable Care Act, Amanda Edmonds, Andy Mitchell, anti-tax, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Booty Don't Stop, Canada, city income tax, crime, crime blotter, dating, dating advice, de-industrialization, Devil Elvis, Diane Rehm, Doris Day, Dreamland Theater, exit interviews, farming, flowers, food production, George Jetson, goal setting, health care reform, health insurance, housing crisis, Huge Head Test Prep, IKEA, Jen Whaley, Las Drogas, local income tax, lotion, LSAT, M.O.T.O., manufacturing, Michigan lefts, Michigan Radio, Midtown Neighborhood Association, Mike Perini, Mike Shecket, Mothers' Day, Obamacare, Ohio, Paul Caporino, Paul Schreiber, petty crime, Pita Pita, pot, preexisting conditions, Proposition A, puppets, rejuvenating lotion, SAT, shyness, Skyline Chili, smoking, social anxiety, Stop City Income Tax, test prep, testing, The Jetsons, The Pretenders, things from Ohio that are tolerable, Tim Schreiber, UHF, walk score, walkability, weed, Windsor, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews, Zoning Board of Appeals |
As people are demanding that I share this, I suppose I have no choice… Late last night, a Columbus man, after consuming an enormous quantity of hallucinogenic mushrooms at the home of a friend in Ypsi Township, apparently felt the need to walk to Ypsi Middle School and tear his penis from his body by […]