A week or so ago, I got a tip that a young woman by the name of Amy Probst had “quietly” purchased a home in Ypsilanti in hopes of avoiding her mandatory immigration interview. Well, it took a little detective work on my part, but I was finally able to track her down, fire up […]
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By Mark | August 11, 2014
Late last year Robin Williams spent a few hours answering questions from fans on Reddit. Among other things, he offered the following piece of advice on navigating hard times. And, given the fact that he apparently took his own life this morning, after having suffered through a sustained bout of depression, I thought that it […]
President Obama is taking some heat today for his decision to appear alongside Zach Galifianakis on his mock public access interview show Between Two Ferns. The segment, which went live on the Funny Or Die site last night, runs a little over six minutes in length, and includes a number of cutting exchanges between the […]
Posted in Observations, Politics, Pop Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged Affordable Care Act, Benghazi, BEtween Two Ferns, childhood obesity, exercise, Funny or Die, Glenn Beck, HealthCare.gov, Jay Carney, jogging, Kenya, Let's Move, Obama, Obama's birth certificate, obesity, Olympics, physical activity, racism, Randy Weber, Richard Simmons, suits, un-presidential, Zach Galifianakis |
By Mark | January 12, 2014
In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp, tiny sliver of it that I find most interesting, I’ve given myself the task of reaching out to all of those former and current zine publishers that I know, and asking them about their motivations and experiences. Today’s interview is […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged 4AD, alt.zines, Bill Bryson, blogs, Cheap Trick, Crossroads Road, Crum, Deadwood, DIY, Dream Police, Drudge Report, Earl T. Grey, Factsheet Five, fast food, fat jokes, fuck, getting laid, Howard Stern, Jeff Kay, John Hughes, Kinko's, Kix, Los Angeles, Mad magazine, Marc Maron, memoirs, Michael O’Donoghue, National Lampoon, Ninjalicious, Phyllis Diller, Queen, Quimby's, Roger Ebert, Rush Limbaugh, small town America, The Offense Newsletter, The Untold History of Zines, The West Virginia Surf Report, Tower Records, Trout Fishing in America, tuberculosis, underground press, viral posts, West Virginia Surf Report, zine friends, zine pioneers, zines |
