By Mark | November 9, 2011
Last year, as we approached the big Krampus party, I posted the following on this site: Tonight, during my breaks in reading up on how to properly brine a turkey, I’m looking around the internet for inspiration to guide me as I set out to make my costume for the big Krampus event on December […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Shadow Art Fair, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged a different Nick Cave, Alice Cooper, Art in Motion, Bauhaus, brining, costumes, David Bowie, Detroit Party Marching Band, fiber textiles, fur, glam, goring, Krampus, Krampus Ball, Maynard gravy, Meat Loaf, Moonage Daydream, Nick Cave, OCD, Paradise by the Dashboard Light, Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitor Series, performance art, placenta mask, Search and Destroy, sound suits, sweating, Teenage Frankenstein, The Mummies, The Stooges, Turkey, University of Michigan, Velvet Goldmine, Woodruff's, Ziggy Stardust |
By Mark | December 2, 2010
I’m told that there may be photo of me on the AnnArbor.com site tomorrow, milking a Krampus teat into a beer mug. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. It could have. I don’t know. Due to my cold, I’d eaten a number of honey lemon cough drops with echinacea, and, to be honest, the whole […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Media, sex, Shadow Art Fair, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AnnArbor.com, costumes, cough drops, echinacea, embarrassing photos, Krampus, Krampus Ball, Melissa Dettloff, Michigan Design Militia, painfully-erect monster nipples, photos of Mark, suckling, teats, Tom Perkins |
By Mark | November 28, 2010
I’ve got a cold, and I don’t feel much like writing tonight… It’s not the worst cold in the world, but it’s persistent. I’ve spent the majority of the past two days laying here in bed, coughing up the lining of my throat, and watching episodes of Columbo on my laptop. And, as I’m just […]
By Mark | November 21, 2010
Tonight, during my breaks in reading up on how to properly brine a turkey, I’m looking around the internet for inspiration to guide me as I set out to make my costume for the big Krampus event on December 11. All I know at this point is that I want something that won’t disintegrate when […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Shadow Art Fair, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged a different Nick Cave, Alice Cooper, Art in Motion, Bauhaus, brining, costumes, David Bowie, Detroit Party Marching Band, fiber textiles, fur, glam, goring, Krampus, Krampus Ball, Maynard gravy, Meat Loaf, Moonage Daydream, Nick Cave, OCD, Paradise by the Dashboard Light, performance art, Search and Destroy, sound suits, sweating, Teenage Frankenstein, The Mummies, The Stooges, Turkey, Velvet Goldmine, Ziggy Stardust |
By Mark | October 21, 2010
I’m tempted to have my daughter do it. It is, after all, about time she started pulling her own weight around here. Seriously, though, would you ever consent to being stuffed into a bag by a stranger? As for little people, I’m not sure what kind of local population we have these days, but legend […]
