By Mark | November 1, 2016
Back in 2011, I interviewed a young man by the name of Forest Juziuk about his planned relocation from Ann Arbor to San Francisco, California. As it turns out, it would be the first in a long series of exit interviews I’d conduct here, which, in turn, would spawn a second series of interviews with […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged academia, Anton LaVey, caves, Christmas, college, construction, Corinne Loperfido, creepy, Fleetwood Mac, Forest Juziuk, free college tuition, grapes, Gregg Turkington, Gretchen Davidson, Had Fair, hard-core porn, helmets, immigration interview, Maya De Paula Hanika, megalomaniacs, motorcycles, musical chairs, Oakland, porn, putting on shows, San Francisco, Satanists, Slumber Party, sobriety, Steely Dan, street level, Sutra Baths, Sutro Baths, Tan Man, tattoos, tuition, underground film, Universal Indians, whorehouses, witches, Ypsi immigration interview, Zeena LaVey |
I’m not sure why Chris Sandon brought this particular local job opportunity to my attention, as I’m notoriously rude and unprofessional during my coital piercing sessions, but I like that I’m the first person he thinks of when things like this cross his desk.
By Mark | August 12, 2013
You: An elderly African American gentleman in cream colored windbreaker and a read Marine Corps baseball cap, nearly hit in the head by my infant son’s sippy cup. Me: A doughy, over-apologetic, middle-aged white guy in faded black jeans and a t-shirt with a drawing of myself as Snow White… We chatted briefly about our […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Arlo, best friends forever, BFF, calamari, Charlie's Crab, Clementine, friends, friends who have passed, Grand Rapids, Greenfield Village, Harold and Maude, m4m, Mark prefers the company of old people to that of people his own age, men seeking men, missed connections, Ned Cartledge, posts that sound gay but aren't |
Ypsilanti figures prominently on AnnArbor.com today. I count four stories about Ypsilanti on the front page. Three are about violent crime, and one is about the mayoral debate I recently hosted at the Dreamland Theater in puppet form. First, there was the murder in the Township yesterday. It took place at 4:00 PM, in front […]
Posted in Dreamland Tonight, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Chris King, crime, EMU, guns, Jermain Shropshire, Kmart, mayoral debate, Michael Deshawn Crockett, murder, perceptions of violence, Riverside Park, Saline, Saline High School, Ypsilanti Township |
You wouldn’t know it if you read the front page of today’s Ann Arbor News, but the 174 year old paper is going out of business. The publisher of the paper, Laurel Champion, informed employees this morning that that local institution would cease publication come July. As I understand it, the paper will stop publishing, […]
Posted in Local Business, Media, Michigan, Observations, Rants | Also tagged Advance Publications, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor News, AnnArbor.com, bloggers vs. journalists, Buzz Machine, Forbes magazine, gravitas, investigative reporting, Jeff Jarvis, Laurel Champion, media mogul, newspapers, publishing, richest Americans, Rocky Mountain News, S.I. Newhouse, Seattle Post Intelligencer |
