36 years ago today, a charismatic, and increasingly paranoid Jim Jones commanded the assembled members of the Peoples Temple, who had followed him from the United States to the jungles of Guyana, to take their own lives by ingesting a cyanide-infused knock-off of Kool-Aid called Flavor-Aid. Despite the fact that Jones can be heard referring […]
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If I ever use the phrase “Drink the Kool-Aid” again, please do me a favor and kick me in the teeth
Posted in Other, Uncategorized Also tagged cyanide, drink the Kool-Aid, Flavor Aid, Guinea Pig Zero, Guyana, Jim Jones, Julia Scheeres, Julie Ann Runnels, Kool-Aid, mass murder, mass suicide, Peoples Temple, revolutionary suicide, Robert Helms, Time magazine 12 Comments
Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Theresa Rickloff
Theresa Rickloff, a regular fixture behind the counter at Beezy’s for the past several years, and the woman behind Riki Tiki Pies, will be leaving in the next few months for Portland, where she’ll be attending culinary school. Following is her official Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview. MARK: Can a good pie crust be made without lard? […]
Posted in Food, Locally Owned Business, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged anger, Bee Roll, Beezy's, butter, Calvin College, communes, culinary school, David Chang, EMU, exit interviews, food entrepreneurship, food perversion, lard, Le Cordon Bleu, local food, Nightshade Army Industries, pie crust, pies, pistol whipping, Portland, Riki Tiki Pies, shortening, Stefanie Stauffer, Theresa Rickloff, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews, Ypsilanti water tower 12 Comments
American Juggalo
Last night, I couldn’t sleep due to all of the coughing, so I curled up in bed with my laptop and watched New York filmmaker Sean Dunne’s short documentary piece on Juggalo culture, entitled American Juggalo. As we’ve had several conversations here in the past on the clown-faced disciples of Detroit’s ICP, I thought that […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized Also tagged abstract art, academia, American Juggalo, blood and soil, Blut und Boden, Degenerate Art, down with the clown, Entartete Kunst, family love, Gathering of the Juggalos, ICP, illegal art, Insane Clown Posse, Juggalos, McCarthyism, modern art, Sean Dunne, Shaggy 2 Dope, Stephen Tonsor, Tila Tequila, Tom Green, Vincent van Gogh, Volent J, woop woop 22 Comments