Today, in a clear violation of campaign finance law, Brad Parscale, the director of Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, tweeted from inside the White House that Trump-branded COVID-19 face masks were soon to be available for purchase. I had other things that I wanted to write about tonight, but it seemed worth noting that the […]
Posted in Health, Politics, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, Brad Parscale, campaign finance, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, death cult, death star, irony, masks, pandemic, Star Wars |
On Fox News yesterday, Donald Trump, after making the ridiculous case that he’s been “treated worse” than Abraham Lincoln, said that, in his opinion, it is now safe to re-open society. He then went on to say that, by the time all of this is over, the COVID-19 death toll in the United States could […]
Posted in History, Michigan, Politics, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, American individualism, anti-science, assault weapons, Australia, Canada, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contact tracking, coronavirus, credit, Donald Trump, Family Dollar, governors, Lansing, Marcy Wheeler, Marshall plan, masks, media literacy, narcissism, Opening Up America Again, pandemic, Parkland, public health, Sandy Hook, school shooting, Smithsonian Institution, social distancing, suicide, Trumpism, WHO, World Health Organization |
While some on the right are suggesting that the official COVID-19 death count is inflated, it seems likely the opposite is true. According to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it looks as though the number of “excess” deaths we’ve been seen these past several weeks far exceeds what’s been […]
By Mark | February 29, 2020
About a year or so ago, when I was done interviewing Sean Tejaratchi, the man behind Crap Hound, for my History of Zines project, I asked him who else I should be talking with from Portland’s golden age of self-publishing, and he suggested that I try to track down Dan M. and Alex Hubbard, who […]
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alex Hubbard, Alvadore, anthropology, bellboy, big death, Bill Brisko, brushes with death, Chloe Eudaly, clip art, cot, coworkers, Crap Hound, dead bodies, donuts, Drawbridge Inn, Ford Galaxy, funeral home, funeral homes, Glenn Dixon, hearse, History of Zines, Joe Snell, Kalon Cream, Kinko's, Lewis & Clark College, Loewen, magnets, minivan, mortuary science, photocopying, Portland, Reading Frenzy, Sean Tejaratchi, Six Feet Under, the death industry, The Removal Technician, The Untold History of Zines, theft, zines |
Pete Murdock, Ypsilanti’s longest-serving City Council member, and former mayor, passed away several weeks ago at the age of 76. And, ever since, I’ve been struggling with how to talk about his passing here on the site. You see, while I liked Pete quite a bit as a person, he and I also had some […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Arlo, cancer, Doug Coombe, obituaries, Pete Murdock, Prospect park, recycling, SOS, Ypsi Food Co-op, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews, Ypsilanti City Council, Ypsilanti Tenants' Union |
