Tag Archives: Doug Skinner

On anti-Chinese racism, Emperor Norton, my political ambitions, and lots of other stuff in between

A few days ago, an irate reader of this site left a comment, vowing that, if I should ever decide to run for Mayor of Ypsilanti, he would make it his mission to stop me. He was apparently compelled to make this solemn oath, you see, because, in coming out against anti-Chinese racism a few […]

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Guerilla grafting, and living off the fat of the land in Ypsilanti

A few days ago, I posted something here about a group in San Francisco that has made it their mission to convert non-fruit-bearing trees on public land into ones that bear edible fruit. They call themselves guerilla grafters. I think it’s a great idea, but, some, it would seem, don’t share my enthusiasm for giving […]

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Anton LaVey on enjoying the company of animatronic alcoholics

A few days ago, I had a post here about a bar in Orlando that I went to with my family that was full of animatronic dinosaurs. Well, I mentioned at the end of that particular piece that I was concerned that, based upon this experience, my daughter might get the impression that bars were […]

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WARNING… Krampus to attack Ypsi on Dec. 11…

OK, now that all the cyber chatter has died down a bit, I thought that I’d come out from my hole and explain what happened, and why there isn’t going to be a winter Shadow Art Fair this year. First, though, before I do that, I just want to say, for the record, that our […]

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Unflattering Mark Maynard

Here’s the end product of my hour-and-a-half long session with Reverend Aitor, who, by the way, was a really nice guy. As he’s from Toronto, we talked a lot about Degrassi Jr High. While certainly unflattering, it could have been worse… At least the Reverend chose to portray me as human, and not some hybrid […]

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