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The Untold History of Zines…. Pete “Dishwasher Pete” Jordan on Dishwasher

By Mark | January 28, 2014

In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp, tiny sliver of it that worked its way through the gristle surrounding my heart 20-some years ago, I’ve given myself the task of reaching out to all of the zine publishers that I know, and asking them how they found […]

Posted in Crimewave USA, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1992, 1994, 2001, 50 state projects, adventure, Alaska, Alaska Fishermen’s Union, Allen Ginsberg, Amsterdam, Andy Kaufman, anonymity, Arizona, autobiographical, before the internet, bicycles, cannery, chain restaurants, Chloe Eudaly, Communism, Cracker Barrel, Craphound, creative control, cruise ships, cycling, David Letterman, dishdogs, dishes, Dishwasher, Dishwasher Pete, Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States, dishwashing, eschewing responsibility, expatriate, Factsheet Five, Farm Pulp, fish processing, free stuff, gags, Grand Canyon, Greg Hischak, Guinea Pig Zero, Haight -Ashbury, Hawaii, Huck Finn, humor, impersonation, In the City of Bikes, individual responsibility, integrity, internet, introverts, Jack-in-the-Box, juvenile delinquent, Kentucky, Kinko's, Kraft, labor history, labor movement, Late Night with David Letterman, mac and cheese, mainstream media, Malcolm X, Mark Twain, media consolidation, Myrtle Beach, National Parks, people who we know from television, Pete Jordan, Phoenix, photocopying, pranks, radical politics, Reading Frenzy, responsibility, restaurants, restlessness, revolution, Richard Nixon, San Francisco, Scam, scams, self-publishing, shitty jobs, Silicon Valley, South Carolina, Sufjan Steven, television, Temp Slave, The Untold History of Zines, theft, This American Life, Uncle Tom, underground press, unions, urban planning, zines | 21 Comments

Can anyone be the Assistant Attorney General of Michigan?

By Mark | September 29, 2010

For those of you not in the great state of Michigan, it looks as though our Assistant Attorney General, a guy by the name of Andrew Shirvell, has been caught in the act of cyber bullying. It would seem that Shirvell, under the pseudonym, “Concerned Michigan Alumnus,” has spent these past several months lashing out […]

Posted in Michigan, Other, Politics | Also tagged Anderson Cooper, Andrew Shirvell, anti-gay people who are most likely gay, asshole Republicans, Chris Armstrong, Chris Armstrong Watch, Chrysler, closet case, Concerned Michigan Alumnus, cyber bully, Dan White, doth protest too much, gay agenda, gay demonization, Harvey Milk, homophobic, James O'Keefe, Michigan Student Assembly, Mike Cox, Satan's representative on the Student Council | 22 Comments

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