Mark Maynard | fiction

The silent rattlesnakes of Truman Capote, and the hoax behind Hand-Carved Coffins

By Mark | April 2, 2019

Late last week, I took a few days off from work and went to Chicago with the family. We visited friends, ate really good brisket, poked our heads into the small and dark apartment of Henry Darger, invested way too much time studying the habits of the longnose walking batfish, and spent Linette’s birthday seeing […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1975, 1980, Al Dewey, Amphetamine Reptile, amphetamines, Chicago, coffins, decapitation, Department of Homeland Security, domestic terrorism, drinking, folk art, Green Street Meats, Hamilton, Hand-Carved Coffins, Henry Darger, hoaxes, In Cold Blood, Intuit, Jake Pepper, Jean Henry, Johnny Carson, Kansas, Linette Lao, longnose walking batfish, murder, Music for Chameleons, Perry Smith, pumpkins, rattlesnake, Richard "Dick" Hickock, Richard Nixon, Rose Styron, Shedd Aquarium, silent rattlesnakes, snakes, Studio 54, Thanksgiving, The Tonight Show, Truman Capote, vacations, visionary art, white nationalism | 57 Comments

Bestselling author Shaka Senghor takes us inside the “big warehouse of human misery” that is the American prison system, filmmaker Donald Harrison tells us about his new Commie High documentary, and we talk judicial reform with civil rights attorney Dick Soble… on episode 43 of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | May 1, 2016

For those of you who didn’t catch episode 43 of The Saturday Six Pack when it was first broadcast a few weeks ago, it’s now available online. If you scroll to the bottom of this post, you’ll find it embedded. If you’d rather not hear my voice, though, here are my abbreviated notes. Our first […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Detroit, Michigan, Politics, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged #cut50, accountability partners, authors, Calvin Evans, civil rights, Cut 50, Detroit, Dick Soble, Donald Goines, East Detroit, Malcolm X, mysteries, Oprah, overincarceration, pacts, prison, prison reform, Red Squad, Shaka Senghor, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the cost of incarceration, the hiring on ex-fellons, Urban Ashes | 10 Comments

The beautiful people of Fakebook, and the fantastic products that they promote

By Mark | March 9, 2014

An attractive young woman just moved to Ann Arbor, and, like most attractive young women when they arrive in a new town, she started a new Facebook account, posted a few photos of herself jumping around in a thong, and requested that I be her friend. A man more cynical than myself might look at […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Marketing, Uncategorized | Also tagged Christian Wolfcock, dashing older men, Facebook, Fakebook, Great Baraboo Brewing Company, marketing, people who aren't real, Roseville, scams, Terrie Lviivw, thongs, viral marketing | 11 Comments

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The silent rattlesnakes of Truman Capote, and the hoax behind Hand-Carved Coffins

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