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Author and illustrator Phoebe Gloeckner on the new film adaptation of her book The Diary of a Teenage Girl, 826 Michigan’s Amanda Uhle on the future of Mittenfest, and Pete Larson flies in from Kenya to perform live …on this weekend’s edition of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | August 26, 2015

We’re not quite sure why, but the woman behind the most talked about coming-of-age movie in the country this summer, author and illustrator Phoebe Gloeckner, has agreed to come on the Saturday Six Pack this weekend and tell us what it’s like to see your young, semi-autobiographical self projected on the silver screen in front […]

Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 826 Michigan, Amanda Uhle, Brian Robb, Diary of a Teenage Girl, J.T. Garlfield, Kenya, mashed potato borne illnesses, Mittenfest, movies, Osaka, Pete Larson, Phoebe Gloeckner, sex, sexuality, Taiko No Tettsu, Washington Street porch show | 14 Comments

Hereditary shyness

By Mark | June 26, 2011

I had an interesting conversation with Clementine yesterday, between buckets of beer at German Park. I’d been encouraging her to go over and play with the nieces of a friend, who were about her age, and sitting at the base of a tree, building a lunch room for some tiny rubber hamster type things that […]

Posted in Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized | Also tagged anxiety, Clementine, Dan Richardson, Daniel Nettle, David Sloan Wilson, Ellen Siegelman, evolution, Evolution for Everyone, evolutionary tactics, fear of people, Grazyna Kochanska, insecurity, introverts, Jerome Kagan, Jonathan Cheek, just do it, look before you leap, natural selection, parenting advice, Pat Maynard, psychology, pumpkinseed sunfish, rovers, shy, shyness, sitters, social anxiety, social anxiety disorder | 19 Comments

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