A week or so ago, I was at the Tap Room with Ypsilanti Councilman Brian Robb and Wurst Bar owner Jesse Kranyak, when it occurred to me that the small AM radio station owned by said Councilman was just 100 yards or so away. “Let’s finish these beers,” I said, “and continue our conversation over […]
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The Saturday Six Pack with Mark Maynard
Posted in Mark's Life, Special Projects, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged 1700 AM, A Face in the Crowd, Andy Griffith, beer, Brian Robb, community radio, Deja Vu, Elia Kazan, fascism, Jesse Kranyak, Kenya, Peter Larson, radio, Robert Helms, six pack, The Saturday Six Pack, Thomas Paine 27 Comments
If I ever use the phrase “Drink the Kool-Aid” again, please do me a favor and kick me in the teeth
36 years ago today, a charismatic, and increasingly paranoid Jim Jones commanded the assembled members of the Peoples Temple, who had followed him from the United States to the jungles of Guyana, to take their own lives by ingesting a cyanide-infused knock-off of Kool-Aid called Flavor-Aid. Despite the fact that Jones can be heard referring […]
Posted in Other, Uncategorized Also tagged cults, cyanide, drink the Kool-Aid, Flavor Aid, Guyana, Jim Jones, Julia Scheeres, Julie Ann Runnels, Kool-Aid, mass murder, mass suicide, Peoples Temple, revolutionary suicide, Robert Helms, Time magazine 12 Comments
The Untold History of Zines…. Jeff “Keffo” Kelly on TempSlave!
In an attempt to better document the sharp, rusty sliver of the American undrground press that worked its way through the protective coating of my heart 20-some years ago, I’ve given myself the task of interviewing all of the zine folks that I knew and loved back in the day. Today’s interview is with Jeff […]
Posted in A2Awesome, Mark's Life, Special Projects Also tagged Al Hoff, Alexis Buss, anarchists, anti-consumerism, arms trading, Bob Helms, Charlie Sheen, consumerism, Coplay, Corporate Crime, CPAC, cubicles, dairy, disappointment, Dishwasher Pete, exploitation, Factsheet Five, G.K. Darby, global climate change, Global Warming, interviews, Iran-Contra, IWW, Jeff Kelly, Jen Angel, Jim Goad, Joyce Kornbluth, juvenile delinquent, Keffo, kitten blood, Madison, Moe Bowstern, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, political organizing, probiotics, Processed World, protesting, rebellion, Robert Helms, Ronald Reagan, Russ Forster, Scott Walker, Seth Friedman, slave labor, social media, Temp Slave, temping, temporary employees, temps, TempSlave!, the growing gap between rich and poor, The Untold History of Zines, tiger blood, underground press, V. Vale, Wall Street, Wisconsin, Wobblies, Wooden Shoe Bookstore, work, yogurt, zines 10 Comments