By Mark | October 3, 2018
[above: Lon Cheney looking like Stevie Ray Vaughan in Todd Browning’s 1927 silent film The Unknown.] Apparently the cell phone data plan Linette and I had, when it was just she and I, no longer works now that our teenage daughter has a phone as well. Every day, it seemed, we were getting texts telling […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged #metoo, 1927, Alonzo, armless knife throwers, AT&T, AT&T Watch, bills, cell phones, Clementine, Cojo, data, data plans, deformity, extra thumbs, feet, Freaks, horror movies, intertitles, Joan Crawford, Lon Cheney, men in hats, missing limbs, movies, movies with surprise twist endings, Myrna Loy, Nanon, reality television, silent films, The Thin Man, The Unknown, Todd Browning, Tufei Filthela, Turner Classic Movies, unlimited data, vivisection, William Powell |
For this, the seventh in the Art, Food, Sex and Trauma series, I’ve decided to reach out to my friend teaching art at Eastern Michigan University, can generally be found painting wonderfully complex fox-head-covered tartan patterns on canvas in his Chicago studio. MARK: You’re a Canadian, right? CHRIS: Yes, I’m a Permanent Resident of the […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anthropomorphic textiles, art food sex and trauma, Canada, Canadians, cartoons, Chris Hyndman, Degrassi Junior High, dogs, Dudley Do-Right, Eastern Michigan University, EMU Art Department, eyeballs, flannel, fox heads, greed cards, lobster, No-Touching Zone, painters, paintings, plaid, Steve Sabados, tangrams, tartan patterns, textiles |
As planned, the members of the Monkey Power Trio got together yesterday for their 16th day as a band. The session, which was held in the basement of Ypsilanti’s Dreamland Theater, was relatively uneventful. No bones were broken. No blood was spilled. No animals were sacrificed. We’ve yet to listen to the tapes, but I […]
