By Mark | October 8, 2015
Michigan filmmaker Donald Harrison, who, up until recently, ran the Ann Arbor Film Festival, just recently purchased a home in Ypsilanti, and made the move east from Ann Arbor. Here’s our official immigration interview. MARK: Remind me when we first met… It’s been well over a decade ago now, right? DONALD: Indeed, I remember first […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Awesome Foundation, Crimewave USA, Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged A League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Ann Arbor Film Festival, bowling, Charlie Chaplin, dating, Detroit Bowling Hall of Fame, Donald Harrison, Film, Henrietta Fahrenheit, Jennifer Albaum, Many Voices, Monticello, ping pong, public transportation, Risa Gotlib, San Francisco, Sharad Patel, Southfield, Super Sweet Social Bowling League, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Tyler Weston, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ypsi immigration interview |
By Mark | December 2, 2013
Here, on the occasion of my son’s second birthday, are ten random thoughts that I wrote to him last night. As I suspect that he may misplace the letter that I handed him as he went screaming through the living room, I thought that perhaps I’d reprint it here as well. 1. Arlo, I’m loving […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Photographs | Also tagged Arlo, birth stories, birthdays, charm, Clementine, empathy, Freeda, hot water, lamps, Linette, memories, midwifery, milestones, natural childbirth, remorse, totally quotable Linette, Twilight Zone, water birth |
By Mark | September 22, 2013
update: Our night was spent disassembling Alro’s crib, now that it no longer accomplishes the objective of keeping him trapped inside, putting up a gate across the doorway to his room, and trying to convince him, as best that we could, that there’s nothing more awesome than laying peacefully in a “big boy” bed and […]
Had that sucker punch not ruptured his guts, today would have been Houdini’s 137th birthday. It’s weird… I really dislike our popular magicians of today, like David Copperfield and that guy who stands still for really long periods of time, but I really admire and respect Houdini. I wonder why that is. And I wonder […]
By Mark | February 23, 2010
Continuing our exploration of silent films, a few days ago, Clementine and I went to the library and checked out Harry Houdini’s 1922 film The Man From Beyond. As someone who has always been fascinated by Houdini’s preoccupation with the after-world, I found it particularly interesting. In the film, which Houdini is credited with having […]
Posted in Art and Culture | Also tagged drummers with US history fetishes, Felice, Houdini Picture Corporation, Howard Hillary, life after death, Niagra Falls, paranormal, Phil Collins, reincarnation, returning from the dead, silent films, the after world, the afterworld, the Alamo, The Man from Beyond |
