By Mark | December 9, 2015
We’ve been building up to this all year… This weekend will be our special Christmas episode of the Saturday Six Pack. While it’s not likely to be one of our more meaningful episodes, I suspect it will probably be a lot of drunken fun. So, if you can, please listen. And, if you have the […]
Today, thanks to Facebook, I discovered that two of the most influential men in my life share the same birthday. Both Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little) and Joey Ramone (born Jeffrey Ross Hyman) started their journeys on May 19, and, in their honor, not only am I drinking a beer right now to their memories, […]
By Mark | February 8, 2014
I can’t recall the specifics, but, in recognition of the important work I’ve done on this blog over the past decade, a well respected member of the United Nations came forward several years ago and suggested that the people of the earth, from that day forward, should refer to the Tuesday before my birthday each […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bacon, Ban Ki-moon, Fat Tuesday, Groundhog Day, International Potato Skin Day, IPSD, Mark's birthday, open source, potato skins, Puxatony Phil, sour cream, spring, TGI Friday's, United Nations |
By Mark | January 12, 2012
For those of you not heading south on Monday to celebrate Robert E. Lee Day, it looks like there might be something interesting going on right here in Michigan. From what I hear, it looks as though there’s going to be a big march down Geddes to the Ann Arbor home of Michigan Governor Rick […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager Act, marches, Martin Luther King, MLK, Pastor David Bullock, protests, Public Act 4, Rick Snyder, Robert E. Lee |