Tag Archives: Honey Boo Boo

Linette and I just celebrated our 17th anniversary

By Mark | October 5, 2016

Seventeen years ago this week, after seven years of living with one another in sin, I married my friend and collaborator Linette Lao. Sadly, as it took place in an age before smartphones, little evidence of this wondrous and magical event exists today. We are fortunate, however, in that we do have this one image, […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Photographs, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anniversary, Arlo, Box Bar, Clementine, Crimewave USA, Cross Street Station, Doug Coombe, Leisa Thompson, Linette, Linette Lao, Mama June, Matt Krizowsky, Mill Race, Northville, Plymouth, pumping gas | 21 Comments

It’s Halloween: “the ghosts will spook, the spooks will scare, why even Dracula will be there”

By Mark | November 1, 2013

Having done the Halloween thing with the kids, and listened to both The Shaggs and Screamin Jay Hawkins, I’m now settling down in front of the computer to watch my annual allotment of scary movies. Sadly, John Carpenter’s Halloween doesn’t seem to be available on Netflix, so it looks like I’ll be watching either The […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Mark's Life, Pop Culture | Also tagged 16 and Pregnant, Affordable Care Act, Arlo, Bernie Sanders, candy, Captain Kirk, childhood obesity, Clementine, costumes, Duck Dynasty, health care, health care reform, Kim Kardashian, North Dakota, Obamacare, reality television, single-payer system, trick-or-treating, William Shatner | 13 Comments

My thoughts upon waking up this morning and determining that nothing had changed, in spite of the predictions…

By Mark | December 21, 2012

For what it’s worth, I just checked and the Mayans aren’t done with us yet. A new Mayan calendar has been issued, and this one ends on December 31, 2013!

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Doomsday Preppers, Glenn Beck, Mayan, Mayan calendar, Rick Snyder, the end of the world | 4 Comments

Mitt Romney fires PBS’s Jim Lehrer on live television, during the first televised presidential debate

By Mark | October 3, 2012

My thoughts on the debate can be found below… For those of you who aren’t already obligated to worship at the alter of Honey Boo Boo tonight, and want to be in the company of other humans, it looks as though the presidential debate is going to be shown at a few places in the […]