By Mark | November 21, 2018
A few years ago, I made the decision not to write anything new for Thanksgiving, but, instead, to recycle something that I’d written the year before. And, ever since then, I’ve been posting the same damn thing. Well, here it is again. I was tempted to remove some of the old references, and replace them […]
By Mark | August 25, 2018
At some point during the 1952 thriller Sudden Fear, Joan Crawford breaks into the apartment of her husband’s lover with the intention of stealing both a gun, and a sample of the woman’s handwriting. While I’ve watched the scene a number of times, it hadn’t occurred to me until last night to actually slow the […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged book ideas, David Miller, film noir, Gloria Grahame, horse racing, horses, It's a Wonderful Life, Jack Palance, Joan Crawford, Mark's big ideas, Mildred Pierce, movie recommendations, murder, Sudden Fear, Violet Bick |
By Mark | December 10, 2017
I was about a half hour into the 1942 horror classic Cat People last night, when I decided to take a break and do a little research into the film’s Russian-born producer, Val Lewton. Well, one thing led to another, and I fell asleep listening to episode number three of Karina Longworth’s brilliant podcast, You […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1761, 1946, Age of Reason, b-movies, Bedlam, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Boris Karloff, Cat People, cruelty, Film, Glen Vernon, gold, Goldfinger, horror, It's a Wonderful Life, James Bond, Jill Masterson, John Monro, Karina Longworth, Korina Longworth, mental asylum, mental health, mental illness, old man Gower, podcasts, RKO, skin asphyxiation, Val Lewton, You Must Remember This |
By Mark | November 23, 2017
A few years ago, I made the decision not to write anything new for Thanksgiving, but, instead, to recycle something that I’d written the year before. And, ever since then, I’ve been posting the same damn thing. Well, here it is again. I was tempted to remove some of the old references, and replace them […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Andover, Arlo, Charles Maynard, Clementine, Dan Richardson, It's a Wonderful Life, Kentucky, Linette Lao, Mark's ancestors, Mark's mind, Matt Krizowsky, money laundering, mosquito, New Jersey, Newton, Pat Maynard, sacrifice, Sarah Palin, tea party, thankful, Thanksgiving, things I'm thankful for, Tom DeLay, Turkey, Ypsilanti |
By Mark | October 14, 2013
We haven’t yet tallied everything up, but it looks as though, between Friday night’s show at Woodruff’s, the auction, the online fundraiser, and everything else, we’ve managed to scrape together a little over $4,000 to put toward paying off the medical bills of our friend Patrick Elkins. Thank you so much to all of you […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Ypsilanti | Also tagged auctions, bionic legs, blood clots, Community Rebirth, Cre Fuller, fundraisers, It's a Wonderful Life, Jennifer Scro, Kayj, Keelan, Legfest, legs, medical debt, Mighty Good Coffee, Nightshade Army Industries, orgasm, panties, Patrick Elkins, philanthropy, robots, Safety Girl, sex toys, Steve Austin, Steve Gross, Tom Perkins |
