By Mark | December 13, 2011
Our Occupy Ypsi teach-in on Saturday went really well. Hopefully, at some point in the near future, I’ll have an opportunity to go into everything that was covered. For the time being, though, I wanted to share this video of historian Peter Linebaugh addressing the group. The following will hardly do Peter justice, but here […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Education, History, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1607, commons, decolonization, Dutch East India Company, Fukushima Daiichi, Great Depression, hobo jungle, hobos, native american, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Ypsilanti, OWS, Peter Linebaugh, recreancy, slavery, teach-in, Wall Street, Woodruff's |
Gill Scott Herron died a few days ago. I was going to commemorate his passing with The Revolution Will Not be Televised, but, seeing as how most of us reading this site are living in SE Michigan, I thought that I’d go with his anti-nuclear power song, We Almost Lost Detroit, which is particularly pertinent […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Observations, Politics | Also tagged another famous person has died, bluesology, brilliant troubled musicians, Fukushima Daiichi, Gil Scott-Heron, godfather of rap, Jazz, manned space flight, NASA, nuclear power, poverty, rap, space shuttle, the moon, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, We Almost Lost Detroit, whitey, Whitey on the Moon |
I just made my last trip to the airport. All the guys from the Monkey Power Trio are now gone, and, as is always the case, the anxiety – which I feel during each session – is giving way to depression. It’s great to see everyone, and to spend a day making music, but I […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio | Also tagged anarchy, Anarchy is Stupid, Andrew WK, Andy Claydon, Blank Generation, Bulb Records, CBGB, Couch, Flying Bomb, Henry Rollins, huffing, Ivan Kral, Kneecap Deep, Laughing Hyenas, Leon Bernstein, Monarchs, Patti Smith, Pete Larson, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, Ramones, Savoy, Tap Room, television, Ultra Fuckers, Ween, Zip Code Rapists |
Linette and I, as many of you know, used to be extremely important in the publishing world. For over a dozen years, we churned out issues of the enormously influential magazine Crimewave USA. We sold thousands of copies, all around the world, and had A-list trendsetters like Steve Hughes and John Coffin begging to get […]
By Mark | September 9, 2009
My friend Pete Larson, a brilliant musician who turned his back on rock and roll in order accept his fate and become a scientist, just returned from Japan, where he wrote the following. I thought some of you with mask fetishes might enjoy it. While the 2009 H1N1 flu has been written off by the […]
Posted in Health, Ideas, Other | Also tagged 1918 flu, 25 Suaves, antibacterial, antiseptic filter, bathroom cleaners, bird flu, Bulb Records, burqa substitutes, Dorf, ebola, flu, H1N1, herbal aroma, Japanese products, Kobayashi Pharmaceuticals, Malawi, mask fetishes, Napoleon, Osaka, Pete Larson, public health, rock opera, school closure, science fiction flavors, swine flu, the oral cavity, throat disinfectants, virus, Washlet |