By Mark | November 24, 2018
The weekend of October 20 marked the 24th meeting of my one-day-a-year pseudo-band, the Monkey Power Trio. For those of you who might not be familiar with our origin story, it all began back in 1995 with a promise between old friends one hot, summer afternoon in Brooklyn. Without much in the way of any […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Shadow Art Fair, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1995, aging, alimony, ankles, appendix, bonfires, cancer, Carroll Gardens, Cheez-Its, Cleveland, contemplating the end, crumhorn, Dan Richardson, Dave Miller, Death, divorce, drinking, fire, fleas, fog, Hasil Adkins, Hazel, ironing board, jellyfish, Jody Bleyle, laughing, Low Sack, Manzanita, Matt Krizowsky, mayonnaise, McMenamins, meteor shower, Mike Bell, napping, naps, Newton High School, nicknames, Oregon, Oregon Historical Society, Pacific Ocean, Pantless, Pantless Dan, Pear Hawthorn, Pete Holmes, Portland, pranks, recording, recreational marijuana, Reno, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, scallops, Scrabble, Señor Wences, Skull Island, The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock, The Sand Flea, timber, trumpet, wills |
I don’t want to suggest that my kids have never heard me laugh. They have. In fact, I laugh quite often, in my own little way. I shake my head and chuckle. I occasionally allow a guffaw to escape. I don’t think that my son and daughter have ever had the occasion to hear me […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio | Also tagged Arlo, Charles Maynard, Clementine, Cleveland, crying, Dan Richardson, Fred, laughing, laughter, Ma Florian, Mark Maynard Archives, Monkey Power Trio, Newton High School |
By Mark | January 12, 2014
In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp, tiny sliver of it that I find most interesting, I’ve given myself the task of reaching out to all of those former and current zine publishers that I know, and asking them about their motivations and experiences. Today’s interview is […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged 4AD, alt.zines, Bill Bryson, blogs, Cheap Trick, comedy, Crossroads Road, Crum, Deadwood, DIY, Dream Police, Drudge Report, Earl T. Grey, Factsheet Five, fast food, fat jokes, fuck, getting laid, Howard Stern, John Hughes, Kinko's, Kix, Los Angeles, Mad magazine, Marc Maron, memoirs, Michael O’Donoghue, National Lampoon, Ninjalicious, Phyllis Diller, Queen, Quimby's, Roger Ebert, Rush Limbaugh, small town America, The Offense Newsletter, The Untold History of Zines, The West Virginia Surf Report, Tower Records, Trout Fishing in America, tuberculosis, underground press, viral posts, West Virginia Surf Report, zine friends, zine pioneers, zines |
By Mark | February 19, 2012
It took three visits, but we finally have something negative to say about Ypsi’s Wurst Bar. …Speaking straws, I can’t use one without remembering something that my friend Jeff once told me. He said that his dad, every time he saw a man using one, would roll his eyes and mumble something about the guy […]
