Tag Archives: Jeff Meyers

The yellow curtain

By Mark | September 12, 2017

Over the past several years of interviewing people here on the site, I’ve developed a few go-to questions – things that I really enjoy asking. Among other things, I like to ask people about the circumstances surrounding their births, and their very first memories. It doesn’t always happen, but, every once in a while, when […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged cribs, Curtains, forceps, interviews, Mark's birth, Mark's mom, Monticello | 20 Comments

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Jeff Meyers

By Mark | April 18, 2017

What follows is our official exit interview with writer, filmmaker, and professional critic Jeff Meyers, who, earlier this winter, escaped Ann Arbor for Palo Alto, California. While in Michigan, Jeff, among other things, was the managing editor of Concentrate Media, and a film critic for the Detroit Metro Times. He also served as the president […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged A Clockwork Orange, A2 Civic Theater, adoption, Alan Moore, Ann Arbor Arts Alliance, Ann Arbor Hills, Ann Arbor is Overrated, Ann Arbor Public Library, blood plasma, Casanova, change, Charter Townships, childhood memories, college radio, comics, Concentrate, Contra dancing, Corrugated Films, DC comics, density, Detroit Metro Times, diversity, Donald Trump, Doug Schulze, dysfunctional families, economic segregation, Festifools, Film, film criticism, Fire Island, growth, Herbert Dreiseitl, Home Rule, horror, horror movies, hostility to change, income inequality, inequality, Issues Media Group, Keith Jefferies, Krampus, Lance Henrikson, Logan Act, Lour Reed, memories of childhood, Metromode, Michigan film incentives, Michigan Film Office, microbiology, Mimesis: Night Of The Living Dead, nature vs. nurture, Newcome Clark, Palo Alto, Portland, public art, public transit, public transportation, Rosemary’s Baby, Sayville, Seattle, Shadow Art Fair, silos, Stranger Things, Straw Dogs, suicide, surgery, Swamp Thing, Tamara Real, The Blood of Love, the gay, the Stranger, Tio's, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, walkability, yellow curtain, zombie apocalypse | 30 Comments

Reader Poll… what’s more likely?

By Mark | February 28, 2016

In an effort to get to know my readers better, I’ve decided that, on occasion, I will pose simple questions to this site, just to get a sense of what you’re like as a group. Here’s my first question. What’s more likely? For those of you who would like to read up on the evidence […]

Posted in Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged JonBenét Ramsey, Katy Perry, polls, Ted Cruz, zodiac killer | 26 Comments

Mothman lives on, scares ten people per mile

By Mark | March 5, 2014

While it’s been almost five years now since the world lost John Keel, his legacy apparently lives on. I just received the following from my friend Jeff. This is the work of his 8 year old son Sam. [If you’ve never read Keel’s The Mothman Prophecies, there’s no time like the present.]

Posted in Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged being scared, John Keel, mothman, Sam Meyers, The Mothman Prophecies | 22 Comments

Video: Owners of The Rocket, Wurst Bar, Bona Sera Cafe and Jacobsen Daniels Associates talk candidly about doing business in Ypsilanti

By Mark | May 6, 2013

Given that we just crossed over into National Masturbation Month, I thought that I’d share a titillating video this evening. Unfortunately, Linette has the parental controls set in such a way that it’s impossible me for me to do that, though. So, instead, here’s video of me on the stage at Woodruff’s a few days […]