Tag Archives: Jeff Meyers

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 [...]

Posted in Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Annette Weathers, Bad Fairy, Bona Sera Cafe, Concentrate Media, Darryl Daniels, Eli Morrissey, Hasan Mihyar, Jacobsen Daniels Associates, Jesse Kranyak, masturbation, Paul Schutt, Roger Rayle, The Rocket, Wurst Bar | 10 Comments

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews: live, in front of an audience, and over beers

By Mark | April 8, 2013

Video of the recent Concentrate event has now been posted online, for those of you who weren’t able to attend in person. Among those interviewed are local illustrator Dustin Krcatovich, soon-to-be-graduating MBA Newcombe Clark, and U-M postdoc Linda Foit. (A fourth woman was plucked from the audience, but I don’t recall her name.) I’ve yet [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Concentrate, Concentrate speaker series, Dustin Krcatovich, exit interviews, free beer, interviews, Linda Foit, Newcombe Clark, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews | 15 Comments

Election Night 2012… results, interpretation, and celebration

By Mark | November 6, 2012

OK, I’ve got my beer and I’m in front of a television… let’s do this, America. 8:13 I just talked with Growing Hope’s Amanda Edmonds. She heard from a friend of hers this morning that there was a handwritten sign telling voters at the Huron County Township Hall that state-issued voter ID was mandatory. Amanda [...]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alan Grayson, Amanda Edmonds, Bridget M. McCormack, Carol Kuhnke, collective bargaining, Congress, Connie Marie Kelley, Debbie Stabenow, Donald Trump, Election Day, election results, electronic voting, Elizabeth Warren, Florida, Gretchen Driskell, Indiana, Jim Fink, Kerry Bentivolio, legitimate rape, Mark Ouimet, Massachusetts, Michele Bachmann, Obama, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pete Hoekstra, Presidential politics, rape, Richard Mourdock, Romney, Senate, Shelia Johnson, solar powered abortion equipment, Steve Pierce, Syed Taj, Tammy Baldwin, tea party, Thayrone X, Todd Akin, Van Jones, Victoria Jackson, Virginia, voter suppression, WAAM, Wisconsin | 126 Comments

A2Awesome gives out another $3,000 in grants to brilliant people doing inspiring things in the Ypsi-Arbor area

By Mark | October 29, 2012

Yesterday, the Trustees of A2Awesome convened in the secret writing lab behind the Liberty Street Robot Supply and Repair store in downtown Ann Arbor, and handed out another $3,000 in cash grants intended to make life the Ypsi-Arbor area more awesome. The cash awards were handed over in brown paper bags to artist Trevor Stone, [...]

Posted in A2Awesome, Ann Arbor, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Alice Liberson, Awesome Foundation, Dick Soble, Hans Masing, Heather MacKenzie, Larry Grant, Linh Song, Monique Deschaine, Omari Rush, Paul Saginaw, Tanya Luz | 5 Comments

A2Awesome awards its first $1,000 grant. Congratulations to Nathan Ayers!

By Mark | January 29, 2012

As I mentioned a while back, I’m one of a group of people to who decided, not too long ago, to start a local chapter of Boston’s Awesome Foundation. Well, this morning, our group – christened A2Awesome – handed over its first $1,000 grant. The funds were given, in a brown paper bag, to Nathan [...]