By Mark | November 10, 2015
“I just ate at McDonalds and I’m absolutely beside myself. I’m so upset that I can barely type. Do you know that nowhere on the packaging for their Filet ‘O Fish does it mention that Jesus Christ died for our sins upon a cross? It doesn’t even mention that he was known to have enjoyed […]
Posted in Marketing, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged brand identity, brand jamming, branding, broiled fish, Christianity, Christians under attack, coffee, cups, Donald Trump, fast food, filet 'o fish, fish, Glengarry Glen Ross, honeycomb, logos, McDonalds, packaging, paper cups, resurrection, war on Christmas, What Would Jesus Eat? |
By Mark | August 23, 2015
I was alerted to a series of posts on Facebook yesterday by the increasingly popular “I blame Mark Maynard” tag. I would seem that, in trying to navigate my way though the crowd at this weekend’s downtown “gospel” event, I inadvertently deflected a pack of rabid young evangelists toward a woman who found herself pinned […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Baphomet, bread, Elize Jekabson, evangelical, faith healing, gospel, Hare Krishna, I blame Mark Maynard, religious fundamentalism, Satanism, weir |
At the end of August, one of my favorite Ypsilanti artists, Rita Jane Riggs, will be packing up and heading west to see what the universe has in store for her. Please join me in wishing her well on her journey. MARK: What first brought you to Ypsilanti, or were you born here? RITA: I […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Albuquerque, angels, animal spirits, astrology, Bee Roll, Binkie, blankets, blood, Breaking Bad, Buddha, cartoons, Deja Vu, Demons, Dreamland Theater, eastern religion, EMU, EMU Art Department, exit interviews, extraterrestrials, fairies, First Fridays, ghosts, God, halos, hamsters, Huron River, iconography, illustration, innocence, Krishna, Mary, meth, multidimensional realities, New Mexico, Normal Park, painting, plant spirits, psychic abilities, rats, reincarnation, religion, religious icons, Richard Brautigan, Rita Jane Riggs, Robert Spier, saints, sausage gravy, spirit guides, spiritual practice, stripping, T- Hardy Morris, tarot, Video Games, vulnerability, watermelon, watermelon sugar, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews |
Say what you will about our local strip club, they usually have pretty interesting signs out front, especially around major holidays. And I was expecting to see something good this morning as I drove my daughter to school. I thought that, surely, there would be some kind of cringe-inducing Easter pun. But, sadly, there was […]
Can one of the Bible scholars in the audience help me out with something? I was just watching the WXYZ coverage of yesterday’s tense open carry showdown at Pioneer High, and I have a question. In the piece, Joshua Wade, the 20-something grandson of a former superintendent of Ann Arbor Public Schools who set this […]
