By Mark | December 22, 2010
Things must be slow at my friend Joe’s shop, Hugh, tonight. He just sent me the following video, which I’m having some trouble interpreting. As best as I can figure, a new breed of furless furry has been discovered… Anyway, if you’re in Detroit, I’d appreciate it if you’d swing by Hugh and check on […]
By Mark | December 16, 2010
Last year at about this time, I ran an interview with a friend of mine named Joe Posch about a pop-up (temporary) shop that he was opening in Detroit. Well, the business, called Hugh, is back again this Christmas season, and I tracked down Joe to find out what was new, and what, if anything, […]
Posted in Detroit, Retail | Also tagged bachelor style, barware, Bureau of Urban Living, buy local, Christmas gifts, City Bird, Danish stainless steel, drinking, entertaining, entrepreneurism, Esquire, gift ideas, Halloween USA, hoarding, Hugh, indy retail, Iodent Building, Laura Abraham, Leopold's Books, new ideas in retail, Playboy, pop-up retail, Rachel's Place, retail in Detroit, reuse, Scandinavian chic. bachelor pad, Shop Local for the Holidays, ski holiday, Spectacles, teak, the still-ejaculating husk that was once Hugh Hefner, transient retail, vintage |
By Mark | February 15, 2010
I don’t like to brag, but I have a personal connection to the patriotic teabaggery presently sweeping across this great nation of ours… You see, my friend Scott, the founder of Baltimore’s Atomic Books, was instrumental in the mainstream popularization of the formerly-gay practice which spawned this historic conservative movement. You might not be aware […]
Posted in Politics, Pop Culture | Also tagged Anderson Cooper, Atlantis Club, Atomic Books, balls, Baltimore, John Waters, Meet a Man Who Met Anderson Cooper, Mount Rushmore, Mount Rushmore of Teabaggery, Pecker, Scott Huffines, Shadow Art Fair, Tea Partyfication, teabaggers, teabaggery, teabagging, testicle dunking |
By Mark | December 18, 2009
My friend Joe, who I told you about a few days ago, was on Fox this morning, in Detroit, selling his used Playboys and cement book ends. I’d like to give him a hard time for getting into bed with Rupert Murdoch, and exchanging witty reparte with a Fox infotainibot, but, truth is, I’m happy […]
By Mark | December 10, 2009
A few days ago, the family and I ventured into Detroit, and, not only didn’t we die – we had a great time. And, while there, we dropped by our friend Joe Posch’s lovely new store, Hugh. What follows is a brief conversation between Joe and I on the idea behind the store, the challenges […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Detroit, entrepreneurism, Local Business, Shadow Art Fair, Ypsilanti | Also tagged bachelor style, Bureau of Urban Living, Canine to Five, Christmas gifts, City Bird, Claire Nelson, demolition, Design 99, Design Within Reach, destination shoppers, Detroit, Detroit Opera House, DIA, Eastern Market, entrepreneurism, getting press, gift ideas, good design, Good Girls Go To Paris Crepes, Hamtramck, Have an Inter-NOT Holiday - shop in Detroit, Hugh, indy retail, Leopold's Books, Liz Blondy, mall shoppers, Mark offends a friend, mass transit, Mezzanine, Nutcracker, Open City, Park Avenue, Park Shelton, Playboy, pop-up retail, recruiting entrepreneurs, Retail, retail happening, retail in Ann Arbor, retail in Detroit, retail in Ypsilanti, ruin porn, small business, Supino's Pizzeria, Target, tax credits, Team Detroit, the donut of Novi, titanium crystal, Toby Barlow, University Cultural Center Association, VG Kids, whisky stones, Woodbridge Pub, Woodward |
