Tag Archives: Karen Maurer

Tonight’s blogging has been preempted by a toilet repair emergency

By Mark | February 29, 2012

Apparently we exceeded our lifetime flush capacity and blew out the inner workings of our toilet tonight, so I’m desperately trying to reconstruct it from scavenged parts. (At this point, I was going to suggest that I was in the process of using said toilet, while heroically trying to fix it at the same time, […]

Posted in Local Business, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Charles Lindbergh, Davy Jones, diffusing bombs, Jesse Kranyak, Mark's penis, paruresis, pee shyness, Spirit of St. Louis, toilet, toilet repair, trough urinals, urinal, urination, Wurst Bar | 10 Comments

Ypsilanti City government takes a stand on my penis

By Mark | January 28, 2012

A few days ago, at lunch, I received a strange call. Ypsi’s new City Manager had somehow gotten his hands on my cell phone number. He was calling to apologize. I can’t remember his exact words, but he said something like, “Uhhhh… The City just launched a new website, and, somehow, it was hacked. You […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AnnArbor.com, City Manager, hacking, John Hansen, Mark's penis, Mitt Romney, Neutral Zone, penis discoloration, penises, Queer Zone, sabotage, trough urinals, urinal, Wurst Bar | 22 Comments

In defense of my beautiful body… majestic penis

By Mark | January 25, 2012

Last night, in a post about a new bar in Ypsi, I noted my dislike of trough urinals. This admission attracted the following comment from an Ypsilantian by the name of Karen. If you’re ashamed of your penis that much, you should get a catheter for when you go out to eat. In a later […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Birthers, catheter, Freaks and Geeks, Mark's penis, penis discoloration, penises, testicles, The Worst Bar, trough urinals, Truthers | 36 Comments

Ypsi’s Karen and Eric Maurer challenge Snyder on brownfield and historic preservation tax credits

By Mark | March 8, 2011

Local real estate developers Eric and Karen Maurer were featured in today’s Detroit Free Press, in an article about the Governor’s recent decision to eliminate tax credits like those which were utilized to restore several of the buildings along Ypsilanti’s Michigan Avenue corridor. In the following clip, you’ll not only hear the Maurers’ point of […]

Posted in Economics, Michigan, Politics, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Ann Arbor SPARK, Brownfield Redevelopment Tax Credits, Eric Maurer, Historic Preservation tax credits, Mack & Mack Building, Maurer Management, MEDC, Michigan Avenue, Mike Finney, Richard Murphy, Rick Snyder, SPARK East, Water Street | 24 Comments

Keep Ypsi Rollin’… and the case against it

By Mark | October 31, 2010

A few days ago, I posted something here written by my friend Richard “Murph” Murphy on the subject of the Ypsilanti ballot initiative to raise taxes in support of public transportation. Murph, Ypsilanti’s former city planner, is an enthusiastic supporter of the charter amendment that we will be voting on this Tuesday, as are community […]