A few days ago, while drifting aimlessly around town with my son, he asked why it was that we were happening across the bodies of so many small, headless creatures. It seemed like something I should know the answer to, but I didn’t. I think we finally settled on the idea that the top halves […]
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Mark’s Covid Diary… August 6, 2020
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged alien DNA, animal heads, anti-vaxxers, Arlo, COVID-19, dead animals, decapitation, dementia, dérive, Donald Trump, Dr. Moreau, frogs, gardening, God, god warrior, headless animals, Joe Biden, Mark's favorite things, mice, monsters, OCD, pandemic, produce, rabbits, sarcasm, Sleepy Joe, vaccines, vote by mail, voting, walking 34 Comments
The Monkey Power Trio makes considerable headway despite serious challenges
I forgot to mention it, but The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock, the most recent record by my one-day-a-year pseudo band, the Monkey Power Trio, debuted on the college charts a few weeks ago, which I think might be a first for us. [While we’ve always gotten played quite a bit by the likes of WFMU […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized Also tagged Atlanta, Bad Monkey X, Canada, Christian Wolfcock, Cleveland, college radio, Feed Your Hunger, Hillary Clinton, Jep Clayton, origin story, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, radio charts, The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock, Toronto, WCBN, WFMU 12 Comments
Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Amanda Sari Perez
What follows is our official exit interview with Amanda Sari Perez, who just recently left Ann Arbor for Pittsburgh. MARK: OK, let’s start at the beginning. What’s your name, where were you born, and what kind of kid were you? AMANDA: All right then. My name is Amanda. Or Salamanda. Or YakYak. Or AmandaPanda. I […]
Posted in A2Awesome, Ann Arbor, Uncategorized Also tagged All Hands Active, Amanda Sari Perez, amputation, Bilal Ghalib, biomedical engineering, Breaking Protocol, Burning Man, Care Bears, China, DIY, Float Fest, Fool Moon, geodesic dome, Hong Kong, Houston, Indonesia, insects, Kentucky, Lakes of Fire, Maker Works, makers, Monticello, paralysis, Pittsburgh, rehabilitation, shopping cart races, Syncytium, Texas, Trudi Cooper, yaks 5 Comments