By Mark | September 21, 2011
I had the occasion a few days ago to chat with Anthony Gentile, the organizer of YpsiFest, which is scheduled to take place at Woodruff’s October 12 – 15. Here’s what he had to say… MARK: When was the first YpsiFest? ANTHONY: Well, YpsiFest started in 2003, back when Leighton Mann was booking at the […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 2194, Ahsleys, Anchorage, Andy Garris, Anthony Gentile, Bang! Bang!, Battle of the Festivals, Blue Snaggletooth, Brandon Zwagerman, CHAPSTIK, Charlevoix, Chris Bathgate, Coke Dick Motorcycle Awesome, dog shelter, Doug Coombe, Easy Action, Elbow Deep, Elbow Room, festivals, Few and Far Between, Fred Thomas, Free Noise Project, fundraisers, Genesis P-Orridge, Glori5, Graders, Hasan's bedroom, Heads Will Roll, Human Wick Effect, Inside Five Minutes, Jehovah's Witness Protection Program, Kickstand Band, Lady Jaye, Leaving Rouge, Lettercamp, Loco Gnosis, mascot services, mascots, Mittenfest, Nathan Montgomery, pandrogeny, Pandrogyne, Paradise, Patrick Elkins, Phantasmagoria, Ragbirds, Rome for a Day, Rootstand, S.N.A.F.U., Silverghost, Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor, SOS Community Services, Spit for Athena, The Ballad of Genesis & Lady Jaye, The Beggars, The Boys Themselves, The Glass is Half Full, The Holy Fire, The Muggs, The Savoy, Woodruff's, Wrathgate, Ypsi festivals, YpsiFest |
Did you know that there used to be a print version of AnnArbor.com that came out every day? It was called the Ann Arbor News, and, on occasion, they’d print letters from readers in Ypsilanti. Here’s one of those letters, written by my friend Leighton in 2000, in response to another reader’s idea that Ann […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 2000, Ann Arbor News, AnnArbor.com, CHAPSTIK, homelessness, Maynard Newton, Meatmen, NIMBY, sarcasm, Tesco Vee, Tesco Vee's Hate Police, Ypsitucky |
By Mark | February 16, 2011
I haven’t mentioned it here, but I have friends in Detroit who don’t want the RoboCop statue. Most notable among these folks is my friend Joe, who blogs under the name Super Gay Detroit. He thinks the whole thing is kind of stupid. Here are a few of his points. If you’d like to read […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit | Also tagged Ann Coulter, Build a statue of Robocop in Detroit, Imagination Station, Joe Posch, Michigan film incentives, Peter Weller, Robocop, Ron Asheton, Roosevelt Park, Sonny Bono, Super Gay |
By Mark | November 22, 2009
My friend Leighton recently passed along this Tina Fey quote, that I thought that you might find amusing. “They made a porn movie about Sarah Palin and the same actress, Lisa Ann, played me in the porn version of ’30 Rock.’ Weirdly, of the three of us, Lisa Ann knows the most about foreign policy.” […]
By Mark | October 19, 2009
My friend Leighton recently brought the existence of the Organic Batter Blaster to my attention. Leaving aside for the moment the “ejaculative” nature of the name, to use Leighton’s terminology, I’m left wondering what organic propellant it is that they use to compel the Batter Blaster plaster from it’s phallic tube. I ran the idea […]
Posted in Food | Also tagged canisters, CO2, McDonalds, McNugget, nitrous oxide, organic, Organic Batter Blaster, pancakes, phallic things, propellant, Steve Cherry, things that are like ejaculate, waffles |
