By Mark | November 27, 2019
A few years ago, I made the decision not to write anything new for Thanksgiving, but, instead, to recycle something that I’d written the year before. And, ever since then, I’ve been posting the same damn thing. Well, here it is again. I was tempted to remove some of the old references, and replace them […]
Posted in Mark's Life | Also tagged Charles Maynard, Clementine, Cross Street Station, Dan Richardson, family history, friends, Kentucky, Matt Krizowsky, money laundering, Monticello, OCD, Sarah Palin, tea party, Thanksgiving, Tom DeLay, turkey-mosquito hybrid, Vietnam War, War on Thanksgiving, Ward Tomich, Ypsilanti |
By Mark | October 2, 2019
On Saturday, October 2, 1999, Linette and I were married. Here, to mark the occasion, is a little something I wrote a while back, slightly updated to reflect that yet another year has passed. Twenty years ago today, after seven years of living with one another in sin, I married my friend and collaborator Linette […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged American Studies, anniversary, Arlo, Chevy Blazer, Clementine, Cross Street Station, Dan Richardson, Doug Coombe, Leisa Thompson, luck, Mama June, marriage, Matt Krizowsky, milestones, Northville, Plymouth, thankful, things I'm thankful for, weddings |
As I explained in an earlier post, I’m in the process of making my way through the house and separating the wheat from the chaff, determining which items will remain in our family archive, and which will be jettisoned into the ever-churning gyre of garbage that surrounds us. What follows is my justification for keeping […]
Posted in Education, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1995, American Studies, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, archeology, arson, creative writing, Ed Rutsch, EMU, farmhouse, hands-on education, Hands-On History, Henry Ford Museum, historic archeology, historic artifacts, Mark's chances to change history, Mark's jobs, Sears catalog, Seva, Smithsonian Institution, Society for Industrial Archeology, summer camp, teaching, The Brown Jug, University of Michigan, work-study, Ypsilanti State Mental Hospital |
Late last week, I took a few days off from work and went to Chicago with the family. We visited friends, ate really good brisket, poked our heads into the small and dark apartment of Henry Darger, invested way too much time studying the habits of the longnose walking batfish, and spent Linette’s birthday seeing […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1975, 1980, Al Dewey, Amphetamine Reptile, amphetamines, Chicago, coffins, decapitation, Department of Homeland Security, domestic terrorism, drinking, fiction, folk art, Green Street Meats, Hamilton, Hand-Carved Coffins, Henry Darger, hoaxes, In Cold Blood, Intuit, Jake Pepper, Jean Henry, Johnny Carson, Kansas, longnose walking batfish, murder, Music for Chameleons, Perry Smith, pumpkins, rattlesnake, Richard "Dick" Hickock, Richard Nixon, Rose Styron, Shedd Aquarium, silent rattlesnakes, snakes, Studio 54, Thanksgiving, The Tonight Show, Truman Capote, vacations, visionary art, white nationalism |
By Mark | October 2, 2018
On Saturday, October 2, 1999, Linette and I were married. Here, to mark the occasion, is a little something I wrote a while back, and shared every few years since, slightly updated to reflect that yet another year has passed. Nineteen years ago today, after seven years of living with one another in sin, I […]
