Mark Maynard | Louisiana

90 Hours in New Orleans: The Monkey Power Trio’s Twenty-Fifth Day as a Band

By Mark | December 8, 2019

[above: We were staying right on a trolley line, and the buzzing of the overhead power lines was incessant. I doubt that it’ll make a record, as we had better songs this time out, but this fact gave rise to our loudest endeavor of the session, a number called Stray Voltage.] The weekend of November […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio | Also tagged alcohol, alcoholism, All My Life, Andrew Huang, Andy Calder, Anne Shapiro, Atlanta, Baby Wolf, Bacchanal, Balls Deep in the Gumbo, baseball, binge drinking, biscuits, bullying, cancer, cemeteries, cigar box guitar, Cochon, colon cancer, colonoscopy, Crazy Rich Asians, crumhorn, dashing older men, Donald Trump, Eddie Rispone, film production, First of October, FOX News, Frico Chicho, grits, gumbo, Harry Shum Jr., health scare, hoes for sale, Jacques Imo's, James Brown, Jazz, John Bel Edwards, Live Oak Cafe, lung cancer, Mark's bad back, Melba’s, Mike Bell, Miss Linda “The Ya-Ka-Mein Lady” Green, Monkey Power Trio, Museum of Death, necks, New Orleans, Nigel Witherbottom, polyps, PSA, Rebirth Brass Band, Remus, Rob Scallon, Rome, Romulus, saliva, shrimp and crab meat dressing, Stray Voltage, talk box, Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival, Tulane, Universal Studios, Vasco Spermo, WTUL, YouTubers | 9 Comments

Alt State Department issues list of politically vulnerable GOP Reps

By Mark | February 26, 2017

For those of you who might have missed it, what with all the hoopla about the Oscars, our Alt State Department issued a list earlier this evening of those GOP Representatives who, according to the data, may be most vulnerable in the upcoming midterm elections, and the state of Michigan has two Republican members of […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alt State Department, Dave Trott, House of Representatives, midterm elections, vulnerable politicians | 7 Comments

Talking boudin, crawfish and Burger King milkshakes with Southern Foodways Alliance oral historian Amy C. Evans

By Mark | March 16, 2013

I had the occasion a few months ago, when doing some research into “the ham of my people” (country ham with redeye gravy), to stumble onto the work of Amy C. Evans, the award-winning, Mississippi-based oral historian of the Southern Foodways Alliance. On a whim, I sent her a random collection of questions, and, as […]

Posted in Food, History, Mark's Life, Other | Also tagged A. L. "Unk" Quick, Alisa Lay, Allan Benton, American Studies, Apalachicola, Atlanta, Bacon, barbecue, Bill Tinker, boudin, Burger King, Caju, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, chicken, Collins Oyster Company, country ham, crawfish, Crawfish Shack Seafood, documentary film, Down the Bayou, Edna Stewart, Florida, Florida’s Forgotten Coast, fried chicken, Georgia, Gloria Quick, gumbo, Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken, ham, Hieu Pham, Hurricane Katrina, Joe York, John Saucier, Kentucky, Leann Hines, Levee Run Farm, Liberty, Memphis, Mimi Gladys, Mississippi, New Orleans, Oral History Association, pork, remoulade, satsumas, Saucier’s Sausage Kitchen, sausage, SFA Founders’ Oral History Project, Souther Foodways Alliance, Southern Boudin Trail, southern food, Southern Studies, Sugarcane, tamale, Tennessee, the south, University of Mississippi, Vietnamese food | 14 Comments

The war against critical thinking

By Mark | July 1, 2012

For as much as we talk here about the anti-intellectualism of the right, I don’t think I’ve ever shared this piece of George Carlin video with you. (See below.) It’s only three minutes long, but it gets right to the heart of things. In it, Carlin says bluntly that public education in America will never […]

Posted in Education, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Accelerated Christian Education, ACE, anti-intellectualism, behavior modification, biology, Bobby Jindal, challenging fixed beliefs, Christian Spurling, Colonel Robert Wilson, competing visions for the future of America, critical thinking, dismantling of public education, evolution, fixed beliefs, George Carlin, higher order thinking skills, hoaxes, libraries, Loch Ness Monster, Marmaduke Wetherell, philosophy, Plesiosaur, public education, public libraries, school vouchers, sea monsters, the future of America, Thom Elliott | 86 Comments

For-profit prisons… What could possibly go wrong?

By Mark | May 27, 2012

As it’s been a while since we’ve had a post here about the prison industrial complex, I thought that I’d pass along this clip from Charles Blow’s recent piece in the New York Times. “Louisiana is the world’s prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Baldwin, Charles Blow, Corrections Corporation of America, G4S, GEO Group, Group 4 Falck, honey holes, House Bill 5174, Joe Haveman, John Proos, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Mark Ciavarella, Michigan Department of Corrections, Michigan House of Representatives, Natalie Holbrook, North Lake Correctional Facility, North Lake Facility for Youth, overincarceration, Pennsylvania, prison, prison industrial complex, prison industry, prison reform, prison sentences, prisoner rights, private prisons, privatization, Rick Snyder, security state, the cost of incarceration, unions, Wackenhut Corrections Corp, Wal-Mart, Wilkes-Barre | 18 Comments

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90 Hours in New Orleans: The Monkey Power Trio’s Twenty-Fifth Day as a Band

Alt State Department issues list of politically vulnerable GOP Reps

Talking boudin, crawfish and Burger King milkshakes with Southern Foodways Alliance oral historian Amy C. Evans

The war against critical thinking

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