If you read this site with any regularity, you know my friend Steve. I’ve chatted with him here quite a few times in the past about his magazine, Stupor, and the art space he runs in Hamtramck, Public Pool. Well, he’s invited me to speak this Saturday at something called the Good Tyme Writers Buffet, […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit | Also tagged A Million Little Pieces, buffets, food allergies, Good Tyme Writers Buffet, Hamtramck, James Frey, Jim Carey, lies, plagiarism, Public Pool, public speaking, Steve Hughes |
By Mark | February 23, 2014
In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp, rusty sliver of it that infected me 20-some years ago, I’ve given myself the task of interviewing all of the zine folks that I respected back in the day, during the period which many of us still consider to be […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abbott Labs, abortion, Agent 355, alcoholism, Alexis Buss, Alexis St. Martin, Alison Lewis, Ameoterone, American revolution, Anarchism and the Black Revolution, anarchists, anarchy, atheist, Auschwitz, Betsy Ross, Big Cheese, bioethics, bossicide, Brew Squat, Bruce Orr, cats, Centereach, cheese, cheese money, chocolate, clinical trials, death penalty, digestion, Dishwasher, documentary film, Donald McCabe, Donno Layton, drug development, Edgar Allan Poe, Eva Mozes Kor, experiments, France, Free Voice, freethinker, fuck, gene therapy, Guinea Pig Zero, Harper’s, health care, Hershey’s Kisses, human guinea pig, human test subjects, Indianapolis, International Workers of the World, IWW, James Bond, Jeff Kelly, Jesse Gelsinger, Johnson Space Center, Jonestown, Josef Mengele, Keffo, Kenosha, Kinko's, labor law, Lehigh Valley, liver, Long Island, Mackinac Island, medical experimentation, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Nazis, Neptune, New Jersey, New York Times Magazine, Off Label, ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, patient zero, Paul Gelsinger, Pennsylvania, Pete Jordan, pharmacokinetics, Phil Buchanan, Philadelphia, placebos, printing, Prozac, psych drugs, Randall Phillip, Ritalin, Robert Helms, scams, secret agents, sleep deprivation, SmithKline Beecham, squats, stomach, syphilis, Temp Slave, The Age of Reason, The Untold History of Zines, This American Life, Thomas Paine, Tuskegee syphilis experiment, twins, underground press, union organizing, unions, University of Pennsylvania, vasovagal syncope, William Beaumont, Wisconsin, Wobblies, Wooden Shoe Books, workplace violence, Wyeth-Ayerst, zines |
By Mark | January 8, 2014
I was on the brink of posting something just now that I wasn’t all that happy with. I felt as though I had to post something, and it, I thought, was good enough. I knew, though, as my finger was floating above the button that would have excreted it onto the internet, that it wasn’t […]
Posted in Observations, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged advice, BAFTA, being alone, being true to yourself, Charlie Kaufman, embarrassment, fear, Get A Life, honesty, inspirational speeches, intention, manipulation, marketing, parasites, politics, sales, screenwriting, self worth, shame, television, thoughtfulness, writing for television |
Arlo said his first sentence today. I didn’t hear it. Linette heard it, as did her mother and father. Under normal circumstances, I’d be sad to have missed my son’s first complete sentence, but, since, by all accounts, what he said was a lie, I think I’m OK with it. Here, from what I’m told, […]
By Mark | September 22, 2012
A few days ago, in a thread about the killing of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens a conservative Christian reader of this site, who goes by the name EOS, proclaimed definitively, “There is no such thing as moderate Islam regardless of how much we might wish it were so.” When confronted with facts, and asked to […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Al-Takeyya, Ansar al-Sharia, anti-American, anti-Islam, anti-Semitic, Benghazi, Chris Stevens, Doug Skinner, Islam, Islamophobia, jihad, Juan Cole, Kol Nidre, Libya, moderate Islam, Mohamed al-Magariaf, radical Islam, Robert Spencer, Salafis, sodomy, xenophobia |
