By Mark | August 15, 2019
I’m not familiar with every movie that’s ever been made about affluent, middle-aged white men coming to terms with their own mortality, but, if I were asked to weigh in on what films should be included in an “Affluent White Men in Existential Crisis” film festival, I’d definitely nominate John Frankenheimer’s Seconds (1966) starring Rock […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged Affluent White Men in Crisis, Affluent White Men in Existential Crisis, Burt Lancaster, Eleanor Perry, existential crisis, film festivals, Frank Perry, John Frankenheimer, Mark's art ideas, Mark's big ideas, midlife crisis, mortality, old white men, Rock Hudson, Seconds, The Swimmer |
By Mark | August 13, 2019
My plan tonight was to write an awesome post about the GOP’s $1.5 trillion tax-cut of 2017, and how, contrary to what we were promised at the time, they didn’t “pay for themselves” by driving increased corporate investment, but instead pushed the federal deficit to a record-breaking $747.1 billion. None of this, of course, is […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Economics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1975, bonuses, budget deficit, canes, Congressional Budget Office, corporate welfare, Dolemite Is My Name, Dolomite, Eat Out More Often, Eddie Murphy, entitlements, film ideas, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, karate, kung fu, Los Angeles, Mark's, Mark's art ideas, Mark's big ideas, Medicaid, Medicare, Netflix, pimps, Rudy Ray Moore, Russ Forster, social security, Steven Mnuchin, tax cuts, theology of tax cuts, Tony Clifton, Treasury Secretary, Trump tax cuts, welfare, welfare reform, XXX |
For the past several years, I’ve been posting my detailed notes here about the annual meetings of my one-day-a-year pseudo-band, the Monkey Power Trio. I’m not sure why I started to do this, but it’s become yet another thing for me to obsess about. I sit alone in an airport every year, before heading home […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized | Also tagged 131 Union Street, 1993, 1995, 502 Catherine Street, 7" records, Al Zaretskie, Andy Claydon, Ann Arbor, Atlanta, August, Baby Eyes, band names, basements, Blind Pig, Brett Kavanaugh, Brooklyn, Bulb Records, Carroll Gardens, Cornelius Gomez, Couch, Crimewave USA, Dan Richardson, Daniel Hughes, Daniel Johnston, David Simon, Dead Dog’s Eyeball, Demolition Doll Rods, DIY, documentation, ethnomusicology, found photographs, Gene Pool, Geraldo Rivera, Greg Hughes, Hawaii Five-0, historic archeology, History of Zines, Honcho, Houston Street, Hydra, Jaycox Coal, Jehovah's Witness, Jehovah’s Shit List, K. McCarty, Kim’s Video, Kling Kling Bang Bang Pop, Mark's art ideas, Mark's mind, Matt Krizowsky, Monkey Power Trio, Nancy Whiskey, New Jersey, New York, Newton High School, nipples, NYU, OCD, October Throughout History, OJ Simpson, Olde English, oral history, Pete Larson, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Rob Taliercio, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Tejaratchi, Sometimes You Just Gotta Laugh, squid ink, Sunday Bulb Sunday, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, The Monarchs, The Restroom Poets, The Theme from the Film: Daddy What Was Monkey Power, Watchtower, You Like-a the Cheese?, Zurich |
By Mark | January 25, 2015
I uttered this sentence last night, and I thought that it should be recorded for posterity… Every year or two since 2003, when Cabinet magazine named Ypsilanti’s historic water tower the winner of it’s World’s Most Phallic Building contest, a website somewhere decides to post a story about the our beloved “brick dick.” Most recently, […]
Posted in History, Ideas, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1889, 1890, Appeal to Reason, bad ideas, brick dick, Cabinet, cocks, Kansas, limestone, Mark's art ideas, Mark's big ideas, Matt Siegfried, Most Phallic Building contest, phallic structures, phallic things, privatization, public utilities, Roadtrippers, water, water towers, William R. Coats, Ypsilanti water tower |
By Mark | December 21, 2014
Pay phones and phone booths have been yarn bombed in other parts of the world, but I believe this may be a first for Ypsilanti. Isn’t it beautiful? Now if we could just get some feet for our mailboxes and monster heads for our parking meters. [note: I love the idea of reclaiming these little, […]
