Tag Archives: marriage

As of today, Linette and I have been married for 19 years

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 […]

Posted in Mark's Life | Also tagged anniversary, Arlo, Clementine, Linette Lao, Matt Krizowsky, Northville, pumping gas, weddings | 6 Comments

75 hours in the exurbs of Atlanta… The Monkey Power Trio’s 22nd day/year as a band

By Mark | October 24, 2016

This past weekend marked the 22nd meeting of my one-day-a-year pseudo-band, the Monkey Power Trio. For those of you who might not be familiar with our origin story, it all began back in 1995 with a promise between old friends one hot, summer afternoon in Brooklyn. On the spur of the moment, we’d decided to […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Monkey Power Trio, Observations, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, aging, barbecue, Black Mirror, Brooklyn, bulldoze the suburbs, Carrol Gardens, celebrity sighting, Cherokee, collaboration, community watch, conservatives, creative process, Dan Richardson, Dave Miller, dead birds, depressing stuff, Donald Trump, exurban, Forsyth County, Foxy, fringe suburbs, Georgia, golf carts, Hillary Clinton, Jim Cherewick, Kellie, Left Behind, Linette Lao, litany of ailments, Mark Maynard, Matt Krizowsky, McMansions, Mike Bell, Monkey Power Trio, neighborhood watch, old friends, Pelican Cove, Phil Hendrie, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, psychic abilities, Pussy Grabber, Queen Latifah, racism, suburbs, Summing, The First Hour, tradition, Trail of Tears, weddings | 10 Comments

Finding out that she only loves you for your corpse…

By Mark | February 9, 2015

Someone should remake Love American Style for the modern era the same way that Charlie Brooker brought back the Twilight Zone for a new generation in the form of Black Mirror… And the first episode, I think, should draw its inspiration from the following story. If you haven’t read the news, it would appear that […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged Afton Elaine Burton, Black Mirror, Charles Manson, Charlie Brooker, corpses on display, Love American Style, Twilight Zone, Valentine's Day | 9 Comments

Art, Food, Sex and Trauma: Mark Maynard shoots the shit with the most important artists of our day… Episode 1: John Maggie

By Mark | March 31, 2014

Since I started interviewing musicians about their favorite vacations, there’s been quite a bit of pressure on me to somehow incorporate visual artists. Well, after thinking about it for the past several months, I came up what I hope is a fruitful new series. It’s called “Art, Food, Sex and Trauma: Mark Maynard shoots the […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Food, OCD, sex, Uncategorized | Also tagged Allison Schulnik, anal sex, Andre Butzer, art, artists, Batman, butt sex, Catholicism, creative process, dandruff, Death, decay, depression, Desert Island Books, disease, Edgar Allan Poe, editing, fear, flip books, glitter, ground beef drifting at the bottom of a pool, guilt, Hamtramck, Heather Benjamin, Hieronymus Bosch, In Print, interviews, Johnny Apricot, Johnny Fairydust, Johnny FairydustJohn Maggie, Jonathan Rajewski, Jonny Deeper, Kanye West, Keanu Reeves, Keith Richards, Klinger Street Studios, Matthias Grünewald, Melissa Dettloff, MOCAD, nightmares, Pink Maggie, pizza, poop, pooping, pooping wizard, pooping wizards, Printed Matter, Publican Quality Meats, R. Kelly, shame, snorting the dead, Vault of Midnight, Vinnie Massimino, violent imagery, wastefulness, Work Gallery | 7 Comments

Wishing Fred Phelps a fond farewell from the newly gay-friendly Great Lakes State

By Mark | March 21, 2014

Am I the only one who found it interesting that, within hours of hearing that America’s most infamous homophobe, Fred Phelps, had passed away, that a federal judge ruled that Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional? There’s a certain kind of poetic beauty in that, isn’t there? Congratulations to all of my friends who […]