Tag Archives: McMansions

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, marriage, Matt Krizowsky, 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 | 11 Comments

Today’s Martin Luther King Day march to Rick Snyder’s home

By Mark | January 16, 2012

I wasn’t able to attend today’s MLK Day march to Governor Snyder’s house, but, fortunately, I was able to draft a few correspondents. Our first report comes courtesy of EMU professor Abby Coykendall. As you can see from the pictures, the crowd was far more diverse than at other events, including the protests in Lansing […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Michigan, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Abby Coykendall, disenfranchisement, Emergency Financial Manger, foreclosure, gated communities, Georgina Susan, marches, Martin Luther King, Occupy Detroit, Occupy Wall Street, populism, protests, Public Act 4, Rick Snyder, right to vote | 20 Comments

The mortgage tax deduction and why it should go

By Mark | November 14, 2010

Yesterday, in a post about the President’s Commission on Fiscal Responsibility, I mentioned that co-chairs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles suggested, amid a long laundry list of federal programs to be cut, the elimination of the mortgage tax deduction. While I deduct my mortgage interest when calculating my taxes each year, just like everyone else […]