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If you’re going to be compared to a terrorist, it might as well be a brilliant one

By Mark | September 30, 2013

On Sunday afternoon, I was standing in the rain in Ann Arbor, by myself, with a half-eaten cupcake in my hand, when a friend approached me, and greeted me with a question that I’d never been asked before. “How’d you like being compared to the Unabomber?” Having no idea what in the hell he was […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged A2GastroBoy, activism, Alan Haber, Barenaked Ladies, Boots Riley, cupcake, Derrick Jensen, doppelgänger, injuries that Mark has suffered, isolation, James V. McConnell, Jeffrey Dahmer, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Miss Piggy, MLK, non-violence, Omari Rush, people Mark looks like, people who look kind of like Mark, SDS, Steve Page, technology, Ted Kaczynski, terrorism, the human condition, threat of violence, Unabomber, University of Michigan, violence, violence vs non-violence | 15 Comments

Ypsilanti Immigration Interview: Erika Jost and Ben Connor Barrie

By Mark | August 15, 2013

Still trying to unravel the mystery of why people would choose, of their own free will, to move to Ypsilanti, I reached out to new homeowners Erika Jost and Ben Connor Barrie, and demanded that they submit to a formal Ypsilanti Immigration Interview. Here are the results. MARK: Was Ypsilanti just the most affordable choice, […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 826 Michigan, Anne of Green Gables, Arboretum, Aubrey Parker, Ben Connor Barrie, Bike Ypsi, blogging, blogs, blowjobs, blowjobs in Township parks, cedar waxwings, Chicago, Corner brewery, coyotes, Cross Street Book Shop, Damn Arbor, dance, Darren Breen, deer, Detroit Public Library, DIA, Erika Jost, Flint, Howard Hanna Real Estate Services, interviews, Jason Tallant, Leopold Brothers, Lucy Maud Montgomery, native plants, New Theater Project, Nicasia Marie Solano-Reed, pesticide, poop, Roundup, Sidetrack, spelling, tap dancing, Teach for America, Tyler Weston, University of Michigan, used book stores, Water Street Commons, Wizard of Oz, Ypsi Food Co-op, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti Downtown Library, Ypsilanti real estate | 27 Comments

Tomorrow at the Shadow, be interviewed by a painfully awkward middle-aged man with OCD

By Mark | July 15, 2011

I wasn’t going to do anything at tomorrow’s Shadow Art Fair. I’d intended to have a table, and sell something, but things never fell into place. Actually, none of us who plan the event were going to have a table this time around, which kind of sucks. We all want to do creative stuff again, […]

Posted in OCD, Shadow Art Fair, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Be Interviewed by a Painfully Awkward Middle-Aged Man with OCD, interviews, interviews with Mark, Jim Kunstler, Meet a Man Who Met Anderson Cooper, Michigan Design Militia, performance art, quilting | 5 Comments

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