By Mark | November 1, 2016
Back in 2011, I interviewed a young man by the name of Forest Juziuk about his planned relocation from Ann Arbor to San Francisco, California. As it turns out, it would be the first in a long series of exit interviews I’d conduct here, which, in turn, would spawn a second series of interviews with […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged academia, Anton LaVey, caves, Christmas, college, construction, Corinne Loperfido, Craigslist, creepy, Fleetwood Mac, Forest Juziuk, free college tuition, grapes, Gregg Turkington, Gretchen Davidson, Had Fair, hard-core porn, helmets, immigration interview, Maya De Paula Hanika, megalomaniacs, musical chairs, Oakland, porn, putting on shows, San Francisco, Satanists, Slumber Party, sobriety, Steely Dan, street level, Sutra Baths, Sutro Baths, Tan Man, tattoos, tuition, underground film, Universal Indians, whorehouses, witches, Ypsi immigration interview, Zeena LaVey |
By Mark | October 1, 2016
In preparation for this evening’s interview with Gregory A. Fournier about his new book, Terror in Ypsilanti, I’ve been reading as much as I can about the case of EMU student turned serial killer John Norman Collins. And, last night, as I starting thinking about all the locations in town that are associated with the […]
Posted in History, The Saturday Six Pack, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1967, 1969, AM 1700, Chocolate Shoppe, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, Gregory A. Fournier, hairpieces, Joan Goshe, John Norman Collins, Karen Sue Beineman, Kelly & Company, Larry Mathewson, murder, North Washington Street, Patricia Spaulding, serial killers, Terror in Ypsilanti, wigs, Wigs by Joan |
Those of you weren’t alive in the ’80s probably won’t get the reference, but there was a commercial that used to play all of he time on television for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in which a man, strutting down the street, eating a chocolate bar, turns a corner and runs right into a young woman […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged Arizona, biker gangs, cartoons, Elton Simpson, Flash Nelson, hate speech, Jon Ritzheimer, Mohammed, Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest, Nadir Soofi, Phoenix, racism, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups |
By Mark | September 27, 2009
Remember a while ago how I told you that a fellow here in Ypsi had begun living in a tree in order to keep it from being chopped down? Well, he’s apparently come down… It’s being reported at AnnArbor.com that Bill Riney was punched in the nose today by bikers… According to the report, the […]