By Mark | November 9, 2016
I need some time away from the world right now, so I’m going to walk across the room with my chicken pot pie in a couple minutes, settle down on the couch with my family, and watch My Man Godfrey. I suspect I’ll return to blogging at some point in the not too distant future, […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alt Right, angry old white men, blogging, brain drain, Chicago, chicken pot pie, crazy white people, David Duke, Donald Trump, elections, great achievements of white people, Hillary Clinton, KKK, metrics, polling, racism, Rust Belt, shifting national demographics, stats |
By Mark | December 1, 2013
Thanks to my network of well-compensated spies, I was just recently tipped off to the existence of today’s interview subject, Sarah Zawacki. Sadly, our interview had already concluded when it was brought to my attention that she shared her home with a domesticated hedgehog by the name of Mabel (seen below), so I didn’t get […]
Posted in History, Local Business, Michigan, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Ann Arbor - Detroit rail, Carole Lombard, Clara Bow, Congdon's Ace Hardware, conspiracy theories, Deja Vu, Depot Town, farmers market, hedgehogs, immigration interview, IT, It Happened One Night, Lillian Gish, living where you work, Martha Washington Theater, Myrna Loy, passenger rail, public libraries, public safety officer, Sarah Zawacki, The Night of the Hunter, The Thin Man, Thompson Block, unusual pets, walkability, water, Ypsi Food Co-op, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti District Library, Ypsilanti Downtown Library, Ypsilanti's Mineral Water Sanitariums |
I bought a movie on a whim through Amazon the other day. I’d never seen it before, but, from what I could tell, it seemed like the kind of thing that I’d like. Among other things, the cast included a number of actresses that I happen to be quite fond of, including Katharine Hepburn, Lucille […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life | Also tagged Adolphe Menjou, Amazon, Andre, Andrea Leeds, Aunt Agatha's, butchering, chicken, Cornelia Bullock, Cross Street Books, e-commerce, Facts of Life, fast talking dames, Film, Footlights Club, Gail Patrick, Ginger Rogers, Gone with the Wind, good design, Katharine Hepburn, lamb, local, movie reviews, Murph, Olivia de Havilland, screwball comedy, shameless self-promotion, Stage Door, the future of this site, things that make Mark happy |
I wanted to do a huge, comprehensive post on the tent cities which are cropping up all across America, as more and more people find themselves out of work and unable to afford traditional housing now that our economy has fallen off the proverbial cliff. To be quite honest, however, I’m not up to the […]
