By Mark | January 25, 2020
With everyone talking about the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, my mind went, as it often does when thinking about the Nazi extermination camps, to my friend, the Atlanta folk artist Ned Cartledge. Cartledge, as I may have mentioned here before, saw the horrors of the Nazis firsthand toward the end of the […]
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1945, 82nd Airborne, 89th Chemical Mortar Battalion, Atlanta, Auschwitz, cesspool, concentration camps, Dwight D. Eisenhower, folk art, Gardelegen, Gardelegen massacre, genocide, Germany, holocaust, holocaust denial, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Kurt Vonnegut, Lorrie Mell, Ludwigslust, Nazi, Neuengamme, never forget, propaganda, racism, scapegoats, starvation, torture, Unitarian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, war, war crimes, Wöbbelin, World War II |
By Mark | November 23, 2015
Late last week, I lost a very dear friend. His name was Caleb Brokaw. Some of you who live here in Ypsi, I’m sure, knew him. He lived just east of Depot Town, and he could often be seen walking happily through the neighborhood with his wife, Sue, and their daughter, Evie. He and Sue […]
By Mark | November 5, 2013
I had a very odd dream last night, and I’d like to have some help making sense of it. I was in a theater at Greenfield Village, which, to my knowledge, does not exist in real life. I was seated in the front row, to the right of the stage, with my friends Dan and […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Archie Byron, astroturf, Bob Seger, Dan Richardson, Dave Miller, dream interpretation, dreams, folk art, Greenfield Village, Henry Ford, Henry Ford Museum, Mark's penis, pants, penises, Pete Seger, Seth Rogan, small penis, Steve Earle, underwear |
By Mark | August 12, 2013
You: An elderly African American gentleman in cream colored windbreaker and a read Marine Corps baseball cap, nearly hit in the head by my infant son’s sippy cup. Me: A doughy, over-apologetic, middle-aged white guy in faded black jeans and a t-shirt with a drawing of myself as Snow White… We chatted briefly about our […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Arlo, best friends forever, BFF, calamari, Charlie's Crab, Clementine, Craigslist, friends, friends who have passed, Grand Rapids, Greenfield Village, Harold and Maude, m4m, Mark prefers the company of old people to that of people his own age, men seeking men, missed connections, posts that sound gay but aren't |
