A few years ago, I made the decision not to write anything new for Thanksgiving, but, instead, to recycle something that I’d written the year before. And, ever since then, I’ve been posting the same damn thing. Well, here it is again. I was tempted to remove some of the old references, and replace them […]
Tag Archives: Newton
Happy Thanksgiving
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged Andover, Arlo, Charles Maynard, Clementine, Dan Richardson, It's a Wonderful Life, Kentucky, Linette Lao, Mark's ancestors, Mark's mind, Matt Krizowsky, money laundering, mosquito, New Jersey, Pat Maynard, sacrifice, Sarah Palin, tea party, thankful, Thanksgiving, things I'm thankful for, Tom DeLay, Turkey, Ypsilanti 4 Comments
Reconnecting with old friends over tropical fruit, cheap beer and embarrassing stories of youth
I spent the last 48 hours in the tiny town of Newton, New Jersey, reconnecting with old high school friends. It was a plan hatched earlier this last spring, at the funeral of my friend Dan’s mother. A few of us, if I remember correctly, were lamenting the fact that we didn’t see more of […]
Posted in Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized Also tagged cliques, Dan Richardson, high school, New Jersey, Newton High School, reunions, The Big Chill, things that make Mark happy, Tropical Fruit Day, young Mark 6 Comments
R.E.M. and the legacy of that perfect circle of acquaintances and friends
I wasn’t going to post anything here about the recent news that R.E.M. was breaking up, until, at the gym this morning, I heard two network morning show talking heads going back and forth about how they’d only started appreciating the band in recent years. I suppose they could have meant that they were really […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 394 Oconee Street, Andrew Fassel, Athens, Athens GA: Inside/Out, before the internet, bootlegs, CBGB, Country Pie, David Letterman, Degrassi Jr High, fandom, historic archeology, Howard Finster, Losing My Religion, Michael Lachowski, Michael Stipe, Murmur, music scenes, perfect circle, R.E.M., Radio Free Europe, Ramones, self-taught art, St. Marys Episcopal Church, Vanessa Briscoe Hay, Velvet Underground 35 Comments