Tag Archives: OCD

Inside Ann Arbor’s Workantile coworking community

By Mark | April 2, 2013

118 South Main Street in Ann Arbor is home to a coworking community known as Workantile. Over the last several years, I’ve probably scratched out notes to myself half a dozen times, reminding me that I needed to hunt down the folks in charge and interview them for the site. Well, a few days ago, [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Uncategorized | Also tagged agoraphobia, Ann Arbor SPARK, ArbCamp, aversion therapy, Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Brian Kerr, Chamber of Commerce, co-working, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, corporate subsidies, coworking, Coworking Society LLC, Dave Nelson, Dug Song, Ed Shaffran, entrepreneurship, freelancers, independent business, Indy Hall, IT Zone, Jelly, L3C, microcoworking, Mike Kessler, panic disorder, pêche à la frog, Pete Larson, Philadelphia, Primo Coffee, remote employees, Seed Toledo, solopreneurs, Starbucks, Systems in Motion, Tech Brewery, Tom Brandt, Trek Glowacki, work, Workantile, Workantile Exchange | 35 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving again

By Mark | November 22, 2012

Last November, I made the decision not to write anything new for Thanksgiving, but, instead, to recycle something that I’d written years ago. Well, here it is again. I was tempted to remove some of the old references, and replace them with new ones, but it occurred to me that altering this post, which is [...]

Posted in Mark's Life, Other | Also tagged Addams Family, AT&T, Charles Maynard, crooked politicians, Cross Street Station, Dan Richardson, holiday, human sacrifice, Infantazine, kids setting fire to stuff, Linette, Matt Krizowsky, money laundering, Pat Maynard, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Sarah Palin, tea party, Thanksgiving, things I'm thankful for, Tom DeLay, Ward Tomich, Yeti Load | 8 Comments

God Bless America

By Mark | February 7, 2012

A few days ago, I posted video here of Bill Murray, on the first episode of Late Night with David Letterman. I have no way of knowing how many people took my advice and watched the clip, which was absolutely brilliant, but it only garnered one comment. (Someone, making the case that he was still [...]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized | Also tagged American culture, anxiety, Bill Murray, black comedy, Bobcat Goldthwait, celebrity culture, comedy, depression, Disney, Falling Down, FDR American Badass, Joel Murray, Juno, Late Night with David Letterman, Mark, mental health, Police Academy, pre-war jazz and blues, reality television, Scrooged, Shakes the Clown, Sleeping Dogs Lie, Tara Lynn Barr, the cesspool that is American culture, the Taliban should win, World's Greatest Dad | 17 Comments

Blogbaby episode seven: Chelsea Lowe on learning to fall

By Mark | January 6, 2012

[While I'm busy scrubbing poop from diapers and other articles of clothing, several friends have been kind enough to provide content for this site, through a program we're calling Blogbaby. Today's contribution comes from my author friend Chelsea Lowe, who lives in Boston.] The difference between high school and life, of course, is that one [...]

Posted in Mark's Life, Observations, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bipolar Disorder, Blogbaby, Chelsea Lowe, Education, Fabulized, friends with books, growing up, iPhone apps, Monk, TV Guide | 4 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving again

By Mark | November 24, 2011

I was going to write something new for Thanksgiving this year, but then it occurred to me that I could just reuse what I posted last year, and spend my morning cleaning the house and getting ready for the new baby that’s scheduled to join us any day now instead. (My hope is that, after [...]