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The Untold History of Zines… Doug Holland on Pathetic Life

By Mark | October 3, 2021

When I set out to interview all of the folks that were doing work that I respected back in the ‘90s, during the golden age of zines, there was one person I knew I wouldn’t be able to speak with. I’d been told by multiple people that Doug Holland, the man behind the legendary zine […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Crimewave USA, Mark's Life, Media, Pop Culture, Special Projects, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged affordable housing, aliases, Anderson Valley Advertiser, ass shaving, B Traven, back hair, Banksy, being left alone, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Bill Brent, Black Sheets, book deal, Book of Zines, boundaries, Bruce Anderson, Bummers and Gummers, cheap, cheapskate, Christianity, Christopher Becker, cockroaches, COVID, Crank, Craphound, crawfish, dachshunds, Daily Blab, David Letterman, Dead Magazine Club, Death, Desert Moon, diary, disappearing, Dishwasher, Dishwasher Pete, Doug Biggert, Doug Holland, Duplex Planet, famous people who published zines, fanzines, fat, film ideas, finding love, frugality, fucked up families, Gulp Life, Harold and Maude, hemorrhoids, High Weirdness by Mail, Hollywood, honestly, Jeff Kay, Jeffrey Meyer, Kate Moss, Kool Man, Larry Farber, Libertarian, Loki Quinnangelis, Macy’s, mail drops, Marie Prevost, masturbation, McDonalds, Michael Jackman, Mike Gunderloy, mothers, movie reviews, murder, Murder Can Be Fun, New Orleans, New York Times, obsession, odd jobs, office work, old movies, orgies, pathetic, Pathetic Live, pen names, personal zines, Pete Jordan, piss, pissing in sinks, playing hooky, privacy, quitter, quitting, reading, Rebecca Schaeffer, residential hotels, Roger Ebert, Rosebud, running away, Russ Meyer, San Francisco, Satanic Temple, science fiction, Seattle, secret identity, See Hear, Seth Friedman, shit, shitting on the floor, sinks, slobs, Sniffin’ Glue, solitude, Spiderman medallion, stalking, Stephanie Webb, Stymie, suicide, Sweden, Temp Slave, The Untold History of Zines, Tower Records, traumatic childhoods, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, underwear, Union Square, Utne Reader, waif models, West Virginia Surf Report, Wisconsin, Zine World | 11 Comments

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Caleb Elijah Zweifler

By Mark | December 6, 2018

If you’re planning to attend the DIYpsi art fair this weekend, be sure to swing by the table of illustrator Caleb Zweifler, who, early next week, intends to hitchhike his way out of Ypsilanti, the town that he’s called home for the past decade. Following is his official Ypsilanti exit interview. MARK: What’s your full […]

Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Amy Sacksteder, Andrew Zweifler, Andy Claydon, archery, Becoming Myth, Bee Roll, Beezy's, BFA, Bipolar Disorder, bitch", Brazil, Brian Little, Brian Nelson, Bruce Lee’s Fighting Method, bug-out bag, Caleb Zweifler, Capoeira, comic books, corn cob pipe, Davey Jones, death metal, depression, Dishwasher Pete, dishwashing, DIYpsi, Do Make Say Think, Elbow Room, EMU, EMU Art Department, exit interviews, garden hermit, graphic novels, Guillermo Lopez, hermit, hitchhiking, Iggy Pop, illustration, Jamaica, Jim Cherewick, John DeHoog, Julian Weisensel, Kris Coley, Lansing Community College, log cabin, mania, Marisa Dluge, Michael Reedy, Michigan, Munith, Nate Hockman, Nazis, Nightman Cometh, Pete Jordan, Peter Pan, Physicians for the Prevention of Gun Violence, political correctness, Portuguese, Richard Rubenfeld, Richard Washington, Rita Jane Riggs, Riverside Park, Ruth Zweifler, Sherzer Hall, Stockbridge, Student Advocacy Center, survivalist, Taru Sterling, Tetris, Visit Ypsilanti, wonderlust, Ypsi Real, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews, Ypsilanti Convention and Visitors Bureau, Ypsilantian of the Year | 53 Comments

Talking homesteading with sustainable design professor Joe Trumpey, learning about the business of curly hair with Original Moxie’s Rachel Blistein, and a fireside sing-along with the Yellow Rail Family …on episode 29 of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | October 6, 2015

Come and get it…. Episode 29 of the Saturday Six Pack is now ready for consumption. The sound is a bit off for the first 20 minutes or so, thanks to a bit of malicious engineering by a disgruntled member of the Yellow Rail Family collective, but, if you like reverb, it’s actually kind of […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged building with straw bales, Casey Dawson, Chris Stranad, David Patrick Kelly, doomsteading, Grass Lake, hair care, homesteading, Joseph Trumpey, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie, Original Moxie, Rachel Blistein, radical sustainability, Ryan Dawson, Sandy Acres Farm, Six Pack Portrait Project, straw bales, Sustainability, The Warriors, WWPID, Yellow Rail Family | 11 Comments

Living off-grid, hair care product entrepreneurship, and the Yellow Rail Family …on this weekend’s Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | October 2, 2015

I’m not sure why the folks in the AM 1700 design department decided to go with a Warriors theme this week. [I’ve been instructed by station management that I’m not allowed to communicate with them any more.] Maybe it’s because the old gang from 1979 just reunited for one last subway ride to Coney Island, […]

Posted in Local Business, Locally Owned Business, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged building with straw bales, Casey Dawson, David Patrick Kelly, Grass Lake, homesteading, Joseph Trumpey, Kate de Fuccio, local business, medical illustration, Michigan Science Art, Original Moxie, Rachel Blistein, radical sustainability, Ryan Dawson, Sandy Acres Farm, science illustration, Sephora, Stamps School of Art and Design, straw bale, sustainable design, The Warriors, University of Michigan School of Natural Resources, Yellow Rail Family | 5 Comments

Accelerating Community Capital (part one)… at the BALLE 2012 conference

By Mark | May 17, 2012

I spent the day in Grand Rapids, participating in a workshop on new models that are evolving for local businesses to raise capital from lenders, investors and donors, at the 10th annual conference of the Business Alliance for Living Local Economies (BALLE). What follow are my rough notes, for those of you who care about […]

Posted in Economics, entrepreneurism, Uncategorized | Also tagged Awaken Café, BALLE, big box retail, biomimicry, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, Capital Institute, Capitalism, Catskills, Co-op Power, co-ops, Common Market, cool local initiatives, Coop Power, credit unions, crowdfunding, CSA, Cutting Edge Capital, Direct Public Offerings, Don Shaffer, Equal Exchange, Erin Kilmer Neel, financial reform, financing local companies, general store, Harlem, investing, investing in the future, Jenny Kassan, Jobs Act, John Fullerton, JPMorgan Chase, liquidity, Little City Gardens, Local Economies Project, local economy, local investing, Localvesting, Lynn Benander, Marty Gay, Michael Shuman, Michelle Long, micro-financing, Move Your Money Project, move your money to a credit union, New World Foundation, Oakland, personal finances, Port Townsend, Port Townsend LION, Quimper Mercantile Company, regenerative capitalism, resilience, resiliency, RSF Social Finance, SCOR, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Slow Money, Small Company Offering Registration, South Bronx, startup investing, Sustainability, unaccredited investors, Washington State, what is wealth, White Dog Cafe | 13 Comments

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The Untold History of Zines… Doug Holland on Pathetic Life

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Caleb Elijah Zweifler

Talking homesteading with sustainable design professor Joe Trumpey, learning about the business of curly hair with Original Moxie’s Rachel Blistein, and a fireside sing-along with the Yellow Rail Family …on episode 29 of the Saturday Six Pack

Living off-grid, hair care product entrepreneurship, and the Yellow Rail Family …on this weekend’s Saturday Six Pack

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