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If you’re going to be compared to a terrorist, it might as well be a brilliant one

By Mark | September 30, 2013

On Sunday afternoon, I was standing in the rain in Ann Arbor, by myself, with a half-eaten cupcake in my hand, when a friend approached me, and greeted me with a question that I’d never been asked before. “How’d you like being compared to the Unabomber?” Having no idea what in the hell he was […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged A2GastroBoy, activism, Alan Haber, Barenaked Ladies, Boots Riley, cupcake, Derrick Jensen, doppelgänger, injuries that Mark has suffered, isolation, James V. McConnell, Jeffrey Dahmer, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., meet a blogger, Miss Piggy, MLK, non-violence, people Mark looks like, people who look kind of like Mark, SDS, Steve Page, technology, Ted Kaczynski, terrorism, the human condition, threat of violence, Unabomber, University of Michigan, violence, violence vs non-violence | 15 Comments

A2Awesome gives out another $3,000 in grants to brilliant people doing inspiring things in the Ypsi-Arbor area

By Mark | October 29, 2012

Yesterday, the Trustees of A2Awesome convened in the secret writing lab behind the Liberty Street Robot Supply and Repair store in downtown Ann Arbor, and handed out another $3,000 in cash grants intended to make life the Ypsi-Arbor area more awesome. The cash awards were handed over in brown paper bags to artist Trevor Stone, […]

Posted in A2Awesome, Ann Arbor, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Alice Liberson, Awesome Foundation, Dick Soble, Hans Masing, Heather MacKenzie, Jeff Meyers, Larry Grant, Linh Song, Monique Deschaine, Paul Saginaw, Tanya Luz | 6 Comments

A2Awesome awards its first $1,000 grant. Congratulations to Nathan Ayers!

By Mark | January 29, 2012

As I mentioned a while back, I’m one of a group of people to who decided, not too long ago, to start a local chapter of Boston’s Awesome Foundation. Well, this morning, our group – christened A2Awesome – handed over its first $1,000 grant. The funds were given, in a brown paper bag, to Nathan […]

Posted in A2Awesome, Agriculture, Alternative Energy, Ann Arbor, Awesome Foundation, Detroit, Education, Special Projects | Also tagged Alice Liberson, Ann Arbor Public Schools, bike power, bikes, Chiwara Permaculture, Dick Soble, drums, energy storage, Hans Masing, Heather MacKenzie, Hip Hop Congress, home energy storage, Jeff Meyers, Larry Gant, LED light bulbs, Linh Song, Lisa Dengiz, Monique Deschaine, Paul Saginaw, permaculture, re-skilling, Sustainability, Tanya Luz, Transition Ann Arbor, Transition Town, vegetables, Washtenaw Community College | 11 Comments

A2Awesome, the Awesome Foundation’s local Washtenaw County chapter, announces launch, and promises $1,000 in monthly cash grants for awesome ideas

By Mark | November 16, 2011

For those of you who didn’t catch the announcement on AnnArbor.com today, I’ve got some potentially good news to share. Thanks to the efforts of Neutral Zone founder Lisa Dengiz, and a small but active group of community-minded individuals, Ann Arbor is, as of today, home to a branch of the Boston-based micro-philanthropic organization – […]