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Super Tuesday open thread
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Super Tuesday 98 Comments
There was stuff that I wanted to write about tonight, but I’ve decided to watch Lifeboat instead
If you’d like to join me, you can rent 1944’s Lifeboat on Amazon for $3.99. If, however, you’re not a Hitchcok fan, you can feel free to use this as an open thread, and just leave a comment about whatever it is that you want to talk about, from today’s arrest of Republican Congressman Chris […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1944, Alfred Hitchcock, Chris Collins, Lifeboat, Nazis 29 Comments
Your thoughts on the second debate between Clinton and Trump
Watching tonight’s debate, I had four thoughts worth sharing. Here they are. If you have anything to add, please leave a comment. For what it’s worth, I was also disappointed that no one used the word “pussy.”
Posted in Politics Also tagged 2016, debates, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Presidential politics 28 Comments
MarkMaynard.com’s first annual Simsgiving
For the past few years, I’ve marked Thanksgiving by posting the same damn thing on my site – a long, somewhat obscure, list of things that I’m thankful for, culminating in a scene from one of the Addams Family movies in which Wednesday Addams, portraying Pocahontas in a youth production of the first Thanksgiving, turns […]
Posted in Other, Special Projects Also tagged Addams Family, Charlie Brown, friend to the friendless, friends, Pocahontas, Puritans, recipes, Simsgiving, Thanksgiving, things I'm thankful for, Wednesday Addams 24 Comments
Open Thread… “look into my eyes and tell me that everything’s going to be alright” edition
Remember how, a few days ago, I told you that my high-school-bully-turned-bandmate, Mike, in an attempt to make me feel even worse about myself than I already do, had relentlessly fucked with a photo of me until I had inch-deep wrinkles and sunken black holes where my eyes should have been? Well, my friend Patty, […]
Posted in Other, Photographs Also tagged Mike Bell, Patty Stevenson, unflattering portraits 41 Comments
