When it was first announced that David Letterman would be retiring and that Stephen Colbert would be leaving the satirical Colbert Report to take his place at the helm of the Late Show on CBS, a lot of people, myself included, wondered how he would navigate the transition from fictional conservative pundit to something more […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Pop Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged Colbert Report, David Letterman, Eminem, giant checks, Jerry's Frenchtown Bar and Grill, Late Show, Letterman, Michigan, Monroe, MPACT, Only in Monroe, public access television, Stephen Colbert |
By Mark | December 15, 2014
[The following post is kind of rambling. I apologize in advance for the stream-of-consciousness nature of it.] A few nights ago, half joking, I posted on Facebook that I was considering the possibility of bestowing a “Local Person of the Year” award in Ypsi, the same way that Time magazine does every year for the […]
By Mark | November 16, 2014
I don’t know this to be true, but I’ve heard, over the years, that the Maynard side of my family made their way to Kentucky from West Virginia. And, as there are currently a great many Maynards there, like Lee Maynard, the brilliant author of Crum, I suspect that there may be some truth to […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, energy, Environment, Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ayn Rand, coal mines, coal mining, Crum, Don Blankenship, Jay Rockefeller, Lee Maynard, Libertarianism, Massey Energy, Upper Big Branch South Mine, West Virginia, Whitesville, workplace safety |
By Mark | November 26, 2011
A couple of days ago, AnnArbor.com ran a story about the Occupy actions planned for Black Friday. I was quoted in the piece, as I’d announced that my friend Jeff and I would be walking around Ypsi with signs, in solidarity with the folks in Ann Arbor and Detroit, who were going into big box […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Other, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AnnArbor.com, attacks, Best Buy, Black Friday, blood funnel, buy local, Confederate flag, Confederate Sons of America, Corner brewery, democracy protests, getting beaten up, Inside the Hall, Jeff Clark, Karl Marx, license plates, Marvel Comics, Marxism, Marxist history, Matt Taibbi, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Patriotic Order Sons of America, pepper spray, Peter Linebaugh, protest signs, protests, punched in the nose, Sons of America, Spider Man, vampire squid, Ypsilanti water tower |
