Two of my best friends are releasing books this week, and, in spite of the all-consuming jealousy that’s overtaken me, I’ve decided to help them promote their works here. The first book that I’d like to tell you about is by my blog-hijacking friend Steve Hughes, the publisher of the often recalled zine Stupor. Here’s […]
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Introducing “Stupor”… the book
Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit, Dreamland Tonight, Shadow Art Fair, Uncategorized Also tagged A Hole for Brains and Candy, animal cruelty, animal torture, Art X, bed shitting, Book Beat, creative writing, Dances with Wolves, DIA, disappointment, do it yourself, drunkenness, dumb luck, flopping dicks, free beer, friends who do cooler stuff that I do, friends with books, Hamtramck, I'm a Spy, infidelity, jealousy, Jeff Kay, Jeff Kelly, Kresge Foundation, Kresge literary arts fellowship, Leopold's Books, Linette, Lynn Crawford, Mark's favorite authors, Microcosm, MOCAD, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Printed Matter, Public Pool, Quimby's, references to Mark's fat ass, self-publishing, Simply Separate People Two, Steve Hughes, Stupor, Temp Slave, Thomson Shore, West Virginia Surf Report, zine friends, zines 4 Comments
Dreamland Tonight: episode one recap
The show went off better than any of us could have predicted on Friday night. We had about 50 people in the audience, and, although I was nervous, I’m proud to report that I was not racked with pant-shitting terror. There wasn’t even that minute or two of uncontrollable shaking that I generally experience whenever […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, OCD, Special Projects, Ypsilanti Also tagged Chris Sandon, competitive eating, Dreamland Theater, Dreamland Tonight, falafel eating contest, falafel king, fear of public speaking, Heimlich Maneuver, Keelan, Liquid Swords, Mike Ambs, Naia Venturi, Patrick Elkins, Paul Schreiber, people who will one day regret getting a tattoo designed by Mark, puppet Mark, puppets, school closure, tattoos designed by Mark, Ted Kennedy, Tim Schreiber, Ypsi talk show 21 Comments
Biden responds to Cheney’s revisionist history
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who just celebrated the fourth anniversary of shooting his friend in the face, crawled out from his hole the other day, like Punxsutawney Phil, and assessed the political environment. And, finding people not shitting their pants in fear, he decided to ratchet up the neocon rhetoric. He accused the Obama […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Media, Observations, Politics Also tagged 9/11, coddling terrorists, Dick Cheney, Dick Cheney is an evil groundhog, due process, fear mongering, Joe Biden, Meet the Press, neocon, Punxsutawney Phil, revisionist history, rewriting history, shooting friends in the face, terror porn, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, underwear bomber, War on Terror, waterboarding, Yick Wo v. Hopkins 15 Comments