Tag Archives: Patrick Dunn

Totally Awesome Fest 11… on this weekend’s edition of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | April 23, 2015

Every time I think about retiring from radio, a new poster comes out featuring my head crudely sewn on to yet another body more interesting than my own, and it occurs to me that I need to keep going, if only to see where my severed head will wind up next. This week, it looks […]

Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged akioke, AM 1700, Andrew Bruce Mitchell III, karaoke, Rotokiller, Sky Thing, TAF, Totally Awesome Fest | 14 Comments

Challengers take on 200 feet of meat and raise $6,000 for Fly Children’s Art Center at Ypsilanti’s second annual Wurst Challenge

By Mark | March 30, 2015

If you weren’t at the Wurst Bar last night for the second annual Wurst Challenge, you missed a hell of a good time. Ungodly amounts of sausage were eaten, many laughs were had, and, by the end of the night, we’d raised just over $6,000 for the FLY Children’s Art Center Creativity Lab in downtown […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged bratwurst, competitive eating, Cre Fuller, eating challenges, Jason Tallant, Jason Youngs, Jesse Kranyak, Jim Engman, Julian Weisenel, Kate Stroud, Knifebeard Sausagehawk, Nick Azzaro, Quinn Phillips, sausage, Team Smoot, William Henderson, Wurst Bar, Wurst Challenge | 10 Comments

Mark Maynard: folding his arms in front of the artwork of others

By Mark | October 23, 2014

I have an idea for a spinoff site. It would just be images of me, either folding my arms in front of, or leaning against, the artwork of others. What do you think? Is that the kind of site that you can imagine yourself going back to again and again, week after week? “I wonder […]

Posted in Site Admin, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Ben Connor Barrie, blogs, Concentrate, Concentrate Media, Doug Coombe, Mark in the press, Water Street Sculpture Park | 15 Comments

Shadow Art Fair 2012 (part two)

By Mark | July 22, 2012

Sorry I only made it a few hours into my Shadow Art Fair live blog before I had to bail out. You’d think that I’d know better by now, having tried to document these things live on several occasions over the past half dozen years. I always think, “this time, it’ll be different,” but it […]