As of this morning, we still have one office available at Landline Creative Labs. Here, in case you know of a designer, illustrator, web architect, writer, photographer, or filmmaker that might be interested, is a photo of the office in question, as well as a few other shots of the space taken by our friend […]
By Mark | January 19, 2015
I excused myself from dinner tonight to go and hack away at my beard. It had been bothering me for a while, and I felt that a change was in order. So I took a pair of scissors from the medicine cabinet and started cutting it away from my face in massive, white clumps. After […]
By Mark | January 1, 2014
I received the best compliment in my life a few days ago. A stranger approached me on the street, looked me right in the eye, and said, “I appreciate your beard.” He didn’t say, “I like your beard.” He didn’t say that my beard was, “cool.” He said that he appreciated it. It was like […]
I don’t want to take on one more project, so this idea is free to anyone who wants it… Next year, there should be a Totally Awesome Feast in conjunction with Totally Awesome Fest. We should close a street and do it up right. Maybe cook a tofu pig in a pit, or something. As […]
Posted in Food, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged beard basket, beards, cooking with beards, local food, local food production, Mark's big ideas, Patrick Elkins, the local food army, thickly-bearded local troubadours, Totally Awesome Feast, Totally Awesome Fest |
Remember how, last year at about this time, we were talking about Totally Awesome Fest? Well, it’s upon us again, and, with that in mind, I attempted to engage the enigmatic Patrick Elkins, one of the men behind the festival, in conversation. Following is the result: MARK: What, if anything, are you doing differently this […]
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