News tonight that a young man has been apprehended by the FBI in Ann Arbor for apparently spraying a mixture of hand cleaner and rat poison on grocery store produce, has led to a great deal of speculation online as to what might cause a person to do something like this. While I suspect we’ll […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Health | Also tagged 1984, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, bioterrorism, cults, election tampering, elections, FBI, mice poison, Oregon, Osho, Plum Market, produce, public health, public health emergency, Rajneeshee bioterror attack, Rajneeshpuram, rat poison, salad bars, salmonella, The Dalles, Whole Foods |
By Mark | February 4, 2016
I got word this past weekend that there was a secret party taking place in downtown Ann Arbor, a posh event inside an upscale restaurant. The windows of the restaurant, I was told, had been “blacked out,” and there was security outside. The man who had rented it out, according to the person who first […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Politics, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ann Arbor News, birthday parties, blind items, cake, criminal investigation, FBI, Flint, Flint Child Health and Development Fund, Flint water crisis, Heather Anne Leavitt, Judge Mathis, lead, lead poisoning, Legionnaires' disease, Live, Nordstrom's, parties, public health, public health emergency, Rick Snyder, Sue Snyder, Susan Fecteau, Sweet Heather Anne, water, West End Grill, Wonkette |
By Mark | December 27, 2013
Over the years I’ve mentioned my friend Steve Hughes and his zine Stupor several times on this site. I’ve shared videos of him reading at the Shadow Art Fair, and interviewed him about his various projects in Hamtramck, where he makes his home and runs an art space called Public Pool. To my knowledge, though, […]
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By Mark | December 12, 2011
The kids at Clementine’s school asked Linette and me to come in a little while ago. They wanted to throw us a baby shower. It was super sweet. The big surprise, which Clementine had managed to keep from us up until that point, was that all the kids had collaborated on a book full of […]
My friend Eric, the guy who put me in the Hitler downfall meme a week or so ago, has struck again. This time he’s taken an innocent little video that I posted of myself to Youtube, and run it through Google’s new translation tool. The results, as you can see, are interesting. And, no, that’s […]
