Tag Archives: poop

Don’t ask me how my weekend was…

By Mark | January 13, 2013

note: He deserves better than to be commemorated in the footnote of a post about my petty plumbing problems, but I did want to note the fact that, if not for the this little emergency of mine, I’d surely be posting something thoughtful tonight about the death of internet activist and political organizer Aaron Swartz. [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Mark's Life | Also tagged Aaron Swartz, academic journals, access to information, basement, Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, information access, JSTOR, Michigan Power Rodding, plumbing, privacy, problems in the basement, Reddit, Science, sewage, shit, suicide | 27 Comments

Shadow 2012 live blog poop

By Mark | July 21, 2012

10:29 AM Who knows what the future holds, but, for now, I’m going to be working the first formal complaint booth at the Shadow Art Fair. Complaints are just $1 a piece, unless you require that action be taken, which costs an additional $4. (After ignoring complaints for the first 12 Shadows, it felt like [...]

Posted in Shadow Art Fair, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Alfonso, beards, book ideas, business ideas, complaints, Corner brewery, Coupon, Dustin Krcatovich, Elbow Deep, gay, Gay Baby Names, John Maggie, Johnny Apricot, Mark's big ideas, Nathan Hoste, Patrick Elkins, pooping wizard, The Rocket, Woodruff's | 9 Comments

You missed a great time at the Trading Tortoise

By Mark | July 3, 2012

Following are a few photos from Sunday’s Trading Tortoise stop at Ypsi’s Corner Brewery. I traded a beard that I’d shaved off a few years ago, and stuffed into an old, amber pill bottle, for a penny on which JFK’s head had been etched next to that of Lincoln. It came along with a small [...]

Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, beards, choking, Detroit Metro Airport, dolls, eerie, etching on pennies, face eating, grow your own Mark Maynard, hysteria, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy Looks at Lincoln, Monica Choy, pennies, pooping at the workplace, pooping in a box, Shawn Gates, Souther Salazar, tired blood, Trading Tortoise, unicorns, workplace memos | 7 Comments

Regardless of what you might have read, I don’t have a poop fetish

By Mark | July 13, 2011

I’ve received several notes from people today, asking about my “poop fetish.” I suspect almost all of them are in jest, but I thought that I should formally set the record straight, before people start signing me up for lifetime subscriptions to Turd magazine. The whole thing started this afternoon, when an article about Saturday’s [...]