According to what I’m reading on social media this morning, this card was found yesterday at Eastern Michigan University’s Halle Library. It was, I’ve been told, left on a sign next to an elevator. I suspect some will say that not much meaning can be drawn from it, as it could just be the work […]
By Mark | January 23, 2017
On Saturday, standing in front of the CIA memorial commemorating the 117 agents who lost their lives in service to our country, Donald Trump, instead of just focusing on the importance of the work being done by the men and women of the intelligence agency, went on a rant about the “dishonest media,” which had […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged A Face in the Crowd, CIA, Donald Trump, future of journalism, gaslight, inauguration, intelligence, John Brennan, laugh track, lies, Mike Pompeo, Nick Shapiro, post-truth, Republican lies, threats to journalists, truth |
By Mark | January 7, 2017
I’ve been struggling since the election to catch even a glimpse of the big picture. Like many of you, despite my best intentions, I tend to get swept up in the horror of the day. I want to look dispassionately at all the moving pieces and see if I can maybe find some logic in […]
Posted in Economics, energy, Environment, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Aras Agalarov, Arctic, big oil, Canada, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, dependency on foreign oil, DNC, Donald Trump, Exxon, fake news, FBI, hacking, Hillary Clinton, James B. Comey, Kazakhstan, Lindsey Graham, Michigan, Miss Universe, NATO, offshore drilling, oil, Party of Regions, Paul Manafort, Pennsylvania, Presidential politics, Rex Tillerson, Trump Soho, Viktor F. Yanukovych, Viktor Yanukovych, Viktor Yushchenko, Vladimir Putin, Wisconsin |
By Mark | August 23, 2014
In 2012, when conservative author Dinesh D’Souza lost his job as President of The King’s College, an evangelical Christian school based in Manhattan, I didn’t think it likely that he’d ever have another of his ridiculous “documentaries” made. But I guess Neocons, for all of their talk of family values, don’t really give a fuck […]
Posted in Other, Politics, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged A People's History of the United States, America: Imagine A World Without Her, Dinesh D’Souza, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Rand Paul, Saul Alinsky, slavery, Ted Cruz, Ward Churchill |
By Mark | August 10, 2014
Many of us attribute the so-called golden age of zines to the rise of Kinko’s, and their notoriously lax oversight of night shift employees, who could always be counted on to fire up a copier and look the other way in exchange for a beer. Perhaps just as importantly, though, Tower Records was entering an […]
Posted in Crimewave USA, Mark's Life, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged Adrian Tomine, Answer Me, Beautiful America, Boiled Angel, Bud Martin, California, Chloe Colpé, Cometbus, Deftones, Desert Moon, Dishwasher, Don Junk, Doug Biggert, ESS, Factsheet Five, George Horton, hitchhiking, Japan, Maximum Rock’n’Roll, Pete Jordan, Peter Principle, photography, pubic hair, Russ Solomon, Sacramento, sandals, Tim Yohannon, Tony Valerio, Tower Mag Hell, Tower Records, Ulysses, Vancouver, Xavier Carcelle, Zasshi Jigoku, zines |
