I’m not sure how I feel about this. I guess shit like that can’t happen anymore, given how scripted everything is, and how nothing’s really live, but I would have loved it if they’d sent him out to do Real Wild Child only to have him pull an Elvis Costello and launch into something decidedly […]
By Mark | August 21, 2010
Two girls came by the house this afternoon. They handed me a box, looked at each other for a second, and ran away. Given the appearance of the girls, I was expecting it to be something gross, maybe in retaliation for yesterday’s post on the nastiness of dog-punching nomadic crusties. I don’t know what I […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio | Also tagged awesome t-shirt ideas, Clare, crusties, Keelan, Manhole, Manhood, my favorite bands, not so awesome t-shirt ideas, pink flamingo, Punk Week, weird glasses |
By Mark | August 18, 2010
Occasionally, as a public service, I like to reprint something here from Facebook, for all the folks that I can’t bring myself to “friend.” So, any thoughts? Am I alone in thinking that the folks who gathered here in Ann Arbor for Punk Week weren’t really punks, at least in the classic sense? And I […]
By Mark | August 23, 2009
A few days ago, I posted something here on the site about the clandestine shopping cart race that takes place in Ann Arbor every August, at the end of Punk Week. Well, after posting the story, I began hearing from people in Ann Arbor who wanted me to know why they were against the races. […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Mark's Life | Also tagged Bill Grundy, cardboard carcass, dirty rotter, disturbing the peace, flyers, kids today, littering, posts where Mark comes across as an uncool douche, preachy bullshit, Punk Week, Sex Pistols, Shopping, shopping carts made to look like sharks, stickers, strategy, taggers, the man |
