By Mark | February 28, 2010
The show went off better than any of us could have predicted on Friday night. We had about 50 people in the audience, and, although I was nervous, I’m proud to report that I was not racked with pant-shitting terror. There wasn’t even that minute or two of uncontrollable shaking that I generally experience whenever […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, OCD, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Chris Sandon, competitive eating, Dreamland Theater, Dreamland Tonight, falafel eating contest, falafel king, fear of public speaking, Heimlich Maneuver, Keelan, Liquid Swords, Mike Ambs, Naia Venturi, pant shitting, Patrick Elkins, Paul Schreiber, people who will one day regret getting a tattoo designed by Mark, puppet Mark, school closure, tattoos designed by Mark, Ted Kennedy, Tim Schreiber, Ypsi talk show |
By Mark | February 25, 2010
The show’s about 24 hours away now, and we’re all busy tying down loose ends. I shot this short video last night before we rehearsed. I’m not sure why it’s so shaky at the beginning. I don’t remember being terrified, or jittery. Maybe the new Flip camera has a Parkinson’s setting that I’m not aware […]
Word on the street is that producers of NBC’s hour-long suckfest known as Late Night with Jimmy Fallon have been calling around Ypsi today in hopes of laying their hands on photographs of City Manager Ed Koryzno, City Council member Bill Nickles, and Augusta Township Supervisor Pete Hafler. According to what I’m told, when asked, […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Pop Culture, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Bill Nickles, City Council, Drew Barrymore, Ed Koryzno, Jimmy Fallon, late night suckfest, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Pete Hafler, President Fallon, Saturday Night Live |
Linette, Clementine and I braved the freezing drizzle on Sunday to see Ann Arbor’s annual Festifools parade. The event, as always, was wonderfully surreal. Sadly, this year there was no giant, pooping cat. There was, however, something equally as bizarre – the Mayor of Ann Arbor, John Hieftje, running along the edges of the parade, […]
Our friends at the Dreamland Theater need some help… It seems someone came along in the middle of the night not too long ago and smashed their two front doors. Together, the doors cost almost $1,000 to replace. Fortunately, their insurance covered quite a bit of it, but there’s still a big chunk left to […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Adapt Collective, Ambit, benefit, Carlos Pulido, Clean Energy Coalition, Dreamland Theater, energy audit, heating bills, insulation, JDSY, Jim Cherowick, Kevin Morris, Last Rave, Naia Venturi, Rebuild Ypsilanti, vandalism |
