By Mark | September 19, 2021
Late last night, under cover of darkness, members of a white supremacist group called the Patriot Front appear to have painted over the large “Black Lives Matter” mural in Ypsilanti’s Riverside Park. This, apparently, is something that this particular organization — a group which splintered away from the neo-Nazi organization Vanguard America after 2017’s “Unite […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged angry white men, black lives matter, domestic terrorism, driving while black, George Floyd, Heather Heyer, murals, Nazi, Patriot Front, public art, racial injustice, racism, racist, Southern Poverty Law Center, street art, Thomas Rousseau, Unite the Right, Vanguard America, white ethnostate, white power |
By Mark | December 1, 2020
My son Arlo turns 9 years old today. This (above) is what he looks like these days. This was taken a few days ago on one of our long, late morning walks around Ypsilanti between his two online class periods. I suspect, at some point, he’ll tire of hanging around with me, but, as of […]
Last year on Memorial Day, my son and I discovered a giant vernal pool teaming with tadpoles at Riverside Park, so we thought we’d go back today in hopes of finding more. While we didn’t find any frogs or tadpoles, there was plenty for us to talk about. Among other things, we saw a family […]
Posted in Health, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Alro, asian carp, Barack Obama, carp, Charles `The Butcher' Benton, Chuck Scarborough, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, double feature, exercise, frogs, golf, golfing, H1N1, Harold Hill, Huron River, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, Idaho, Indestructible Man, Joe Biden, masks, Memorial Day, pandemic, playgrounds, public health, Russian roulette, swine flu, tadpoles, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Music Man, The Omega Man, vernal pool |
I’m tempted to write about Trump’s big white power friendly rally of insanity in Florida tonight, but, instead, I think I’ll just share this footage I shot yesterday evening of someone fishing by drone in the Huron River. Watch, and be amazed. Yesterday, for the first time, I encountered someone fishing by drone in Ypsilanti’s […]
Posted in Environment, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 20 Pound Carp, bass, decathlon, deer, deer cull, Donald Trump, drone fishing, drone hunting, drones, fishing, fishing by drone, fishing license, hunting, hunting by drone, hunting by robot, hunting season, Huron River, Jason Tallant, MAGA, Michigan Open Carry, open carry, Orlando, political rally, robots, slippery slope, The Future, white nationalism |
About two weeks ago, as you may recall, Arlo and I collected a bunch of tadpoles from a vernal pool in Ypsilanti’s Riverside Park. Well, things seemed to be going pretty well for our amphibian friends up until yesterday… Two days ago, things were awesome. We had about eight tadpoles that had sprouted back legs, […]
Posted in Environment, Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged amphibians, Arlo, frogs, hindlimbs, Linette's parents, metamorphosis, operculum, rapture, tadpoles, tails, toads, vernal pool |
