Tag Archives: Ron Asheton

Not everyone wants RoboCop in Detroit

By Mark | February 16, 2011

I haven’t mentioned it here, but I have friends in Detroit who don’t want the RoboCop statue. Most notable among these folks is my friend Joe, who blogs under the name Super Gay Detroit. He thinks the whole thing is kind of stupid. Here are a few of his points. If you’d like to read […]

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Seeing Iggy Pop on April 19

By Mark | February 16, 2011

I wasn’t planning to go to the Stooges show at the Michigan Theater on April 19, even though they’re probably the band, next to the Ramones, that made the biggest impact in my life. As I’d seen them play before, back when Ron Asheton was still alive, I didn’t see a point in going back […]

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Iggy Pop as a mime

By Mark | July 20, 2010

One of the cool things about being Facebook friends with Niagra from Destroy All Monsters is that she shares interesting videos. A few days ago, she posted a a clip from an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies featuring a young, very much alive Sharon Tate kissing Max “Jethro” Baer behind of the back of an […]

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The hubbub in Dearborn

By Mark | January 6, 2010

I’m trying my damndest to get worked up over this sweatshirt designed by Arab-American kids in the class of 2011 at Dearborn’s Edsel Ford High School, but I’m just not feeling it. Then again, it didn’t really bother me all that much when Ron Asheton and the Sex Pistols used to dress up like Nazis, […]

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