By Mark | February 25, 2015
Somehow, a year or so ago, I fell into groove where I started talking with local musicians about vacations they’d taken outside of Michigan. I’m not sure what prompted it, or why I suddenly stopped, but I suspect it was weather related to some degree. And, now that it’s 20 degrees below zero outside, I […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1692, aliens, Area 51, Arthur Miller, Basement Arts, Black Mailbox, Carol Catherine, Carol Catherine Burns Gray, Chris Bathgate, Civil War, Clementine, Coast to Coast, Community Music School of Ann Arbor, conspiracy theories, consumerism, Descent of the Holy Ghost Church, deserts, Doug Coombe, emoticons, Errol Morris, Extraterrestrial Highway, Fifty Shades of Grey, food blogs, Fox Mulder, Frieze building, HAM radio, Hoover Dam, Las Vegas, Little Aleinn, Love Letters, manifest destiny, Mars, Matt Jones, Michigan Musicians on Vacation, missile silos, Misty Lyn Bergeron, Mittenfest, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Nevada, Prison Creative Arts Project, prison theater, Rachel, Rebecca Nurse, Salem, Salem witch trials, sand, Shakespeare in the Arb, Silence is for Suckers, Sisters Within Theater Troupe, Stephen Hawking, Sullivan Ballou, Sullivan Ballou’s letter to Sarah, The Crucible, theater, violin, Voyager, witch hunts, witchcraft, witches, Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility |
By Mark | January 19, 2013
Becca Keating, the former Director of Development at the Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF), has spent the past several days driving across the country with the intention of transforming herself into an Angeleno. Following is our exit interview, conducted as she adjusted to life in a world with sunshine. MARK: Let’s start with where you’re […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged abortion, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor Paper, avant-garde, Becca Keating, David Lynch, exit interviews, Grand Canyon, Gratzi, independent film, Ken Burns, Kevin Jerome Everson, Laida Lertxundi, Laura Abraham, Liberty Street Video, Los Angeles, Marcin Gizycki, Ohio, old white men making decisions on women's health, parade floats, Pasadena, pie, porn, reproductive justice, Rick Snyder, Rose Parade, Scientology, Suzan Pitt, The Central Park Five, tiramisu, Toledo, Twin Peaks, Un Chien Andalou, Village Corner, Whitney Biennial, women's rights, womne's health, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews |
Remember how, a couple of days ago, we were talking about that new book on Area 51, and it’s bombshell revelation that Nazi scientists made tiny, alien-looking people for the Soviets after WWII, and then launched them into the side of a bluff in Roswell, New Mexico? Well, the author of the book, Annie Jacobsen, […]
Linette’s all freaked out tonight. She heard something on Fresh Air today about Area 51. Apparently, there’s a new book out by a journalist named Annie Jacobsen about the highly-restricted parcel of government land outside of Las Vegas, it’s history, and the many conspiracy theories that revolve around it. Most troubling for Linette was the […]
Posted in History, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1947, Annie Jacobsen, Area 51, black propaganda, book ideas, child-sized pilots, CIA, Cold War, conspiracy theories, human experimentation, Josef Mengele, Mark's big ideas, Nazi, nuclear arms race, Soviet Union, Stalin, UFO, Walter Bedell Smith, War of the Worlds |
By Mark | October 19, 2009
I wasn’t going to write about the Balloon Boy hoax… I wasn’t… But, then I read an interview on Gawker with a man that worked with Richard Heene, the father of the Balloon Boy, in which it’s mentioned that the fame-obsessed dad was, among other things, obsessed by the idea that the world is really […]
Posted in Media, Observations, Other | Also tagged 1947, bad parenting, Balloon Boy, Biefield-Brown Effect, David Icke, Dr. Jonathan Chase, fake police reports, flying saucer, Gawker, hoaxes, Manimal, obsession with fame, reality television, reptilian, reptilian humanoids, Richard Heene, shape shifting, UFO |