Mark Maynard | Santa Claus

Here’s wishing you and yours a very YouTube Christmas

By Mark | December 24, 2012

Posted in Pop Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1939, 1955, Christmas, Church of Stop Shopping, Jack Benny, Jingle Jangle, K Gordon Murray, Penguins, Reverend Billy, Scrooge, Star Wars Holiday Special | 12 Comments

The forces of holiday darkness are gathering…. Krampus to emerge from an ocean of beer at the Corner Brewery on December 15, and lead a Christmas army of ghouls, monsters and freaks through the streets of Ypsilanti

By Mark | December 9, 2012

I’ve been remiss. I’ve been meaning to mention something for quite a while now, but things kept conspiring against me. Prior to December 2, I’d been focusing my limited attention on The Coup’s show in Depot Town. And, since then, I, like the rest of you, have been completely overwhelmed by the sustained assault on [...]

Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged asshole Republicans, Bloomington, Corner brewery, Elbow Deep, Green Bay, Green Bay Krampuslauf, Krampus, Krampus Ball, Krampusdeep, Krampuslauf, Krampuslauf Philadelphia, Mad Tinkers, naughty beer, nice beer, Philadelphia, right-to-work, Supernatural, unions, war on Christmas | 20 Comments

Merry Christmas, leave the plate

By Mark | December 24, 2010

update: Now that I’m done wrapping presents, nibbling on carrots and arranging cookie crumbs on a plate so as to give the impression of having been dropped by a 300-pound intruder, I’m faced with the eternal holiday question… Die Hard or A Christmas Carol.

Posted in Mark's Life, Other, Photographs | Also tagged A Christmas Carol, carrots, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Clementine, cookies, Die Hard, totally quotable Clementine | 16 Comments

WARNING… Krampus to attack Ypsi on Dec. 11…

By Mark | November 9, 2010

OK, now that all the cyber chatter has died down a bit, I thought that I’d come out from my hole and explain what happened, and why there isn’t going to be a winter Shadow Art Fair this year. First, though, before I do that, I just want to say, for the record, that our [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Pop Culture, sex, Shadow Art Fair, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Austria, Bauhaus, Bela Lugosi's Dead, Black Peter, Christmas, Christmas traditions, Concentrate Media, Corner brewery, dance party, dark assistant, December 11, Detroit Urban Craft Fair, DIYpsi, Doug Skinner, Elbowdeep, fear of public speaking, Fortean, Germany, glam, Klaubaur, Knecht Ruprecht, Krampus, Krampus Ball, lederhosen, Michigan Design Militia, monsters, Moonage Daydream, parades, Pelznickel, Perchten, pre-Christian Alpine tradition, pre-Christian Alpine traditions, punishment booth, religion of consumption, sci fi, Shadow Brew, spanking, St. Nicholas, the over-commercialization of Christmas, The Savoy, Ziggy Stardust | 31 Comments

That Wednesday post that everyone will be talking about on Thursday at the water cooler

By Mark | December 9, 2009

There’s lots of stuff going on that I’d like to write about tonight, but I really should be working on tomorrow’s lesson plan for that class I’ll be teaching at 826. I’m thinking of giving each one of them, at the end of class, the opportunity to post something… anything… on my site. I guess [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, History, Other, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 826, Ann Arbor Community Access Television, blogging, Brian Vosburg, calling Santa on TV, classes taught by Mark, flu, H1N1, News Hour, pandemic, PBS, posts where the title is a joke, ruin porn, tattered blogging leotard, vaccinations, where I sit when I blog, wristbands, Ypsilanti DDA, Zingerman's | 20 Comments

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Here’s wishing you and yours a very YouTube Christmas

The forces of holiday darkness are gathering…. Krampus to emerge from an ocean of beer at the Corner Brewery on December 15, and lead a Christmas army of ghouls, monsters and freaks through the streets of Ypsilanti

Merry Christmas, leave the plate

WARNING… Krampus to attack Ypsi on Dec. 11…

That Wednesday post that everyone will be talking about on Thursday at the water cooler

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