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.
Tag Archives: Santa Claus
Merry Christmas, leave the plate
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…
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 32 Comments
That Wednesday post that everyone will be talking about on Thursday at the water cooler
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