Tag Archives: Seattle

Wet Seal closes stores without notice, screws employees, gives CFO a $95,000 raise

By Mark | January 5, 2015

With the holiday shopping season now behind us, the struggling clothing retailer Wet Seal made a move this weekend to quietly close several of their stores. They did so with practically no notice, leaving many of their long-time employees without jobs, and no way to pay their bills. These employees, understandably, are none too pleased. […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1%, 99%, anti-worker, bankruptcy, Birmingham, Briarwood Mall, Dayton, Dublin, Hudson Bay Master Fund, liquidation, Los Angeles, Ohio, Retail, Thomas Hillebrandt, unions, Wet Seal, worker rights | 43 Comments

All our Heroes are Probably Assholes: Tom Morello edition

By Mark | September 30, 2014

By the time Rage Against the Machine came on the scene, I’d already stopped listening to contemporary music, so it didn’t break my heart today when I learned that the band’s frontman, Tom Morello, may have outed himself as an entitled little prick in Seattle a few nights ago. As is often the case these […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Observations, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged 15 Now, anti-worker, David Meinert, entitlement, heroes, minimum wage, Pancake Gate, pancakes, Rage Against the Machine, rock stars, The 5 Point, Tom Morello, Twitter, waiting in line | 13 Comments

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Terri and Meghan Eagen-Torkko

By Mark | April 10, 2014

Continuing our Ypsi-Arbor expat interview series, today we’re talking with Terri and Meghan Eagen-Torkko, who recently made the decision to leave Ypsilanti for Seattle. MARK: Before we get started, could each of you please state your full name, country of origin, and favorite childhood television program? TERRI: Terri Eagen-Torkko, Wisconsin, Saturday Night Live from the […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Michigan, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anti-homosexual nonsense, cost of living, Dom's, exit interviews, gay marriage, gay rights, homophobia, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, lesbians, LGBTQ, marriage equality, Meghan Eagen-Torkko, midwifery, rape insurance, Rick Snyder, Saturday Night Live, Scooby-Doo, Terri Eagen-Torkko, water, water bills, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews, Ypsilanti water tower | 18 Comments

The Untold History of Zines…. Gregory Hischak on Farm Pulp

By Mark | January 2, 2014

In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp tiny sliver of it that I find most interesting, I’ve given myself the task of reaching out to all of those former and current zine publishers that I know, and asking them about their motivations and experiences. Today’s interview is […]

Posted in Crimewave USA, Special Projects | Also tagged 1990, Agatha Cristie, Atomic Books, aviation, Bertolt Brecht, Big Geology Cabaret, Big Squirrel Lick National Park, Birthplace of Aviation, Cape Cod, Cape Cod Writers Center, Cincinnati, collaboration, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Dada, David Mamet, Dayton, Edward Gorey, Edward Lear, Elliot Bay Books, Etch-A-Sketch, Eugene Baskerville, experimental theater, Factsheet Five, fake tourist attractions, famous people who published zines, Farm Hussy, Farm Pulp, fluxus, folding paper, fonts, found objects, Gang of Four, Golden Girls, graphic design, Greg Hischak, Gregory Hischak, Humana Festival, insecurity, James Thurber, John Cage, Left Bank Books, Lewis Carroll, Mad magazine, Max Ernst, Michael J. Rosen, Mirth of a Nation, National Geographic, Ohio, Petticoat Junction, playwrights, Portland Stage Company, Powell's, publishing, pulp, punk, Reading Frenzy, red dresses, Rene Magritte, Samuel Beckett, Seattle Fringe Festival, See Hear, sexless, sibling rivalry, slam poets, small press, stamps, surrealism, The New Yorker, The Untold History of Zines, theater, This American Life, Thomas S. Hischak, toasters, underground press, Woody Allen, wooing girls, Wright Brothers, Xena, Yarmouth, Yoko Ono, young thugs, zines | 17 Comments

Who would you like to see dragged back to Ypsi/Arbor against their will?

By Mark | January 29, 2013

For those of you who didn’t notice, I’ve added a link at the bottom of the right hand column. When clicked, it will take you to a page where I’ve started collecting all of our Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews. I may have missed a few, but I’ve tried, as best that I could, to aggregate them […]