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Big Death… How the funeral industry is killing us

By Mark | August 21, 2013

As it’s been a while since we’ve discussed America’s rapidly consolidating and progressively evil funeral industry, I thought that I’d share this comment, which was left a few days ago on Reddit, in a thread about industry secrets, by an unnamed individual claiming to be a funeral director. [I’ve added several links, but otherwise the […]

Posted in Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged A Family Undertaking, All Saints, anus, big death, biohazard, casket, chemicals, coined phrases, coining new words and phrases, Corporate Crime, cremation, cremation societies, Death, deathcare, Dignity Memorials, embalming fluid, Erika Nelson, eye caps, FTC Funeral Rule, Funeral Consumers Alliance, funeral homes, funeral supplies, funerals, Generations Funeral Service, green burial, Josh Slocum, leakage, monopoly, Muehlig Funeral Home, napping in caskets, natural burial, pollution, purge, pyramid schemes, sales, SCI, Service Corporation International, STEI, Stewart Enterprises, toxic waste, trocar, vagina, water quality | 33 Comments

Elvis Costello carries Ypsipanties in his pocket

By Mark | June 23, 2009

I’m really burning through my 15 minutes of fame this week. First there was the DeNiro thing showing up on Maxim, and now it seems as though Elvis Costello is making news with our Ypsipanties… Here he is yesterday, on stage at Amoeba Records in LA, holding a pair of our panties while reminiscing fondly […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Marketing, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Amoeba Records, appalachian slave panties, brushes with panty fame, Elvis Costello, flim-flam-man, Here in Ypsilanti they don’t wear any panties, Johnny Cash, LA Times music blog, Marty Robbins, Never a rip, never a tear, P.T. Barnum, pocket full of panty, Profane and Sugarcane, Sugarcane, T Bone Burnett, Tom Jones, Ypsilanti Underwear, Ypsipanti | 14 Comments

On strippers, b-school and alternative fuel vehicles

By Mark | August 23, 2002

Skip This Section: Unless You’re Interested in Alternative Fuels and High-Tech Business Startups I just went out and had dinner with a guy who used to work for me. He took me out to dinner and expensed it to his new employer. He’s got a good job with a consulting firm in California. He’s a […]

Posted in Alternative Energy, energy, entrepreneurism, Mark's Life, sex | Also tagged "Mistakes Made By Mark that I Can Learn From", "My Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is being used against me!", "shit your pants funny", alternative fuels, bachelor party, beyond fossil fuel, black bikini-waxed cloud, business school, Cracker Barrel, Crimewave USA, ENRON, fuel cell, GM, hi-tech startups, hydrogen, interstate highway system, MBA, natural resources, OCD, Old Country Buffet, Quicken, strippers, SUVs, zero emission vehicles | 1 Comment

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