What follows is our official exit interview with Amanda Sari Perez, who just recently left Ann Arbor for Pittsburgh. MARK: OK, let’s start at the beginning. What’s your name, where were you born, and what kind of kid were you? AMANDA: All right then. My name is Amanda. Or Salamanda. Or YakYak. Or AmandaPanda. I […]
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Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Amanda Sari Perez
Posted in A2Awesome, Ann Arbor, Uncategorized Also tagged All Hands Active, Amanda Sari Perez, amputation, Bilal Ghalib, biomedical engineering, Breaking Protocol, Burning Man, Care Bears, China, DIY, Float Fest, Fool Moon, geodesic dome, Hong Kong, Houston, Indonesia, insects, kayaks, Kentucky, Lakes of Fire, Maker Works, makers, Monticello, paralysis, Pittsburgh, rehabilitation, Syncytium, Texas, Trudi Cooper, yaks 5 Comments
How to Build and Race a Losing Shopping Cart
One week each year, in August, before the college students return, and while all of the cops are up north at their summer cottages, it’s safe for the punks to return to Ann Arbor. It’s called Punk Week, and it culminates with a big clandestine shopping cart race through downtown. Not wanting to bum any […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture Also tagged aerodynamics, Annamarie O'Brien, August, bending space and time, cake, cardboard, collective losers, coming in last, concentrated Salvia, fashion outlaws, flashlights for eyes, Ford Escort, Hipsilanti, Ian Fulcher, Jen Scroggins, Jessica French, K-Mart, Kat Scott, loosers, Patrick Elkins, Punk Week, racing, shopping carts, shopping carts made to look like sharks, slow wheeled sharks, spray paint, Stefan Krstovic, theft, when punks compete, wizards 9 Comments