I’m not at liberty to tell you where I’ve been the past few days, but I was able to smuggle out a few photos. In the top one is the pancake-making robot whose job it was to follow me around all day, providing me sustenance. And, in the bottom, is a small device that I […]
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I have seen the future… delicious and expensive
Posted in Mark's Life, Other Also tagged competing visions for the future of America, deposits, pancakes, the future of America 12 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 cart races, shopping carts made to look like sharks, slow wheeled sharks, spray paint, Stefan Krstovic, theft, when punks compete, wizards 9 Comments