Mark Maynard | sitcom stars

Good Times to Future Cop, the amazing journey of John Amos… The robots of law enforcement… My defense of Norman Lear… And so much more

By Mark | September 20, 2013

I don’t know that it changes anything, but I wonder if the folks behind the statue of Robocop, which will soon be staring-down the citizens of Detroit, know that he wasn’t the first robot to wear a badge… No, a full decade before officer Alex Murphy became Robocop, there was officer Gregory Yoyonivich, breaking down […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Pop Culture | Also tagged 1970s, ABC, Alex Murphy, Build a statue of Robocop in Detroit, Cabrini–Green, cop shows, Earnest Borgnine, Esther Rolle, Future Cop, Good Times, Gregory Yoyonivich, Holmes & Yo-Yo, Jimmie Walker, John Amos, Norman Lear, Robocop, robot cops, robot shows, sitcoms, Soul on Ice, The Autobiography of Malcolm X | 11 Comments

From the erection of the Bronze Fonzie to the closing of the Pabst plant…. Your virtual tour of old Milwaukee

By Mark | August 5, 2013

The family and I spent this past weekend in Milwaukee with my old high school friend Dan, his wife Jen, and their two daughters. Here’s some of what I learned. The history of Milwaukee started when the white people showed up… OK, maybe that’s unfair. Maybe there are places around town where would could hear […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 30 Americans, Adam-12, Alexis Laframboise, August Krug, Bacon, bacon pills, bar reviews, Beautiful Losers, beer, Blatz, bricks, bronze Fonz, bronze Fonzie, Byron Kilbourn, Chicago, Chicago fire, cream brick, Dan Richardson, ducks, fish fry, FOX, Garry Marshall, George H. Walker, Gertie the Duck, green brick, Happy Days, Henry Winkler, Henry Winlker, Ho-Chunk, Hosed on Brady Street, Iggy Pop statue, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jen Larson, Kehinde Wiley, Kilbourntown, Lake Michigan, Lakefront Brewing, Laverne and Shirley, leather jacket, leather jackets, Linette Lao, mallard, Mascouten, Menominee, Michilimackinac, Micky Dolenz, Miller, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Bridge War, Milwaukee River, Monica's on Astor, native american, Nick Cave, Nomad, Nomad World Pub, Ojibwe, old bricks, Pabst, Potawatomi, prix fixe, Rodney McMillian, Sauk, Schlitz, sitcoms, Solomon Juneau, travel, travel tips, Walker's Point, wheat, Wisconsin | 14 Comments

On once making eye contact with Sherman Hemsley, or some other short, balding, black man drinking wine

By Mark | July 26, 2012

When I heard yesterday that Sherman Hemsley had died at the age of 74, I was reminded of an afternoon several years ago in Ann Arbor spent staring over a beer at a man I believed to the iconic character actor. He was sitting a few seats away, drinking by himself. I think I was […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized | Also tagged another famous person has died, dinner theater, drugs, famous people, Flying Teapots, George Jefferson, Isabel Sanford, KKK, Love Letters, LSD, Old Town, psychedelic rock, Sherman Hemsley, sitcoms, Soft Machine, Soul Train | 7 Comments

James Burrows on Andy Kaufman

By Mark | May 4, 2010

It occurred to me tonight, as I was standing on the stage at the Dreamland Theater, rehearsing Friday’s show, that it had been a while since I’d posted anything on the site about Andy Kaufman. And, here, to remedy that, is a short interview with television director James Burrows, on that infamous day when Andy […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Pop Culture | Also tagged Andy Kaufman, brilliant comedy, comedy, Foreign Man, James Burrows, Taxi, Tony Clifton | 5 Comments

“McKenzie baby you blew your mind”

By Mark | September 22, 2009

This afternoon, when I heard that MacKenzie Phillips was preparing to drop some kind of bombshell about her her childhood on Oprah, I was reminded of an old song by Redd Kross called McKensie. Well, I’ve been looking around the house for my old copy of Neurotica for about an hour now, and it’s nowhere […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Pop Culture | Also tagged addiction, David Cassidy, Jeff McDonald, Lovedolls Superstar, MacKenzie Phillips, McKensie, Neurotica, One Day At a Time, Oprah exploiting people for ratings, people that shouldn't still be alive, please return what you stole of mine, Redd Kross, salami sandwich, songs about food, Steve McDonald, stoners, The Spirit of 76, things I can't find, time travel, weed | 2 Comments

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Good Times to Future Cop, the amazing journey of John Amos… The robots of law enforcement… My defense of Norman Lear… And so much more

From the erection of the Bronze Fonzie to the closing of the Pabst plant…. Your virtual tour of old Milwaukee

On once making eye contact with Sherman Hemsley, or some other short, balding, black man drinking wine

James Burrows on Andy Kaufman

“McKenzie baby you blew your mind”

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