The family and I have spent the last four days in the Maine woods, where my aunt and her husband had rented a cabin so that our extended family could celebrate my father’s 75th birthday together. Aside from falling in Maine’s largest lake while completely clothed, having to scrub vomit from the upholstery of a […]
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The Iggy Pop statue
I know I shouldn’t take on another project at the moment, and I don’t think these kinds of things are generally undertaken until well after the death of a great person, but seeing this Johnny Ramone memorial makes me think that we really need to get our shit together as a community and build that […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Ypsilanti Also tagged Babies R Us, Carpenter, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop statue, Johnny Ramone, Pittsfield Township, Ramones, Riverside Park 28 Comments
Terminator Jesus wreaks havoc on Ohio
I’ve written here in the past about the giant, angry half-Jesus that crouches alongside the highway between here and Cincinnati, ready to leap on sinners, having dug himself out from the earth’s core with a crucifix like some kind of Japanese B-movie monster. The family and I drive by it about a half dozen times […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Other Also tagged Butter Jesus, Corktown, fires, fundamentalist religion, half-Jesus, Hustler, Jerome Ferretti, Jesus, lightening, lightening rods, Mega Church, Monroe, monumental kitty, Ohio, Quicksand Jesus, religion, Solid Rock Church, Team Loveland, Terminator, Tuchdown Jesus 30 Comments