A few days ago, when I let it slip on this site that my dapper young companion, the accomplished local puppeteer Patrick Elkins, was himself in fact an automaton, which I’d created from a found beard, a magical top hat, and the rusted-out shell of my former mentor’s daughter Vicki, I received an email from […]
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Chris Elliott: A Television Miracle
Posted in Art and Culture, Ypsilanti Also tagged automaton, beer drinking robots, Chris Elliott, Patrick Elkins, Patrick Elkins is the Cat in the Hat, robots 4 Comments
The day the Mark went dark
Last night, as we set out to relocate this site at its new home in the upper atmosphere, I told you that you could take 48 hours off. I had been told, by our technical team, that the migration would likely take that long, and, during that time, the site would be completely dead. As […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Other, Special Projects, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020 Task Force, Andre, animatronic alcoholics, Anton LaVey, beer drinking robots, cloud computing, dark mark, fruit trees, grafting, guerilla grafting, Horatio Alger, Lisa Bashert, Lord Voldemort, Manhole, MarkMaynard.com, Nancy Grace, Neighborhood Fruit, nipples, Patrick Elkins, robots, site maintenance, Small Wonder, the future of this site, You Gotta Have Hope 37 Comments