By Mark | January 16, 2018
The weekend of October 21st marked the 23rd meeting of my one-day-a-year pseudo-band, the Monkey Power Trio. For those of you who might not be familiar with our origin story, it all began back in 1995 with a promise between old friends one hot, summer afternoon in Brooklyn. On the spur of the moment, we’d […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1919, 1972, acid reflux, Air B&B, American Visionary Arts Museum, Atomic Books, Baltimore, Billie Holiday, bursitis, Charm City, Charm City Holiday, Chesapeake Yeti, chicken-fucking, college athletics, college sports, crab cakes, crime, Crimewave, Crimewave USA, Dan Richardson, Danny Mills, Dave Miller, electrical wire, Federal Hill, Fells Point, Friendly’s, geographic midpoint, Geographic Midpoint Calculator, Glenn Danzig, Gooney Bird, granuloma, gymnastics, Hippy Hollow Road, John Waters, Johnny Eck, Larry Nassar, litany of ailments, Lyft, Mark's big ideas, Mark's health, MASS MoCA, Matt Krizowsky, Meow Wolf, Michigan State University, Mike Bell, Misfits, Monkey Power Trio, Nugent, OCD, painted screens, Paul Laffoley, penises, Pink Flamingos, podcasts, Potosi, prosthetics, racism, Reverend Albert Wagner, ride-sharing, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Sante Fe, Scott Huffines, sex abuse, slavery, Stanley Wright, Tarzan Escapes, Ted Gordon, The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum, wax museums, Wisconsin, zines |
Three people have written to me over the past 24 hours requesting that I start a thread on the riots that are currently raging in Baltimore. This post is for them. If not for their notes, I don’t think I would have mentioned it here. It’s not that I don’t care that Freddy Gray was […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged Baltimore, David Simon, Freddie Gray, John Angelos, LBJ, Michael Jackson, MLK, police violence, race, riots |
When I heard that ABC was going to begin airing a police drama set in Detroit, I was hoping for the best. I was, perhaps naively, expecting something like The Wire. Judging from this ad, though, which was just sent to me by my friend Mike, that’s not what the producers had in mind. Maybe […]
By Mark | February 8, 2010
I’m sitting here tonight, thinking about all of the stuff I should be writing about, like the EMU student with tuberculosis and Rick Snyder’s “One Tough Nerd” gubernatorial ad, but all I really feel like discussing is this article in the Free Press today about the state of Detroit’s public schools. Maybe it has something […]
Posted in Education | Also tagged Carl Taylor, Detroit Public School Board, Eastern Michigan University, gubernatorial races, Kwame Kilpatrick, oceanic studies, one tough nerd, public boarding school, public education, Revenge of the Nerds, Rick Snyder, SEED Foundation, Super Bowl ads, the challenges of urban students, tuberculosis, Virgil Taylor |