As we’ve been posting a lot of exit interviews lately, I though that we’d mix things up a bit and post an interview with someone who, like me, consciously chose to return to Ypsilanti. Here’s my immigration interview with poet, writer and performer Jeff “Shappy” Seasholtz. MARK: I first saw you, if I’m not mistaken, […]
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Ypsi Immigration Interview: Jeff “Shappy” Seasholtz
Posted in Mark's Life, Pop Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Ann Arbor Art Fair, Austin, Bob Denver, Bob Seeger, Bowery Poetry Club, Brady Bunch, bras, Chicago, Chicago Comics, comics, Crimewave USA, Cross Street Station, Dave Koresh, Def Poetry Jam, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, EVERY SPECK OF DUST THAT FALLS TO EARTH REALLY DOES MAKE THE WHOLE PLANET HEAVIER, forensics, Gilligan's Island, graphic novels, hippies, immigration interview, Jeff Seasholtz, Living Newspaper, musicals, nerds, newspapers, Night Moves, open mic, poetry, poetry slam, porn, pot, punks, Quimby's, Rennie Sparks, Shappy Seasholtz, Spin ½, Steppenwolf, The Handsome Family, The Phantom Tollbooth, Tijuana bibles, whip-its, WPA, Ypsi immigration interview 6 Comments
Season five of The Walking Dead needs to be acted out on stage, in Ypsilanti
This is not a joke. I really want one of our local theater companies to act out season five of The Walking Dead for me. I don’t currently have the funds to commission such a production, but I would happily contribute a case of beer to anyone who could pull of a credible interpretation. [warning: […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Ypsilanti Also tagged community theater, dinner theater, experimental theater, Mark's big ideas, The Walking Dead 9 Comments
Michigan Musicians on Vacation: Carol Catherine on the road from Las Vegas to Area 51
Somehow, a year or so ago, I fell into groove where I started talking with local musicians about vacations they’d taken outside of Michigan. I’m not sure what prompted it, or why I suddenly stopped, but I suspect it was weather related to some degree. And, now that it’s 20 degrees below zero outside, I […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized Also tagged 1692, aliens, Area 51, Arthur Miller, Basement Arts, Black Mailbox, Carol Catherine, Carol Catherine Burns Gray, Chris Bathgate, Civil War, Clementine, Coast to Coast, Community Music School of Ann Arbor, conspiracy theories, consumerism, Descent of the Holy Ghost Church, deserts, Doug Coombe, emoticons, Errol Morris, Extraterrestrial Highway, Fifty Shades of Grey, food blogs, Fox Mulder, Frieze building, HAM radio, Hoover Dam, Las Vegas, Little Aleinn, Love Letters, manifest destiny, Mars, Matt Jones, Michigan Musicians on Vacation, missile silos, Misty Lyn Bergeron, Mittenfest, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Nevada, Prison Creative Arts Project, prison theater, Rachel, Rebecca Nurse, Roswell, Salem, Salem witch trials, sand, Shakespeare in the Arb, Silence is for Suckers, Sisters Within Theater Troupe, Stephen Hawking, Sullivan Ballou, Sullivan Ballou’s letter to Sarah, The Crucible, violin, Voyager, witch hunts, witchcraft, witches, Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility 6 Comments