By Mark | November 10, 2012 For those of you who didn’t happen to see it, Tom Perkins, the heir to the
Posted in A2Awesome, Ann Arbor, Art and Culture | Also tagged Amanda Uhle, AnnArbor.com, Bill Streety, Blues, Jazz, local music, micro-philanthropy, Perkins Pickles, photography, Trevor Stone | By Mark | February 10, 2011 AnnArbor.com has a piece by Tom Perkins today on Sandee, Bill and Andy French and their plans to franchise the popular Depot Town restaurant Aubree’s. I’d known that they had aspirations in this direction for a while now, but I had no idea how serious they were about it. According to the article, they even [...]
Posted in Food, Mark's Life, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Andy French, animatronics, Aubree's, beer drinking robots, Bill French, Cheers, Cliff, franchises, George Wendt, iFranchise, John Ratzenberger, Norm, Old Detroiter, robots, Sandee French | By Mark | January 29, 2011 In a new article on AnnArbor.com intrepid curly-haired reporter Tom Perkins looks into the possibility that Ypsilanti may once again have a stop on the Amtrak line to Chicago. Here’s a clip: The question was posed by an audience member at the Michigan By Rail’s forum Dec. 9 at Washtenaw Community College: Why doesn’t the [...]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Rail, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Amtrak, Ann Arbor - Detroit rail, Chelsea, Depot Town, Derrick James, Dexter, gas tax, Grass Lake, HB 4035, high-speed rail, ichigan Department of Transportation, Marc Magliari, mass transit, MDOT, Michigan by Rail, Michigan Senate, Mike Finney, Monroe, Moving Minds: Conservatives and Public Transit, Norfolk Southern, Paul Schreiber, Paul Weyrich, Pittsfield Township, Randy Richardville, Rebekah Warren, Richard Murphy, Rick Snyder, Saline, SEMCOG, The American Conservative magazine's Center for Public Transportation, train platform, Wayne Schmidt, William Lind, Wolverine, Ypsilanti City Council | By Mark | December 2, 2010 I’m told that there may be photo of me on the AnnArbor.com site tomorrow, milking a Krampus teat into a beer mug. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. It could have. I don’t know. Due to my cold, I’d eaten a number of honey lemon cough drops with echinacea, and, to be honest, the whole [...]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Media, sex, Shadow Art Fair, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AnnArbor.com, costume ideas, costumes, cough drops, echinacea, embarrassing photos, Krampus, Krampus Ball, Melissa Dettloff, Michigan Design Militia, painfully-erect monster nipples, photos of Mark, suckling, teats | The debate went pretty well on Friday night. The Dreamland Theater was full, and, from what I hear, people found the exchange between the two candidates informative. Personally, I wasn’t all that thrilled with the way things went, but I think that has more to do with the format than with either my performance or [...]
