Mark Maynard | Toronto

The Monkey Power Trio makes considerable headway despite serious challenges

By Mark | August 20, 2018

I forgot to mention it, but The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock, the most recent record by my one-day-a-year pseudo band, the Monkey Power Trio, debuted on the college charts a few weeks ago, which I think might be a first for us. [While we’ve always gotten played quite a bit by the likes of WFMU […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized | Also tagged Atlanta, Bad Monkey X, Canada, Christian Wolfcock, Cleveland, college radio, Feed Your Hunger, Hillary Clinton, Jep Clayton, kayaks, origin story, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, radio charts, The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock, WCBN, WFMU | 11 Comments

School shootings, the delay-and-do-nothing right, and those who blame women for “the destabilization of the sexual marketplace”

By Mark | May 22, 2018

I’d wanted to write about something else entirely tonight, but then I stumbled across the above tweet, and it sent me tumbling through the looking glass, into a pitch-black world of toxic masculinity and weaponized insecurity, where women, having been debased to the point of no longer being considered human, are seen merely as instruments […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alek Minassian, Alex Azar, anti-abortion, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, Betsy DeVos, blood money, CDC, coined phrases, Dan Patrick, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, Donald Trump, doors, enforced monogamy, Florida, gun control, gun reform, gun rights, gun violence, high capacity magazines, hollow promises, incels, insecurity, Intellectual Dark Web, involuntary celibates, Jeff Sessions, Jordan Peterson, Kirstjen Nielsen, Marco Rubio, masculine spirit, mass shootings, misogyny, National Rifle Association, NRA, Parkland, Paul Gosar, pro-life, Santa Fe, school safety, school shooting, sex, sexism, sexual marketplace, spurned advances, Ted Cruz, Texas, The Handmaid's Tale, the masculine spirit, thoughts and prayers, toxic masculinity, violence, weaponized insecurity | 60 Comments

Awesome Toronto: putting a bounty on the head of Mayor Rob Ford

By Mark | January 5, 2014

In my capacity as Dean of the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation, I found myself spending an hour or so this afternoon cruising around the web, checking up on other Awesome Foundation chapters across North America. And, in the process, I found something interesting. Our associates in Toronto, it would seem, have decided to go rogue. […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Awesome Foundation, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged A2Awesome, impediments to awesome, micro-philanthropy, philanthropy, Rob Ford | 13 Comments

“Hmmm…. Maybe I don’t have a problem after all.”

By Mark | December 5, 2013

[The quotes noted above are from British television cook Nigella Lawson, who was called on to testify in British court yesterday about a number of things, including her cocaine use. And the fellow at the bottom, for those of you who might not recognize him, is Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who, like Lawson, has been […]

Posted in Observations, Uncategorized | Also tagged addiction, cocaine, fat, Nigella Lawson, Rob Ford, skinny, weight issues | 19 Comments

On the optimism and pity of the non-Americans passing us by

By Mark | February 27, 2012

My friend Pete and I eat lunch together a few times a month. Pete, who’s an academic, tells me of his travels to fascinating places like Malawi and Sweden, where he’s either conducting field research on the spread of parasitic diseases, or sharing his findings with leaders in the field of world health, and I […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Observations, Uncategorized | Also tagged American flag lapel pins, back pain, best places to live, Canada, Department of Education, education reform, environmental protection, Gini coefficient, growth, immigration, income inequality, infant mortality, investing in the future, life expectancy, Malawi, Mitt Romney, neo-feudalism, no child left behind, optimism, parasites, Pete Larson, Presidential politics, public education, republican primary, RIck Santorum, Stockholm, Sweden, tax the rich, teaching for the test, the future of American cities, The Greatest Canadian, the state of the world, Tim Hortons, Tommy Douglas, urban development, Vancouver, wind power, windmills | 14 Comments

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The Monkey Power Trio makes considerable headway despite serious challenges

School shootings, the delay-and-do-nothing right, and those who blame women for “the destabilization of the sexual marketplace”

Awesome Toronto: putting a bounty on the head of Mayor Rob Ford

“Hmmm…. Maybe I don’t have a problem after all.”

On the optimism and pity of the non-Americans passing us by

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