Mark Maynard | Valentine’s Day

Lisa Waud on her plans to expand Ann Arbor’s Pot & Box into the thriving entrepreneurial hotbed that is Detroit’s Corktown

By Mark | January 17, 2013

A few days ago, Linete and I foud ourselves in Detroit, without kids, poking around Corktown. The plan was to get something warm to drink at Astro Coffee, but it looked too crowded. Linette peaked in, through one of the fogged-up windows, to see if there was space for me. (She can fit most anywhere. [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, entrepreneurism, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2520 Michigan Avenue, absinthe, Andy Didorosi, Astro Coffee, Bureau of Urban Living, Canine to Five, City Bird, Claire Nelson, Cliff Bell’s, cocktails, Corktown, Dave Landrum, Detroit, Detroit Bus Company, Detroit Farm and Garden, Detroit gas stations, Downtown Home and Garden, Emily Linn, entrepreneurism, entrepreneurship, Felch Street, flowers, friends who do cooler stuff that I do, Gallery 555, gardening, Green Dot Stables, Hatch Detroit, Helen Harding, Honor & Folly, Hugh, ice cream truck, indy retail, Izzy’s, Jean Henry, Joe Posch, Katherine Yates, Le Petite Zinc, Lisa Waud, Liz Blondy, Mercury Bar, Michigan Avenue, Model D, Mudgie’s Deli, new ideas in retail, Open City Detroit, Paper Street, Pete Bailey, Pop-up for the Holidays, pop-up retail, Popular Mechanics, Pot and Box, Rachel Parke, retail in Detroit, Rooselvelt Park, scotch, Slows Bar BQ, Small & Mighty, St. Cece’s, Stagger Lee, The Sugar House, Two James Distillery, urban gardening, Valentine's Day, Xavier’s, YEP, Young Entrepreneurial People | 23 Comments

The kinky Roman roots of Valentine’s Day

By Mark | February 14, 2011

I wasn’t intending to have a Valentine’s Day post, but I just stumbled across the following on the NPR website and thought that you might enjoy it. …From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the [...]

Posted in History, Other, sex | Also tagged animal sacrifice, domestic violence, drinking, Emperor Claudius II, fertility, key party, Lupercalia, martyrdom, Noel Lenski, pagan, Pope Gelasius I, rituals, Roman history, Romans, swingers, Valentine's Day, whipping women with the hides of slain animals | 5 Comments

Happy Valentine’s Day

By Mark | February 14, 2010

I had what I thought was a pretty brilliant idea this morning, after it dawned on me that I didn’t have gifts for either Linette or Clementine. It occurred to me that if I shaved my beard, I could kill two birds with one stone. Linette would get the gift of my being beardless. And [...]

Posted in Mark's Life | Also tagged Beard in a box, Clementine, killing two birds with one stone, Linette, poorly thought out gifts, Valentine's Day | 10 Comments

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Lisa Waud on her plans to expand Ann Arbor’s Pot & Box into the thriving entrepreneurial hotbed that is Detroit’s Corktown

The kinky Roman roots of Valentine’s Day

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