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Happy Thanksgiving again

By Mark | November 22, 2012

Last November, I made the decision not to write anything new for Thanksgiving, but, instead, to recycle something that I’d written years ago. Well, here it is again. I was tempted to remove some of the old references, and replace them with new ones, but it occurred to me that altering this post, which is […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Other | Also tagged Addams Family, AT&T, Charles Maynard, crooked politicians, Cross Street Station, Dan Richardson, holiday, human sacrifice, Infantazine, kids setting fire to stuff, Linette, Matt Krizowsky, money laundering, OCD, Pat Maynard, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Sarah Palin, tea party, Thanksgiving, things I'm thankful for, Tom DeLay, Yeti Load | 11 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving again

By Mark | November 24, 2011

I was going to write something new for Thanksgiving this year, but then it occurred to me that I could just reuse what I posted last year, and spend my morning cleaning the house and getting ready for the new baby that’s scheduled to join us any day now instead. (My hope is that, after […]

Posted in Mark's Life | Also tagged Addams Family, AT&T, Charles Maynard, crooked politicians, Cross Street Station, Dan Richardson, holiday, human sacrifice, Infantazine, kids setting fire to stuff, Linette, Matt Krizowsky, money laundering, OCD, Pat Maynard, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Sarah Palin, tea party, Thanksgiving, things I'm thankful for, Tom DeLay, Yeti Load | 13 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving

By Mark | November 25, 2010

This Thanksgiving morning I’m tempted to get political and say that I’m thankful above all else for things like the fact that a majority of Americans still think of Sarah Palin as being unfit to serve as President, and that former U.S. House majority leader Tom DeLay was found guilty yesterday of money laundering. But, […]

Posted in History, Mark's Life, Other | Also tagged Addams Family, AT&T, Charles Maynard, crooked politicians, Cross Street Station, Dan Richardson, holiday, human sacrifice, Infantazine, kids setting fire to stuff, Linette, Matt Krizowsky, money laundering, OCD, Pat Maynard, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Sarah Palin, tea party, Thanksgiving, things I'm thankful for, Tom DeLay, Yeti Load | 16 Comments

The collapse of Cross Street Station

By Mark | April 19, 2010

A reader of the site just sent this photo to me. I’d heard a while ago, from the former manager of the bar, that the roof had fallen in, but it’s amazing to actually see it. I think I’ve mentioned it here before, but this is where, about 17 years ago, I met Linette. I’d […]

Posted in History, Mark's Life, Ypsilanti | Also tagged analogies, condemned buildings, Cross Street, Cross Street Station, historic places, Linette Lao, metaphors, Oliva, palces that need to be marked by a plaque, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, roof collapse, Yeti Load | 14 Comments

Cross Street Station reunion

By Mark | October 25, 2009

Linette and I first met about 16 years ago in an Ypsilanti bar called Cross Street Station. It’s been closed for several years now, but apparently quite a few people still have fond memories of the filthy, old place that, for whatever reason, agreed to book my band when few Ann Arbor clubs would. The […]