As I write this, I’m sitting on the roof of 209 Pearl Street with a cup of ice cold cider after a long day of work, listening to the Hare Krishnas chant in the distance, and watching strippers roll joints in the alley below. It’s kind of magical.
Since last week’s press conference, Ypsilanti has been in the grip of Totally Awesome Fest fever. You can’t leave your home, it seems, without getting tangled up in drunken beard, wet lips smacking against your ear, speculating as to what Patrick Elkins may have up his sleeve this year. Well, earlier this morning, a bit […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Amanda Krugliak, Andara, Animal Magic, Annie Palmer, B.S.R.B., Ben Miller's take-home fashion show, Brian R. Tucker, Buffalo Coven Party, Chemical Valley, Chit Chat, chocolate tampons, Community Rebirth, Creode, Croidoid, croquet, Curtains, Dan Florida, Deadbeat Beat, Dear Darkness, Disinformants, DJ Buffalo Coven Party, DJ Homonormal Park, Dreamland Theater, Easter, Easter eggs, Emily Jane Powers, Girth, Growth Spert, Happy Campers, Hollis Coats, House of Mole, Izzy Johnson, JAV, Jessie Bott, Jo Pie Whyld, Joey Molinaro, Jovantoes, Juniper Baby, Little Weasel House, Lord of the Yum-Yum, Magic Markers, magical events, Man vs. Indian Man, Manhole, May Pie, MC Trashpedal, Ministry of Boredom, Minus 9, Nausea Valley, Nick Painter, noise music, Oak Openings, Ooze Dude, Pajama Party, pancake parade, pancakes, Patrick Elkins, Pie Reading, pizza, Poetry Eating, Princess Xanthipe, Public Urination, Rebel Kind, Richard Album, Riverside Park, Salt City, Sam Finch, secret brunch, Sex Police, Shells, Snesi, Stef Chura, Surprise in the Woods, tampons, Telepathic Telephone, The Blob, The Jols, The Lovelies, The PreMadonnas, The Real Spicollis, The True Love Story of the Wizard & the Swamp Witch, The Understorey, Thom Elliott, Totally Awesome Fest, Truman, Ugly Mug, Unicorn, Van Houten, VG Kids, Video Games, Vomit Express, Voss Acres, Voss's Zas, Water Street Commons, White Dwarf, Woodruff's, Ypsilanti Downtown Library |
By Mark | November 20, 2013
Today’s interview subject, Mike Shecket, has the distinction, I believe, of being the first person to leave Ypsilanti as a direct result of Obamacare. It sounds like bullshit, I know, but it’s actually true. So, if you were looking for one more reason to either love or hate the President, now you’ve got it…. Here’s […]
Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Affordable Care Act, Amanda Edmonds, Andy Mitchell, anti-tax, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Booty Don't Stop, Canada, city income tax, Columbus, crime, crime blotter, dating, dating advice, de-industrialization, Devil Elvis, Diane Rehm, Doris Day, Dreamland Theater, exit interviews, farming, flowers, food production, George Jetson, goal setting, health care reform, health insurance, housing crisis, Huge Head Test Prep, IKEA, Jen Whaley, Las Drogas, local income tax, lotion, LSAT, M.O.T.O., manufacturing, Michigan lefts, Michigan Radio, Midtown Neighborhood Association, Mike Perini, Mike Shecket, Mothers' Day, Obamacare, Ohio, Paul Caporino, Paul Schreiber, petty crime, Pita Pita, pot, preexisting conditions, Proposition A, puppets, rejuvenating lotion, SAT, shyness, Skyline Chili, smoking, social anxiety, Stop City Income Tax, test prep, testing, The Jetsons, The Pretenders, things from Ohio that are tolerable, Tim Schreiber, UHF, walk score, walkability, Windsor, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews, Zoning Board of Appeals |
A recent blog post by Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi on new troubles at Bank of America led me to this recent footage of the reporter, in New York City’s Bryant Park, explaining, in simple English, how the derivatives traders at Bank of America had essentially sold oregano to the people of America, telling them that […]
By Mark | September 22, 2009
This afternoon, when I heard that MacKenzie Phillips was preparing to drop some kind of bombshell about her her childhood on Oprah, I was reminded of an old song by Redd Kross called McKensie. Well, I’ve been looking around the house for my old copy of Neurotica for about an hour now, and it’s nowhere […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Pop Culture | Also tagged addiction, David Cassidy, Jeff McDonald, Lovedolls Superstar, MacKenzie Phillips, McKensie, Neurotica, One Day At a Time, Oprah exploiting people for ratings, people that shouldn't still be alive, please return what you stole of mine, Redd Kross, salami sandwich, sitcom stars, songs about food, Steve McDonald, stoners, The Spirit of 76, things I can't find, time travel |
