By Mark | November 16, 2017
A lot of my male heroes have been assholes. Dr. Seuss, they say, was a philandering bigot. John Lennon, by all accounts, was abusive. J. D. Salinger and Charlie Chaplin preyed on young women. And, as we know, Thomas Jefferson actually bought and sold human beings, at least one of whom he had sexual relations […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2006, Al Franken, Beverly Young-Nelson, black lives matter, Charlie Chaplin, Chinatown, cognitive dissonance, Cosby Show, Donald Trump, friend zone, J.D. Salinger, John Edwards, kissing, Leeann Tweeden, Michale Jackson, pedophilia, Roger Stone, Roman Polanski, Roy Moore, Sean Hannity, sexism, sexual harassment, sexual predator, slavery, Thomas Jefferson, Thriller, toxic masculinity, USO, Women's March on Washington, Zelig |
By Mark | January 2, 2014
In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp tiny sliver of it that I find most interesting, I’ve given myself the task of reaching out to all of those former and current zine publishers that I know, and asking them about their motivations and experiences. Today’s interview is […]
Posted in Crimewave USA, Special Projects | Also tagged 1990, Agatha Cristie, Atomic Books, aviation, Bertolt Brecht, Big Geology Cabaret, Big Squirrel Lick National Park, Birthplace of Aviation, Cape Cod, Cape Cod Writers Center, Cincinnati, collaboration, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Dada, David Mamet, Dayton, Edward Gorey, Edward Lear, Elliot Bay Books, Etch-A-Sketch, Eugene Baskerville, experimental theater, Factsheet Five, fake tourist attractions, famous people who published zines, Farm Hussy, Farm Pulp, fluxus, folding paper, fonts, found objects, Gang of Four, Golden Girls, graphic design, Greg Hischak, Gregory Hischak, Humana Festival, insecurity, James Thurber, John Cage, Left Bank Books, Lewis Carroll, Mad magazine, Max Ernst, Michael J. Rosen, Mirth of a Nation, National Geographic, Ohio, Petticoat Junction, playwrights, Portland Stage Company, Powell's, publishing, pulp, punk, Reading Frenzy, red dresses, Rene Magritte, Samuel Beckett, Seattle, Seattle Fringe Festival, See Hear, sexless, sibling rivalry, slam poets, small press, stamps, surrealism, The New Yorker, The Untold History of Zines, theater, This American Life, Thomas S. Hischak, toasters, underground press, wooing girls, Wright Brothers, Xena, Yarmouth, Yoko Ono, young thugs, zines |
Last night, I listened to Marc Maron’s interview with Andy Kaufman’s old writing partner, Bob Zmuda. My sense is that Maron… who has a brilliant podcast, by the way… found the experience somewhat frustrating, as Zmuda insisted on being evasive about a few things, like the circumstances surrounding Andy’s death, and the question as to […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Crimewave USA, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, Andy Kaufman, Andy Kaufman Revealed, Andy Warhol, Ben Franklin, Bessie Smith, Billy Wilder, Bob Zmuda, brilliant comedy, Buckminster Fuller, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Charlie Chaplin, comedy, FDR, gaffer's tape, George Harrison, Gregory Peck, Harriet Tubman, Houdini, J.D. Salinger, Jack Benny, Joey Ramone, Katherine Hepburn, Kurt Vonnegut, Leonardo Da Vinci, Malcolm X, Marc Maron, Mark Twain, Martin Luther King Jr., Myrna Loy, Nicola Tesla, Norman Wexler, Patrick McGoohan, Peter Falk, Robert Kennedy, Stanley Kubrick, tape, taping down penises, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Pynchon, Tim Carey, Tony Clifton, Woody Guthrie, wrestling, wrestling women |
By Mark | December 4, 2011
Half-awake, watching “Woody Allen: A Documentary” in bed with Linette and our new son, Arlo. I want to tell you all about the little guy’s birth, which took place in our dining room a few days ago, but I’m finding it difficult to form coherent thoughts. I’d like to blame it on sleep deprivation, but […]
Do you remember hearing earlier this winter that a representative of the Voice of America’s China branch was going to be visiting Ypsi? Well, it apparently happened. A Chinese correspondent by the name of Sean E Liu not only visited Ypsi after covering the 2011 North American Auto Show in Detroit, but he interviewed a […]
Posted in Media, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Bill Nickles, China, Chinese television, Cultural Odyssey, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), Firehouse Museum, Five Cent Willy, Larry Thomas, Matt Lee, phallic structures, phallic things, Sean E Liu, Sidetrack, Voice of America, Ypsilanti water tower |
