I don’t dislike the military. I think we, as a nation, spend far too much on it, and I think that we’d ultimately be better served by investing a great deal of that money on education, alternative energy research and any number of other things instead, but, in general, I don’t have an issue with […]
Tag Archives: WWII
Happy Armistice Day
Posted in Mark's Life, Observations, Other Also tagged 1918, Armistice Day, Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut, military, military spending, November 11, Veterans' Day, WWI 5 Comments
Benicio del Toro’s upcoming film “A.K.A. Jimmy Picard” to feature the puppetry work of Ypsilanti’s super-talented Dreamland Theater crew
One day earlier this winter, as I was making my way around town, pushing my sleeping son in his stroller, I decided to turn down Washington Street and see if I could find Naia Venturi, the owner of Ypsilanti’s Dreamland Theater. Fortunately, she heard me knocking on the door, and came out from behind the […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged A Christmas Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A.K.A. Jimmy Picard, Aimee Adams, Andrew Bruce Mitchell III, Arlo, Arnaud Desplechin, ass, Benicio Del Toro, Blackfoot Nation, Butoh, Carla Harryman, Catherine Taylor, Dina Goldman, Dreamland Theater, Dreamland Tonight, Elya Baskin, Film, France, George Devereux, independent film, Jamie Klenk, Jimmy Picard, Judith Goldman, Justin Lang, Katrina Whalen, knees, marionettes, Mathieu Amalric, mental illness, Michigan film incentives, Milwaukee, Monroe, Muriel Rukeyser, Naia Venturi, native american, post traumatic stress disorder, psychology, PTSD, Puck, puppet knees, puppets, Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, sloppy puppeteering, Tyrone Williams, Unabomber 21 Comments