Welcome to this week’s “zine.” by Mark M From Observations and Thinkings, Vol. pqrstuv, 2008: Let your yes mean yes, your no mean no, and your maybe mean maybe. Maybe. APPENDIX 1 He was a b(u)y-the-book kind of guy. The Great Gatsby The Greater Gatsby The Greatest Gatsby The Not-So-Hot Gatsby APPENDIX 2 Hansel and…
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Observations and Thinkings, Vol. pq, Guest Todd Krewal, Foreign Policy Blindness, Watergate Alternative, Colorado River Water Shortage, Litter Flambe’, Former Wingsman
Welcome to this week’s “zine.” by Mark M From Observations and Thinkings, Vol. pq, 2007: It hit me like a big slab in the face. I looked over the rim of the frying pan I was in and I saw another frying pan. When one considers what all can go wrong with the body, a…
More Selections from Mcyclopedia, Whistleblowers Daniel Hale et al., Project Censored, North Korea’s Missile Launches, Hiding Out from People that Count, Queen and Prince Sentiments, Early Lou Reed Demos
Welcome to this week’s “zine.” (This post represents the half-way mark of my WiR term.) by Mark M Selections from Volumes 3 and 4 (of eight) of Mcyclopedia (1999): GENIUS. Extremely gifted — yet just as fallible as the rest of us — human being. An often overused term. … HARDING, WARREN G. (1865–1923), President…
Selections from Mcyclopedia, Restorative Justice, Oily Money, In Addition to Zappa’s Warning, Beatles Count-Out: 4, 3, 2, 1(!), Sunrise, Sunset
Welcome to this week’s “zine.” by Mark M Well, I hope y’all had a great time at Party Upon the Pavement. Here are some selections from the first two volumes (of eight) of Mcyclopedia (1999): List of Contributor David Michaelis How to Use this Encyclopdia Grasp a volume in both hands and open to a…
The Four Agreements, All We Keep Saying…, “Astonishment Theory,” Choice Theory, Early Dion’s “Theory,” Mar-a-Lago Trump Documents Scandal and Tom Tomorrow, British Monarch Stuff, Flag Grammar
Welcome to this week’s “zine.” by Mark M The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom is a self-help book by bestselling author Don Miguel Ruiz with Janet Mills. I never read the book, but, knowing the 16 words of the four agreements which I think are definitely worth “cultivating,” seems enough: Concerning Agreement…
A Story about Roodi, UFOs, The Bible
Welcome to this week’s “zine.” by Mark M “Wasn’t Even Born as a Matter of Fact” Roodi, an alien, had come down to earth. (Earth is located “down” in space.) He had skipped breakfast. On his home planet, the way they ate — even tho they had mouths — was to strip naked and immerse…
Those Beatles, Socialist Frank Zeidler, The United Nations, Tibet and the Dalai Lama, Yemen
Welcome to the latest “zine.” by Mark M I call the piece above “Almost Together.” Usually, I can’t think of a title for these. This post is Number IX, Number 9, Number nine… THE BEATLES Being a Short History of the Celebrated Group (And not “The White Album”) by Mark M Copyright © 1995 by…
Observations and Thinkings, Vol. P, Guest Artist Neal Rohrer and 50-Cent Girlfriend, Musician Jean Beauvoir, Our Two(?)-Party System
Welcome to this week’s “zine.” by Mark M Observations and Thinkings, Vol. P (2006) Good happens. gre/ay Ain’t it funny how “pieces” of All That Is don’t even like one another? Oops. Don’t look here. And don’t read this. Worry is negative faith. People who don’t dye their gray hair are exhibiting a sign of…
Further and More Observations and Thinkings, Guests Julie Ragland and Kate Schneck, Atwood Quote Examined, Dangerous Jobs, Malidoma Patrice Some’
Welcome to this week’s “zine.” by Mark M From Further and More Observations and Thinkings (2005): hELLO The Master is having a problem. SAVE ON, SAVE ON, SAVIOR Crucified for thinking silver thoughts in a golden world. Oh, Come On, All Ye Faithful. The sun burns saint and sinner alike. Where religions agree, there is…
“Armenian Picnic,” More and Further Observations and Thinkings, Guest Activist Maria Morales, Difficult People, Luv
Welcome to this week’s “zine.” by Mark M Revised boilerplate: As part of my community project as Racine Writer in Residence, I hereby invite Racine-area people to send me prose or poems of 250 words or less for me to consider for inclusion in my posts as a “guest appearance.” So far, there have been…
ArtRoot Writer-In-Residence 