Mark Maynard

1 min read 2021-10-04 09:24:11

The Untold History of Zines… Doug Holland on Pathetic Life

When I set out to interview all of the folks that were doing work that I respected back in the ‘90s, during the golden age of zines, there was one

1 min read 2021-09-20 09:43:18

Late last night, under cover of darkness, members of a white supremacist group called the Patriot Front appear to have painted over the large

2 min read 2021-02-26 22:41:55

I’ve been trying my best not to obsess about the news lately, which is why I’ve been spending less time here. (Blogging and obsessing about the

1 min read 2021-02-23 08:24:49

A friend of ours was diagnosed with Covid not too long ago. About three or four days before her diagnosis, she and Linette had taken a long walk

1 min read 2021-01-10 02:12:27

The more that comes out about what happened on January 6 in Washington, DC, the more clear it is to me that Donald Trump needs to be immediately

6 min read 2021-01-07 11:40:07

This afternoon in Washington, D.C., as members of Congress counted the electoral college ballots inside the Capitol, Donald Trump’s supporters

3 min read 2021-01-06 10:55:39

I know it’s probably a bit premature, but, if The Economist’s G. Elliott Morris is correct (see below), both Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff have

7 min read 2021-01-04 22:13:52

Sorry I’ve been away for a while. It’s not that I haven’t missed you all. I have. And I’ve wanted to write. I’ve just been forcing myself

5 min read 2020-12-11 11:28:53

As you may have heard, the Supreme Court issued a one sentence order on Tuesday stating that they would not be hearing the case brought by

4 min read 2020-12-04 10:48:27

I was 13 years old on December 29, 1981 — the day that my great grandmother Minnie Wise Florian died in Liberty, Kentucky. I was with her when she

16 min read 2020-12-02 10:40:40

My son Arlo turns 9 years old today. This (above) is what he looks like these days. This was taken a few days ago on one of our long, late morning

2 min read 2020-11-28 22:28:07

Everyone suspects that, in the wake of the Thanksgiving weekend, things will get a whole lot worse on the COVID-19 front. And things are already

4 min read 2020-11-26 09:20:58

A few years ago, I made the decision not to write anything new for Thanksgiving, but, instead, to recycle something that I’d written the year

4 min read 2020-11-23 11:17:48

Michigan’s election results are supposed to be certified tomorrow, but there’s some doubt as to whether or not it’ll actually happen. It

4 min read 2020-11-20 11:35:55

With the Georgia election having just been certified, there’s really no path forward for Trump at this point. Biden has him beat in too many