Nancy Kangas moved from Columbus to San Francisco in the early 1980s. By 1983, she’d launched “Nancy’s Magazine.” Over the course of the next 13 years, she’d put out 13 issues, cementin...
http://markmaynard.com/2024/03/the-untold-history-of-zines-nancy-kangas-on-nancys-magazine/
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 person I knew I wouldn’t be able to speak wi...
http://markmaynard.com/2021/10/the-untold-history-of-zines-doug-holland-on-pathetic-life/
Late last night, under cover of darkness, members of a white supremacist group called the Patriot Front appear to have painted over the large “Black Lives Matter” mural in Ypsilanti’s River...
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 news have always gone hand in hand with me.) On...
http://markmaynard.com/2021/02/watching-the-pawnbroker-and-blade-runner-back-to-back/
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 together. They’d been wearing their masks the wh...
http://markmaynard.com/2021/02/marks-covid-diary-february-22-2021/
I wouldn’t allow myself to believe that we’d actually get here. I thought for sure that something terrible would happen. My OCD makes it really easy for me to imagine worst case scenarios, an...
http://markmaynard.com/2021/01/the-end-of-one-era-and-the-beginning-of-another/
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 removed from office, and I’m thankful for those ...
http://markmaynard.com/2021/01/hell-yes-trump-should-be-impeached/
This afternoon in Washington, D.C., as members of Congress counted the electoral college ballots inside the Capitol, Donald Trump’s supporters gathered outside for a “stop the steal” rally,...
http://markmaynard.com/2021/01/donald-trumps-attempted-coup/
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 won their Senate run-off races in Georgia toda...
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 not to. I knew, if I started spending time here...