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Mark

You want me to sell my hog and quit the Hell's Angels?

My Interests

Music:

Y Pants. The Raincoats. Pre-Lemons Blonde Redhead. Polar Goldie Cats. The Fall. Anyone who's covered the song "Night Train," really.

Movies:

The Portable Faulkner. My Breakfast With Blassie. Heartbeeps. Downtown '81. Battle Royale. Anything with Oliver Platt, really.

Books:

The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature. Mountain Man Dance Moves. John Adams. Anything minor Fitzgerald, really.

My Blog

Select passages from Mark's Memoirs

From Mark's Memoirs, dated April 10, 1992 for Mrs. DeWitt's 5th grade English class at Cheat Lake Elementary, Morgantown, WV: "When I was born, my family had just moved to Ocean Springs, Mississippi.&...
Posted by Mark on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:20:00 PST

Dicking?

Maybe I'm a clueless American or just don't know anything about construction or building, but please explain the following: Yesterday this 75ish year-old English gentleman comes up to me in the b...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:36:00 PST

The Daves I know

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Posted by Mark on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:02:00 PST

Notes on Emma.

My niece Emma was born 7 weeks ago. Last week, I went to Toronto to see her for the first time. My thoughts: --Like most girls, Emma would cry, scream, or just generally be uncomfortable when I touche...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:44:00 PST