NOTES FROM THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE: the Mark Steele Archive
Mark SteeleThe personal essays, musings, and writing archives of Mark Steele - often comedic, but sometimes not.
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I have so much to be thankful for this past year - and you, my readers, are a huge part of the motivation for that gratefulness. To say THANK YOU to so many of you for an incredible year, I am offering my entire 2025 Digital Audio Comedy Ca...
FLASHBANG (An Introduction)
This month marks the first anniversary of the Mark Steele Archive. I have been humbled and wowed by the sheer number of you that have shown your continual support to my writings past, present, and future by subscribing here. In honor of the...
(3ix): tumbling off the highwire (2004)
I literally loaded my pants in front of senators and representatives. I emptied my colon for Colin. I did a number two for the number one. I soiled myself for the president.
It turns out that I didn’t have the flu after all. For some reaso...
(3viii): applause for a stage dive (2004)
flashBANG part 3: dumbSHOW
Am I supposed to automatically know what a dumbshow is?
It’s not a thing. It’s a stage term. And it doesn’t have an article before it.
An article?
It’s not “a” dumbshow. It’s just dumbshow.
You made this up...
(2vii): love bites (2004)
feat. the Wit & Wisdom of Def Leppard.
Def Leppard. Weren’t they a heavy metal band from the eighties?
Correction: a hair metal band.
What’s the difference?
Heavy metal bands worship Satan. Hair metal bands worship their hair.
Ah. And...
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