“They can never take this from you, Mark. Never. You’ll always be a champion.” It’s true what they say about time. Twenty years comes and goes in the blink of an eye. I could barely believe it when I got an invitation to return to my old high school for the twentieth anniversary of my…

Yes! I’m super excited to announce that I will be playing at The Slippery Noodle Inn in Indianapolis on September 11th and 12th with the Jeff Jensen Band! Those of you who came over from the dearly departed Bark’s Doghouse (the domain barkm.com has expired, but you can still get there using barkm.wordpress.com if you…

   Go read me at Jalopnik. Please. It’s a wonderful tale of a brilliant young M&A specialist and his gorgeous Porsche, and how I drove the heck out of it at Atlanta Motorsports Park. I give my own work two thumbs up. 

James Harrison of the Pittsburgh Steelers created quite a social media stir on Instagram over the weekend by posting about some participation awards that his children “earned.” Harrison posted a photo of the trophies with the following text: I came home to find out that my boys received two trophies for nothing, participation trophies! While…

As most of you know, my dear brother and I decided to combine our blogs a little over two months ago. As a result, I won’t be renewing the domain over at barkm.com. However, it occurred to me that the page still gets a fair number of hits (around a hundred a day or so),…