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About Me

I'm forty-six years old and a writer, author of four books: The Right Man for the Job: a novel (HarperCollins, 1997); The Fire Gospels: a novel (HarperCollins, 1998); Lummox: The Evolution of a Man (HarperCollins, 2002): and Heft on Wheels: A Field Guide to Doing a 180 (Harmony, 2004). I've also written articles and stories for Bicycling and Backpacker and Esquire and GQ other publications. Lately, I'm trying my hand at screenwriting. Wish me luck!http://mikemagnuson.blogspot.com

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My Blog

Volumes I prize above all my Dukedom

Notice how there isn't a MySpace blog category for Books?  Guess I will use Writing and Poetry for this. Anyway, when I left Carbondale, I got rid of all my books.  We're talking at least se...
Posted by on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:46:00 GMT

Hell yeah....

Lordy, that was a long, long drive from Carbondale to Long Beach.  I took I-40 from Memphis all the way across the desert, which I had never seen before and which I have to say had the same effec...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:17:00 GMT

The Dead Art

Last night, I just about posted the following 72-second clip, but somehow, in the introduction, I ended up firing myself into yet another extensive rant about asskissing/networking poets and so forth....
Posted by on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:24:00 GMT

Give him a couple of bucks!

There's no MySpace blog category for Shit You Didn't Learn In Writing School Because Everybody Was Too Busy Networking and Kissing Ass.  There should be! Anyway, here's something you can learn wi...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:59:00 GMT

I’m in the wrong sport

Look, I love cycling and have since I was a kid, and, sure, I'm stoked about racing cyclocross in California this fall, but then again, maybe golf is the better way to go:  http://www.youtube.com...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:42:00 GMT

Now THIS is where the heart is

  This was on a MySpace bulletin yesterday:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTVSygNKAsg Very funny and very painfully right on the money!  Next time you get dumped, do what this guy doe...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:28:00 GMT

King Missile!

This tune never fails to put a bounce in my step: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bRs6KWDsc0   Might be I'm getting too old to have much bounce, though.
Posted by on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:33:00 GMT

Sometimes bullshit turns out to be true!

Have you ever 1) forgotten where you learned something or 2) hallucinated what you learned in the first place and can't remember whether what you learned really exists or whether it doesn't?  Shi...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:36:00 GMT

Terminator Dog

I'm sure you've already seen this:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww And I'm sure you're terrified by the prospect.  Imagine 2000 of these things, equipped with guns, showing up in...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:16:00 GMT

Scritti Politti!

Hmm.  I don't know what this says about me that this is one of my all-time favorite tunes:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM2-cRCssBY Prolly doesn't bode well.  Fuck you, though, if yo...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:21:00 GMT