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Michael

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I've got a writing project (a fictional journal of sorts) on MySpace: http://blog.myspace.com/arasuna

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Movies:

Donnie Darko, Thin Red Line, Blade Runner, Dangerous Liassons, Hero, Dead Man, Exotica, A Fistful of Dollars, FLCL, Buckaroo Bonzai, Das Boot, Ravenous, Versus, Spinal Tap, The Lover, and The Thing (the remake).

Books:

Writers? Joseph Conrad, e.e. cummings, William Gibson, Edgar Allan Poe, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, Robert Frost, Shakespeare, William Blake, and Robert Browning.

My Blog

Heathen Harvest review of New Roman Twilight

Webzine Heathen Harvest, with some kind words regarding New Roman Twilight:Review of New Roman TwilightThis year we're planning on two releases: an acoustic-based LP on SINister Records, and a slightl...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:38:00 PST

Florida election results: as mystifying as ever

In Florida's republican primary, Fred Thompson garnered 22,288 votes, or 1.2% of the vote.Despite having dropped out of the presidential race a week prior.I wonder about the mindset of those 22,000 pe...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:49:00 PST

Obama and Clinton

As I've watched the two go back and forth over the past few weeks, I've become increasingly annoyed with both sides. They need to tone things down some or they risk destroying their chances of being e...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:54:00 PST

Avoid Auto Track in Burlington, WA

In July 2007, I purchased a 2003 Tiburon with 30,000 miles from Joe Engberg at Auto Track. He assured me at the time he had been in the car business long enough to not screw people over--he said "I do...
Posted by Michael on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:25:00 PST

Stunning, and Yet...

A new US intelligence report says Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and it remains on hold, contradicting the Bush administration's earlier assertion that Tehran was intent on developin...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:39:00 PST

Why Iowa isnt tremendously relevant

Huckabee in Iowa"Yet, GOP officials wonder if he's on a path to reprise the 1988 performance of televangelist Pat Robertson, who shocked people with his second-place showing here but never got closer...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:18:00 PST

Kissyface27

Kissyface27 wants to talk with me. She smiled at me tonight from a True.com ad as she tossed her long hair clear of her face, a coy smile with my name on it as she lay down on a couch, chest first. Ty...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:57:00 PST

A gift

Radiohead is allowing people to download their new album, In Rainbows, from their website, for whatever amount people believe is fair.Radiohead offers new album to fansI wasn't really surprised by thi...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:59:00 PST

A stitch in time saves... two weeks

As a pedestrian, I'm not terribly tolerant of traffic signals. If there are no vehicles nearby (and no police in the area) I will cross streets at my convenience, rather than wait for signals to chang...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:49:00 PST

What Does Michael DO?

I work for PopCap Games. The link below is an entertaining audio/animated review of Peggle (one of our games) and the position of PopCap in the casual game industry:PopCap = the evil empire?!?...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:28:00 PST