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Mike

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About Me

Writer, prankster, voice impressionist, Pop culture NERD.

My Interests

My fiance' Erika - too awesome for words, reading, XBox, Cubs, Bears, Bulls, eating, driving, Labatt's Blue, making the most of Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

I'd like to meet:

the guy who came up with the idea for the Two Coreys and shoot him. Seriously, I, as much as the next guy, base my life on Feldman's teachings. But Haim, sweet Jesus, what did you think was going to happen when you ordered a pepperoni pizza when the PETA girl was coming over? Good things? Of course if he doesn't do that, then there is no conflict for that show and they have 22 minutes to fill with Corey Feldman's music and Haim's acting. Thus continues the vicious reality tv cycle. The whole genre needs to go the way of Anna Nicole Smith and her pharmacy.

Music:

Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Beatles, Who, Kinks, Pete Townshend, Elvis Costello, U2, Weird Al, Gavin DeGraw, Police, Def Leppard, Damn Yankees, and the best musical supergroup ever, the 645 Playas

Movies:

Rushmore, High Fidelity, Collateral, Dumb and Dumber, Footloose, Fletch, Fight Club, Ocean's 11, Wonder Boys, Memento, Royal Tenenbaums, Star Wars, UHF, Cool As Ice, The Corey Feldman Unholy Six group of Round Trip To Heaven, National Lampoon's Last Resort, South Beach Academy, Rock and Roll High School Forever, Meatballs 4 and Dream a Little Dream 2, SpiderMan, anything with Dolph Lundgren or Austrailian action guru Gary Daniels, Summer School, Road House, the Godfather 1 and 2.

Television:

Hangin' In There, FBI Knights, 24, Lost, Heroes, Walker Texas Ranger, A-Team, Mutant X, SCTV, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Twilight Zone, Full House, Prison Break, Jericho, Dawson's Creek, Simpsons, Family Guy, KOTH, Futurama, V.I.P, SeaLab, SuperFriends, Harvey Birdman, Tom Goes to the Mayor.

Books:

Anything by Chuck Klosterman. Live From New York, about Saturday Night Live, an invaluable resource if you really dig how something like that got off the ground.

Heroes:

"Sports Guy" Bill Simmons, Jack Bauer, Ric Flair, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Dalton. My family.

My Blog

Take Home Chef: Running Blog.

Well, after like a year of threatening, it's time to do a running blog of a truly fascinating and odd show, Take Home Chef.It features Aussie Curtis Stone, and it he looks like a doll or someone who b...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:31:00 PST

Four months gone, six months to go.

Four months gone without a blog entry, six months to go before the biggest day of me life! Good lord.What am I gonna do with Erika gone all weekend at McCormick Place for work? Well I can’t cook...
Posted by Mike on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:23:00 PST

Movie List for Los Crapios Movieos on Saturday

Ladies and Gentleman: Here it is.The dirty laundry list for this Saturday's doubleheader in DeKalb.The first entry will be chosen from this list, b...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:44:00 PST

Fall TV, Me on TV (actually radio), and Cubs on late TV

Sorry, it took me so long to post again, but I just dropped the kids off to K-Fed's bodyguard, and now I won't see them. Sniff, why can't I just not wear underwear in public and not take random drug t...
Posted by Mike on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:26:00 PST

My thoughts on the Sopranos finale.

It was completely, utterly and totall-.
Posted by Mike on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:17:00 PST

What a time of the year.

Let's recap shall well we?Im not talking about any worldwide global event, I'm talking right here.LOST season finale kicked 92 types of ass. The season was awesome, despite people's bitching, and it's...
Posted by Mike on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 08:14:00 PST

Running with the night...playing in the shadows...

Lot of stuff to get to, so lets do this thing...Congrats to my sister Jorie, who was included into the elite Phi Beta Kappa thingy at Indiana U. It's an awesome honor and you worked hard for it. Someo...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:48:00 PST

Ooooh...TAG

The rules are:  Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with ten random things, facts, or habits about yourself.  At the end, you choose five people to be tagged, list ...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:33:00 PST

Good things come in twenty-fours

Can Jack Bauer stop a wintry mix of ice and snow? I do NOT need this.24 comes back on Sunday, meaning only one thing. The best season of 24 since the last one.In the meantime, here are some gems from ...
Posted by Mike on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:50:00 PST

3rd Ever Full House Running Blog!

We're Back! Smash Club The Next Generation, aired 10/19/93, here we go...8:31 - Becky and Danny are going over the details of the show...I wish their Wake Up SF show was torched in a horrible accident...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:57:00 PST