Naked Mike profile picture

Naked Mike

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me



..
..There are many boxes with many words about me, but can any of them give more than the barest hint of a persons personality? I think to do that you have to ask questions, talk with a person and often just be observant of their actions.So, this is just a collection of facts about what I do and labels that come close to defining me.
I'm generally seen as a down to earth kind of person. I think I have my emotional house in order most of the time and strive to always keep working on it. I see personal growth as a very important part of life.
I'm very open minded and non judgmental, more so than most people I meet. I may not agree or enjoy what others are or do but I respect them for it. At least where cultural or personal preferences are concerned.
I can be driven about things I have a strong belief in, but more often than not I just go with the flow. Burning Man, because of the good things I've gotten from it is one of the things I'm driven about. But I also try and keep it toned down so that I don't end up building any more 30' pyramids.
Im polyamorous (look it up) not a swinger and don't like that label. It means I have a girl friend, she is married, he knows and supports it and I'm maybe someday open to other people in my life in addition. There are many ways to be poly just like anything else, my version tends to need very deep connections with people before moving to anything intimate. But that's not to say I'm entirely apposed to less meaningful things, it's just not my best case.
I'm also a naturist/nudist and as long as people around me are comfortable with it I may choose not to dress. Lack of clothing to me is so normal and natural that I sometimes wonder if the world (Americans in particular) doesn't have some unnamed mental disease. How can the form of our own species be so taboo?
I don't go to resorts often, preferring to be in the woods, desert, beach, on the water, etc.
I can be kind of spiritual, but not religious. Which means I think about the nature of things quite a bit. Why am I here? What is the universe made of? Etc. This drives much of my scientific curiosity as well.
I'm both a geek and kind of an artist, or at least like to think creatively. Thinking out side the box is a joy. Things like henna and body painting, building things (pyramids, domes, butterfly bikes, etc.), or really whatever comes to mind. Not much in the traditional art sense.
Why "Naked Mike"? At my first year at Burning Man a group of virtual strangers camped together (it was great). 4 or so of us had the common name of "Mike". Which can get kind of frustrating. So, at one point my friend Mel got fed up with it and renamed all the "mike's" on the spot. One person was cooking and got named "chef", I happened to be naked (often am) so I was dubbed "Naked Mike". After a life changing week in that environment, and several years later it just stuck and became my name. I'm known as "Naked Mike" far more than I am known as just "Mike". It's kind of odd, but hey, it does fit.
Our Burning Man Camp is the:
..
Click Here to visit it.

My Interests

Burning Man, friends, naturism, nudism, polyamory, outdoors, computers, travel, dogs, The Burning Man Project, regional burning man, body paint, henna, pyramids, hiking, skinny dipping, open minds, kayaking, tails, camping, hot springs, open minded people, costumes, art, outdoor sex, nudity, mythology, yoga, science fiction, webcams, mind altering experiences, tribal living, community living, self expression, scopophilia, etc.(and tossing random things in descriptions like this :)

I'd like to meet:


Fellow Burners, anyone interested in Burning Man, more poly people and generally anyone with some shared interests. For that matter more people open to nudity, don't have so many in my life right now.
Drop me a note, I'm always open to an e-mail conversation.

Is The Government Spying On Paranoid Schizophrenics Enough?
..
Add to My Profile | More Videos
...and you knew it all along didn't you

Note: I've noticed to many hurt feelings with the whole "top friend" thing. Not with me so much but other people's profiles. So I've reduced it to the minimum. If you want to be one of those top 4 you have to know what "spooge dart" refers to. :)

Music:

I have a really wide range of interests, it all depends on the day. I'm always open to something new as well and sometimes just because it's different it ends up on my mp3 player. Normally I listen to my music collection on random, it's more fun that way. :)

My Blog

and speaking of dreams

I woke up from one last night confused.I was the president of the US, with no memory of how I got there. Kel was in the oval office with me, I had just sent Jon out to assassinate someone an...
Posted by Naked Mike on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:13:00 PST

Masks

One of the epiphanies of my first year or so being involved in Burning Man was that we all wear masks. Or rather it was about removing them and letting the inner self out, completly and totaly. &...
Posted by Naked Mike on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:36:00 PST

Sad Videos

Fine, fine, I took the sad video off. But I still like it. Even if it really really gets to me on a lot of levels.  But as things like that so rarely invoke an emotional responce in me I think it...
Posted by Naked Mike on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:13:00 PST

Yeap a new look

Finaly got around to updating my page. Not a lot of new words, but a lot of new look.  It was better than post party cleaning :)Also added a music video, which isn't like me, but that song is ex...
Posted by Naked Mike on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:41:00 PST

Seizures and parties

So I'm slowly setting up for the Halloween Seizure Soiree.It may or may not be the best party I've ever had, but it's certainly going to be the best lit.  Might even invoke a good healthy seizur...
Posted by Naked Mike on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:38:00 PST

Ways to raise your sprits...or mine

Life kind of sucked the last month and 1/2. 1 large emotinal thing, 1 devistating emotioanl thing and one minor, yet straw on the camels back thing.So, some happy blog thoughts.Nearly all day I've be...
Posted by Naked Mike on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:40:00 PST

WTF!

How to kill mikes day:Don't have a drivers licenceDon't have insurance.Can't tell green from red.Don't understand that driving in to a moving stream of traffic is a bad thing.Yeap, that's right. Some...
Posted by Naked Mike on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:28:00 PST

Passing of a friend...

Just slightly more than 12 years ago a gangly, wild, legs to big for his body, puppy came home with me after he picked me for a dad. He almost immediately was swimming in the pool, even at 7 weeks. F...
Posted by Naked Mike on Sun, 27 May 2007 03:46:00 PST

Things I didn't do.

Art I didn't do:http://www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm?ArtID=25152&Tab=G alleryMathmatical publications I didn't do:http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=514591&jmp=cit& amp;dl=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&a...
Posted by Naked Mike on Wed, 16 May 2007 05:55:00 PST

Sexualy assulted by stuffed animals...again

Some blogs just should not be written, so all I'm going to say is that Kel has turned my by innocent liviing room in to the Snuggle Room Of Horrors. Oh and why is it that Saturday and Sunday I was in...
Posted by Naked Mike on Thu, 10 May 2007 08:24:00 PST