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Mike

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My Interests

Music:

Punk and a little ska....to name a few: NOFX, Bad Religion, Rancid, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, Propagandhi, The Misfits, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Anti-Flag, Strung Out, Bouncing Souls, Flogging Molly, Guttermouth, the Vandals old shit, Nerf Herder, Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, The Hippos, The Slackers, The Toasters, Millencolin, Hepcat, Against All Authority, Streetlight Manifesto, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash etc. etc. etc.

Movies:

Big Fish, Scorcese and Kubrick films, Kill Bill, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Fahrenheit 9/11, Outfoxed, Guy Ritchie movies, Wes Anderson movies, the list goes on and on

Television:

Family Guy, Futurama, The Simpsons, Robot Chicken, The West Wing, Arrested Development, Dirty Jobs, MythBusters, HEROES!

Books:

Again, too many....Kurt Vonnegut, Fyodor Dostoevsky, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Molly Ivins, Zadie Smith, Khaled Hosseini, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE!

My Blog

A Hollow Brilliance

     How can flesh shimmer brilliantly in a room so empty? How does the light reflected by a quarter-inch of crimson steel permeate the entire room, casting its eerie glow upon eve...
Posted by Mike on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:23:00 PST

The Rainbow of Her Existence

Jaime's hollow brown eyes stared back at her from the mirror. Her seemingly translucent skin revealed the emaciated outline of her former self as she examined her body in the full-length mirror hidden...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:19:00 PST

So it goes...

So, Don Imus is an idiot.  He's not a victim of censorship or anything else.  He made a stupid, quasi-racist remark (for those who don't know, he referred to the predominantly black Rutger's...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:57:00 PST

The 1/2 Hour News Hour

So, apparently, Faux News has decided that they will try to take on Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert from a conservative standpoint.  The first episode of The 1/2 Hour News Hour (Get it?  It'...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:00:00 PST

Random thought because I'm too busy/lazy to write a real blog entry...

So, yesterday I'm watching Jeopardy!, and there are about three questions left in the first round, when CBS News barges in with important breaking news.  As the two newscasters it takes to tell s...
Posted by Mike on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 05:44:00 PST

Incredibly Shameless Self-Promotion

I got it todaymy acceptance to the 2007 Rhetoric Symposium at Texas A&M Commerce, hosted by the Federation Rhetoric Committee....totally exciting!
Posted by Mike on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 06:18:00 PST

Shameless self-promotion...

So, I'm going to use this space today for a little bit different purpose than usual.  I a great opportunity ahead of me.  The Federation Rhetoric Committee is having a symposium at Texas A&a...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:49:00 PST

Seriously....

So, for those of you who haven't seen it yet, this video has been around a while (my cousin sent it to me over a year ago), but it's still great and it seems like a good way to start off today's blog:...
Posted by Mike on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:21:00 PST

Post-election thoughts

Here in Texas, Karl Rove still curses us.  Rick Perry gets to stay in the governor's mansion for another four years, still trying to make nothing look like something.  Up in the Senate, fell...
Posted by Mike on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:00:00 PST

Some quick political notes...

So, real life really gets in the way of writing this crap.  Anyway, a few things to bitch about:Apparently, somewhere along the line, making fun of the best President money can buy turned into be...
Posted by Mike on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:20:00 PST