Michael Kuhl (The Cranky Badger)

About Me

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Get Custom Contact Tables for MySpace at SomeIcons.com I live in Chicago, but I grew up in Carlisle Iowa, famous for a woman who gave birth to a litter of kids known colloquially as "the septuplets." Good luck kids. You made the town famous. Got them on national TV. Now they'll never let you leave.
Over the course of my life I have, at various times, made my living solely as:
A comedian
An actor
A musician
A writer
A puppeteer
Never a good living, but a living nonetheless.
I have also made my living as a busboy, waiter, record store clerk, door to door fundraiser, human resources pissboy, and currently as ...
At this point there was a rather funny joke (if I do say so myself) about my current employer. Due to an utter lack of humor on the corporate end and some impending...stuff, the funny has been removed.
Please stay tuned, because there may be lots more to say on that issue.
My true joy is writing. It is also, no surprise, one of my greatest sources of anxiety. Check out my samples at http://www.mkuhl.com.
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My Interests

Dissecting comedy and poking around it's innards

I'd like to meet:

The person responsible for ties. Seriously, they serve no purpose except to restrict bloodflow to the brains of executives.

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Music:

All the uncool shit you kids hate. Now get the hell offa my lawn.
Go on! Scram!

Movies:

Brazil, any Marx Brothers, Mel Brooks up to Space Balls with special mention for Blazing Saddles, Raising Arizona, Network, Being There

Books:

All four books of the Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy, Don Quixote, Confederacy of Dunces

Heroes:

The Holy Trinity of Comedy (Bruce, Pryor, Carlin), Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx, Pete Townshend

My Blog

Why Aren't You Pissed Off?

"The average pay for a chief executive increased 27 percent last year, to $11.3 million, according to a survey of 200 large companies by Pearl Meyer & Partners, the compensation practice of Clark ...
Posted by Michael Kuhl (The Cranky Badger) on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:22:00 PST

The Michael Richards Meltdown

It's taken me a couple of days to process this. I didn't want to deliver another knee jerk response to Michael Richard's performance. There have been plenty of those. I needed to wrap my mind around i...
Posted by Michael Kuhl (The Cranky Badger) on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:01:00 PST

The strangest things are coming out of my body....

I don't want to go into too much detail, but everything in my body seems to have developed an exit strategy. I got's me some flu-like stuff. Or I have done something to enrage my digestive system to ...
Posted by Michael Kuhl (The Cranky Badger) on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:54:00 PST

So long, Richard.

When I was young I looked for ways to annoy my parents. My mother particularly. It didn't take me long to latch on to Richard Pryor. Today Richard Pryor died, and I am more affected than I though...
Posted by Michael Kuhl (The Cranky Badger) on Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:02:00 PST