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grapes...OF WRATH!

Minnesotans + the Castro = pure hilarity.

About Me

I'm pretty much always plotting something - I work for the CIA, for the love of God - so yeah, you should probably know me. If you're not a turd salad sandwich, that is. And if you're cool. If not...well, there's always the check-out lady at Safeway. Bitches!!!

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My Interests

Partying, Music/Festivals, Camping, Canoeing/Kayaking, Hiking/Backpacking, Skydiving, KU Basketball, Politics/Activism, Cooking, Traveling, Tattoos, Plants/Gardening, My Dog, Dance Party with Emily

I'd like to meet:

Other folks who also kick ass. And are attractive. And like to have a good time.

Music:

Phish, Keller Williams, Grateful Dead, moe., MOFRO, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Kinky, The New Mastersounds, Lettuce, The Motet, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Galactic, Yonder Mountain String Band, The Flaming Lips, Umphrey's McGee, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Steam Powered Airplane, North Mississippi Allstars, Aretha Franklin, The Gourds, Big Mama Thornton, The Beatles, String Cheese Incident, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Widespread Panic, Willie Nelson, Bela Fleck, The Allman Brothers Band, Jack Johnson, Leftover Salmon, Beck, Bob Marley, Eddie from Ohio, Particle, Jurassic 5, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, G. Love and the Special Sauce, Mavis Staples, Rusted Root, Gillian Welch, The Band, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Order of Kaos, Drakkar Sauna, ekoostik hookah, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, The Disco Biscuits, John Scofield, STS9, Tea Leaf Green, The DeWayn Brothers, Donna the Buffalo, Shanti Groove, Weezer, Split Lip Rayfield, Lotus

Movies:

Anchorman, Requium for a Dream, Festival Express, X-Men, Brokeback Mountain, A Home at the End of the World

Television:

Law and Order SVU, The West Wing, Arrested Development, Miami Ink, Anything on the Food Network (Paula Deen, Rachael Ray, Dave Lieberman, The Barefoot Contessa), Nip/Tuck, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and most any college basketball game.

Books:

A Language Older than Words, The Culture of Make Believe, The Natural Alien, Ishmael, The Pentagon of Power, Pacifism as Pathology, Infinite Jest, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, Never Mind the Pollacks, Edwina the Emu, The Politics of Experience, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, The Holocaust in American Life, Still Life with Woodpecker, The Monkey Wrench Gang, Ecotopia, Silent Spring, Stranger in a Strange Land, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Siddhartha, Brave New World, 1984, Animal Farm, Civil Disobedience, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The People's History of the United States

Heroes:

My mom.

My Blog

Simon and Garfunkel

Those two really suck my balls.  But they're funny.  In that "I'm a giant dork but still take lots of acid" sort of way. But whatever. So I haven't posted anything lately.  Because I've...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:37:00 PST

Last thought on Election 2006

Well, maybe anyway. Does anyone else find it as ironic and subtly bemusing/scary as I do that, once again, Florida is the site of the most controversial election results of a national election?  ...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:41:00 PST

Let's just get it all out on the table

Just for full disclosure, friends: I'm an idiot, a "problem" drinker, and a whore.  Life is good...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 01:49:00 PST

Operation Kitchen Storm, Phase 1

So a couple days ago I was talking with Cody on my "cellular telephone" and I started to freak out.  Because there were ants in my kitchen.  ANTS!  Now I'm a clean person, folks - I'm ...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:15:00 PST

So I don't mean to brag...

But did I call it?!! No seat held by a Democratic governor, congressperson, or Senator would flip to the Republicans?  Check. Eight Democratic gubernatorial gains?  Okay, so there were only ...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:51:00 PST

Can hardly friggin' wait for tomorrow!

So I'm a total politics dork.  That's a given.  But tomorrow is one of my favorite days.  Not just tomorrow, but every election day (but this one perhaps a bit more so since the stupids...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 08:42:00 PST

Dork-a-thon on pause

For all the readers of the 2006 political dork-a-thon:  Sorry folks, updates for the rest of the House and the Govs have been postponed.  I was out of commission due to pain all weekend, and...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:01:00 PST

Midterms House Report, part 2: Dixieland

The Dork-a-thon continues!  This issue looks at the House races in the South.  Morons are most competitive here, but overall I'd expect a gain of between seven and 10 or 12&nb...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:55:00 PST

Midterms 2006: The House, part 1

So continuing my nerd-ism of yesterday, today I bring you The Michael Charles Martin House Midterms Report, part 1: the Northeast and mid-Atlantic. In short, look for strong Democratic pick-ups in thi...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:25:00 PST

Woo-hoo for politics!

So as y'all know, I'm kinda a politics junkie.  Know all 102 senators and the states they represent (heehee!).  More than half the governors.  Probably a third of the federal reps as we...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:12:00 PST