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Mik

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About Me

Grew up in Pittsburgh, have lived in Chicago and Melbourne Australia while attending the Art Institute of Chicago and RMIT respectively. Go to the link in my headline to see my MSN space with pictures and stories from my travels.

My Interests

Asian food and movies. All kinds of animation. Cheap beer and travel.

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Music:

Cut Copy, Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, Augustus Pablo, Astrud Gilberto, Phyllis Dillon, Gang Starr and Jeru the Damaja

Movies:

Brazil, Hollywood Hong Kong, Sympathy for Mr.Vengeance, In the Mood for Love.

Television:

Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Dateline (Australia), Fat Pizza (Australia), The Colbert Report, Futurama, Home Movies

Books:

Blood Meridian, Gangs of New York, Malone Dies, The Informers

Heroes:

Amber Billey - for doing all the stuff i want to do before i even think of it.

My Blog

DAMN, THEY’RE ONTO ME

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/71-bein g-the-only-white-person-around/Stuff White People Like 77 - Being the only white person around. (check out the picture on this page)http://f...
Posted by Mik on Mon, 26 May 2008 04:27:00 PST

TO KOREA WITH INDECISION

I’ve been in Korea for about a week after leaving China.  China was alternately exciting and frustrating.  At the time their media censorship drove me nuts, but now I realize that most...
Posted by Mik on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:29:00 PST

TAIWAN POLITICS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_-Eigd7RbU  The importance of Taiwanese politics has always been ballooned out of proportion for such a small country.  That is because Taiwan is a flashpoint ...
Posted by Mik on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:58:00 PST

THE LAST POST WAS OVER LOADED

............Here’s the tale end of Nanjing. Including the Presidential Palace, which is super nice. A super nice chair that once belonged to God’s Chinese son, Hong Xiu Chuan.  Even ...
Posted by Mik on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:09:00 PST

ULTIMATE CHINA PICTURE UPLOAD!!!!

Faced with a choice of posting tons of huge photos that will look good, but cause this page to take forever to load, I have opted instead to upload the thumbnails, and let you all click on the links t...
Posted by Mik on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:05:00 PST

FINALLY IN BEIJING

Finally, sick and weary, I’ve arrived in Beijing to seek my fortune.  I arrived on the morning of the 16th, in time to meet my old friend Rainy for afternoon drinks on her birthday.  ...
Posted by Mik on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:06:00 PST

FINALLY IN BEIJING

Finally, sick and weary, I’ve arrived in Beijing to seek my fortune.  I arrived on the morning of the 16th, in time to meet my old friend Rainy for afternoon drinks on her birthday.  ...
Posted by Mik on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:05:00 PST

BACK IN CHINA... INSTANTLY SICK

Well, I've done it.  I got the visa, and I'm inside the Middle Kingdom again.  And just like 3 years ago, the moment I crossed the border, I started hacking phlegm.  Just like old times...
Posted by Mik on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:19:00 PST

Arrived in Hong Kong

Okay, so I need to practice dividing numbers by 8.  if my hotel is $200, breakfast was $180, phone card was $38, and the airport bus was $33, how much did i spend?uh...  I think about 10 She...
Posted by Mik on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:02:00 PST

Back from Green Island, going to China

I'm back from Green Island.  The pictures are now in my photobucket album, which i've switched to private since my computer crashed and i'll be keeping all of my pictures there from now on. ...
Posted by Mik on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:04:00 PST