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Mike Z Design

Functional Art

About Me

Well let’s see…..I think of myself as a pretty easy goin’ guy.I like anything vintage. I drive an old Dodge pick-up truck that’s probably not safe enough for you to want to get into it w/me. Also own a couple motorcycles. I love road trips but don’t seem to get away enough these days. Been taking care of myself since I was 14, live alone & don’t have any kids (that I know about). Even though I live alone I’m not Lonely, just maybe a little bored. I work out a lot but I’m not a fanatic about it. I have a lot of tattoos but never think about them……I read quite a bit, not into fiction. I’m patriotic, a former Marine...... I’m not crazy…..honestly. Politically I’m middle of the road. I’m conservative on some issues & liberal on others..I want to have any interesting life. If you want to know anything else just ask, I’m pretty much an open book........................................................ ...The E.A.P. quote below pretty much sums up how I feel these days........................................................ ...............I have been too deeply conscious of the mutability and evanescence of temporal things to give any continuous effort to anything - to be consistent in anything. My life has been whim - impulse - passion - a longing for solitude - a scorn for all things present, in an earnest desire for the future- Interview with Edgar Allan Poe 1809-49 ............................................................ ............................................................ .................................... *Click here* To check out my site to find out all about me & my work, www.mikezdesign.com

My Interests

Woodworking, designing/creating, motorcycling, takin' pictures, collecting tattoos, makin' stuff, pretty faces
What Combat Weaponry Are You?
Mossberg-590 Shotgun
Your appearance works toward your advantage, as under estimators leave themselves up close and vulnerable. An excellent close range fighter you prefer upper-cuts and cheap shots.

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If you were an ancient warrior, which army would you be in?
Spartan
You are of Greece, a country of pure success (at that time). Spartans fought as a whole using their superb battle tactics. They were the main military of the country. No retreat, no surrender.

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I'd like to meet:

Other creative types of people, artists, craftspeople & lovers of hand-made objects. Anyone who can help me to further my business. I don't need a business partner but a life partner would be nice.....

Music:

It's gotta have balls

Television:

Discovery Chanel, History Chanel, Learning Chanel & HBO.....I like to feed my head

Books:

Non-Fiction

Heroes:

My heros have always been cowboys & my dad. Then there's George Nakashima, James Krevov, Sam Mayloof, Herman Miller, Charles & Ray Eames, you get the picture..

My Blog

Spendin’ money I don’t have......

    This weekend I had to put gas in the truck.....$60, it's a fifteen gallon tank.....that's just rediculous. I've been riding the motorcycle to work every day but the new shop is only 2.5 ...
Posted by Mike Z Design on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:32:00 PST

My epiphany

 My epiphany&&         You know, a few months ago I didn't know what was going to happen w/my life. I was seriously considering going into the Army, they wanted me & ...
Posted by Mike Z Design on Tue, 13 May 2008 10:30:00 PST

This just happened to my pal Jesse. Sunday May, 11 2008

Story.....that just took place.... please excuse the multiple grammatical errors and vulgarities So, last weekend I ran the crest and just wasn't "feelin' it", kept getting nervous and losing my line ...
Posted by Mike Z Design on Mon, 12 May 2008 10:50:00 PST

The Sunglass Menagerie.....

The Sunglass Menagerie&&..           That's a shop I managed the summer before I left for the Marine Corps, the summer of '85, back in the twentieth century. For the previous ...
Posted by Mike Z Design on Fri, 09 May 2008 10:58:00 PST

1985.....myspace friends

1985&..          That was the year I graduated H.S&&Also the year I went into the Marine Corps. That summer I was the manager of the Sunglass Menagerie. It was the first shop ...
Posted by Mike Z Design on Fri, 09 May 2008 06:08:00 PST

One professor standing up for whats right....

The story begins at Michigan State University with a mechanical engineering professor named Indrek Wichman. .. Wichman sent an e-mail to the Muslim Student's Association. The e-mail...
Posted by Mike Z Design on Wed, 07 May 2008 05:56:00 PST

1982 myspace pals.....

1982 myspace pals&&             The number of "friends" I have on myspace has gotten to a point where they're in the number of years I've existed&..When I hit 1966 ...
Posted by Mike Z Design on Tue, 06 May 2008 11:38:00 PST

Line of credit tranzfers.....

    So, those of you who keep up w/my crazy life know that I'm a bit strapped these days. I'm in the proccess of moving my space into the new shop & should have that done w/in the next f...
Posted by Mike Z Design on Fri, 02 May 2008 01:56:00 PST

frustration

  Well, I started working at Vienna Woods this past Monday. The guy who owns it, Januz, works primarily in the biedermeier style. His offer to me was that I could move my shop into his space &...
Posted by Mike Z Design on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:36:00 PST

More bang fer yer buck at the pump......

TIPS ON PUMPING GAS     I don’t know what you people are paying for gasoline... but here in California we are also paying higher, up to $3.50 per gallon. But my line of w...
Posted by Mike Z Design on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:45:00 PST