Michael profile picture

Michael

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me



Copy and paste the code!

All the best and brightest, at the very least, have colored outside the lines.They know the inside of the box like the backs of their hands. I imagine they all begin to grow bored with it at one point or another.It's evident in every artform and occupation.Here I began to make a list, and gave up. Way too many examples of genius. Musicians, scientists, writers and philosophers and the way they overlap.The box matters because it divides the inside from the outside.The essence of genius is creativity. It's impetus is inspiration. Along the way, the discipline of what the box contains yields to the infinity outside of it. It becomes an inculcation all it's own.Those outside the box must still reach inside, yet, those inside have no imperative to reach, or even look out.May the sun shine on those that bother to even look around.Drinks for my friends.

My Interests



Wine, music, literature, politics, history, space, writing, current events, smart people, funny people, gardening, tomatoes cheese food, cats, recreational fabrication of elaborate falsehoods.........

I'd like to meet:

George W. Bush so I could ask some pretty obvious questions and then berate him in a manner befitting an arrogant simple minded prick. Other than that, I can't really think of anyone I'm dying to meet, except maybe some dead people like Einstein or Darwin.

Music:

Everything from Green Day to Lucinda Williams, from Calexico to Mozart.

Movies:

To Kill A Mocking Bird, Magnolia, Nobody's Fool, Lost In Translation, Big Fish, The Big Lebowski (anything by the Cohen Bros.), True Romance, American Beauty, Royal Tannebaums, Being John Malkovich, Bottle Rocket, Blue Velvet, Mystic River, Fight Club, The Ice Storm, Resevoir Dogs & Pulp Fiction, Repo Man, Glen Gary Glen Ross, At Close Range, Animal House, Sling Blade, Amadeus, Blade Runner, The King Of Comedy, Farenheit 911 & Bowling For Columbine, Buffalo 66, Rushmore, The Unforgiven, Lord Of The Rings...........

Television:

Six Feet Under, 60 Minutes, CNN, The Daily Show, Bill Maher, Dave Chapelle, Discovery Channel, The West Wing, The Comedy Channel, I pretty much loathe reality television ...........

Books:

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, The World According To Garp, Widow For One Year, Cat's Cradle, anything by Elmore Leonard, The Great Gatsby, Cannery Row, The Da Vinci Code, When Will Jesus Bring The Porkchops?, anything by Douglas Coupland, Sometimes A Great Notion, just about anything by Clive Barker, anything by Truman Capote-homogenius!, Ray Bradbury, anything by Harlan Ellison, Nick Hornby, Russel Banks, Chuck Palahniuk, Hunter S. Thompson, Peter Straub, Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, JD Salinger, The Corrections..............

Heroes:

Why did this get erased? Ok, here goes. Bill Clinton, Al Franken, Bill Maher, John Stewart, Keith Olbermann, Nick Tobey, Triumph The Insult Dog, Hunter S. Thompson (RIP), Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Arianna Huffington, Michael Moore, Truthout.org, Joe Klein, Joe Biden, John Conyers, George Carlin, Chris Rock, Michael Jordan, Rosa Parks, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eddie Van Halen, Ray Bradbury.........

My Blog

Ten more reasons to covet shaking off the mortal coil

1. When someone notices you have a booger before you do.2. Sean Hannity is still on TV.3. People who walk around in public with a blank stare while mouth breathing. 4. When there's not quite enough s...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 09 May 2008 09:31:00 PST

Ten more reasons to self induce the dirt nap

10. There's these really cool overhead lights in my bathroom. Five of them and they're enclosed in in like soffits in the ceiling. Well, one is blinking and clicking. I kinda like it but I wish I c...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 08 May 2008 01:06:00 PST

Top Ten Reasons to off ones self

10) Tired of wiping my ass9) Sick of waiting for a green light. 8) I don't like most people7) Dust6) Girls shaped like boys. Boys shaped like girls.5) Dentist. The very word.4) Residual urine...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 07 May 2008 01:17:00 PST

Man in picture

Read previous chapters under the fiction category at: ************************************************************ *********No matter the situation, it’s hard to blame anyone who’s had e...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:05:00 PST

Lickety split gorpage

1. Bile or plankton?2. Cabernet or Shiraz?3. Big sweaty people or petite stinky ones?4. You people allright with hollandaise sauce? I just bought a jar at Trader Joes. I’m pretty excited. Ava...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:02:00 PST

Man in picture.

It was interesting. Fascinating. I had fun with it. Sometimes, it was like picking at a scab or the tongue constantly probing at a sore in the mouth. Still, consummate in the most enigmatic way.Un...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:21:00 PST

The State of The Union

Those of you that have been reading me for awhile, may recall that my take on the last State of The Union was titled "No babies in garbage disposals" A not so subtle nod towards populist pablum. Ton...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:55:00 PST

I’m so sorry for the sandwich I have caused you.

So the DVR choked again and I found myself staring open mouthed at a kinda cool show with like, the best commercials or something. Save for CNN and HBO, I'm not much for the glass teat.Maybe that's wh...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:51:00 PST

A crease in the universe

1. Ever lay tile?2. Do you know the way to San Jose?3. What're your thoughts on chalk?5. Would you say you're domesticated?6. Favorite salad dressing? 7. Liars or thieves?8. Where are you on salad ba...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:38:00 PST

Forty years since MLK

1. Ever lay tile?2. Do you know the way to San Jose?3. What're your thoughts on chalk?5. Would you say you're domesticated?6. Favorite salad dressing? 7. Liars or thieves?8. Where are you on salad ba...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:22:00 PST