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Why do people respect George Carlin?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
What’s the best day of the week to take off if you work a four day, 10-hours-a-day work week?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Music Reviews, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Why do people respect George Carlin?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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MikesplainingWhy do people respect George Carlin?

I have a serious question, and, dead serious, I’m not deliberately trying to provoke. 
Why do people respect George Carlin? -Brett F., Alberta Carlin was the observational comic who set…
517 wordsUpdated Jan 7, 2024
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What’s the best day of the week to take off if you work a four day, 10-hours-a-day work week?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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MikesplainingWhat’s the best day of the week to take off if you work a four day, 10-hours-a-day work week?

What’s the best day of the week to take off if you work a four day, 10-hours-a-day work week? -Jeannie F, Marin County, CA Thursday. Trust me, being self-employed I’ve…
348 words2 media itemsUpdated Jan 7, 2024
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Music Reviews, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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You Are HearMusic Reviews

As of this writing (March 2024) this is pretty sparse, I only just had the idea. Generally I’ve never written much about music—I don’t need to, because music is just…
124 wordsUpdated Mar 17, 2024
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How to Find Your Hotel If You’re Lost In Ghent, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Do the odds of winning the lottery change if more people play? Is flipping tails more likely after four heads in a row?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Why are musical notes an octave apart considered to be the same note?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
How to Find Your Hotel If You’re Lost In Ghent, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Local Color—Ghent, BelgiumHow to Find Your Hotel If You’re Lost In Ghent

Back in my salad days I once tricked the Belgian government into paying to fly me & two friends to give an arts lecture in Ghent under assumed names (long…
1567 words5 media itemsUpdated Jun 12, 2024
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Do the odds of winning the lottery change if more people play? Is flipping tails more likely after four heads in a row?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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MikesplainingDo the odds of winning the lottery change if more people play? Is flipping tails more likely after four heads in a row?

A.) Do the odds of winning the lottery change if more people play? B.) What if 5 people each flipped a coin. If the first four all land on heads,…
2309 wordsUpdated Feb 19, 2024
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Why are musical notes an octave apart considered to be the same note?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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MikesplainingWhy are musical notes an octave apart considered to be the same note?

Q. Why are musical notes an octave apart considered to be the same note? -Charlotte V., Seattle, WA Notes an octave apart are the same note because of the mechanics…
777 wordsUpdated Jan 7, 2024
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About Sexism In The AI Images On This Site, feature art by Mike Kupietz
“The Radish Is The Noisy’st Root…”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
“Peaks Island Ferry” by Dan Sonenberg — album review, feature art by Mike Kupietz
About Sexism In The AI Images On This Site, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Hey, You Got Your Social Awareness In My AI!About Sexism In The AI Images On This Site

A number of the AI-generated images on this site contain artistic depictions of nudity, presented in a way that might seem to reasonably suggest some confusion between real artistic or…
1144 wordsUpdated Jan 2, 2024
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“The Radish Is The Noisy’st Root…”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!“The Radish Is The Noisy’st Root…”

The radish is the noisy’st root, Its vocal tack beyond dispute, effusive in expounding truth, so talkative, this verbal fruit. In ages prior and aeons hence, have poets, lost in…
352 words1 media itemUpdated Feb 26, 2024
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“Peaks Island Ferry” by Dan Sonenberg — album review, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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I Like To Listen“Peaks Island Ferry” by Dan Sonenberg — album review

Finally giving a listen to the prerelease of old friend Dan Sonenberg’s return to solo singer-songwriting, “Peaks Island Ferry”. Rather than set down & give him feedback after it’s over,…
1972 wordsUpdated Aug 17, 2024
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Misinformation Visualization, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Ode to “Ode To A Croaking Man”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Critical Reading of a Flawed Information Source, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Misinformation Visualization, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Fudging The FactsMisinformation Visualization

Among my many inconsequential but fondly-remembered ideas was about 10 years ago, when for a brief time, I had a blog called “Misinformation Visualization” (subtitle: “Bringing a world of misinformation…
214 words1 media itemUpdated Oct 16, 2023
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Ode to “Ode To A Croaking Man”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Meta-Poetry!Ode to “Ode To A Croaking Man”

O! Poem that spoke of a man who croaks, were you not my own, I would quote you! I would think that whomever composed you smokes dope, but I know…
130 wordsUpdated Jan 15, 2024
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Critical Reading of a Flawed Information Source, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Watch Your IntelligenceCritical Reading of a Flawed Information Source

Oct. 7, 2023 I had an interesting talk with my father yesterday. He had a 2-for-1 subscription offer to Mother Jones, and we got into a discussion when I told…
2787 words1 media itemUpdated Feb 19, 2024
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Answers to Even More Infrequently Asked Questions, feature art by Mike Kupietz
A Young Person’s Guide To Common Time Signatures, and what they mean in real life, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Reflective ProseFascination, And Dangerous Weather

Springtime hits hard in some quarters. I call this ‘dangerous weather’—like, you’ve got to watch out where you’re going. You might trip and fall. Somehow this always coincides with the…
449 words1 media itemUpdated Jan 6, 2024
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Answers to Even More Infrequently Asked Questions, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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EMIAQsAnswers to Even More Infrequently Asked Questions

1. What’s the difference between a sauce and a condiment? – Susan W., Tallahassee, FL A condiment enhances the flavor of food and is used sparingly. A sauce adds an…
482 wordsUpdated Feb 8, 2024
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A Young Person’s Guide To Common Time Signatures, and what they mean in real life, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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MikesplainingA Young Person’s Guide To Common Time Signatures, and what they mean in real life

I have some time to kill so I thought I would write a brief overview of the concept of time signature in response to some questions that arose recently from…
2595 words1 media itemUpdated Jan 7, 2024
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Report On My Weekend, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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20xr9kw2i2qhmz, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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This’ll Show ‘EmVerse Upon Bank of America Holding My Checks And Angering My Cat

“These checks will be held for two weeks”, they said, “because they are very large and from New Jersey” This much is true But I am now home and my…
167 words1 media itemUpdated Jan 2, 2024
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Report On My Weekend, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Local Color—Point Reyes, Marin CountyReport On My Weekend

(Sent via email to undisclosed parties) My god, if I knew how my little weekend of excursions was going to turn out, I would have made it an event and…
1560 wordsUpdated Jan 6, 2024
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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!Ode To A Croaking Man

On a long-ago visit to the hamlet of Acton, MA with my GOAT (that’s “Girlfriend Onceupon A Time”—hey, I don’t mind if they call me a BOAT), the town was…
300 wordsUpdated Feb 19, 2024
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Investigative Journalism“Elvis Is Everywhere”

In the Nov. 10, 1988 edition of Bard College school newspaper “The Bardian”, for whom I occasionally wrote as a cub reporter, the Campus News section was led by my…
1526 words3 media itemsUpdated Jan 6, 2024
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Marginal Thinking Dept.You Can Quote Me On That (Assorted Short Topical Writings)

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26 wordsUpdated Jan 27, 2024
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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!Ode To A Curl-Up Bug

O! pity the poor maligned curl-up! Its form, tho’ well designed, inspires many to fear! But many a curl-up has faced a cruel and untimely fate ‘neath some shoe or…
446 words1 media itemUpdated Jan 7, 2024
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Question of the dayWhen was the first time you noticed someone cheating at something?

A few years back, my friend Al Katkowski was something of a success with his “Question Of The Day” iphone app and subsequent book. This was a question from the…
723 wordsUpdated Sep 23, 2023
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Reflective ProseDay Nights

I gotta do something about them day nights. I was just walking home from the store, bopping down the street at 11 PM, a time that I grew up believing…
645 wordsUpdated Jul 24, 2024
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Local Color—SeattleIrene & Sheri

This was originally posted on my old website, Life In A Mikeycosm. Before you read this, I should warn you. This story contains one of the grossest things I’ve ever…
1401 wordsUpdated Oct 12, 2023
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Fragrance Reviews, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Fragrance Reviews, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Nobody knows I write...

Fragrance Reviews

Unbeknownst to anybody except Dan Sonenberg—in fact, practically unbeknownst to even myself—I occasionally write fragrance reviews. These are those. Some people enjoy them. Those of you with the nose can…
81 wordsUpdated Jun 15, 2024
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Essay-Length MemoirArs Moriendi—Haley’s Epitaph

Disclaimer, 2023 Having come a long way from the days related herein, I thought for a while before reposting this 26-year-old piece of writing, originally posted on my old website.…
3960 words1 media itemUpdated Jul 23, 2024
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Subvert The Cartesian Paradigm!

The Contents Of The Rest Of The World’s Dream Do Not Concern Me (or, Why I Didn’t Turn 40)

I originally wrote this essay shortly before my 40th birthday, after which I posted it on my blog and a number of other places. December, 2008 For the record, I…
1309 wordsUpdated Jul 24, 2024
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Kwitter, the one-user social network, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Literally Hundreds of Capsule Movie Reviews, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Kwitter, the one-user social network, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Social MediocrityKwitter, the one-user social network

I quit Twitter a while back, and sometimes even just glancing at FB consumes a full day, so I have no outlet for my amusing social-media-worthy passing thoughts, except to…
601 wordsUpdated Aug 30, 2024
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Literally Hundreds of Capsule Movie Reviews, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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I can't believe I wrote

Literally Hundreds of Capsule Movie Reviews

A number of years ago I started jotting down summaries of movies I’ve watched, just to keep track of what I’d seen. As the years went by, the list grew,…
1742 words1 media itemUpdated Sep 8, 2024
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Essay-Length Memoir“The Light Shone On Me”

Foreword: For some reason, I’ve always been particularly moved by a sense of loss. It’s the sole valuable observation I ever got from a kindly but not particularly effective therapist…
6142 words1 media itemUpdated Sep 15, 2024
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“Are you free?”, and Other Short Ideological Musings, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Shower thoughts, feature art by Mike Kupietz
“Are you free?”, and Other Short Ideological Musings, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Ideology In Brief“Are you free?”, and Other Short Ideological Musings

Let’s talk about sex! No, wait, let’s talk about something even more taboo! These are some samples of political, ideological, or economic thoughts I’ve jotted down. I don’t consider myself…
76 wordsUpdated Jan 27, 2024
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Shower thoughts, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Even In The Quietest MomentsShower thoughts

Idea for a movie: A time traveling refugee from the 1990s is stuck in another era and must try to blend in, but is found out when it is discovered…
296 words1 media itemUpdated Feb 8, 2024
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