Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inWriting Posted inPoesy & Doggerel This’ll Show ‘Em: Verse 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 16, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4375 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inWriting Posted inPoesy & Doggerel I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!: Ode To A Curl-Up BugO! 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 14, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4367 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inWriting Posted inMisc. Thoughts & Brainspill Marginal Thinking Dept.: You Can Quote Me On That (Assorted Short Topical Writings)Toggle all open/closed Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 14, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4348 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inWriting Posted inThe ParanormalInvestigative ReportingPublished Bylines 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 13, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4277 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inCode & Algorithms Posted inWordpressPHP Adding A Default Featured Image Or Thumbnail In WordPressOn this site, any post without a featured image specifically set (such as this one) displays the default floral 'K' insignia anywhere on the site where a thumbnail is displayed.… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 12, 2023Tags: Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4251 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inEquipment & Tools Used Serious Gear Geekery: Mosrite/Bakersfield Guitar PicksI wonder how many of even my guitarist friends will appreciate the above photo. Maybe some of you Seattle musicians, or Ventures fans. I found a set of vintage Mosrite… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 12, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4238 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inWriting Posted inAnecdotal Evidence Local Color—Yee Haw: TexasI'll tell you about Texas. Back in '95, me and my friend Haley went down to his Dad's timeshare in Port Aransas, Texas, a little beach resort town about 45… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 11, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4186 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inSinger / SongwriterAcousticky Guitar Demo: The Ravine Houses Are Gone (A Song For Hume, And Wacks, And Dan, And You)May 28, 2007 On May 27, Christopher Hume's parents met up with my friends Dan and Wacks at Bard College, and they went down to the on-campus waterfalls on the… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 11, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4191 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inWriting Posted inAnecdotal Evidence Local Color—Manhattan: New York Stories, Which I Only Now Realize Are All About Petty CrimesOriginally posted on my old site. I'd have called this "New York After Dark", but the souvlaki guy story happened in the middle of the afternoon. Looking out for the… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 11, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4180 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inWriting Posted inAnecdotal Evidence Local Color—Seattle: Irene & SheriThis 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 11, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4174 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inWriting Posted inReflectionsNocturnal Submissions Reflective Prose: Day NightsI 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 11, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4168 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inWriting Posted inSelf-Portraits In Prose Question of the day: When 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 11, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4164 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inWriting Posted inOpinionsPop Culture Iconoclasm Whom Rods Destroy: Speak To Me Not Of Picard, Nor Janeway — An Irascible Screed On Star Trek Fandom FundamentalsLook; I'm a Star Trek fan. Don't talk to me about "Picard" or "Janeway" or "Archer" or whoever. Even the movies barely qualify as "Star Trek", and they have the… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 11, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4155 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inWriting Posted inLifestyleDealing With It AllLife In A Mikeycosm Temporal Moronomy: 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 11, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4152 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inWriting Posted inAnecdotal Evidence Local Color—San Francisco: Tales From The Sidewalks Of San FranciscoAn Afternoon At The Races, Unplanned So, last night I was standing on Mission in South of Market with my phone out, trying to find a nearby hardware store, when… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 10, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4144 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inSite Info Posted inGrody Technical Details Under The Hood: Programming tricks used on this siteThis is (or, will be) a meta-post listing all posts I've written about the techniques used to create this site. Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 4, 2023Tags: Site Info| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3959 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inSite Info Posted inSite Images Overview Site Design Overview: Featured Images GallerySince they're not always clearly displayed on the front page or in every post, for convenience, this is an automated scrape of all original "featured images" (the background or front… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 4, 2023Tags: Site Info| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3947 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inSite Info Posted inGrody Technical Details Administrivia: Site Content, Design, & Technical IAQsAn early viewer asked some questions about the art I use on my site, so I thought I would put together a page of Q&A about the site and the… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 4, 2023Tags: Site Info| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3924 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inWriting Posted inMemoirs & Reflections Essay-Length Memoir: Ars Moriendi—Haley’s EpitaphDisclaimer, 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.… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 3, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3881 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/6Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inElectronic MusicExperimental Music Digital Single: Yiki·dū·sō (A Dream)This digital 0", originally hosted on my Bandcamp page, contains a track that sat unfinished on my hard drive for far too long, now finally having had the burrs filed… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 1, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3838 | Embed link