Posted inWriting Posted inPoesy & Doggerel I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!Ode To A Croaking ManOn 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 17, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4671
Posted inWriting Posted inGonzo JournalismConfabulated TraveloguesFun 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 16, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4415
Posted inWriting Posted inAnecdotal Evidence These Are The People In My NeighborhoodThe Funniest Man In The WorldThe other night I talked to my old friend Zigmo Parcheesi, the funniest man in the world. He told me he took his toddler son Max to his first movie.… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 16, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4374
Posted inWriting Posted inPoesy & Doggerel 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 16, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4375
Posted 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
Posted 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 13, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4348
Posted 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
Posted inWriting Posted inAnecdotal Evidence Local Color—Yee HawTexasI'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
Posted inWriting Posted inAnecdotal Evidence Local Color—ManhattanNew 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
Posted inWriting Posted inAnecdotal Evidence Local Color—SeattleIrene & 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
Posted inWriting Posted inReflectionsNocturnal Submissions Reflective ProseDay 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
Posted inWriting Posted inSelf-Portraits In Prose 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 11, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4164
Posted inWriting Posted inOpinionsPop Culture Iconoclasm Whom Rods DestroySpeak To Me Not Of Picard, Nor Janeway — An Informal 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
Posted inWriting Posted inLifestyleDealing With It AllLife In A Mikeycosm Temporal MoronomyThe 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
Posted inWriting Posted inAnecdotal Evidence Local Color—San FranciscoTales 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
Posted inWriting Posted inMemoirs & Reflections Essay-Length MemoirArs 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
Posted inWriting Posted inReviewsOpinions Review CompendiumFragrance ReviewsUnbeknownst 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 31, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3528
Posted inWriting Posted inMemoirs & Reflections 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 21, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3055
Posted inWriting Posted inMovie Reviews Review CompendiumLiterally Hundreds of Capsule Movie ReviewsA 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,… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 12, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1956
Posted inWriting Posted inSocial Media Addiction Social MediocrityKwitter, the one-user social networkI 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 10, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1385