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 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
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inEquipment & Tools Used Serious Gear GeekeryMosrite/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
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 inMusic & Sounds Posted inSinger / SongwriterAcousticky Guitar DemoThe 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
VocabularyThat Vu That Yu Du So WellDéjà vu: a false sense that something new has been seen before Jamais vu: a feeling or impression that something familiar is unfamiliar or is being seen for the first… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 11, 2023| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4188
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
Like ButterYou know, it's funny... the other day I just plugged in a backup hard drive that I haven't used in about 4 years. I looked at all the stuff was… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 11, 2023| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4160
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
Man’s FateStone antennae wavingLink: A Geologist Investigates a Mass Extinction at the End of the Permian Period A friend commented on the above as a warning. Well, I do believe we need not… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 10, 2023| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4141