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Writing Anecdotal Evidence

Local Color—Seattle: Irene & 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…

By Mike Kupietz September 11, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4174 | Embed link

Writing ReflectionsNocturnal Submissions

Reflective Prose: Day 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…

By Mike Kupietz September 11, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4168 | Embed link

Writing Self-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…

By Mike Kupietz September 11, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4164 | Embed link

Writing LifestyleDealing 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…

By Mike Kupietz September 11, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4152 | Embed link

Site Info Site Images Overview

Site Design Overview: Featured Images Gallery

Since 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…

By Mike Kupietz September 4, 2023Site Info| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3947 | Embed link

Site Info Grody Technical Details

Administrivia: Site Content, Design, & Technical IAQs

An 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…

By Mike Kupietz September 4, 2023Site Info| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3924 | Embed link

Writing Memoirs & Reflections

Essay-Length Memoir: Ars 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.…

By Mike Kupietz September 3, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3881 | Embed link

Yiki·dū·sō (A Dream) digital single by Mike Kupietz cover

Music & Sounds Electronic 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…

By Mike Kupietz September 1, 2023Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3838 | Embed link

Writing ReviewsOpinions

Review Compendium: 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…

By Mike Kupietz August 31, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3528 | Embed link

Image Gallery AI Generative IllustrationUrban Surrealism

If You Don’t Live It, It Won’t Come Out Your Cone: Adoration Of The City

This is a series of generative art images I am paticularly fond of. Originally these were going to be part of my RobGAN Hitchcock project, but they kind of stand…

By Mike Kupietz August 22, 2023Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3075 | Embed link

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Writing Memoirs & 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…

By Mike Kupietz August 21, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3055 | Embed link

Site Info About This Site

My Whole Raison D'isaster: About This Site — An Introduction

Hey there! Thanks for visiting my online showcase. I'm Mr. Roarke, your host. Welcome to Fantasy Island. But seriously, folks... I've had a personal website for about 20 years, as…

By Mike Kupietz August 20, 2023Site Info| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=2997 | Embed link

Code & Algorithms Wordpress CodingPHP

Used on this site: WordPress Custom “Hero Header” Modifications

This site uses the "Sinatra" free Wordpress theme as its base. Sinatra includes a single "Hero Header" the row of 3 animated featured posts on the home page which changes…

By Mike Kupietz August 18, 2023Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=2978 | Embed link

Image Gallery AI Generative IllustrationIlluminated Lyrics

Giving It To A Soft Boy: RobGAN Hitchcock — AI-assisted lyrical illustrations

For a while, I had a Twitter account, @robGANhitchock, where I was posting AI illustrations of Robyn Hitchcock lyrics I created using a Generative Adversarial Network ("GAN"). This was an…

By Mike Kupietz August 18, 2023Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=2935 | Embed link

Code & Algorithms Web Technology

Online Fact-Checking Tool: The Internet Bad Statements (“BS”) Detector

Here's a fairly old repost from my consulting site, where it got no traction whatsoever. The Bad Statements Detector is a specialized search tool designed to aid in online research…

By Mike Kupietz August 16, 2023Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=2856 | Embed link

Writing Movie Reviews

Review Compendium: 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,…

By Mike Kupietz August 12, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1956 | Embed link

Music & Sounds Work-In-ProgressFolk & BluesAcousticky GuitarLive Performance

Album Preview: Michael Kupietz Live (And Almost In Tune) on Pirate Cat Radio, 5/28/2009

Back in 2009 my old ex-friend Rick Abruzzo, whom I'd met some years earlier during a mutual effort to resuscitate the soggy corpse of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, invited…

By Mike Kupietz August 11, 2023Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1482 | Embed link

Site Info Legalese

The Man Is Out To Get Me: Site Disclaimer, Terms of Use, and Conditions

Commencing herewith are the understandings and conditions (hereinafter referred to as the "Terms Of Use") to which you must agree to be permitted to access, view, or use the whole…

By Mike Kupietz August 10, 2023Site Info| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1374 | Embed link

Music & Sounds Equipment & Tools Used

Equipment Overview: Bento Box Software Synthesizer

I love the Bento synthesizer app. This is the kind of thing I never would have thought was worth my time, until I started to actually play with it and…

By Mike Kupietz August 8, 2023Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1241 | Embed link

Music & Sounds Work-In-ProgressDrone

Album Preview: गोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden Yatra

This one is finished except for the final production and mastering... it needs some studio gloss on it. This a a drone album I did in early 2023. I created…

By Mike Kupietz August 7, 2023Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1236 | Embed link

Writing Random Brain DroppingsFun

Even In The Quietest Moments: Shower 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…

By Mike Kupietz August 5, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=771 | Embed link

Writing PoliticsAxe-Grinding

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…

By Mike Kupietz August 5, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=769 | Embed link

Music & Sounds Work-In-ProgressZetetic Music

Album Preview: Five Themes In Uncertain Times v.0.89.05

Posted with great reluctance, my perpetually unfinished magnum opus, likely to someday stand as my failed masterpiece, a ponderous 65-minute arabesque of serialist post-rock instrumentals which, after 7 ongoing years…

By Mike Kupietz August 2, 2023Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=511 | Embed link

Music & Sounds Work-In-ProgressZetetic Music

Demo: Monster Zed / Night Of The Living Zed 0.5a

An early experiment in the serialist style I've been developing, which I was once told by a figure in a dream should be called "Zetetic Music". 2017.

By Mike Kupietz August 2, 2023Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=509 | Embed link

Music & Sounds Work-In-ProgressSoundtrackProgressive / Art Rock

Album Preview: Ethay Eaday Illstay Eamscray (“The Dead Still Scream”) — Music From The Imaginary Motion Picture

Imagine if an esteemed Pig Latin cinema auteur filmed a classic 1970s horror movie entirely in his native tongue. Then, imagine if I had been picked out of my second-grade class by that auteur to create a vintage electronic progressive soundtrack to that film. Now, imagine that soundtrack was unearthed and finally saw release as an album in the 2020s. These are the work-in-progress demos for what someday will be what would have been that legendary classic film score.

By Mike Kupietz August 2, 2023Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=507 | Embed link

Music & Sounds Work-In-ProgressElectronic MusicCover Songs

Demo: The Strutbutter / The Great Game Show In The Sky, v13.15

I've been putting together an album of goofy electronic arrangements of classic tunes. Here's one I'm still working on at the moment, a medley of classic favorites, called "The Strutbutter…

By Mike Kupietz August 1, 2023Music & Sounds1 Comment| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1 | Embed link

Image Gallery AI Generative Illustration

Is There Rock After Life?: A Helluva Band — Generative Art gallery

Angel trumpets and devil trombones, and you are invited! Here's some phantasmagorical music-themed generative AI illustrations I, well, generated. These were, by the way, generated with Dall-E 2.5, which is…

By Mike Kupietz March 1, 2020Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=98 | Embed link

Code & Algorithms Wordpress CodingPHP

Generating On-The-Fly Email Addresses as an Anti-Spam Measure in WordPress

On my IT consulting business site, I'm using a php script I've written to generate on-the-fly random email addresses specific to the browsing session looking at the site. So, I…

By Mike Kupietz March 1, 2020Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=94 | Embed link

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"Local Color: Tales of The City, and Country" Files

"Loss Memoirs" Files

"Misc. Recollections & Vignettes" Files

""Unintentional Poetry" Performance" Files

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