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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…
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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…
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Instigative Journalism: “Elvis Is Everywhere” (Or At Least In Annandale)

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…
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Adding A Default Featured Image Or Thumbnail In WordPress
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All Thumbs: Adding A Default Featured Image Or Thumbnail In WordPress

On 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.…
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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…
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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…
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Temporal Moronomy: The Contents Of The Rest Of The World’s Dream Do Not Concern Me (or, Why I’m Not Turning 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…
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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.…
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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…
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Fragrance Reviews
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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…
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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…
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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…
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New Userpic. No Specific Lyrical Reference; Just Very Appropriate General Generative Hitchcockiana, Produced Serendipitously By While Trying To Generate A Psychedelic Portrait Of Eugene Mirman Listening To Shufflmania.
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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…
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The Internet Bad Statements (“BS”) Detector
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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…
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Literally Hundreds of Capsule Movie Reviews
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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,…
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Michael Kupietz Live (And Almost In Tune) on Pirate Cat Radio, 5/28/2009
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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…
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Kwitter, the one-user social network
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Social Mediocrity: Kwitter, 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…
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गोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden Yatra
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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…
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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…
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“Are you free?”, and Other Ideological Musings
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Ideology In Brief: “Are you free?”, and Other 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…
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Five Themes In Uncertain Times v.0.89.05
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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…
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Monster Zed / Night Of The Living Zed 0.5a
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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.
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Ethay Eaday Illstay Eamscray (“The Dead Still Scream”) — Music From The Imaginary Motion Picture
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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.
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The Strutbutter / The Great Game Show In The Sky, v13.15
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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…
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A Helluva Band — Generative Art gallery
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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…
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Generating On-The-Fly Email Addresses as an Anti-Spam Measure in WordPress
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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…
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