Posted inWriting Posted inHealth & WelfareLife In A Mikeycosm Health & LifestyleHow I Deal With InsomniaI'm going to flesh this out at some point, but it was lost in a pile of old notes and I wanted it up on the site as a reminder,… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 24, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5709
Posted inWriting Posted inMusic TheoryInfrequently Asked Questions MikesplainingA Young Person’s Guide To Common Time Signatures, and what they mean in real lifeI have some time to kill so I thought I would write a brief overview of the concept of time signature in response to some questions that arose recently from… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 24, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5704
Posted inWriting Posted inKnowledge Is Power EMIAQsAnswers to Even More Infrequently Asked Questions1. What's the difference between a sauce and a condiment? - Susan W., Tallahassee, FLA condiment enhances the flavor of food and is used sparingly. A sauce adds an additional… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 24, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5689
Posted inWriting Posted inFunPranks & SatirePublic Provocations Hoax ‘Em If You Got ‘EmAnti-Plague FlyerWaaaaay back during the dot-com boom in San Francisco, in my carefree 20s (a much different time of my life than my carefree '50s) I used to put this up… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 22, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5585
Posted inWriting Posted inPoesy & Doggerel The Measure Of A PoetA Lyrical Explication Upon Substantive Empirical Qualification of Authorial Poesy in Three LinesWhat better a measure of man as a poet Is there, b'sides seeing some poems he's wroet? If better exists, I sure do not knoet. Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 20, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5426
Posted inWriting Posted inIdeology & BeliefsFrom The Archives Just A Dab’ll Do YaAgainst Libertarianism, AlmostForeword about "Against Libertarianism", 2023I wrote this, originally a blog post, about 10 years ago. Nowadays I have more to say about this, but for the moment this stands with… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 20, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5414
Posted inWriting Posted inFunPranks & Satire Amazon Product ReviewPearl PCB20 Anarchy CowbellLink: http://www.amazon.com/review/RUISCK9IXTK6J/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B000OY5RKA&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=11091801&store=musical-instruments Rating: Review Title: Steal This Cowbell! Review: Submission to domination is enforced not solely, nor even most significantly, through blatant repression, but rather through subtle manipulations worked into… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 20, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5407
Posted inWriting Posted inReflectionsThe Beast Within Reflective ProseFascination, And Dangerous WeatherSpringtime hits hard in some quarters. I call this 'dangerous weather'—like, you've got to watch out where you're going. You might trip and fall. Somehow this always coincides with the… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 18, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4697
Posted inWriting Posted inMisc BrainspillTackling The Big Issues The Most Evil WordsI think "fuck 'em" are the most evil two words, the worst thought, in the English language. Maybe they're not terribly evil, said once, by themselves. But no words are.… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 17, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4679
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 You Can Quote Me On ThatShort Topical Writings From My Old BlogToggle 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