I Paint What I See

I don’t have any new stories or thoughts on this really, it’s been 18 years. I still think of him often. So this is yet another virtual tip of the hat in his memory on this day.

There is a facebook page ‘Antioch Remembers‘ where people are posting photos & memories of their late friends from Antioch College over the years. I put a copy of this photo up there and a brief note about Michael.  A few people posted comments after that entry, so if you’re reading this and have some Mike memories to share, that might be worth a visit.

Mike & Staci - 1991

Photo above is of Mike & Staci, I believe from about 1991 or so. Thanks to Mike’s brother, Mark, for sharing this with me a few years ago.

Here’s to you Mike.

Thanks to the wonders of bittorrent I downloaded and watched PBS special “George Carlin, The Mark Twain Prize” (http://www.pbs.org/marktwainprize)

What an amazing man he was, he was beyond funny, he was a genius who used humor as a tool to get his ideas and beliefs across. And, as Ani says, every tool is a weapon if you use it right… and he was a master.

The show ended with a recording of him doing the following performance. I’ve listened to it several times and it still blows me away.

“I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium, digital and smoke-free. A diversified multicultural postmodern deconstructionist. Politically, anatomically, and ecologically incorrect. I’ve been uplinked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I’m a high-tech lowlife. A cutting-edge, state-of-the-art, bicoastal multitasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond. I’m new wave, but I’m old school, and my inner child is outward bound. I’m a hot-wired, heat-seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice-activated and biodegradable. I interface with my database, and my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive, and from time to time I’m radioactive. Behind the eight ball, ahead of the curve, riding the wave, dodging a bullet, pushing the envelope. I’m on point, on task, on message, and off drugs. I got no need for coke and speed, I got no urge to binge and purge. I’m in the moment, on the edge, over the top, but under the radar. A high-concept, low-profile, medium-range ballistic missionary. A street-wise smart bomb, a top-gun bottom feeder. I wear power ties, I tell power lies, I take power naps, I run victory laps. I’m a totally ongoing bigfoot slam dunk rainmaker with a proactive outreach. A raging workaholic; a working rageaholic. Out of rehab, and in denial. I’ve got a personal trainer, a personal shopper, a personal assistant, and a personal agenda. You can’t shut me up, you can’t dumb me down. ‘Cause I’m tireless, and I’m wireless, I’m an alpha male on beta blockers. I’m a non-believer and an over-achiever, laid-back but fashion forward. Up front, down home, low-rent, high-maintenance. Super-size, long-lasting, high-definition, fast-acting, oven-ready, and built to last. I’m a hands-on, foot-loose, knee-jerk, headcase. Prematurely post-traumatic, and I have a love child who sends me hate mail. But I’m feeling, I’m caring, I’m healing, I’m sharing, a supportive bonding nurturing primary caregiver. My output is down, but my income is up. I take a short position on the long bond, and my revenue stream has its own cash flow. I read junk mail, I eat junk food, I buy junk bonds, I watch trash sports. I’m gender-specific, capital-intensive, user-friendly, and lactose-intolerant. I like rough sex, I like rough sex, I like tough love, I use the F-word in my E-Mail, and the software on my hard drive is hardcore, no soft porn. I bought a microwave at a mini mall;I bought a mini van in a mega store. I eat fast food in the slow lane. I’m toll-free, bite-sized, ready-to-wear, and I come in all sizes. A fully-equipped, factory-authorized, hospital-tested, clinically-proven, scientifically formulated medical miracle. I’ve been pre-washed, pre-cooked, pre-heated, pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged, post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped, vacuum-packed, and I have an unlimited broadband capacity. I’m a rude dude, but I’m the real deal, lean and mean. Cocked, locked and ready to rock. Rough tough and hard to bluff. I take it slow, I go with the flow, I ride with the tide, I got glide in my stride. Drivin’ and movin’, sailin’ and spinnin’, jivin’ and groovin’, wailin’ and whinin.’ I don’t snooze, so I don’t lose. I keep the pedal to the metal and the rubber on the road. I party hearty, and lunch time is crunch time. I’m hanging in, there ain’t no doubt. And I’m hanging tough, over and out.”

Saturday Morning Coffee House (Music) with Matthew Baya 01/02/2010 06:00AM to 10:00AM

06:00AM Lui Collins “Rooty Toot Toot For The Moon” from Baptism Of Fire (Folk)

06:05AM Jonathan Edwards “Howl At The Moon” from Man In The Moon (Folk)

06:09AM Nick Drake “Pink moon” from Way To Blue (Folk)

06:12AM Gaelic Storm “Me & The Moon” from Bring Yer Wellies (World) on Lost Again

06:17AM Harvey Reid “The Coming of Winter” from Overview (Folk)

06:26AM Anne Dodson “The Coffeepot Song” from Almost Grown…For Kids And Their Adults (Folk)

06:23AM John Gorka “St. Caffeine” from After Yesterday (Folk)

06:32AM John McCutcheon “Wintersong” from Wintersongs (Children’s Music)

06:28AM Anne Dodson “The Duchess At Tea” from Almost Grown…For Kids And Their Adults (Folk)

06:36AM Mad Agnes “Winter Snows” from Magic Hour (Folk)

06:39AM Lui Collins “Awaiting The Snow” from Baptism Of Fire (Folk)

06:43AM Rod MacDonald “The Coming Of The Snow” from Highway To Nowhere (Folk)

06:48AM Kreg Viesselman “New Hampshire Snow” from Kreg Viesselman (Folk)

06:52AM Joel Mabus “Five Kinds Of Snow” from Promised Land (Folk)

06:55AM Dar Williams “February” from Mortal City (Folk)

07:03AM Dar Williams “Mortal City” from Mortal City (Folk)

07:16AM Anni Clark “Bill Shepard’s Van” from Live (Folk)

07:11AM Bobbi Lane “Suspended” from Suspended (Folk)

07:21AM Anni Clark “I’m From Maine” from Live (Folk)

07:23AM Schooner Fare “County Song” from A Twentieth Anniversary Party (Album, Folk, 1996) on Outer Green Records

07:26AM Schooner Fare “Portland Town” from Schooner Fare – The First Ten Years (CD, Album, Folk, 1986) on Outer Green Records

07:35AM Loudon Wainwright III “Christmas Morning” from Social Studies (Folk)

07:39AM Dar Williams “Christians and Pagans” from Mortal City (Folk)

07:42AM Stan Rogers “First Christmas” from Between The Breaks… Live! (Folk)

07:50AM Tom Lewis “Christmas At Sea” from 360º (Folk)

07:55AM Jack Kid “New Year New England” from Espresso Ecstasy (Folk)

08:04AM Robert Earl Keen “Merry Christmas From The Family” from Party Never Ends (CD, Album, Rock) Request

08:08AM Pat Humphries “Another New Year” from Hands (Folk)

08:12AM Bill Morrissey “Birches” from Philo 20th Anniversary (Album, Folk) on Philo

08:15AM Small Potatoes “Woodcutter’s Song/Star of Munster” from Time Flies (CD, Album, Folk)

08:19AM Rounds Galore “Snow” from Rounds Galore … and More (Folk)

08:22AM Rounds Galore “Long Is Our Winter” from Rounds Galore & More (CD, Album, Folk)

08:25AM Lou and Peter Berryman “When it Blows It Snows” from Cow Imagination (CD, Album, Folk, 1990) on Cornbelt (members.aol.com…)

08:28AM Lou and Peter Berryman “Cheese & Beer & Snow” from House Concert (CD, Album, Folk) on Cornbelt (members.aol.com…)

08:35AM Mike Agranoff “Ballad Of The Sandman” from The Modern Folk Musician (Folk)

08:48AM Finest Kind “No More Fish, No Fisherman” from Heart’s Delight (CD, Album, 1999) on Fallen Angle

08:52AM Stan Rogers “Make and Break Harbour” from Fogarty’s Cove (Remastered) (CD, Album, Folk, 1990) on Fogarty’s Cove Music

09:02AM Great Big Sea “Fisherman’s Lament” from Great Big Sea (Album, Folk, 1998) on WM Canada

09:07AM Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen “Sink the Constitution” from Aces High (CD, Album, Rock, 2007) on Relix Classics Request

09:11AM Fred Small “If I Were A Moose” from I Will Stand Fast (Folk)

09:15AM Joel Mabus “Freeport” from Promised Land (CD, Album, Folk, 1994) on Fossil Records

09:19AM Schooner Fare “Mary L McKay,The” from Classic Schooner Fare (7sel) (Folk)

09:24AM Stan Rogers “The Wreck of the Athens Queen” from Fogarty’s Cove (Remastered) (1990) on Fogarty’s Cove Music

09:27AM Great Big Sea “A Boat Like Gideon Brown (Live)” from Courage, Patience, & Grit (CD, Album, Folk) on Zoe

09:31AM Celtic Connection “The Last Shanty” from Higher (CD, Album, Folk)

09:34AM Boarding Party “One More Day” from Fair Winds and a Following Sea (CD, Album, Folk)

09:36AM Boarding Party “Alabama, The” from Tis Our Sailing Time (CD, Album, Folk)

09:40AM The Revels “Sailing Home / Leave Her, Johnny” from Blow, Ye Winds, In the Morning (CD, Album, Folk, 1984) on Revels Records

09:44AM Geoff Kaufman “Leave Her Johnny” from Sea Music Festival: 22nd Mystic Seaport (CD, Album, Folk)

09:46AM Stan Rogers “Finchs Complaint” from Fogarty’s Cove (CD, Album, Folk) on Fogarty’s Cove Music

09:49AM Dave Mallett “Main Street” from This Town (Folk)

09:53AM Zoe Speaks “Money’s Our God” from Pearl (Folk)

09:55AM Carla Ulbrich “We Don’t Need A WalMart” from Live From Outer Space (Folk)