Miscellaneous, etc. is what happens to you when you watch too much television. Somewhere past its fifth birthday, and now awkwardly teetering between the old and the new, M.e. is the ongoing internet project of Mike, a twenty-seven year-old, quasi-professional, townhouse-dwelling Canadian with a hot-blooded Arab as the former love of his life and a job that grants him the use of a portable computer, but not the permission to use it for looking at pornography.

He is not ashamed to admit that the web is his escape mechanism.

Starting as a small, HTML 0.5-compliant website called A Tawdry Little Shrine to Myself, M.e. has never lost focus on the core, essential fact that as a writer, Mike has absolutely no idea what he’s doing. Drawing inspiration from some of the funniest and most creative people on the web, Mike’s attempted to dabble in a little bit of everything that the internet has to offer, hoping to stumble across something at which he might actually be good. Consequently, the site has become a mixed bag of periodic reviews, elaborate photo essays, strident political rants, occasionally painful personal writing, and profoundly baffling website design. And lots of the color blue, of which Mike is rather fond.

Much to his surprise, occasionally people on the internet do pay attention to him and to his writing. Mike is a proud member of Damn Hell Ass Kings, from which M.e. gleans a hearty share of its traffic, and writes computer game reviews for ESCape Magazine, from which Mike gleans free computer games, which he feels are the very best kind. For a short time, he worked for the now ultra-famous Television Without Pity as a copy editor, and frequented the now-dead Hissyfit forums as “Toenail Assassin.” Hissyfit still bears the scars of his passing, in the form of articles he wrote and edited, as does Fametracker.

M.e. has also been linked in a number of different weblogs, including the ridiculously literate Cheesedip, the bizarre-loving Low-G, was called “something special” by Ted Barlow, and listed as a site that’s “actually interesting to read” by USS Clueless — which feels like a compliment, anyway. Having discovered that weblogs are what the kids are into these days, Mike now plays host to a number of them itself, including SurlyPundit, and Mr. McGillicuddy. He is hardly at all jealous that they’re already more popular than he is.

Trivia buffs will take note that the most popular search on Google that draws traffic to M.e. is the phrase, “Jennifer Aniston’s nipples.” As of this writing, Miscellaneous, etc. holds the number one result on that search, and Mike estimates that as a result, he’s personally responsible for disappointing over 7500 dedicated web-based masturbators.

Because he has a driving, aching hunger for some measure of notoriety, Mike tries his best to ensure that you’ll see something new from him every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It’s either that, or he’ll have to stop complaining about how there’s nothing new on the god-damned internet these days, which would be roughly equivalent to cutting off one of his limbs. And what kind of content is better than that which comes at the risk of losing a leg?

That’s right, none.