Miscellaneous, etc.

About

Miscellaneous, etc. is what happens to you when you watch too much television. Somewhere past its eighth birthday, M.e. is the ongoing internet project of Mike, a thirty year-old, quasi-professional, townhouse-dwelling Canadian with a sick attraction to Middle Eastern women who hate him 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, painful personal writing, and profoundly incompetent 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,
• He formerly wrote computer game reviews for ESCape Magazine, mostly for the free (terrible) games,
• For a short time, he worked for the now ultra-famous Television Without Pity as a copy editor,
• and most recently recapped Big Brother 8 for the Zap2it blog, From Inside the Box.

Google is a big fan of M.e., and in its history the site has held the number-one result for the terms:

• Jennifer Aniston’s nipples
• Giant Strike Rat
• A Fighter Jet Made of Biceps
• Totally Untrue Stories
• …and countless queries about the unthinkable Fleshlight.

Wet blanket moralists are not big fans of M.e., so if you are from a nation run by them, you must be reading this site on vacation.  It is banned in at least one country.

Mike now spreads his love and attention out to the super-hip gaming blog Videogamey, the word association project Who in the What Now, and countless other pursuits which defy all logic and explanation. If you love him, there is an outside chance you might love his photography, as well.

He is fully aware that you don’t love him, though. But it’s okay, he loves you anyway.