Michael

Software

business intelligence, blogging, online democracy, spycraft, epic literature, historic novels, mnemonic something or other, embarassingly frank conversations

Umberto Eco, Don Delillo, TC Boyle, Borges, John McPhee, Neal Stephenson, Stephen L Carter, Martin Amis, Samuel R. Delany, Cornel West, bell hooks

Ran, Dead Again, Snatch, Choose Me, The Year of Living Dangerously, Ghost Dog, Pi, Memento

Herbie Hancock, Bill Laswell, Bobby McFerrin, Thelonius Monk, Liszt, Prokofiev, Cibo Matto, Stanley Clarke, Soul Coughing, Modest Mouse

Law & Order, The Screen Savers, Kudlow & Cramer, 24, The West Wing, Squawk Box

First. I'm a fairly serious cartoonist and
blogger. Check it:

http://www.mdcbowen.org/cobb/

I'm so abstracted that if I don't maintain an
active link to you here, I'll forget who you are. I have
the oversized
personal space of a swaggering black man with massively
knobby knees and wide shoulders, but through text I am an
intimate's intimate. I connect dots through history,
literature and syllogisms to fabricate stuff designed to
tweak your head ever so slightly. I go from one extreme to
the other. I can juggle and do standstill back sumersaults.

Jack Daniels, but you can come along. If you have a big ego
and a beef with a sizeable fraction of humanity go away,
that's my job. It doesn't matter who you are, I like you
anyway, and I want to hear your life story.