Last update 5/2021
The Long Reads
- ‘94: The Summer I Learned to Live By Listening to Sunset Boulevard
- Cool girl blues, NYC, Summer 2017
- What are you? Not the border wall.
Michael’s Picks
- It is a good night for ghosts
- Tetraptych: sketches done in ball-point pen
- Wouldn’t it be nice if we were older
- Girls just want to have fun
- Letter to Vene, aged 35, from Vene, aged 40
- We said if you don’t got Mojo Nixon then your store could use some fixin’
Stories
- Snowflake: Odyssey storytelling
- Here to face the fortune and the bile
- Now John at the bar is a friend of mine
- What I didn’t expect from watching Season 3 of The Crown…it’s a doozy
- Summer in the city
- I’ve got an idea for a movie: Turning 41
- Only the good die young
- Her face is a map of the world
- Brenda and Eddie
- 23&me
- I fought the law and I won: Teen Court 1996
- The Marais; 2004
- If you like piña coladas
- Lionsong
- Descansa en paz, Maria Elena
- When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high
- His name was Mark Garity
- 2005
- Notre Dame
Poetry
- El poder de la tranfiguración
- On the other side of the door
- Happy trees: the wood wide web
- Return to The Standard, 2021
- A case of the Mondays
- Geography
- Nevermore
- Touchstone
- Poesia que escribo cuando no puedo escribir ninguna otra cosa
- El encuentro
- Try life: a tribute
- Try Life: Part Deux
- Try Life: Millennial Edition
- Ode to my favorite pair of jeans ever
- Not the best poem, but I tried
- I know what boys like
- By your side
Instagram/Video/Audio/Writing
- 1.20.2009: A new hope
- 2020: a story in song
- Instagram highlights: 2020
- Studio 54 exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum
- They say it’s your birthday…
- One, two princes here before you: a boy I once loved and the words I never could
- I will survive
- Chuckles
- Proud Mary
- Oy with the poodles already!
- That time I wrote the thing about the stuff
- Days of Lawyering Past
Giftedness
- Killer Queen: The Queen’s Gambit and the price of genius
- Fitz and the Tantrums: bucking the standard and the loneliness of being a pioneer
- Just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in: Notes on SENG
Autism/Dyslexia/Mental Illness
- My Poor Brain
- Take it slow: how to make real friends when you’re autistic
- 60 Minutes: employees with Autism, Anderson Cooper and me…a diversity and inclusion speaker
- And you do what they told ya: autism and pathological demand avoidance
- So long, Mel Baggs, and thanks for all the good
- I heard there was a secret chord: autism, synesthesia, and the dentist
- High functioning according to whom?
- Stealth Dyslexia
- I’m bulletproof, nothing to lose*
- Executive Functioning: the standard bearer of my autism
Woo Woo/Intuition
- Viva la vida
- I am thinking it’s a sign
- The forum
- If you make sure you’re connected, the writing’s on the wall
- You’ve gotta open up your eyes to see
- The time to hesitate is through
- El fukú y la zafa
- But it’s all right now, I learned my lesson well
- You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
- The beginning is the end is the beginning: my dream about UCB Comedy this morning and the woo woo
- Moment to myself
- Got a black magic woman
- Something: the Beatles and faith
- Woo hoo, witchy woman
- It’s the end of the world as we know it
- This is not the greatest song in the world; this is just a tribute
- Suppose I never ever met you
- Time, time, time, see what’s become of me
- It’s a most wonderful time of the year
- My psychic said:
- Ever fallen in love, in love with someone//You shouldn’t have fallen in love with?
- De golpe
- Takin’ it easy
Big Thoughts
- This is how it starts
- Stuck in my brain: memory, failure and paradigm shifts
- Random shocks: local optimums and getting unstuck
- Intuition: what almost killed the cat and what’s bringing her back
- It’s, like, so bitchin’
- La Tortura
- Downright Kafka-esque
- And they’re all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same
- Let’s talk about sex
- Where is my mind?
- The teaches of peaches
- You’re so vain
- Left of west and coming in a hurry with a fury
- Maps
- The Lorenz Attractor
Settling In To NYC
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