Monday, September 17, 2012

Mike answering questions on School Feed


What's the furthest you've ever traveled?
Michael said: "In real life? Around the world. In my imagination? I will tell you when I get there"
That's why I write. So you can go there with me.
What was the best advice you've ever received?
Michael said: "Go to school or was it get laid? I forgot. i went to school and forgot to get laid"
there was better advice. Read more, Write more. Travel more. Find  a nice girl and settle down. Get a job. Get a life. Get a better opinion of yourself. Look in the mirror, keep your eyes on the road- DAMMMIT!
Of course, it would have been really confusing  if  it all came from one person. 
If you could become any fictional character, who would you be?
Michael said: "Batman. I am Batman."
I am Batman. He's scary-awesome and he gets both of the girls in the comic books (at least). he got Catwoman in both/
What's one food you'll never eat again?
Michael said: "Escargot- it was my brother's fault - well probably unless he  bet's money next time.'
What video game have you played the most?
Michael said: "Fallout 3- ever heard of encumberance? It can  take you hours to drag 2000lbs of weapons, armor and grenades back to Megaton."
     you should try dragging 32 Chinese Assualt Rifles to Paradise Falls sometime
If you could only watch one TV show what would it be?
Michael said: "Castle"- that would be  my dream job, writing awesome mystery  books and following Kate Becket around all day!"
How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
Michael said: "Michael van Vuuren" Hey it's 3 words. Translate them Michael- like god (godlike) van- dutch for From - Vuuren- the  name of a town in Holland. Godlike from  Holland.
What one thing are you exceptionally good at?
Michael said: "being me. Let me tell you only brain surgery, tightrope walking or spaceflight takes more skill"
You should try being me some time. I bet you will go back to biological forensics in 5 minutes.
What's your favorite genre of music?
Michael said: "Queen- what? Dammit, I could have sworn that the world would have recognized it as a genre of Rock by now!" Just ask Neil Gaiman- according to him and Terry Pratchett every cassette tape or CD left in a car long enough eventually sounds  like one of Queen's Greatest Hits. Stravinsky's Another One Bites the Dust Symphony for instance.
If you could instantly become fluent in another language, which language would you pick?
Michael said: "Klingon- of course. Or Bacchi since it is very close to that of moisture evaporators "
if you don't get this, maybe you are reading Hamlet in the wrong language or the wrong blog on a rainy Monday!
Would you rather be really hot or really cold?
Michael said: "Well since I am already really hot, I guess some coolness would help" hey fellas what's better than  being cool? Ice Cold!
What was your favorite childhood toy?
Michael said: "X-29 Excalibur Lightsaber (stick edition)" 
the real answer for this is my imagination was my best toy as a kid.
What would your dream job look like?
Michael said: "Me, women who all adore me, king of the world sounds good but only if I can have everything micro-managed by all those women who all adore me"
Otherwise if I can have Nathan Fillion's current job, I  could settle for that.
What would be the best thing about being a vampire?
Michael said: "Living for hundreds of years with out needing to use the bathroom"
I occasionally wonder if when I am about to die, as my  life is flashing in front of me will  I remember all the time I spent on the toilet. I hope not. So if Vampirism is ever offered I am taking it. What's  a little blood and garlic anyway?
What was your favorite TV show as a child?
Michael said: "Hogan's Heroes"-  it was the closest thing to the mad scientist's club I had ever seen
What website do you spend the most time on?
Michael said: "eBay" I like  money more than  looking at porn.
What would your perfect day look like?
Michael said: "Like a Sunny day on Jupiter or a rainy day in Hell" If it looked like Anne  Hathaway- that would work for me  as  well.
If you could look like anybody, who would it be?
Michael said: "Brad Pitt. in Meet Joe Black" at that moment- he was the best looking man I had ever had to watch for 3 plus hours.
What message would you want to put in a fortune cookie?
Michael said: "Go get a job, then win the lottery and donate it all to the following bank account"
What was the worst advice you've ever received?
Michael said: "Get on Facebook,,. just look at the wreck my life has become? "
If you could make one classmate fall in love with you, who would it be?
Michael said: "Ouch. It would be a toss up between Wendy Jordan and Olyvya... but then I believe they all secretly loved me anyway"
If you could date any celebrity, who would it be?
Michael said: "Amanda Pays (what an accent) Elizabeth Hurley if not. " if you don't understand this watch Max Headroom (tv show-not coke commercial) or Gunshy or any Ehurley movie- basically brunettes with British accents drive me to distraction
What household chore do you hate to do the most?
Michael said: "cleaning out the cesspool." The  funny  thing about this is I have done something very  close to this in real  life.
Do you believe in fate?
Michael said: "Yes, but I call him Feyt and you should call him SIR" (inside jokes for SW fan film fans and my buddy Chris).
What's the kindest thing someone has ever done for you?
Michael said: "Gave me the equivalence of two silver candlesticks" Beecher C. and  Jean val Jean  would  understand this. Confused see or read Les Miserables
If you won a million dollars what would you do with it?
Michael said: "Pay off my debts, travel more, Buy Bill Dagner an Imax movie theater for his Man-cave- just because I could."  If you don't get this than you have never experienced Aguirre in the Man Cave.
What was the worst job you've ever had?
Michael said: "Volunteer landscaping- pulling weeds for $3.25 an hour" Crawling 8  hours a day  for the MAN.
What class are you most likely to fall asleep in?
Michael said: "back in the day, I fell asleep in most of them, I have sleep apnea."
What's the best gift you've ever given?
Michael said: "Life"
If you were given a brand new yacht, what would you name it?
Michael said: "Millennium Falcon, she might not look like much BUT she can outrun Star Destroyers "
Every ship I ever own will be called Millennium Falcon... or maybe Freyja. (long story-but it's an Alaskan thing).
If you could go on a road trip with any classmate, who would it be and where would you go?
Michael said: "Olyvya, Anywhere would be awesome with her." Some  people seem to  good to  be  true, just  in case I pinch myself when I talk with or about  her.
What's your favorite movie quote?
Michael said: "You came in that? You're braver than I thought"
if  you don't know that one, you are probably reading the wrong  blog... again.
And since I  could go on  and on and  on-  I won't

And that my friend (unless I  actually  end up with  followers after this one)  friends-

is life according to Mike!










Sunday, September 16, 2012

The Madness of King George or by another name Mike

"I shall go Mad, Fool!"
                                  King Lear, he was yelling something like that when i saw him last
                                                                                                                              The Fool















This has pretty much been the last two weeks for me. I take 3 days off and half of the equipment in the Studio breaks or breaks down and I am faced with getting all back up to speed by  the following Sunday (which I did).
HOWEVER, I did not have time or at least didn't feel like taking the time to finish my thought process on  this  past weeks blog.
I spent this morning transferring 80% of my passwords into a  new book to store them in (in  case of computer crash- been there and  it is not pretty)
So ask me  if I know Murphy and I will tell you that the day he was born was only slightly less great when  he came up with his laws of reality.

but who's counting anyway.
See you guys at a more sane or saner moment down the road.
Might I recommend Good Omens Good Omens the Book! you've heard of such things?
as a good read during troubled times such as mine have been.


 found this while looking for Inspiration or deviation

AND THAT MY DEAR READERS IS LIFE ACCORDING TO MIKE... AND NEIL AND TERRY - THIS WEEK ANYWAY!






NO ONE TELL 
AGNES OR BELZEBUB WHERE WE ARE BY THE WAY.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Superheroic

 Today, I want be heroic, so when I see a picture like this while trolling the wallpaper sites looking for inspiration to write I know that I want to be heroic.
 Then I find Black Widow doing her heroic pose and I think, well if I can be heroic, wouldn't it be great if I could meet a heroic woman? I know that BW was really that heroic, but she was hot and alluring and very convincing, so maybe I am looking for another redhaired vixen
Batgirl, yep that would be batgirl
You know that when the Joker shows up and shot her in the back, crippling her (Oh wait, I forget that five people and myself have actually read the Killing Joke) so let me put it this way. DC decided that Barbara Gordon needed a career change, so Babs became Oracle and BG got tossed in the closet for 15 plus years. During that time, I missed BG so much that when I embarked on my very short-lived career as a comic book artist, I created a new Batgirl (this quickly evolved through concept to a new Batwoman - she was "retired" back in the 1964 because she was considered superfluous. Man that took a lot of research. The laugh was on me in the end, I am/was a good concept artist, not so good at reptition or layout (storyboarding is my downfall) I should have written it down before DC got off their asses and recreated not only Batgirl but also Batwoman. Still, if I had a superheroic counterpart/girlfriend than it would have to be Barbara. Man it better be better than that awful movie My Super-Ex-Girlfriend. (ouch)
That was a film disaster
Anyway, where was I?
Oh yeah, wanting to be super-heroic. 
Now I am sitting here in Turkey Creek, way way
out West in Knoxville, waiting to see Batman's
latest movie. I tell you that franchise goes 
through actors like beer goes through rednecks.
Green Lantern, now there was a heroic hero, the hero's hero. He was the inspirer of others
starts out as the outcast but soars to the top of the Corp and does great stuff until some idiot writer at DC decides he's too perfect. Let's turn him into a loser and take away his ring and give it to a steady progression of lesser Lanterns each with a per-defined personality flaw- this culminating in the very entertaining very flawed Guy Gardner.  What a screw up.

Those were the days when The Justice League was AWESOME!
And then my hero, the antihero knocks the crap out of the Green Lantern! Well good thing it was Guy Gardner who then continued to get his butt kicked around for 30 more comics. 
Of course, I forget that I am probably the only one who knows what I am talking about.
It would be great to be in the crowd of heroes as long as I don't end up being Blue Beetle.
He was once the DC version of the Spectacular Spiderman. Now he's more like the Blues Beetle. Well what can you expect from a hero made by another comic book company than bought and reinvented in order to increase DC's footprint?
Oh, right, I am off topic again.
I really like this picture since it make me feel  that even the man of steel has a heart of softer materials

This one is one of my favorites since it make me go all gooey inside and I spend a lot of (probably too much) time deciding who i would want more to be my super-significant other.
Most days it would be Diana (Wonder Woman) since  she is (was) the quintessential essence of humility  ego, confidence, practicality and humor all wrapped up into the smart, funny, sexy woman she has almost always bee portrayed as in the comic books. I like the TV show even when it wasn't so campy. Would have like to seen the new one but it was canned before it got out of the pilot. WW is awesome hear with the other 2 Essential DC heroes. 

Speaking of which reminds me that Batman is still my favorite hero even when he is being or rather written as pigheaded and ego-maniacal. When I  am writing my  superhero blog www.asuperheroishardtofind.com. I am often  struck by my own interpretations of his character.  Now this is Batman for me (always) the Sardonic Dark Knight-still noble but much more realistic about who and what he is and less concerned about how people see him to be.

Of course with my luck I would be more like this guy The Hammer


or more likely Rorschach- who is nuttier than any hero should be but still incredibly driven to find  his own  kind  of justice in the world.
Now that  I think about it. I am probably most like this guy: Except more like he was in the Graphic Novel (fatter) and  poorer.
Still driven to do what he can despite his own misgivings. 
So there it is. My desire to be heroic or superheroic - ironically ending up with men who have no superpowers just the drive for their own sense of justice and part insanity for trying to do something about it.

And that is Life (at  least right now) according to Mike.

Monday, September 3, 2012

Why I need a Girl friend

I was going  to make it a list, then realized I lacked the blog space to post it
add him  to this guy. (My boss) I will let you figure out whether this is
his reaction at  me or to me.

First you take this guy  (yeah  it's Me!)

then add this guy, (our boss) yes that's a mask
I hear he is much better looking without it.
and you end up with me looking  and most likely feeling
somewhat  like this.


They  tell that this woman is 45. Why can't I meet
a woman that looks this good  who is 45, nearly blind
and thinks the  world of me? (rhetorical question- DO NOT ANSWER)

1. Everyone tells me i need a wife- well I got to start somewhere:
    except I don't even  know where to start. :
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No I don't suspect that this will be a good solution somehow
good concept vastly out of date
this one is both erotic and very disturbing.  I suspect no  one gets this lucky without a crime going  on  somewhere

Been down the singles sites as well:

EHarmony is not ideal unless you are ideal. It is  also fairly expensive $40 a month. just so  i could get  psychoanalyzed by  women who  then expected me to often travel 500 plus  miles so they could dismiss  me in person: my favorite line was from the pretty girl on a mission  in Bolivia who  informed me the next step was for  me to fly down  there so we could date but that did not mean she would  sleep with me. Yaah! (not)
 and since I was  a glutten for  punishment I tried it  twice ($160 down the hole) either  I was flying to South America for no sex, Panama to see a priest (female Jamaican one) or driving to Nova  Scotia for a date. That was EHarmony's idea of matching me.
But not to get discouraged, I plowed on so I could spend more money on yep, Match.com, Chemistry.com. the Facebook dating service.
similar results but then there was always the "Free  ones."

Geek-2-Geek. which was  difenitely NOT nerd-2-nerd or my  IQ to anything equivalent. I was either outclassed or just simply and thus laughably  outgunned.
So I tried OkCupid- which  is  OK and that is about as  much  as I  can say about it, except when I say I am well read, that doesn't mean  I have read Stephen King and Nora Roberts or Danielle Steel.
I tried plentyoffish at the behest of a friend who met her husband through that service. I ended up with a bucket  of fish- about  the  worst fish one could hope to catch. In desperation one night I even tried Pirate Date- a dating service set up in  conjunction with  the Piratebay! I should have know better. 
Seriously, what's worse than Hackers? trying to date them and the 1000s of hookers who have gotten smart enough to post on sites other than Craigslist.

So mail order and dating sites are laughably out, and if you really  want to scare  yourself, goto the "dating" section of craigslist.
It  will let you know that people are just plain  out nuts....and horny  like  rabbits.

I tried Meetup- except none of the groups I joined  ever met up.  they  talked about meeting up a lot. I suspect it  is  something about Knoxville.

I suspect it is something about  me. I  never  really was dedicated to just having  sex, I am not in  favor of monk hood-  I mean  I am a man and I want  to have  sex. It's just I  wanted to make love not just troll singles  sites,,  4chan and Adultfriendfinder looking  for  people desperate enough to also troll  those sites looking  for "guiltless"  sexual  satisfaction.

I know where  to go  in  Knoxville  to seek services like this,  unfortunately or fortunately for  me  I also  know  this because  of the Vice cops are the ones  who told me about  it.
I  am not one for STD Roulette so here I am
at  what  is the end of this blog  with the same question  I had before- except I know where  to start but  still no clue if there was a finish.

Answers to questions (the  few of  you may have);
yes I  know  about Christian Singles groups. 
both via the net and local churches.
Problem is  I am not a zealot. I  am uncomfortable with the extremely religious devotees i often encounter at these places. Also (and  thus more  importantly) I have gotten to old to go (yep, last one i  went to I  was 10  years older than the oldest  person there.) Most men my age are married or remarried or working in that direction. 

Actually, while I should have  a lot  of answers  I  have none.
I  don't really know what I  want, or  how I want it.
I am just an  aging romantic who would like to fall into love not go bring it about in what seems these days to  be wholly artificial means. 
I mean maybe  other people find love this  way. I suspect it is why I never found  love that way.

I think I want a friend and a lover, I would settle  for friendship but I  suspect it would never  be enough for  me. 
It  is  odd that at the end  of the day, I find myself alone with  my passions and writing and fiction. 
It would still be  nice to have someone to share them with.
some woman.
(Here is some visuals to give you an idea of what I feel- the ideal of it anyway)





and that  is life according  to Mike.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

I am riding this horse out of town

Well, my six or seven  readers. (sometimes  it is flattering to  look at the  overall numbers before facing the  reality that I get 6 to 9 hits a day), I will be saddling  up next week to ride off  to a mysterious mountain retreat called Gatlinburg where I am going to lay low and  hide out for 2 days before returning  to the  madness that is UT football and  falling  leaves.