http://dev.freeverse.com/blogs/mike/ A senseless collection of thoughts on life, movies and anime. en-us 2007-05-11T14:29:55-05:00 http://dev.freeverse.com/blogs/mike/archives/001223.html Does this suck? Michael Phillips was born in College Park, Pennsylvania, on December 31st, 1980. That's right, New Year's Eve, it was a real party. For nine months, Michael seemed to be quite the typical little baby. Well, not little,... Musings Mike 2007-05-11T14:29:55-05:00 http://dev.freeverse.com/blogs/mike/archives/001211.html Musings Mike 2007-03-14T10:27:25-05:00 http://dev.freeverse.com/blogs/mike/archives/001160.html It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be... Musings Mike 2006-06-09T11:03:03-05:00 http://dev.freeverse.com/blogs/mike/archives/001156.html So, I think I MIGHT be moving the blog over to LiveJournal. I love my url here (thank you Freeverse) and I totally dig the look of this blog, but I really like the LJ posting interface and the fact... Mike 2006-05-08T18:45:00-05:00 http://dev.freeverse.com/blogs/mike/archives/001155.html So, there's this guy who frequents two clubs here in Tampa, Czar and The Castle, people call him The Senator. Basically, he's this bizarre older fellow in his 50s who wears nothing, save for a thong and a little nighty... Musings Mike 2006-05-08T18:21:12-05:00 http://dev.freeverse.com/blogs/mike/archives/001154.html Well, I just got in from my first club experience and it was... interesting. Throughout the evening I had a running internal conflict. On the one hand, I loved being out on the dance floor with Sara. She was so... Musings Mike 2006-05-07T04:18:44-05:00 http://dev.freeverse.com/blogs/mike/archives/001153.html So, tonight I'm going to Czar, a dance club in Ybor. Now, I've been to 2 concerts and didn't wig out, but this is different. We'll see how it goes.... Musings Mike 2006-05-06T20:43:35-05:00 http://dev.freeverse.com/blogs/mike/archives/001152.html So, after watching the Living Dead Girl video for the zillionth time, I've decided that I should take to wearing a cape.... Musings Mike 2006-05-05T15:20:30-05:00 http://dev.freeverse.com/blogs/mike/archives/001150.html Yet as we walked back to the Home of the Street Sweepers, we felt that we wanted to sing, without reason. So we were reprimanded tonight, in the dining hall, for without knowing it we had begun to sing aloud... Musings Mike 2006-05-01T20:22:42-05:00 http://dev.freeverse.com/blogs/mike/archives/001149.html Okay, the subject of this post has very little to with anything I might write. I'm just in one of my "listen to Nirvana and smash everything in the room" kind of moods. It's not a "bad" mood, generally I'm... Musings Mike 2006-04-29T16:25:29-05:00 http://dev.freeverse.com/blogs/mike/archives/001147.html So, the good mood continues unflinchingly... It's so odd being genuinely happy, not just temporarily. Yes, I know, one could say that EVERYTHING'S temporary, from our moods to our physical casing, always changing, never the same forever. I even believe... Musings Mike 2006-04-25T11:12:01-05:00 http://dev.freeverse.com/blogs/mike/archives/001145.html So, I'm in a pretty happy place. For starters, I have a girlfriend, an absolutely incredible girlfriend. She's so brilliant and so lovely, I feel like I've won some kind of lottery. Even if this lottery involves me getting stoned... Musings Mike 2006-04-23T18:34:01-05:00 http://dev.freeverse.com/blogs/mike/archives/001138.html Here are more pictures of me in the throes of getting my new tattoo. An early sketch phase Me in the midst of Tattoofest A top-down view of the tattoo fun Pam, the kick ass tattoo artist, and some loser... Musings Mike 2006-03-27T10:25:11-05:00 http://dev.freeverse.com/blogs/mike/archives/001137.html Generally, I'm afraid of crowds, loud events, confusion and trusting myself with new people when in the previously mentioned situations. So, what did I do last night? I went to Tampa's 7th annual Tattoofest with my newly hired rockin' assistant... Musings Mike 2006-03-25T01:00:06-05:00 http://dev.freeverse.com/blogs/mike/archives/001132.html Since nobody seems to want to discuss whether or not Ripley's life had purpose or meaning, I'm simply going to write up my thoughts in true losery style. First, I've decided that Alien 3 is my overall favorite of the... Musings Mike 2006-03-14T11:55:10-05:00