Where I am these days: updated Fall 2012

I'm blogging more than ever, just not here

If it looks like I've gone quiet, that's far from the case. Check out my tumblr blog where I'm posting daily. You'll find me there talking about art, San Francisco, animals, theater, comedy, and other things that I love.

Work-wise I'm consulting on advertising UX, social media marketing and optimization, strategic site design, and other in-demand expertises. See my LinkedIn page for more. I'm in the market for the next full-time step in my career, too. So get in touch if you know something that seems a good fit. I want to work on a truly great product with really smart people. I'm happy to play any number of roles from marketing to product or project management to writing and strategy. Or a little bit of all of those.

I also continue to write regularly for LaughingSquid.com and you'll find me in Hi Fructose magazine (print only, not online). My writing appears in the third Hi Fructose collected edition and the amazing Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society both soon-to-be-published by Last Gasp. My "Can Haz DJ" radio show and blog on RadioValencia.fm are on hiatus, but podcast archives of the show are online and I keep a Facebook page for the show going like a slo-mo-radi-o-show.

And you'll find me on the usual social places: @mikl_em, flickr, and if you're clever Instagram, Path, etc.

Final episode of Can Haz DJ Tonight 8pm-2am

mikl-em's Can Haz DJ goes on hiatus after tonight's marathon 6-hour show

Yeah, I'm calling it quits on my weekly radio show for now. Busy with other things which have to take priority. While I love it, it takes up a lot of time to do it right.

I love radio. It has been fantastic to be back at it for the last year and a half. And I'm proud of all these podcasts (which you will continue to be able to listen to if you like).

So how to say goodbye and sign off for the foreseeable future on curating my favorite art form every week? Well cutting out a 6-hour slot, for starters. I'll start 2 hours earlier than usual, at 8pm, and I will go until 2am. That's a full 1/4 of a day that I will be playing music. I can't wait, and I hope you'll tune in for a little bit at least. Don't worry, we'll record and podcast it as well. But it will be special live. I'm working a lot to prepare for it. Tune in tonight at 8pm or any time until 2am on RadioValencia.fm

It's not a sprint, it's a marathon. But that doesn't mean there won't be 20+ songs shorter than 2 minutes to try to maximize the time. I'll also feature about an hour of my favorite cover songs of all time, including a bunch that should surprise you. I also have a special set planned of songs that you'll hear on Radio Valencia, some college radio, or other rare musical outlets that choose freedom and quality and controversy over mass product, advertising and driving in between the lines.

Fucking A. It's going to be a good night. Join me!

All Can Haz DJ photoshoots

All Can Haz DJ photoshoots, a set on Flickr.

Here's a compilation of all photos I've shot of my music and cats to accompany Can Haz DJ these lo many months. Pretty fun (I think anyway).

Via Flickr:
All the images for CanHazDJ featuring my cats (Anime & Astrophe) and the music I play on the show. Some of these images were used as "album covers" for the podcasts, which you can find here: rvpods.com/canhaz

Like CanHazDJ on Facebook:
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Inspector @de11e asks: "did anyone see what happened here?"

Inspector @de11e asks: "did anyone see what happened here?"
Originally uploaded by mikl-em

Inspector @de11e asks: "did anyone see what happened here?"

Danielle inspects the treefall crime scene

Danielle inspects the treefall crime scene
Originally uploaded by mikl-em

Danielle inspects the treefall crime scene

Left-Handed Darling featuring mikl-em

The brand new play that I'm in is called Left-Handed Darling. We've been working on it for months, there is an incredible team around this project, and it is a wonderful, dark & twisted story, set in the carnival sideshow world of early 20th Century America. It has a Twilight Zone-esque feel (coincidentally), or maybe more Creepshow-esque. Esque anyway, definitely esque. I'm very proud of the show as a whole and my part in it. I hope you can check it out....

Set in the rural 1930's American "Dust Bowl" era and centers on [a young girl] with a very unusual upbringing and a unique sense of beauty [...] the audience are transported from the macabre environment of her family's home to the surreality of a carnival sideshow, an equally bizarre court room, and more strange sights [....] With creative staging, a versatile cast, theatrical puppetry, original music, and a lot of mason jars, LEFT-HANDED DARLING will thrill you, surprise you, make you laugh and transport you back to a colorful era when Vaudeville ruled and a nickel was really worth something.

Produced by Foul Play, who brought us the Attack of the Killer B-Movies (I & II), a rock opera Wicker Man and the runaway smash hit Stale Magnolias. They have started a Kickstarter campaign to help fund Left-Handed Darling. I hope you will take a look and consider donating.

It's a great show, your support helps make our play possible and future shows under Foul Play's "New Writers Program". Click the links for more info.

Stage Werx 446 Kickstarter: Down to the Wire!

Please help support this new and improved theater space

My friends Ty & Cory have just over 1 day left in their fundraiser.



Please help out if you can and help spread the word if you know other folks who might want to support this great small San Francisco small theater.