I tabled for the first time at the inagural aznzinefest
I did have the mental capacity to record a full video, so instead enjoy this video of me reading the one zine that I sold out of. The reason I don’t have the...
Matching Mixed Media: On Masculinity, Fighting, and What Happens After
These are things are true. I am non-binary.I was raised as a man.At some point in my life, I held a black belt in a homegrown style called Jung Su before...
A Mixtape and Meditation for February: pre-protest songs
A faux album cover titled “pre-protest songs” with marked up testimony My friend Grady unexpectedly clocked me this afternoon with the astute observation “At...
The Mapping of a Pre-College Mikkel
One of the many thesis here at Mixed Mikkel with Mikkel is “everything exists within context of everything else” also stated as “everything in service as the...
Mikkel Plays "Be Like a Crow"
Live Gameplay (Unedited) A Mini-Review of “Be Like a Crow” Be Like a Crow is exactly what it sounds like. It is a game where you play as a crow. Well, more...
Musing on Mixed Media: A Review of Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age by Vauhini Vara
The cover of “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age” by Vauhini Vara Usually for my last newsletter of the month, I try to match mixed media. Talk about how...
A Mixtape for January 2026 - SPEC
SPEC(IFIC/TRUM/TRE/TACLE/ULATE) Another month, another mixtape wrought from whatever my mind has latched onto this particular unit of time. “Well at least we...
On The Topic of Cards, Rules, and Fate
A standard deck of playing has 52 cards. That means there are 52! possible combinations. That exclamation is one denoting a factorial and not one of general...
How to Get a Hugo Award of My Own
In Which We Introduce Ourselves Again and Again and Again.
A Quick Recap of 2025 & a Small Update on 2026
2025 The best movie I saw this year was Sinners. My favorite movie was Weapons. The Pitt was the best television show I saw and also my favorite, which is...
Matching Mixed Media - Patching the Void Left by Destiny 2 with Pokemon Legends ZA
I truly did honestly think after my last two musings of my Destiny career back in June that I wouldn’t be thinking or writing about Destiny. As it turns out,...
2025's Mixtape: "I'm probably a little closer to committing ARSON than I should be."
Printed courtesy of Swan Meadow January - “Yes, a heart should always go one step too far.” For better and for worse, this was a year characterized by trying...
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SLEEP STUDY [Extended Cut]
On more than one occasion…you have told meyou forget to breathesometimes. When did you realizethis was literaland metamorphic? When did...
A Tier List of Self Made Zines
So, last month, I made 30 zines in 30 days. I did this because 1) I wanted to and 2) there was/is a chance I will find my way to Portland, OR to table in...
Matching Mixed Media: No Matter How Advanced Technology Gets, People Will Still Commit Real Estate Crimes
In my “old age” (which I recognize is a completely ludicrous thing to say as a thirty four year old), I don’t watch nearly as much anime as I used to, and...
November's Mini-Mixtape: grit can look awfully like bone shards
grit can look awfully like bone shards When I sit down to write about the mixtape I have been crafting through the first half of the month, I don’t always...
A Rare Off Schedule Post - "A Boring Life" Recap
Sometime in August, I got an email from the St. Louis County Library system about a “Your Story on Stage” program, where some number of stories would be...
A Mapping of The Mind on 11/9/2025
A Mapping of the Mind on 11/9/2025 I’ve been here before. 4 - BEEN handwriting things more frequently this month. Been trying to make sure I can still write...
I usually have a clearer idea of what I'm doing with these posts.
For the last year, I have had a steady stream of inspirations. Things that I felt passionate about. Things that I compelled me. Things that flowed onto the...
paraluman #52
things matter because they end
