I got current on a manga for the first time in forever.
For however the cruel and indifferent the universe is capable of being, the universe also does manage to be kind and specifically caring when I least expect...
[What if I sent a placeholder?]
[This is a thought exercise. This is a mental construction. This is something different because sometimes we need to try something different in order to...
A Reset at a Respite
“as it turns out, retreating into the wilderness after a tech conference is in fact healing.” I am a child of the digital age. I have no affinity for nature,...
On Contraposition
Among my many electives in undergrad, I took a Symbolic Logic course, either my sophomore or junior year. It was a course that fulfilled a core requirement...
End Cap to My 30/30
By the time this month ends, I will have written 30 poems in 30 days, and you’ll be able to read them here. I am not happy with all of the poems. But I am...
So, it's the third week of my first 30/30 in a minute.
There are 20ish poems and counting here. There is never just one inciting incident in a decision. Everything exists in the context of every thing that came...
So, it's the second week of my first 30/30 in a minute.
Read all of the poems as they become available here. I write a lot. I write in a professional capacity. I write in a hobbyist capacity. I write to satiate my...
So, it's the first week of my first 30/30 in a minute.
I’m writing this on Sunday night, and I’m writing this because as much as I have enjoyed making videos for the sake of making videos and as much as that is a...
April is National Poetry Month and I Have Far Too Much Free Energy, So I Am Doing a 30/30
So when writing last week’s newsletter/blog post, I think I ended up convincing myself to do a 30/30. Or maybe, it was even before that. Back in October when...
Matching Mixed Media: Seminal Short Forms
I haven't called myself a poet since… I don't know, maybe around 2018? Between the years of 2009 to… well definitely 2017, and probably a little bit after...
March's Mixtape - Songs To Rage Against The Heavens In An Anime Inspired Way
This is not the hill I will die on. This is the hill I will kill on though. Stock image of '“Hill” from Akshay Lichade on Pexels. I wouldn’t categorize my...
Mapping Mikkel: The Pathos of a Technical Writer
After writing out all of my “canon events” from my pre-college days, I really thought I was gonna continue on with another list and talk about some of the...
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...
