Every Few Years, I End Up Rediscovering Livestreaming
2010 It is the spring semester of freshman year. I am not officially a member of WU-SLam’s Performance Crew, but I have attended all of their events in the...
paraluman #32
recursive
Hey Clay, What If You Didn't (Use ChatGPT As a Life Coach)?
Prelude I was at a tech conference from June 2 to June 4. I have been working as a technical writer for eleven some years as of Memorial Day, and this was...
paraluman #31
acausal damages
Ambient Train Noises as a Writer Writes
Written May 23, 2025, from 8:45-9:00AM CT (give or take 18 seconds) I am currently on a train to Kansas City right now. I am currently doing a weird...
paraluman #30
survival at what cost
Matching Mixed Media - Compassion, Competency, and Community as Highlighted by Noah Wyle's Recent Corpus
At the start of the month, my therapist suggested that I do a Values Sort. The activity happens in four stages. The first stage is a simple binary quiz, a...
paraluman #29
reflexive
Yet Another Exercise in Writing Taxonomies
The natural six month cadence of my software documentation cycle is currently on its down swing. This means that my creative free energy is currently...
paraluman #28
locomotion
Introspection 202: How Different Forms Informed Me
There are two ways I can frame this post. 1) Nothing exists sans context. 2) I am a successive summation of everything that has happened and will happen....
paraluman #27
shimmering As I mentioned on Tuesday, been thinking a lot about how my relationship with slam poetry recently including the phrase “old text messages read...
May We Continue Trying Things
SCRIPT: Welcome back to the Mixed Media with Mikkel YouTube channel, which right now vaguely resembles a cooking blog given that I’m dedicating this week’s...
paraluman #26
waterworks
Matching Mixed Media - Infinity Train & The Good Place
What does it mean to become a better person? Unsurprisingly, this is a question that I frequently ask myself. And perhaps also unsurprisingly, approximately...
paraluman #25
suck it sartre
In Which We Attempt to Build a Foundation for a Musical
Today, we're going to do a thought experiment. We're going to break down a musical book. I have never broken a musical book before. I also do not know if...
paraluman #24
neighbor
Idle Hands & Other Metaphors For Doing "Nothing"
I started “going to therapy recently, which also meant I had to do an intake session to start therapy recently which involves summarizing your life in not so...
paraluman #23
liminal, as in flux The predecessor of paraluman was just the #liminalspacesofthemidwest on Instagram, which is either a fundamentally terrible or...
