mikl-em
Actor, nerd, poet, producer, writer mikl-em made his name short so you wouldn't have to. In addition to his blog you can find his writing in "Hi Fructose" magazine and witness him almost life-sized in various plays at The Dark Room Theater in SF's Mission district.
He tends to write about theater, humor, San Francisco culture and history, and stuff that's just plain weird. He thanks Scott for sharing the keys to the Laughing Squid virtual HQ and promises to uphold whatever it is that the mirthful cephalopod would prefer to be uplifted.
The Peculiar Star-Nosed Mole Has Tentacles on Its Face
It won’t surprise you that we at Laughing Squid like animals with tentacles. Usually that means cephalopods, of course. But the peculiar case of the…
Silent Film Comedy Legend Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin died 34 years ago on Christmas Day 1977 at the age of 88. Much more than just a great comic actor, Chaplin conceived,…
Rare Exports: A Dark Film About The Real Santa Claus
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale is a 2010 film about the “real” Santa Claus: an ancient, super-powered, child-eating sonuvabitch. This Finnish film, written and directed…
Christmas Defecation Traditions In Catalonia
There are many peculiar holiday traditions around the world, but the various Catalan Christmas traditions that put a happy holiday face on defecation (figuratively, mostly)…
Goodnight iPad, A Parody of the Children’s Book Goodnight Moon
Goodnight iPad is a new book by children’s author David Milgrim under the pseudonym “Ann Droyd“. It’s a parody of the classic bedtime children’s…
Drunk History Portrays A Wasted Past
Drunk History may itself be history, no new episodes have appeared since 2010, but its high concept (heh) and genuine hilarity are worthy of an…
The Current and Vintage Comic Stylings of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara
These days Jerry Stiller is best known for playing Frank Costanza on Seinfeld (and following that with a similar supporting role on The King of…
Bad Lip Reading Videos Parody The Presidential Race
Bad Lip Reading has come up with a suitably silly and downright dada take on campaign speechifying that leaves Auto-Tune the News, the last great…
BABYMETAL, Japanese Schoolgirl Pop Idols Go Heavy Metal
These kids should quit their day jobs and get us a whole album / string of videos for BABYMETAL, ASAP
John Law Interview at East Bay Mini Maker Faire
photo by Scott Beale On Sunday, October 16 I’ll be interviewing long-time counter-cultural instigator and organizer John Law about making culture & cacophony live onstage…