Open Mike LIVE

This archive chronicles over 7 years of video posts made by Mike George on the Facebook Live platform, highlighting various locations around the United States and Canada:

- Columbus, Ohio

- Portland, Oregon

- Montreal, Quebec

- Alexandria, Louisiana

- Steubenville, Ohio

Made by Mike

  • Trans || Americas

    This collection remembers the 25,000 miles I shared traveling in 2017 through 13 Western states with my boyfriend Matt, a long-haul flatbed truck driver.

  • Pardon My French

    This collection covers Mike’s time living in Montreal in 2018-19.

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  • The Prolonged Void
    12/23/24

    The Prolonged Void

    Mike uses the coping mechanisms that he's learned over the course of previous dark holiday seasons to coax himself out of his holiday blues this year.

  • Reflections on Houses & Home
    2/19/23

    Reflections on Houses & Home

    Mike contrasts between his times of being broke/unhoused versus those of financial abundance with a roof over his head.

  • Package Reveal
    2/19/22

    Package Reveal

    Mike shares the excitement of opening a package he'd forgotten that he ordered.

  • Vive La Liberté!
    4/11/19

    Vive La Liberté!

    Mike basks in the beautiful spring weather of Montreal, in anticipation of reporting to the police station in 24 hours.

Journals & Musings

  • Figuring Things Out

    2013-2020

    Graphics are colorful, they invite a myriad of differing interpretations, they portray trends, etc.  Plus, they're less prone to language barriers.

    Figures make complicated concepts easier to understand, simplify, and organize. Plus, I was too lazy to write longwinded essays anymore.

  • My Little Corner of Semi-Reality

    2004-2013

    My life is an open book. Please don't burn it.