This collection chronicles Mike’s adventures throughout the US and Canada, offering raw and unpolished glimpses into his life.

Mike’s life is deeply rooted in his Steel Valley upbringing, but shaped by his travels throughout North America and a lasting desire to build a better home back in Ohio.

Featuring occasional appearances with Dave, unidentified stoners in the park, WANDA, and Parking Garage KAREN.

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Featured Chapters

  • Columbus - Side B

    Mike returns to Columbus in 2023, 6 years after moving away, and finds a city in transformation.

  • On Tour

    Mike chronicles times in his life when he was unhoused, living on the streets of Portland, Chicago, Columbus, Alexandria, New Orleans, Natchez, and Mansfield.

  • Calling My Bluff

    This collection covers Mike’s adventures during Feb 2023 in the town of Natchez, Mississippi, when a Grindr date abruptly goes awry during a roadtrip into the lad’s hometown.

  • Down in the Bayou

    This collection spans Mike’s time living in Alexandria, Louisiana, in 2021-23, working in Central Louisiana to maintaining and restoring its electric substations throughout the state.

  • Paradise in Smoke

    This collection covers Mike’s move to Portland, Oregon, in 2020.

    PDX is a paradise in the biblical sense - heavenly from far away, but hellish beneath the veil of perfection.

  • Pardon My French

    This collection covers Mike’s return to Montreal in 2018-19, an American foreigner working in a Canadian utility firm in a heavily French-speaking utility industry.

  • 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.

  • Dashcam POV

    Collection of Mike’s episodes taking place onboard his beloved blue Mazda - Osiris., 2012-18

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Wrong Way

Lamenting on his unsatisfaction in his present work in Louisiana, Mike ponders on the next steps in his career and where that will prompt him to move next.

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Spring in the Bayou State

Mike provides an update from his home in Alexandria, discussing his latest project to develop a wireless audio scheme to connect all the Bluetooth speakers in the house, before inviting us on a "virtual date" in which he divulges some personal thoughts and anecdotes in his dating life.

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Connecting Coast to Coast

Mike hosts from Crimson House PDX, sharing personal reflections and music, as well as a map-based crowd-sourcing platform that collects and documents LGBTQ+ experiences and memories tied to specific geographic locations.

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Shenaniganza

Mike joins a gathering around a fire for “Shenaniganza,” a ritual of the Celtic New Year in which participants cleanse themselves of past disappointments from the preceding year 2020.

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MAX, Mike, & TJ Maxx

Mike takes a walk in downtown Portland, gushing about some of the Queer spaces he’d recently discovered in the city’s east side. He discusses Halloween costumes with his friend Todd before entering a TJ Maxx downtown for a gander.

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Evening in Portland

Mike provides a tour of downtown Portland, Oregon, discussing his tenuous housing situation and his frustrations finding an apartment. Passing by Powell’s Books and turning onto Harvey Milk Street, Mike reflects on the challenges of being homeless, including the loss of his personal belongings.

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Silverado

Reporting from the streets of Portland, Mike grapples with a sense of isolation and homelessness, from which he tries numerous times to escape through music and socializing with others he meets on the streets.

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On Deck at The Eagle

Mike enjoys a beer and some tomfoolery on the patio of Eagle PDX, chatting with nearby patrons and soliciting the audience to help “choose his adventure” by suggesting who he should vie to swoon.

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In Kelowna, BC

Mike reports from Kelowna, British Columbia, having finished a technical conference on electrical grounding and lightning. Gazing into a lake in the Canadian Rockies, he candidly discusses his career and his upcoming plans back home in Montreal.

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