What’s Mike Doing?

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May 17, 2026A long, long time ago I had an idea for a silly joke. Exactly when it hard to pin down, but the seeds were planted in the mid 1990s, in a file called bands.txt. This was a collaborative list of random phrases uttered by people we knew, that had been taken out of context on … [Read more …] [...]
February 1, 2026As the Rainbow Headcleaner project actually starts coming to a head, one thing I want to do is write a little bit about each track on the album as I finalise the version that’s going on the tape. I’m starting with the easiest one, Beaten Eggs. [...]

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I actually got the thing done by cleverly waiting until everyone sane had stopped working and now I'm going to have a mug of hot choc and put my feet up!

"That was a really nice bit of cauliflower" and other things I say now that my younger self would assume were code phrases indicating duress.

My attempts to cross a specific task off my to do list today have borne a striking resemblance to Charlie Brown attempting to kick a football.