An award-winning author who has been published both domestically as well as abroad, anthologized, & translated, Michael Gurnow frequently writes on such topics as philosophy, film, & politics. This one-time comedian & tattoo artist is a card-carrying Ween & Skinny Puppy fan who enjoys traveling, painting, gardening, & his wife's delicatessen cuisine.

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Art

I’m not big on doling out advice, but one thing that I see way too often is that people are still living lives of quiet desperation. Face it, no one will ever be remembered as a great drinker or one hell of a television viewer. Why not give yourself a legitimate reason to idolize what's staring back at you in the mirror? Write a novel, build a house, learn a new language. Leave this place a little better than the way you found it.

-Read-

1984 | Catch-22 | Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television | Ishmael | The People’s History of the United States | Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Walden | Wall and Piece

-Watch-

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon | Fight Club | Henry Fool | In the Mouth of Madness | The Mist | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | The Thing | Two-Lane Blacktop | V for Vendetta | Wag the Dog | The Wicker Man (1973)

Adbusters
Corporate Crime Reporter
Exxpose Exxon
KnowMore
McSpotlight
Overcoming Consumerism
They Rule
Wal-Mart Watch
White Dot

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