riginally a product of north-central Washington State, Mike came to the San Francisco Bay Area for college and stuck around for the nice weather. His first two jobs out of school involved in-depth analyses of English verbs, and for a while it seemed that English syntax might dominate Mike’s life work. However, music remains an integral part of his life, as his current job involves a lot of listening to a computer mispronounce artist names (though “buh-JERK” only amused him the first five hundred times he tested “Björk”). Since Mike rejects the tenuous axiomatic dogma required to facilitate a general acceptance of Marxist critical theory as applied to the emergence of popular culture in the post-9/11 Information Age, his recommendations generally take the rather structuralist form of “OMG, dis sHiNs disk will cHanGe ur lYfe!~~ LOL nat i wan B anNakiiiiNNnn.............”