The Midnight Citizen

Join Mike on the porch late on a Tuesday night. Show Notes: Sitting on the porch at 11:55 pm, waiting for my paycheck to come in; doing podcasts this summer; going to the Grand River Drive-In and seeing Jurassic Park , the number 1 film at the box office this week, 27 years after its release; the amazing films of 1999; my strategy for seeing “R” rated films before I was 17; Criterion Collection sa...

I'm away from the microphone on this July 4th, but enjoy an episode from the archive from July 2014. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mikesbonfire.substack.com

Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night. Show notes: Gary Puckett of the 60’s band, “Gary Puckett and the Union Gap”, is a perv; anti-vaccers and anti-maskers may be plants by mysterious organizations to keep us distracted; Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon; saw a guy in my neighborhood walking around like a dog, trying to sniff out some pot that he could buy; travelers from Alabama must se...

Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night, where he recalls the time he got kicked out of a Chuck E. Cheese, and reviews the stuff he bought off Amazon during quarantine. Exciting stuff. Show Notes: why nostalgia will destroy us all; people are pretending the pandemic is over, when the data says otherwise; burglars used masks during the pandemic of 1918 to disguise themselves when robbing b...

Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night. Show Notes: Exciting things are going down at the Piggly Wiggly, now that the machines have arrived; witnessed a sad old lady shouting at a self checkout kiosk; why do we trust machines more than humans?; this week is the eighth anniversary of the Downtown Drive-in, my pop up theater that succeeded before it failed horribly; are drive-in’s making a...

Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night in Birmingham, AL. Show Notes: Will movie theaters survive COVID 2020?; my new year’s resolution to not go to the movies is working out; memories of my first job working at the Carmike Dollar Theater in Birmingham; Music Break*; Book: “The Crying of Lot 49” by Thomas Pynchon (1965); looking for codes around us; paranoia; Movie: “Under the Silver Lak...

Join Mike in the studio for the first time in three years. Show Notes: Why I was once suspected of being a mad bomber at the Statue of Liberty; Life During Quarantine (teaching, reading, sleeping, attending events like funerals in alternate ways); somehow my job has brought me back to the Midnight Citizen studio; Music Break*; Reading a “You’re Welcome” letter from President Trump; Supplementing i...