Infinite Michael Peterson

Michael Peterson has many blogs

2006-08-22T13:46:00.000-07:00

Michael Peterson, of 700 hoboes and ZombieArmy fame has an art blog. Michael Peterson runs astro-monkey, "The First Resource Node of the Oneironet & The Home of “Lazy Metaphors." Michael Peterson, country singer, has something on MySpace. All Michael Petersons love the music of Jonathan Coulton. Michael Peterson really really cares about sports and not so much if you please I mean about the punctuation and spelling and that but whatever becaus Houstan Rockits, woo-hoo! Michael Peterson can write some code, tell you what. Michael Peterson occasionally reviews music. Michael Peterson had a video blog, but moved it and apparently changed his name to Mick. It happens.

Michael Peterson draws zombies

2006-08-21T19:00:00.000-07:00

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Michael Peterson was once considered the greatest competitive surfer in the world and is a paranoid schizophrenic

2006-08-17T10:00:00.000-07:00

Known simply as "MP" in his home country, Michael Peterson dominated the Australian pro surfing circuit for much of the seventies, going on to win Pro Surfing's first official World Tour event, the Stubbies Classic, in 1977.

According to Nick Carrol at Surfline, Michael Peterson "(had) a full-power style that combined an acute tube sense with fast, deep rail carves." The 1971 surf film, Morning of the Earth, showcases Michael Peterson's talent.

Over the course of the decade, Michael Peterson's personal behavior became increasingly erratic as he struggled to deal with the onset of paranoid schizophrenia. His medication of choice was heroin.

His life story was chronicled in a book, MP: The Life of Michael Peterson, by Sean Doherty (Harper Collins, 2004).

Michael Peterson is an advertising copywriter and was once considered the second worst person in the world

2006-08-15T21:05:00.000-07:00

Often referred to as "the unemployed copywriter", Michael Peterson recently placed fifth in the Olives awards, earning him a fat century-and-a-half note and a free trip to New York City.

Previously, on the March 27 episode of Countdown [MSNBC], Michael Peterson was referenced* by Keith Olbermann as the runner-up to the "worst person in the world" for coming up with the Washington State Tourism Slogan: "Say WA."

*Mr. Olbermann bent the rules in order to include the entire Washington State Tourism Office.

The slogan had been heavily criticized in the media thanks mostly to this associated press story; most outlets had it verbatim, including this statement from a tourism competitor:

"Thirty-five years ago I smoked dope and probably could have come up with something like that," said Darrell Bryan, general manager of Victoria Clipper, the largest tour operator in the Northwest. "To me, it's better to have no slogan than to come up with something like that. There's too much scratching the head about 'What does that mean?"'

To which Michael Peterson responded:

"Dear Mr. Bryan: When was the last time you spent so much energy thinking about advertising? Probably the last time you thought about anything: thirty-five years ago, when you were still a future burned-out former dopehead. The brain is a muscle, Darrell, and, as with any muscle, you should start off slow after a long period of inactivity."

Michael Peterson also thanked the newsmedia for giving the Washington State Tourism Office millions of dollars in free publicity, thereby easily dwarfing the office's paltry advertising budget.

The only person considered worse than Michael Peterson during that particular week was Swift-Boat artiste Jerome Corsi.

Michael Peterson is a Professional Photographer

2006-08-15T17:02:00.000-07:00

Michael Peterson is a professional wedding&baby photographer in Queensland. He specializes in soft-filtered portraiture, the kind you use on high-school kids when it's too late for Dr. Zizmor.

I like this pic better. It actually feels like a wedding.
If you're ever in Townsville, please look up Michael Peterson.

*photo: copyright Michael Peterson Photography

Michael Peterson is a decorated soldier and a successful novelist and a murderer

2006-08-14T12:43:00.000-07:00

Busy, busy as the Bokononists say. Michael Peterson, author of The Immortal Dragon, A Time of War, and A Bitter Peace was convicted on October 10, 2003 of murder. He's now serving life in prison.

Michael Peterson's M.O. (that's Modus Operandi to you Latin-phile Michael Petersons, Mode of Operations for you dropout Michael Petersons) was as follows:

1) Bludgeon the woman in the back of the head until unconscious;
2) Throw the body down a flight of stairs;
3) Blame the stairs.

So ended the life of Kathleen Peterson, December 9, 2001.

Michael Peterson probably would have gotten away with the murder of his wife if he hadn't used the same exact method to dispose of inconvenient girlfriend Elizabeth Ratliff sixteen years earlier.

According to the Canadian Broadcasting Company Michael Peterson:

...once told an interviewer that as a child he read Hemingway and fantasized about being a hard-drinking, hard-living writer one day.

Done and done.

Michael Peterson draws hoboes

2006-08-14T12:17:00.000-07:00

Michael Peterson has been at it again, adding to the 700 hoboes project.

One of his more recent efforts is this nasty little pointillism number:

586. Self-Taught Guitarist Edmund.

The 700 hoboes project is a collection of illustrations of the 700 hoboes listed in John Hodgman's excellent tome of all human knowledge, The Areas of My Expertise.

All your Michael Peterson are belong to us

2006-08-14T11:43:00.000-07:00

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