The first person to ever put my writing on the internet was my friend Michael, who took movie reviews I was emailing around in 1995 (I know this, because the first one I ever wrote was A Walk In The Clouds) and put them on a separate part of his own home page, where I was represented by the Dilbert lady with the triangle-shaped head. Good times. I later put them on a site so that Michael wouldn't have to put them up for me (the first version of which was hosted at Chickclick, which for trivia buffs also hosted Dawson's Wrap and other classic destinations). Anyway, first it was Ms. Linda's Is-It-Worth-It Movie Reviews, and then it was Popcorn Lobby, and neither would ever have existed without Michael. (It was, in all incarnations, read by approximately four people outside my immediate family, one of whom I briefly semi-dated years later. Because my life is... like that, sort of.)

Aaaanyway, Michael is currently in Amsterdam, and he has started a blog about it that has at least five solid belly laughs in each of the first two real entries ("Mike Learns How To Use The Dryer" and "Mike Witnesses The World's Crappiest Parade"), so I can't not send you over to look. He's calling it Mike In Amsterdam, but I am calling it by its saucy Blogspot handle, Expat Mike.