Feature article on me, and a plea for help
Wednesday, 7 December 2011 by Mike Gogulskidiary | 3 Comments »
Dear Friends, My renunciation of citizenship is the subject of a feature article at Global Post: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/111205/stateless-slovakia--renounce-us-citizenship-mike-gogulski Many have burned their passports as a form of political protest. But Gogulski is one of only two Americans known to be ballsy enough to have ...
How to be Transformed into a Young Woman
Friday, 22 July 2011 by Mike Gogulskidiary | 4 Comments »
Apparently there's a woman running around out there named Michaela Gogulski, with the same birthday as my own. A correspondent brought my attention to this important video from Howcast: How To Replace a Lost or Stolen Passport [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s4ntUs-hX0&feature=player_detailpage#t=94s[/youtube] At 1:34 you can see ...
At long last…
Wednesday, 16 March 2011 by Mike Gogulskidiary | 4 Comments »
Since I started this site I've had a Google News thingy tracking things like "renounce citizenship". Every once in a while, something interesting comes along. A couple months ago there began the annual string of stories about people giving up US ...
Internet love lost…
Friday, 25 February 2011 by Mike Gogulskidiary | 2 Comments »
Well, crap. If this is what happens when a random Yahoo! Messenger bot adds me, gee... I don't know if I can handle the humiliation any more. (11:07:23 PM) Dora Vancil: hey cutie.. you there? (11:07:42 PM) mikegogulski: I sure am, ...
Jeff Knaebel, renunciant ex-American, dead in self-immolation suicide in India
Friday, 28 January 2011 by Mike Gogulskidiary | 24 Comments »
In June 2009, I reported here on Jeff Knaebel's dramatic act of renouncing his US citizenship in India. On 4 July 2009, Jeff was interviewed on Free Talk Live. Jeff Knaebel, R.I.P. From the Hindustan Times: American kills self, blames India, US An American ...
Smoking Salvia Divinorum before Miley Cyrus went to school
Monday, 20 December 2010 by Mike Gogulskidiary | 3 Comments »
Eh, whippersnappers. From syadasti Tue Aug 13 22:09:47 1996 Subject: Salvia divinorum To: visionary@wyoming.com Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 22:09:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Kibo-Spews: |
Interview with RT (Russia Today) News
Wednesday, 4 August 2010 by Mike Gogulskidiary, war | 20 Comments »
My appearance earlier today on RT News, via Skype. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMwsc7d8LTI[/youtube]
In which ambiguity is a delight
Saturday, 31 July 2010 by Mike Gogulskidiary | 5 Comments »
Closing in on its three-thousandth signature, the "Justice for Bradley Manning" petition gets a signature today which, for some reasons, generated an admin email. Could be because the signatory was attempting to spam something into the petition, I'm not sure yet. But ...
Farewell, Henry
Monday, 28 June 2010 by Mike Gogulskidiary | 26 Comments »
[caption id="attachment_3758" align="aligncenter" width="540" caption="Henry, 1 April 1992 - 27 June 2010"][/caption] Henry died yesterday, 27 June 2010, at the age of 18 in Bratislava, Slovakia. I miss you, buddy. I first met Henry in mid-1994, when my girlfriend-and-future-wife's mother reported she'd ...
Our modern world
Friday, 25 June 2010 by Mike Gogulskidiary | 8 Comments »
I live on the 4th (or 5th, depending on how you count them in your country) floor of a 4-story (or "storey", depending on how you spell the word in your country) building in central Bratislava. There's no elevator (or ...
