SHINY OBJECTS
Mike Doyle
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Birthday
- August 04
- Title
- Blogger and Strategy Consultant
- Bio
- SHINY OBJECTS shares with you the drama of my life as an ADHDer and recovering codependent. These posts are drawn from my other bylines: CHICAGO CARLESS, where I blog about my life as an expat New Yorker living in the Windy City; and CHICAGOSPHERE, where I cover online media on the Chicago Tribune's ChicagoNow blog network. And, no, I have absolutely no idea how to drive a car. Given my attention span, that's probably a good...hey...are those P.F. Flyers?
MY RECENT POSTS
- Why Open Conferences Are
Danger Zones for ADHDers
October 29, 2009 06:23PM - Handyman
October 29, 2009 06:21PM - Attention Deficit Déjà Vu
October 29, 2009 06:17PM - Cat and a Drop Dead Proof
October 29, 2009 06:16PM - Flight of the Trojans
October 29, 2009 06:14PM
Mike Doyle's Links
- Follow Me on Twitter
- @chicagocarless
- My Bylines
- Chicagosphere
- Chicago Carless
Why Open Conferences Are Danger Zones for ADHDers
A version of the following appeared on Chicagosphere on 10/29/09.
Today, I walked out of Community Media Workshop's Communicamp open conference. It wasn't for lack of wanting to stay in my seat and spend the day with the cognescenti of the Windy City's media and blogging worlds. But how do you… Read full post »
Handyman
Attention Deficit Déjà Vu
Cat and a Drop Dead Proof
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 8/24/09.
When Overly Frank adopted olderly Ryza from PAWS Chicago earlier this month, the cuddly interaction between Oklahoma expat and 11-year-old feline made me realize how much I'd been taking my own lifelong (his) companion for granted.Camõ…
Flight of the Trojans
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 8/4/09.
So today begins the last year of my youth, and I'm trying to handle it. My body has long told me that year came some time ago. Chronic pain in my right hip and the old man "Uggh!" I groan upon standing suggest a…Sex and the Sneakered Blogger
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 7/18/09.
It's a sad commentary on my social life when the highlight of the past week comes from sitting on the front patio of hoary Uptown gay bar Big Chicks on dollar burger night, doing Gweilo impressions of contact sheets from AsianPoses.com.On a M…
Cocoa Condom Coffee Klatsch
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 6/23/09.
When Pastry Chef Chris gave Hoosierella the 18 extra chocolate-flavored condoms in May at our weekly Lido's Caffé coffee klatsch in Oak Park, no one expected them to come back."Actually, there's 16 of them now," said Hoosierella last T…
Eraserhead and the Vulcan of Loneliness
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 5/11/09.
J.J. Abrams' new Star Trek movie taught me a thing or two about life over the weekend. Sometimes the second time around is not as good as you think it might be. And Vulcans will be Vulcans.I saw the "rebooted" Trek film with Mikey… Read full post »
One Foot in Front of the Other
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 5/8/09.
(Video: ...Soon I'll be walking across the floor.)
One step, two step, 12-step. I can grouse and complain, but denial will get me nowhere, especially when the river I'm walking across is in Chicago. Over the Wabash Bridge I go to my…
Tasmanian Michael Goes to Bermuda
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 5/8/09.
An old 12-step adage says no matter how willingly you’re off the wagon, somtimes recovery comes and finds you. One day you’re sitting there in your living room wrapped around your addiction of choice when you hear a knock at the do…The Circle of Life
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 5/5/09.
(Video: "How did I end up here?")
Ever feel like life is walking you around in circles? Yeah, me too, especially lately. Then again, maybe it's just me who keeps walking around in circles. Here's a video demonstration of exactly what…
Brick Head
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 3/1/09.
Here's a joke for you: One day, the son of the son of a mason from Lebanon, Kansas--the geographic heart of the United States--decided to follow his lifelong dream to build a house entirely out of bricks. An exact number of bricks, to be…25 Other Things
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 2/24/09.
Recently on Facebook I was tagged with that overly persistent 25
Things meme. What could I write about myself that I haven't already
shared on the blog?
About 25 other things, as it turns out. An injudicious after-hours
call to a friend last… Read full post »
Pariah Intent
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 2/05/09.
Life would be easier, certainly happier, if the dating foibles I scribe about on CARLESS weren't true. As it turns out, they're so true sometimes these days I feel like the butt of the joke of my own love life.I'd love to point…
The Perils of Domestic Bliss Come to a Climax
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 1/29/09.
Men. You can't live with them, and the police always find the bodies. When you're a gay man in your late thirties like me, you find yourself musing on such things. Gone are the days of bashful flirting, banshee sex, and breathless waits…The Furious Kvetch at Benyamin Bissell
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 1/12/09.
I am getting old. I know this because a couple of nights ago, on my third trip from bed to bathroom, I took a look at my hands and they were old. As you push through your thirties and witness wrinkles and roughness…Equal and Opposite
Dear John C. Letter
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 7/31/08.
Dear John C.,
We missed you on Tuesday night. When I got to the meeting, right on time at 7:30, no one was there. I thought I would have seen your new car in the parking lot. Last week you were proudly showing it…Codependently Yours
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 7/29/08.
Here's a tidbit you'll never hear on Oprah: a spiritual awakening can be the biggest pain in the ass. Especially for attention-hungry, emotionally grasping, codependently needy bloggers like me. Because when you get right down to it, en…The Tyranny of Now and Not Now
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 04/27/08.
I'm willing to bet money the Mad Hatter had Attention Deficit Disorder. Anyone who's eternally "late for a very important date" definitely has issues with time management, one of the major symptoms of ADD.It's very often said that ADD…
The Best Part About Having ADD
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 04/22/08.
When is a neurological disorder a gift? The answer to that depends on whom you ask. If you asked me a few weeks ago, I'd have said never--and why are you asking me such a silly question, anyway?If you asked Dr. Edward Hallowell,…
Story and Legend
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 04/10/08.
Last night during Community Media Workshop's 2008 Studs Terkel Awards at the Chicago Cultural Center, one of the winners, Sylvia Rivera, the general manager of bilingual public radio station Radio Arte, shared this comment from the stage:"Y…
Permission Slip
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 6/19/07.
Some people don't like hearing about recovery--mine or anyone else's. To others, stories of recovery are helpful tools on their own journeys to healing. I've heard both opinions regarding my recovery blogging here on Carless. …Pattern Recognition
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 6/15/07.
Letting go is difficult when you don’t want to do it. It's when you want to but can't that you really get into trouble. Madness can set in, turn you into the emotional equivalent of a launderer obsessed with an inexplicably…Hoard of Plenty
The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 5/16/07.
Over a plate of drunken noodles is a very strange place to have an epiphany. But yesterday was no ordinary day, so I didn't argue. In Washington, tucked in the back of a Thai restaurant in Adams-Morgan, I called my friend, Tom.&nb…
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