Mike was a loyal friend. He was a studied and accomplished artist though his output was modest. We spent a lot of time together in the late 1970s and early 1980s when both of us lived with our families. He taught me much about art and we visited the Art Institute of Chicago where I learned more from him. He was an aficionado of mainstream rock and roll and had worked at learning guitar at some point. I learned about that from him also. He was interested in the world and politics, although our views often did not coincide. His passing coincided with a bad bout of pneumonia for me.
We got together for weekly TV monster and horror movies, also something about which he had quite some knowledge. We spent much time laughing, especially at the poorest ones. He had a wonderful sense of humor. We also enjoyed and laughed through Dr. Strangelove, which occasionally came on broadcast television. We never stopped enjoying repeating some of the movie’s deathless dialogue for one another. Same with the overly serious John Wayne World War II movies, several of which included explicitly deprecatory epithets that are expurgated today. We poked fun to no end at the more annoying Top 40 singles of the1970s also.
Mike is gone many decades but to this day I think of him often with fondness and sadness. I wonder what heights of art he might he might have attained.
Peter Gunther
Mike was a loyal friend. He was a studied and accomplished artist though his output was modest. We spent a lot of time together in the late 1970s and early 1980s when both of us lived with our families. He taught me much about art and we visited the Art Institute of Chicago where I learned more from him. He was an aficionado of mainstream rock and roll and had worked at learning guitar at some point. I learned about that from him also. He was interested in the world and politics, although our views often did not coincide. His passing coincided with a bad bout of pneumonia for me.
We got together for weekly TV monster and horror movies, also something about which he had quite some knowledge. We spent much time laughing, especially at the poorest ones. He had a wonderful sense of humor. We also enjoyed and laughed through Dr. Strangelove, which occasionally came on broadcast television. We never stopped enjoying repeating some of the movie’s deathless dialogue for one another. Same with the overly serious John Wayne World War II movies, several of which included explicitly deprecatory epithets that are expurgated today. We poked fun to no end at the more annoying Top 40 singles of the1970s also.
Mike is gone many decades but to this day I think of him often with fondness and sadness. I wonder what heights of art he might he might have attained.