Michael writes for The Havok Journal and makes gear as Crimson Tied Paragear. His background includes work as a rodeo cowboy, a professional stuntman, and a longtime bouncer in biker bars and juke joints across the Deep South. For The Havok Journal, his writing often draws on personal experience and a direct, lived-in perspective to cover culture, politics, family, and everyday life. He also credits knots he learned from an Army Ranger Scoutmaster at Boy Scout summer camp in Okinawa in 1972 as the foundation for the work he does through Crimson Tied Paragear.
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