Mick the Beachcomber is a social studies teacher, forced to the "dark side" of industrial training by political corruption and Stafford loans due the first of every month. His home is northern Illinois but due to the second great depression he has been exiled by his wife until he earns enough to come home. Check back periodically to see where a love of history, science, and extreme boredom come together to illuminate, however mundane it may seem, Mick's Wilder Side.