About
About Me
I am Michael Crook of Albany, New York, formerly of Las Vegas and South Jersey. If you’re looking for Michael Crook the lawyer, music producer, photographer, professor or whatever else, you’re looking in the wrong place. There are many Michael Crooks.
No, I’m absolutely not the only Michael Crook, but I’m the best one!
I hold distinction as being one of the first, if not the first, fan to independently form and run a US and internet-based fan club for a eurodance group. Learn more here.
Also, I am perhaps best known for building and running a website where I ran an experiment that saw me pose as a teenage (18) girl looking for sexual encounters on a certain classified ads site from random guys who were ostensibly in committed relationships. You can read more about that project here.
I am a certified expert in the area of the fair use provision of United States copyright law. Furthermore, I am a likewise certified American Sign Language interpreter.
I speak English and Dutch. Additionally, just for funsies, I am an anger translator. I translate for people who are too kind or shy to speak angrily. I can help.
I am a proud fur parent to two lively and vocal cats.
I do not participate in social media. As such, I have no X, Instagram, Facebook or TikTok or whatever else is out there profiles.
About This Website
My official website has been online in various incarnations and under various domains since 1994. This website became michaelcrook.org in late 2005. My first website (my own personal site was my second project) went online in 1994 in South Jersey.
Although this site is a politics-free zone, I will say that, in the wee hours of November 6, 2024, YMCA suddenly took over as my ringtone. You can take it to the bank that this site avoids the following:
- Politics
- Religion
- Giving free publicity to people who don’t deserve it
- The military