About

About Me

As the name of the website suggests, I am indeed Michael Crook, of Albany, New York, formerly of South Jersey and Las Vegas. I am not a photographer, a lawyer, a professor, a politician, an investor, a music producer, or whatever, so if you’re looking for one of those Michael Crooks, you’re in the wrong place.  No, I’m not the only Michael Crook, but I’m the best one!  You can view my professional information on this profile.

One thing that you need to understand about me is that I’m an extremely angry person, as anyone who reads my blog knows all too well.  I am not affable, friendly, kind or civil.

Currently, I work for the Department of Elections as a Republican poll worker. It is a paid per diem position where I work twice a year, and if that sounds interesting to you, the county is always hiring.  The pay is $50 for the training class and $300 per election.  Just be aware that you’ll have to work 15 hours straight on Election Day.

Also, I am a certified expert in the area of the fair use provision of United States copyright law.

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 an experiment that saw me I pose as a teenage (18) girl looking for sexual encounters from random guys who were ostensibly in committed relationships on a classified ads website.  You can read about that project here.

While in high school, I taught myself the ASIC programming language and wrote several programs that were distributed through BBS (yes, that’s how old I am!).  The programs were well-received.   The titles included the highly successful The Insult Machine, which mimicked the old-fashioned DOS prompt. Whenever the target entered a command, a random and extremely offensive insult would result.

Following 30+ years in the Mormon church, I converted to Catholicism in 2022.  You can read more about that here.

Just like everyone else, I have my own set of beliefs/opinions and you can see them for yourself.  I am also quite open about my religious transition from the Seventh-day Adventist church to the Mormon church to the Catholic Church.

Furthermore, I am a DNR/MOLST patient and advocate/lobbyist, and I am willing to assist and advocate for people who are eligible to draw up their own documents here in New York State.

On a personal level, I am a fur parent to two lively cats and husband to my second wife of more than twenty years.  I do have two adult daughters and one high school age daughter.  Oh, and if you like music, you may like this: my favorite songs of the moment.

About This Website

I welcome you to my official website, online in various incarnations since 1994.  My first website (my own personal site was my second project) went online in 1994 in South Jersey. 

My various website projects, in addition to the experiment, have received international media attention.  Some of the media outlets include The Las Vegas Sun, Details Magazine, Fox News Channel, KTTV, WAVY, The Steve and DC Show, WSYR-TV, KUTV, The Syracuse Post-Standard and various others.

If you’re looking for a site that offers unbiased, professional and balanced news reporting, you’re in the wrong place.  On this site, I am very biased and I do not let those featured in my articles give their side of a story.  You might wonder what sources I use.  Wonder no more.

Now, if you’re going to read this site with any degree of regularity, you need to understand that I call it like I see it, and I don’t give a damn who gets their fragile, triggered little feelings hurt.