Trivia

Below are boring, trivial facts about me.  If you’re really bored, and I mean really bored with nothing better to do, this is the page for you.

• I should be dead many times over.  I survived endocarditis, burst appendix, sepsis and being almost run over several times.  I’ve also survived three suicide attempts. That I’m still alive baffles me and doctors.
• My two favorite television shows are 911 and The Rookie.
• I once had a career as a master control operator and board operator at television and radio stations around the country. If you want to know what those things are, Google it.
• My preferred style of music is dance/techno/house/trance/EDM/eurodance
• I have owned michaelcrook.org since 2005 and michaelcrook.net since 2007.
• I have been interviewed by or interviewed by The Press of Atlantic City, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Details Magazine, The Tampa Bay Times, The Army Times, The Las Vegas Sun, The Steve and DC Show, Fox News Channel, and other radio stations throughout the USA and in Austria.
• I was once a DJ on what was then 103.7 The Shark in South Jersey.
• I once spent the night in jail over an article that I wrote.
• I called off a marriage less than a week before it would have happened after my then-fiancee potentially exposed me to AIDS by shaking hands with an AIDS patient.
• I stood idle while witnessing a young child being molested.