Introduction

This blog is mainly a combination of two endeavors that have taken up a lot of time in my life (which life has amounted to 45 years and four months so far, at the time of this writing).  They are political writing and music criticism (”rock” criticism, but not really).  My politics might be called “libertarian socialist” or “ultra-leftist.”  (”Ultra-leftist” is considered a derogatory term by some, but I don’t mind it.)  In music, at this time, I am most interested in cutting-edge electronica, trip-hop and hip-hop, dancehall music, and some goth/punk/industrial post-rock

I earn my living mainly as a proofreading temp, and through some writing once in a while.  I consider myself to be very much in a condition that a lot of Europeans define as “precarity.”  This probably weighs heavily on the way that I think about things.

I live at the bottom of The Bronx, in a neighborhood known as Mott Haven.  I share a house with four other people and three cats.  I had “my own” cat, but he had to go somewhere else for a while.  That was sad, but as long as I can have some cats around me…  I love cats.

This blog is called “Commie Curmudgeon (II)” because it is a successor to another blog that I called “Commie Curmudgeon.”

[P.S. "Editorial note," some months later:  I looked at this post when I noticed in my stats that someone had visited it...  I originally had written that this was duplicated in my "about" section.  But that has changed, as has my life, a bit.  For one thing, I now live in Queens.  So, I thought I better add something here, though it's many months after I wrote this post.  (Do people normally do that in blogs?  Or is this "cheating"?  Hmm.)]