May 4, 2007


Meet the Flockers: Michael Grant Smith

I’ve been invited to post on clusterflock, and I hope my contributions add value to the site. I started trying to write gooder a couple of years ago, and it has really taken over my life. Cooper accepted some of my poems and I found clusterflock on the elimae link page. clusterflock is very stimulating—plus—I can chew with my mouth open while posting in my boxers. I am not naked right now. Or am I?

I’m interested in: automobiles, music, cooking, eating, drinking, reading, writing, surfing the Net to find obscure links that link to other links, and doing anything that connects my brain to my hands. I’m handy. My mind is like a sponge—dry and crumbling with age.

I have a Website that’s kind of a shrine to the car I restored and old British cars in general, and also a blog that is supposed to be about cars but veers from guardrail to curb like an Austin-Healey with a broken tie rod end. I love the sound my voice makes in my ears as I drone on and on about whatever is important to me at any particular time, like right now.

Southwest Ohio is home—don’t give me your pity-look. I’m married to a smart, capable, pretty girl I’ve loved for over twenty-five years and we have a son who just turned sixteen. We three human beings share our home with a Border collie and two cats. Our two horses are boarded a few miles away but they would sleep in our bed if my wife could find a way. I don’t trust the cats, ever.

In a previous incarnation I was a live sound engineer. I’ve traveled a bit and have actually been paid to visit cool places. My present career phase involves slow death as a marketing guy for a largish Internet retailer of audio electronic components. The upside is they keep the air conditioning really cranked, so when I die of boredom and despair I will keep for months.

I think I mentioned my fascination with my own words.

posted by Michael Grant Smith in Meet the Flockers 

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4 Responses to “Meet the Flockers: Michael Grant Smith”

  1. Daryl Scroggins on May 4th, 2007 at 11:01 am

    Welcome, friend. You can’t talk too much for me–I perk up every time I see you name appear. Cheers–

  2. Sheila Ryan on May 4th, 2007 at 11:16 am

    “Southwest Ohio? Oh. My. Gawd.”

    (Uttered tongue-in-cheek from unincorporated Somerset Township, Jackson County, southernmost Illinois.)

    What Daryl said. Drone on, please.

  3. Deron Bauman on May 4th, 2007 at 11:27 am

    it’s great to have you! cats and all.

  4. John Buaas on May 4th, 2007 at 11:13 pm

    Welcome, sir.