Working-class wonk and proud of it. Yah got a problem with that?
Before I got into financial difficulties a year ago and was forced offline, I wrote several blogs, including: Omnium; Ethel, the Early-Warning Frog; and Litblogs - a blog devoted to reviewing literary blogs and blogs that featured just plain good writing. I also wrote the breakthrough blog, Dispatch from the Trenches, later moved and renamed The Revolution (no longer available), which was one of the first single-issue blogs and one of the earliest to cover working-class issues exclusively. Somewhat later, I started the first (to my knowledge) blogzine, BlogTower (also no longer available).
You might say I was, for a short time, a legend in my own mind.
4 responses so far ↓
Laura // Jun 26th 2007 at 12:08 pm
Mick:
Wow! I just found your site while looking for info regarding corporate statehood and the MAI. Not sure how you came up, but I’m glad I clicked! You’re painfully insightful and succinct in your ability to relate facts which have human faces. I will continue to visit your site; I’m thankful for your energy and drive to create a site where you can be heard and others can escape from the madness of the disengaged.
Thanks again,
Laura
Mick // Jun 26th 2007 at 5:11 pm
“painfully insightful”? Is that good?
Laura // Jun 26th 2007 at 8:01 pm
Given the topics, yes it’s good (even if it sounds stupid…). I think one of the reasons people bury their heads in the sand is because thinking about job insecurity is too painful until it hits them. (They simply don’t read the kinds of things you write about.) In my experience, people have only half listened when I’ve tried to relate stories of at least eight of my family members who have been laid off or lost established small businesses within the last 20 years: A machine shop owner/operator, an auto parts store owner, a dairy farmer, a bookkeeper for a large lumbermill, two major corporation mid-level vps forced into early retirement and two chemists. Maybe they were all just slouches…
Laura
mick // Jun 26th 2007 at 11:47 pm
It doesn’t sound stupid, it sounded as if what I write actually hurts to read. Which would go a long way toward explaining some of the responses I get. Otherwise, you were very complimentary, which I certainly appreciate.
But I’d suggest from what you say that you might want to check out the Matewan Chronicles. That’s another of my blogs and focused exclusively on the Class War (which your family certainly seems to have suffered from) and employee rights.
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