This Hall of Shame contains some people and publications who have betrayed a cruel indifference to anyone's interests but their own. They have tried to turn me into a cliché, to treat me as an object for potential scorn, ridicule, or even physical violence by bigots (no joke in these dangerous times of beatings and deaths at the hands of the intolerant.) At best, they have arrogantly used me and abused me to grind their own prurient axes, to profit by and justify their own agendas.
 
It's no fun to discover someone else's fetishistic hang-ups, to inadvertently confront an unsuspected slice of unwholesomeness in another. Even less amusing is to find yourself the target of painful bigotry and prejudice. The names below have caused me to wince involuntarily, and in some cases to spend sleepless hours at night. While I have never harmed or hurt any of them, they have chosen to hurt me. Is this deliberate nastiness, or just wanton insensitivity? Couldn't you wait until I'm dead? Have you no decency, no respect?

Notes: Up until now, the only way I knew of to deal with those to whom respect and empathy are foreign concepts was to try to ignore them. But you really have to respond in the real world, else others will think it's okay to treat you like dirt. I have no other public forum, no connections to the press or media. This is my one available way to yell "OUCH!". The listing is deliberately incomplete, containing only the major shits. Be extremely wary of anything these folks have to say about me (recall the computer term: "GIGO"). Those who have, through additional outstanding acts of selfrighteous posturing, achieved the status of "Cruel Summa Cum Louder" are scored with a Suffix of the Black Leaf.
 

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Trevor Pinch & Frank Trocco (Coulter&Limbaugh wannabees)

The Grove's Dictionary of Musicians (oh grow up)

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians
  (pulp expose trash disguised as scholarship)

Sarah Vowell

Colin Larkin

Grande Royale Magazine (glitzy mediocrity)

Obsolete's: 120 Years of Electronic Music

All Music Guide, book & site (a hodge-podge of fabrications)

Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (piggy)

Ira Glass

Amazing's: Amazing Sounds

The New York Observer (little truth in their "news")

Playboy Magazine Editors

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