I am Silently Correcting Your Grammar

Essays on the 21st Century by a Relic of the 20th

De: Tom Goss

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

This collection is the result of a suggestion my then teenaged daughter made when she was embarrassed and exasperated by some of my more long-winded Facebook posts. Facebook, she insisted, was not the medium for such essays. She suggested I start a blog, which was a more appropriate setting and wouldn’t appear on her newsfeed. So I did.
I called my blog “Musings of an Old White Guy” because that didn’t commit me to a specific topic and because it admitted to my privileged perspective. My postings have been admittedly erratic and mostly about politics, but I wander into such topics as language and culture as well. The blog has attracted a following numbered in the ones despite my effort to promote it in social media. Comments have been few and limited to those social media sites. I will say that the one that got the most passionate—if negative—response was “Where in the World is Trudy Valentine?” I was taken to task for my condescending language and my lack of faith in Valentine’s motivations for running for the U.S. Senate. That was, indeed, one of my more unfiltered tirades.
In contrast, “Howl 2022” elicited several positive comments despite the angry tone.
Those posts aside, I have tried to inject humor into my rants, some more sarcastic than others, so to make them entertaining. There is at least one that was written strictly for humor, “Lessons from the Garden,” but in most cases humor was the medium and not the message.
The posts are presented here in chronological order with an index to some names and topics that come up. My advice to the reader is DO NOT read them in sequence. Rather, I suggest that the reader peruse the table of contents and choose a title that intrigues or infuriates them in that moment. My hope is that these essays will be a source of historical “man on the street” perspective as well as entertainment.