Michael N. Marcus is a journalist, author, advertising copywriter, and founder and president of AbleComm, Inc. (“the telecom department store”).
He provides the words for nearly 40 websites and blogs, has been Audio-Video Editor of Rolling Stone, and has written for many other magazines and newspapers. Michael was one of the first writers to humanize hi-fi hardware, describing the equipment with emotion, not math.
Born in 1946, Michael’s a proud member of the first cohort of the Baby Boom, along with Dolly Parton, Candy Bergen, Donny Trump, Billy Clinton and Georgie Bush.
At the urging of a misguided guidance counselor, he went to Lehigh University to become an electrical engineer, and was quickly disappointed to learn that engineering was mostly math — and slide rules were not as much fun as soldering irons.
Michael was one of the few literate people in his engineer-filled freshman dormitory and made money editing term papers. He got in big trouble when he got caught running wire from his dorm room to a friend two floors below, and an inspector found a payphone in his suitcase.
His college apartment had an elaborate and illegal multi-line phone system, a phone booth with a toilet in it, and an invisible phone activated by two hand claps.
Michael lives in Connecticut with his wife Marilyn, Hunter the Golden Retriever, and a lot of stuff — including both indoor and outdoor telephone booths, a “Lily Tomlin” switchboard, lots of books, CDs and DVDs, and many black boxes with flashing lights. Marilyn is very tolerant.