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The Making of
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Get to Know the Editors...
20 Questions with the Contributors...
Name: Mr. Mockery
Hometown: Krypton
Website: I-Mockery.com

Started with Just Laugh: May 1999

Favorite Food: Boo Berry
Favorite TV Show: Upright Citizens Brigade or Strangers With Candy
Favorite Movies: High Strung
Favorite Book: I'm the most ill-read writer I know, so it would probably be one of those old Choose Your Own Adventure books...
Favorite Band: Bad Religion or NIN
Favorite Quotation: "1-800-CALL-ATT - Save A Buck Or Two!"
Favorite Flavor of Jello: Rhubarb
Hobbies: I run I-Mockery.com, you think I've got time for hobbies!?
Awesomest Candy: Fun Dip and pretty much all Willy Wonka candies
Best Way to Spend an Hour: Why at I-Mockery.com of course! (blatant advertisement)
Who would win in a fight between a T-Rex and the Queen of England?: Who? 
Most Noble Pet: Robot
Turn-Ons: 8-bit video games
Turn-Offs: My paycheck
Mayonaise or Mustard: Ketchup
Morning Dove or Night Owl (time frame - not the actual bird!): Daytime is when everybody in the world is out and about.  Thus, I have the desire to sleep during that time.  You'd be amazed at how much faster grocery shopping goes when you do it at 3am.

How did you get started in the business?

Business?  Hahah, it's only "business" if you make money from it.  I'm doing nothing of the sort.  But I started my own "indie print zine" way back in high school.  It went over well, so when I was in college, I started learning web design and took my ranting and other forms of humor to the web where I found a much larger audience. (and no, I don't mean larger as in "fatter"... I haven't done that kind of demographic research on them yet.)
Why do you do what you do?
Practically everything bores me.  I think I have a serious problem with a lack of interest in just about everything that most normal people find interesting, so I sit here and I write - it's one of the few good releases I've got.  The homicide was fun too, but it wasn't legal. :/
Where do you get your ideas from?
Sometimes my surroundings, sometimes the media...and more often than anything, I just lie down in bed around 4am or 5am and things will just start coming to me.  Then again, when you're up that late every night, all sorts of things start coming to you... (ie: delusions, insanity, etc.)
Which piece do you enjoy the most?
I'd have to say my Castlevania: Priest Battle flash game.  I really put a lot of work into that one along with the programmer (Mike Suhan) who worked on it with me.  I consider that to be my best work to date.  But I'm really proud of the site (I-Mockery) as a whole...I never imagined it would grow to be so large and suck away all the time in my life.  A lot of good sites out there have closed down under the pressure of adding regular updates all year 'round...so I'm glad that I-Mockery is still around these days.
What are your "forbidden" topics?  (what won't you write about)
Racism, Homophobia, Sexism...the only things I would write about them is to mock them.  They have no place in the world of humor or anywhere else.  I also don't put any pornography on my site.  I've always thought porn was stupid and pointless, but I don't have anything against it really.  I just don't want to get "cheap hits" to my site.  I want people coming to my site because they really like the material I've written (or someone on my staff has written) rather than coming to check out the rack of some stupid bimbo.  It's an integrity thing I guess, but it's something I'm proud of...
Where do you see yourself in five years?
Well, hopefully by then I won't have to be working part-time / full-time jobs outside of running my site.  I'd love to work on my sit as my full-time job, but as everybody knows, web ads just aren't paying much these days...even if your site has a lot of traffic, so hopefully by then there will be a better way for us hard-working webmasters to make a living off their sites.  But that's just me being a dreamer...I'm a cynic by nature, and I can only assume that my reality in the next 5 years will be me lying in a hospital bed twitching once for "yes" in response to the nurse's question about whether I want them to shut down my life support machine.
Words of Advice...
"Don't Think."
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