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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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