Blogger Insider: ShanMonster Does the Dave

SHANMONSTER: If you had to choose between comics and the internet, which would you pick?

DAVE:

AAAAAAAAUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Probably the Internet. But I’d be very bitter about it, and complain a lot.

SHANMONSTER: What games do you play?

DAVE: RPGs, I’ve played in a D&D 3E, and am currently playing in D20 Star Wars and Oriental Adventures. And I’m currently running a supers campaign using the beta version of the Tri-Stat Silver Age Sentinels system. Other systems/settings I’ve run in include Amber Diceless (both GM and player), Big Eyes Small Mouth (various settings), various flavors of GURPS (mostly fantasy, but a little Supers), Mayfair’s DC Heroes, and a lot of roll-your-own systems, mostly fantasy-flavored.

Computer games I’m mostly into first person shooters, starting with Doom, Quake, the different HalfLife incarnations, various others. I usually do them stand-alone, because I really don’t want to get sucked into the multi-player-on-the-web thing.

Board games we usually play Scattergories, Outburst, Pictionary and Taboo when folks come over, plus a smattering of others. Uno, too.

SHANMONSTER: When and why did you start blogging?

DAVE: August 2001. It seemed like all the In People (meaning friends like Doyce, Rey, and Randy) were all doing it, and it seemed like fun. And heaven knows I never get tired of expressing my uninformed opinions on things.

SHANMONSTER: What’s the most embarassing thing you almost did (stopped yourself from doing, but realized the repercussions)?

DAVE: Gah. Hard to say, since I usually end up doing it, then blotting it out of my memory until I remember it, cringe like I was struck with a bullwhip, and try to forget it again. Really.

SHANMONSTER: Why do you suppose people are so fascinated with the boxer vs. briefs question? Have you ever heard the bloomers vs. thong question?

DAVE: I think it provides a faux sense of intimacy. What could be more personal, more intimate than underwear? I think it’s an interesting commentary on out society that (a) we would ask such questions, and (b) people would answer them, and (c) nobody would really find it at all unusual.

(And, for the record, briefs until about five years ago, at which time, being mindful of stats which show a slight percentage decrease in fertility rates for guys who wear briefs, I switched over to boxers, and have never gone back.)

SHANMONSTER: What’s the strangest search request that led to your site? Did it make you do a similar search to see what you could find?

DAVE:

“seventh heaven slash fiction”

That’s just wrong.

“hot slave princess Leia pic” was understandable, I suppose.

“mysterious tarot ipaq” isn’t, on the other hand.

Whenever I actually find one of these in my referrer logs, I always run it, trying to see where else it may be pointing (and just to figure out how it found my site).

SHANMONSTER: What is the oddest news story you’ve seen recently?

DAVE: I usually post these, so the one that comes immediately to mind is from today, when some guy from the EPA actually indicated with a straight face that filling in streams and rivers with rock and dirt from mining operations ought really not be considered a violation of the Clean Water Act.