Comments on: TBT #25: Successive failures

By: Margie

Margie — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 02:38:26 +0000

I stumbled upon this blog entry while looking for something else, of course.

I am an honest-to-god newspaper columnist. In other words, I am a professional interviewer. I also have given workshops teaching other journalists how to do interviews.

I would be happy to actually interview you, and provide you with a transcript you could post or not post online, depending on whether you felt the interview reflected well or poorly on you. At least you would be one-third of the way to your goal. Please let me know if you are interested. Fridays are good days for me, as I do not have deadlines on Fridays. This is not a joke. I have been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 06:18:35 +0000

I used MSN to conduct these interviews (and then gave everyone great fake names for the story!) but I should probably start using AIM so I will add that name to my list sometime! It is a very witty name.

Anyone wishing to ask me questions can check out the new INTERVIEW thread on the forum! Go to the forum! Stuff happens there! And then nothing happens for two or three months. But then stuff will happen AGAIN! It is the cycle of the forum.

By: Care

Care — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:50:05 +0000

Hahahahaha, I’m carexcore, I’m so great.

By: Care

Care — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:35:46 +0000

I think I will create a new, fresh AIM NAME. And then… And then I will add you to it. I could have conducted a stellar interview too, if I weren’t 4 hours ahead and your 3am wasn’t 7 here and I wasn’t getting ready for class at that time.

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:04:07 +0000

Pete’s blog is great, it makes me wish I were a poet.

Sorry about sleeping Matt. These things happen.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 05:02:18 +0000

Everyone SHOULD get a schedule like mine. It makes learning fun!

I’d post the rest of the logs but they are pretty boring. Brad, to his credit, actually carried on an interview with me that lasted almost 45 minutes. We covered a range of topics, from my schooling to my job to how I feel about Electronic Arts and their utter domination of the American videogame development market. John William kept turning the conversation back towards Bobby Darin. Luke went to bed. Pearle just kept insulting me until I ended the interview in a rage.

Roger was the guy who didn’t respond.

Everyone welcome Peter Smallwood and his blog-of-poetry to the sidebar. I don’t know anything about poetry but it seems like good stuff!

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:01:46 +0000

(Minus the “been”)

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:01:04 +0000

I would have been played along if you’d started talking to me at anytime besides THREE IN THE MORNING. I mean come on, we don’t all keep the hours you do!

By: Pearle

Pearle — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 04:14:35 +0000

OMG, now that I get what you were trying to do, what I said was even FUNNIER.

Having said that, I think it’d be cool to see how everyone else’s conversation went. I would like to request that you post the rest of the conversations.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:29:42 +0000

If people had been FUNNIER the idea would have worked! You, be funnier! I can’t be funny for EVERYONE.