I fuck up this Q&A thing with Joey Alarilla of Inq7.net
Could you tell us something about yourself? When and why did you start blogging and who got you hooked?
I’m 23 years old and currently doing marketing work for an Internet firm. I have been single for more than a year now and have since been consistently turned down by random women I solicit sexual favors from in the street. Must be my halitosis. Or my excessive sweating. I don’t know. Again ladies, my e-mail address is mike.villar@gmail.com
I started blogging back in 1997 with manually edited HTML page. It was difficult considering back then, there weren’t any CMS (content management system) applications I could use, so I quit and turned to more productive activities such as getting drunk and spending nights in jail.
Now I’m back, more mature, much wiser, and much fatter. With regards to who got me hooked, nobody did; I basically just want to be rich and famous. I don’t know if blogging would allow me to achieve that though. Let’s hope so.
What makes a blog better than a regular website? Did you try putting up your own site before you started blogging?
A blog allows for easy creation of new pages, since new data is entered into a simple form (usually with Title, Category, and the body of the article), and then submitted. The templates take care of adding the article to the home page, creating the new full article page and adding the article to the appropriate date or category-based archive.
You can’t do that easily with a regular website. Or maybe you can, I don’t know. The Wikipedia article I plagiarized the paragraph above from doesn’t say anything about it though.
About putting up my own site before I started blogging; this is embarrassing but back in 1997, I put up a fansite for the Backstreet Boys using basic HTML (Why, Mike, why?–Ed.). I shudder in disgust when I think about it now; I mean the Backstreet Boys are lame. Except for Kevin of course, he’s hot.
Would you say that blogging is very addictive? How many people have you convinced to also start blogging?
Well it is very addictive because I have this reverse voyeurism syndrome going on. I want people to read about my daily life however pathetically boring it is. I really don’t keep track as to how many people have been inspired by me to start blogging but I consider myself an internet superstar; so a rough estimate would be somewhere around 3,000,023 people across five continents.
How has blogging made a difference in your life?
It hasn’t. I mean blogging doesn’t change the fact that I’m a 23-year-old still living with his parents does it? I’m going to move out next year though. I hope.
What blogging software do you use? What makes it better than other blogging services?
I use the most awesome blogging software in the world: I.PH powered by Calliope. What sets it apart from other blogging services you ask? Well it allows you to create exquisitely beautiful blogs without hardcore manual coding and it has a lot of bells and whistles that would make Ev Williams salivate in his grave in envy. Wait a minute, is he even dead?
What’s the most memorable experience you’ve had in the blogging world?
If you haven’t figured out by now, I’m a very sick, twisted man. So sick in fact that I sometimes write love letters brimming with sexual, offensive innuendos in my blog. Suffice it to say that the girl I wrote my letter to stumbled upon it and confronted me. Yeah, I know, I should’ve changed her name. And yes, I know, I’m not very smart.
Oh and anyone who comments on the picture gets a fat lip. Thank you.
I know. This is just too much power for one man.
Posted by Anonymous at January 22, 2006, 7:17 pmdude, that's halistosis!
Posted by cardcarrying oh whatever at February 1, 2006, 4:17 pmdude, ive been trying to search your name in friendster….whats your ID?
Posted by Hipo Krates at February 12, 2006, 6:16 pmMike "Fucking" Villar
"a Manila-based blogger made famous by his Atrocities of Friendster series, a regular feature he publishes on his blog where he mercilessly criticizes and mocks pictures of ugly people he stumbles upon on popular social networking site, Friendster. Although a lot of people are offended by what he writes, long-time readers of his blog regard him as a brilliant satire writer."
-Taken from my WikiBios page
Well SOMEONE'S famous now, is he?
Posted by Shelly at January 20, 2006, 9:05 pm