I’m excited that THIS is the 100th post on Danblewett.com.  It’s a milestone that I’m pleased to report, mostly because I wouldn’t have written this much had not my readership continued to grow, and the feedback continued to be good.  Not to say that I’m driven solely on the approval others, but it’s nice to know that people are getting something out of my musings here in cyberspace.  After all, I’m in this position largely because of how much stuff I have tried, and how much failure I have experienced. Good thing is that it’s all become something useful to others, which is all you can ask for in one’s failures and tribulations.

So, as I pondered what to write for the big 100, I wondered how many of you out there know anything about me on a personal level.  I don’t write this blog as a tribute to myself, but rather just as a training resource, using applicable experiences that I might have as helpful examples.  I also wondered if anyone out there cares (the answer is probably no).  Yet, I’m gonna force feed you a little taste of what it’s like to be this internet magnate that I am, as seen through an interview with me. Now’s your chance to learn the answers to questions about me that you neither asked nor care about. Enjoy!

*Editor’s Note: After re-reading this, I’m convinced that this is my finest post to date among posts that have no value to my readers*

1. Dan, your majesty, how do you start your day each morning?

Well, I wake up really groggy, and I usually find that I look ridiculous when I finally meander over to the mirror.  I then make a huge pot of oatmeal, check my email and stare, in a stupor, for about 15 minutes at my computer as I listen to music and sort out my life.

2. Interesting. So you enjoy music?

Well, I have no TV in my house, so I listen to upwards of 8 hours of Pandora or Grooveshark radio a day.  I now know the words to a ton of songs that I don’t even like, which is just fantastic.

3. Who plays on your Pandora stations?

My top four are Lupe Fiasco, Common, Dispatch and Matisyahu.  That’s a pretty good variety for the intelligent rap and reggae kick I’ve been on recently. Matisyahu is good, but he sings OY OY OY YO YO YO way, way too much.  Cool story, though.

4. What food could you not live without right now?

That would have to be almond butter.  I eat a 16oz jar of the stuff in about 3 days, and had I less restraint I could certainly polish one off in an afternoon.  Trader Joe’s roasted crunchy variety is the shiznit.  Not only is it fattening, but expensive, too!

5. This is quite a boring interview.  Soooooo, any interesting life stories recently?

Well, my current living situation is interesting.  I live with an asian guy, a jamaican guy, a black guy and a white guy.  We have a mix of straight and gay. It’s an interesting melting pot of cultures and orientations.  But, they’re all really nice people so it’s worked out.

6. Wow. That’s interesting.  Sounds like a refugee camp.

Yeah, it sort of is.  I just live day by day – living in Baltimore is wacky.  I got into an argument with a neighbor lady the other day shoveling snow, which was irritating. She was convinced that the snow I was throwing into the street was going to get plowed back onto her car, despite being farther uphill than I was.  They don’t plow uphill, and physics eluded this rude strumpet. She said that this wasn’t her first snowstorm, to which I replied that it wasn’t my first rodeo either.  She didn’t get it.

7. What’s something most people don’t know about you?

Hmm.  I’ll tell anyone pretty much anything, but if I had to pick one thing, it would be that I hate brushing my teeth and I hate showering. I put them off as long as possible each night, and if I came down with a terminal illness my family and friends would have to endure my green, rotting teeth, diaper breath and rotten-clam smelling armpits ’til the bitter end. We’ll see who really loves me!

8. Do you like to travel? If so, who with?

I am a huge fan of traveling and shirking my responsibilities. I went on a trip with my friend Patrick “Wink” Nolan about 6 months ago, and it was hilarious.  It’s funny to be around people with varying viewpoints.  Patrick is a huge Christian and I am solidly Atheist, so we had some great clashes and I made sure to use my foulest language and talk about the most crude things I could come up with.  Yet, through all his slightly embarrassed laughs, he didn’t break. (Goddamnit)

9. This is still shaping up to be quite a lame interview.  If you could do one uninhibited thing tomorrow with no hit to your image, what would you do?

I talked about and imagined this with my friend Andrew while in Wal-Mart buying bacon one night at 2am.  I thought, what would happen if I went up to that huge display of oranges and just started throwing them in all directions as fast and as hard as I could? Would Wal-Mart employees stop me? If they didn’t, I could definitely unload all 300 or so oranges on the store, pretty much destroying it in a hellfire of sweet, sunkissed fury.  I would just crush things with those oranges, throwing them as hard as I could at display cases, shelves, TVs, mutant shoppers, you name it.  They would rain in on shoppers from 250 feet away, and you would hear Baltimore-accented screams all over.  It would be a lot like a terrorist attack, but much more benign and delicious.  I’d go to jail for multiple years.

10. Finally, this nonsense is almost done. Any last thoughts?

Yes, actually.   If you found this self-indulgent interview humorous, then Science-Bless you (remember, no God for me).  If I have amused one person (I have ->me) then this has fulfilled it’s purpose.  If it’s amused more than just my lame self, then wow, I’m even greater than I thought I was.  If you made it this far, Thanks for reading, and expect a lot of great things to come in the near future as the site undergoes some even greater expansion, a new logo and more!