Mad Matt - Hedge Defender!

Matt is Welsh but is forgiven because he makes me laugh with his very clever and exciting places in which to keep words - which is HERE. He is also master of the very funky Turboart where you can now buy the t-shirt.

He says....

"I've attached a picture of me in a most pink and camp hat. I hope it gives people the wrong impression :P "

1.Why did you start blogging?
I'd written a column for a time and after stopping had missed writing things for the imagined audience I pretended I had. Mostly then because other friends in the area were, and because I felt I required some sort of web presence that didn't involve paying for hosting and/or web design. (imaginary friends syndrome?)

2.When will you stop?
I can't particularly imagine I will, to be honest. If someone pays me to write elsewhere and with a similar frequency I might. I'm quite fickle, and can be easily led by something I think might be more fun. (waving)

3.What is your favourite kind of post to write?
I think... well. I suppose I write a mixture of confessional nonsense and/or surreal anecdotes, or otherwise. I don't have a favourite per se - the way I write blog posts is simply the way I write blog posts. I'm fond of my running themes though - Micheal (and yes, it's spelled that way), the turbodictionary, and now Turbo Art. (link above - greedy plugger)

4.Give some examples of the diverse range of links on your blogs(lit, arty,funny, stupid etc) what do you mean they're not diverse?
I've got the big guns in there - The Onion, Tom Reynolds, GOB and so on. But otherwise... friends, literary blogs like the ones you lovely lot write, people who seem to have a staggeringly well-informed interest in Information Technology, journalists, musician friends, the odd strange website.

5.You can have five bloggers over for tea and cakes who would you choose?
Hm. I'm slightly too ashamed of my house to invite them for tea and cakes, but probably I'd invite my old uni chums that blog because it's rare that any of us are in the same city these days. I'd like to meet some of the literary folk I've stumbled across online too. (lit folk huh?)

6.You have the power to blow up one blog. Who?

There are a horrible number of far-right webrings that I'd like to see the back of, but I kind of hope that people can see for themselves that they all spew forth the most tremendous amount of balls. I'd possibly like to blow up a good proportion of the self-indulgent crap that some idiots seem to spout, but that'd also contravene my views on free speech. (think you speak for many of us!)

7.What colour underwear are you wearing?
Black. (boring!)