For close to a month now (actually, probably even more than that), I have promised “The D” that I would answer some interview questions he emailed to me.  After much slacking, I’ve finally gotten around to posting them.  Hopefully they will provide some new insight to those who read this site and don’t actually know me.  Enjoy.  (P.S. Darren, sorry for taking so long.)

1)  You travel for a living. But I have no idea what you do. Are you a salesman? If so, what do you sell, vacuum cleaners? Babies? Sex toys?  What? If you’re not a salesman, are you a superhero that travels from city to city selling your services to the highest bidder like a prostitute? Give us an idea of what you do. Be as specific as you are comfortable with.

That’s actually a question I get asked a lot, even by my good friends.  I have always been paranoid to be one of those boring adults who is unable to talk about anything but their job so I almost take it as a compliment when people don’t know what I do.  To me, your job is something you do to make money to afford things, and your actual “life” is what takes place when you aren’t working.  I make a point not to blur the two if at all possible. 

As for what I do, I travel every week to set up fight clubs throughout the country.  Kidding!  I have a marketing/sales position with a company in KC.  I’m basically responsible for boosting sales in my markets.  I used to have cities all over the U.S. that I was in charge of, but I’m now in charge of the Northeast region.  It was cool to see other parts of the country, but it’s also nice to have consistent times for my eat/sleep clocks.  Okay, the job talk is already kinda boring me.  Next question…

2)  In 2006 your site was hijacked by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). What ever came of this, did they ever tell you why? Are you currently in a federal pound me in the ass prison in Leavenworth?

This is actually an interesting story.  My old host, 2MHost, lost ALL of my old blogging one day.  It was several years worth of writing, and they said that DHS seized all of their harddrives/servers, including their backups, because there was some sort of illegal activity from one of their customers.  Interestingly enough, a friend of mine who works at The Pitch contacted me because he was interested in doing a story on my situation.  He ended up corresponding constantly with DHS to get information about whether or not they actually seized the servers.   After months of research, he found that DHS never seized anything from 2MHost.  Basically, 2MHost lost my content I paid to post through them, lost a ton of other people’s stuff, and then lied to everyone about what had happened.  Needless to say, I was irate.  I immediately thought of ways to put together some class action suit against 2MHost but figured all hope was lost.  Luckily, a good friend of mine was able to find most of my old content online and it should hopefully get reposted soon. 

3)  You seam to be in a slump with the blogging. What’s the dealio, yo? Is the sex toy industry really that busy that you can’t keep us all informed as to what you are doing? Or did you go and get your self a girlfriend, and she cut you off from the blogging?

No, no, I haven’t gone off and gotten myself a girlfriend who cut me of from blogging.  Although, speaking of that, I should mention that, in addition to trying not to talk about work, I also try not to talk about my love life.  Nothing good can come of it.  If you’re with a girl, they can easily hop online and read what you’ve written about them, and if you date another person they can easily read about your thoughts and experiences with another girl.  Like I said, bad news. 

As for the slump with blogging, the only thing I can attribute it to is the lack of time I’ve had lately.  On the average workday, I work, go out for dinner which gets me back to my room around 8 or later, and then try to answer emails and whatnot before having to get to bed.  Obviously, if I do something with friends that pushes things even later.  I’ve been trying to take some time out during my travels to have nights in my hotel rooms where I just relax.  I think it’ll be helpful to prevent burning out.  I’m trying to do better with it.  Thanks for noticing, though.  I forget a lot that people actually read this thing to notice when I don’t post.

4)  Have you ever thought about changing your name to Bradillac?

Haha!  There’s actually a friend of mine who drew me a picture of a Cadillac with that name on the top of it when I was in college.  No joke.  I’ve been Bradical for a while now, though, so I think I’ll just stick with it.

5)  Scenario: You’re a generous philanthropist. You have an unlimited supply of money. What causes do you support? How do you dish out the cash, and why?

That’s a tough one.  I’d have a hard time just giving it to one cause because every one of them needs support.  I’ve personally had family members who’ve passed away from cancer so I’ve always been partial to The American Cancer Society.  I also have done with for The March of Dimes and Children’s Miracle Network.  Those would likely be my top 3.

UPDATE (6/12/07): Oops! When I first read the comment from “The D” I thought he said I was off the chain.  Being that I’m from the streets, I was flattered by his compliment.  Then I read it again and saw that he really wrote.  According to the comments below, I apparently broke the chain of this “interviewing” thing.  Regardless of if you are riding a bike or sending postcards out to people around the world, breaking a chain is never good.  If anyone else wants me to interview them please email me and I’ll send you 5 totally (b)radical questions for you to answer and post on your blog.  Then, it’s your turn to be the interviewee to those interested.  Make sense?  Lovely.