Q. How did the idea for The Man Blog come to be?
 
Pau : Wait, this is an email interview? I spent a month's salary buying this spiffy new tux I'm wearing right now and you're telling me we ain't even gonna get to see each other?!

Adam Mordo : After a long day at the office, Mikey and I were smoking weed in our building's fire escape when from out of nowhere, a bright light erupted from the doorway and then Chuck Norris walked in and commanded us to create The Man Blog. Mikey and I were both stoned but neither of us were stupid enough to argue with Chuck Norris. Did you know he can unscramble an egg?

Q. How did you gather all the writers/contributors together?

Pau : I was hoping that we could have done this over lunch or dinner maybe? I even shaved my chest for you!
 
Adam Mordo : We used beer for bait.

Kinkylube: Mike's the slave-driver. He saw my smut and told me that he really think I'm a fantastic erotica/porn writer.
 
Mike: The Man Blog editors are the best of the best as ensured by our strict editorial screening process . I spent around three weeks scouring the internet for witty individuals with low self-esteem who'd willingly write for the site in exchange for a little recognition and a fruit platter.

Q. What does your blog have that the other blogs don't have?

Adam Mordo : We have a nifty logo, a fist. How cool is that? Our advertising blurb would go, "Writing so awful, it's better than good."

Emerson : “We are 150 grams more manly than the leading manly blog!”
 
Pau : What am I supposed to do now with a hairless chest? I hope you're happy you saucy minx.
 
Q. Honestly, I thought The Man Blog was a foreign blog. The humor isn't even Pinoy. Comment?

Pau: Oh I'm foreign alright. What's inside my pants is of foreign proportions if you catch my drift.
 
Kinkylube: Heck I thought Pinoy was a Sumerian dessert.
 
Mike: Well basically, almost all of us belong to the retarded somethingawful.com, and pointlesswasteoftime.com generation. While most people have posters of Basketball stars and movie stars up in their rooms, we have framed pictures of JeffK and Cliff Yablonski on our nightstands.
 
Q. What's your most popular post so far? " The Atrocities of Friendster" has become an email classic, how violent were the reactions?

Kinkylube: I have no idea. However, if I were to hazard a guess, I'd say the most popular posts must be the ones where all the editors circle-jerk in the comments section.
 
Adam Mordo : That would actually be the “Atrocities of Friendster” and the slightly newer “Myspace Patrol.” Atrocities received massive amounts of hate mail, mostly kindergarten insults that simply bounce of our pachydermal hides. The last time we checked though there's already a prayer group invoking our early demise. Oddly though, Myspace Patrol hasn't received a single piece of hate mail which is just sad.

Mike: We are aware that some people might find it hurtful, but being hideously disfigured individuals ourselves we've learned that being overly sensitive about it does not help our cause. So we ugly individuals have evolved a thick hide, practically impenetrable to criticisms such as these.

Emerson : It's giving me sleepless nights trying to think of a good defense. Prison is rough and would definitely not be a good place for Mike Villar's tender *ss.

Pau : I have a very popular "post." Inside my pants. My spiffy new pair that makes my butt look like it belongs in a museum. But seeing as how we're communicating through email, I guess you'll never know.
 
Q. How did you clinch the elite membership in 9rules. What would you consider your greatest accomplishment in the few months or so since your blog's inception?

Adam Mordo : I guessed we pushed harder than anyone ever did. We sent them numerous gift baskets and all the fruitcake we received for Christmas. We also sent our naked pics which now that I think about it, probably wasn't a very good idea. When that didn't work we threatened to call them racist pigs if we get rejected and the rest as they say is history. 

Mike: I feel that the main factors with regards to us being accepted into 9Rules are content and design. These are non-negotiable elements of a successful blog and we are all proud that 9Rules saw both of these in TMB. 
 
Apart from 9Rules, The Man Blog is also part of The Erati community of creators, one of the most aggressive blog networks in the blogosphere today. The deal involves me flying to Utah every week to wash Erati's Senior Content Developer David Krug's car. 
 
Our greatest accomplishment so far is being inducted into two of the top blog networks in the world just barely over a month from TMB's launch date. This is nothing close to our ultimate goal which is to get laid via the internet, but we'll take it. 
 
I don't know about the other editors, but I am proud to say that I received quite a few marriage proposals from adoring fans and I'm positive at least one or two of them are sincere. I think.
 
Q.  How important are the following to you: traffic, search engine results, advertising revenues, comments?

Kinkylube: Chicks, I think.

Pau : I'm afraid we got off on the wrong foot. What say you and I meet at my place and we could get off our feet together?

Emerson: Ad revenue good. Traffic from hot chicks even better.
 
Adam Mordo : Traffic? Well, we sure could use a lot less of it. Everyday on EDSA it's the same story as I'm sure you're well aware. The last time I searched my engine I found the remains of Jasmin, my cat, who's been missing for several months, so I'd say search engine results are pretty important if not a bit tragic.
 
Ad revenue would be really nice. I wish we had some. Comments are cool but we need cash.

Mike : For me, everything takes a backseat to content. We are proud of our content. I mean it's easy to read content from other blogs, put in a sentence or two of your own opinion then regurgitate it into your blog and call it your own post. We do NOTHING of that sort. We plagiarize from other sites but that's about it.
 
Q. What's your vision for TMB?
 
Adam Mordo : We're hoping to get our own TV show soon. Calling the attention of Mr. Enrico Santos of ABS-CBN! We could easily replace the painfully unfunny "male oriented show" on channel 23. We don't like to name names but I'm sure you know what we're talking about!

Kinkylube: Why is vision important? Can't we do something for the sake of doing something? Must we be goal-oriented all the time?

Emerson :  Oh God. I'll be happy just to not get sued within the next few months.

Pau : You, me, and two glasses of appletinis on a secluded tropical island where we are worshipped by the natives who show their adoration by throwing little bananas at us every time we walk by.

Mike: Get laid via the Internet! LOLROFLOMGWTFBBQ!!!!!
 
Q. Please tell us about your site design and the content management (blogging) system you're using.

Adam Mordo : We're running on Textpattern, perhaps one of the best CM systems around, arguably second only to Calliope, which every serious blogger knows is simply the best. 

Mike: We are honored to have a talented team we brought in from India in charge of our site design. This team is headed by Design guru Jolo Santos (http://avlack.com/blog) who we keep locked in a secret basement living off leftovers from our nightly parties.

Q. What other zany things can we expect from TMB in the next few months?
 
Adam Mordo : We honestly don't know. But I guess that's the beauty of it all isn't it? There are a lot of of ideas in the air like the "Red Horse Diet" which requires one of us to consume nothing else but Red Horse Beer after 6:00pm. We want the experiment to last for at least 3 months. We might put up daily results of the diet in a special section we can call the "Red Horse Diaries." I also plan to walk up to random women and ask them if I can touch their boobies for a social experiment. Mikey will be following me with a camera outfitted with a telephoto lens to document everything.

Kinkylube: A double bill review of King Kong and Transporter 2. And generally more bitching.

Emerson : I am currently drafting a multi-volume work on rape. I'm going to cover all possible scenarios (male/female/animals/plants/objects) that should really capture a good cross section of our potential audience.

Pau : Once we figure out the mechanics of it, we're going to set every other website on the internet ON FIRE! But it's still in the planning stages because a Google search for "Cyber Matches" keeps bringing us to the "Atrocities of Friendster" page.

Mike: We are constantly coming up with concepts for new features. In the next few months, we will have a feature called 'Hostage Hamsters' wherein we will hold captive 52 hamsters. Every week, if the public doesn't 'donate' a total of ,000 dollars to our paypal account, we will be forced to execute one hamster. This will go on until there are no more hamsters left for our custom-made guillotine to behead or if the public continues to pay the weekly ransom.
 
Q. Any memorable emails/comments from your readers?

Emerson: A reader asked if she could be my friend.

Kinkylube: Yeah there was one from this chick from girlspoke.com. It seems that when she found out that we're Asian, she dropped all correspondence like a hot brick. I mean, don't you think we're sexy?
 
Adam Mordo : Well, we have gotten a whopping ONE email with a boobie pic. We wouldn't mind getting any more though.

Pau : One reader quit her religion and proceeded to found the Church of Man.
 
Q. What do you think are the advantages/disadvantages of having this kind of group blog?

Kinkylube: An advantage would be, if one of the members of the group is ill or not in the mood to write, the others can fill the gap. A disadvantage would be, some members might decide to become lazy.
 
Adam Mordo : Well, I've always wanted new friends. I promise not to kill them this time.

Mike : The only disadvantage for me is that I have to share the fame and glory with six other people. I'm a fame whore and would like to keep all the fame and glory to myself.

Emerson: It's like having friends without the benefits of having friends.

Pau : Two Words : banana gangbang!
 
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