Technorati has a new interview with Michael K of Dlisted.com. He comes across as just as funny and humble as he does on his blog. It’s nice to see him getting some well deserved press. The thing about Michael K is that he’s rude and dirty, but he never crosses the line into hurting anyone or being truly offensive. There’s a real humanity to his site. Sure he conjures up some colorful imagery, but it’s all in good fun and isn’t cruel or mean at all. You can’t really say that about many other popular celebrity bloggers. When the interviewer talks about how Michael is so well liked he counters that he does get negative comments and e-mail all the time. He says he doesn’t sweat it because he talks so much smack that he expects to get some back. Michael K also says he doesn’t want to be famous and is happy to continue blogging:

Dawn: Most bloggers, especially the self-promotional kind, use social media tools like Facebook or Twitter as a way to publicize themselves, you however do not. Why?

Michael K: Because honestly, people could care less. And it’s just not me. I always the one making fun of people in the corner. I was never the one dancing in the middle of the room. Well, unless I’m drunk and a Debbie Deb song is playing.

Dawn O: Where do you see yourself in a year, five years?

Michael K: Right here.

Dawn O: What advice would you give a blogger who wants to make a career out of blogging?

Michael K: Don’t expect to make tons of money. Do it because you have something to say. Oh, and be consistent! That is all…

Dawn O: Another observation on your popularity. I read an interview someone did with you and the comments were embarrassing – not ONE person had anything but glowing things to say about you, and comments on Dlisted support my theory.

Michael K: I get bad comments! All the time! I’ve been called a misogynist, racist, Shiloh Jolie hater, homophobe, etc… etc…

Dawn O: No way! I refuse to believe you. For example, when I have read other popular gay bloggers sites, ahem, more than half of their comments are telling them to go f*ck themselves, I don’t see that on your site.

Michael K: The comments are there. But the bad comments usually come to me through e-mail.

Dawn O: Do you give those haters the ‘side-eye’? (yet another term popularized by MK when a person is talking ‘smack’ or giving you flack’.)

Michael K: Naw. I talk a lot of shit, so I don’t get mad when people give it back to me. It goes with the territory.

Dawn: Another strange Michaelkism, is your obsession with extreme, or as you call them, chola eyebrows.

Michael K: Well, I grew up with chola and a lot of my family members are wannabe ones, so that’s where my obsession comes from…

Dawn: Do you ever wish to be more famous (or infamous) or is this simply a job that pays the rent? What do you really want to do with your writing is what I am getting at.

Michael K: Well, it’s more than a job to me. Since I started this wreck from the beginning, it’s kind of my life. And I don’t really have any aspirations of becoming the next Cojo or anything. I don’t want to be famous. I’ve been told that if I want to be more commercial, I have to stop cursing like an angry grandma and tone down my raunchiness. Without that, I’m basically Mary Hart, but not as glamorous.

Dawn O: So you would be happy doing this forever? Don’t you ever wish you could take a vacation?

Michael K: What are vacations? But yeah, I think I’ll have to bring in a co-host soon so that I could pursue other writing projects and frolic naked on the beach.

[From Technorati via Gossip Rocks]

Michael K is kind of evasive when he’s asked if he’s single. He kind of says he has a boyfriend but you can tell he’s not that comfortable talking about his personal life. When asked if he was ever with a woman before realizing he was gay, he says “I’ve visited the vagina buffet a few times in high school. We all did. I knew I loved the peen around the same time I started fooling around with girls.” I love this guy and find his writing so funny and smart. It must be so hard to write the volume of stuff he does and come up with such sharp observations every time, but he makes it look easy. He’s right that you don’t get rich blogging and you have to work every day without fail, but it can be a lot of fun. Especially when it’s your job to read some of the hysterically funny and trashy stuff that your fellow bloggers come up with. Michael K is really in a league of his own and deserves all of his success.

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