I am very thankful for all the support from all of you, not only in donations and comments, but sharing the blog and FB fan page. Furthermore, you guys are always sending me tweets and links of fun stuff to blog. I’ve made some real great friends here on the web.  As the family of Sikkdays.com readers grow, it seems that the contributors should also grow.  Thus, I figured it was time to add to the army of me and burdenday(Yes he’s still here, just busy with some really cool new projects and reviving TNN).

I would like you all to welcome, Spike Matthews as a new contributor. He’s across the pond, so be warned he types with an accent. Many of you will know him as Spikeyboy from PMOG/TNN, but for those of you who don’t I have assembled some questions for him to answer:

#1) Cake or Pie?

Cake if it’s a blueberry muffin, otherwise I like pie – key lime for the flan type, apple with cinnamon fer the pastry toppers (with thick custard of course.)

#2) Sometimes it feels like we are our jobs. What was your first job?

Paperboy? Meh – everyone did that. First real job was working in a greengrocer. Just don’t talk to me about rancid spuds…

#3) After years of tension the semicolon and the comma finally rumble, what happens?

Well, you’ve seen the results on thousands of handwritten signs advertising “Vegetable’s for sale, cheap!” outside shops, surely? This isn’t the result of human inability, this is what happens as a result of the Great Punctuation Wars.

#5) Favorite childhood game? (video, board, handheld, sport-like activity, whatever)

Pada-tennis (small scale tennis court, using heftier versions of table ten… er… ping-pong bats), Scrabble, Blackjack, Ten-pin bowling. Skill is another matter.

#6) Theory on why question #4 is missing?

Chemically-enhanced cock-up. (Wow Burden day went for the drug comment here too. Hmm, where did I get a reputation like that.)

#7) Favorite word?

Many, although ‘arsebiscuits’ is my current favourite for the sweary side of things. Lots of words please me for various reasons; ‘crenelation’, all onomatopoeic words (‘plop’, ‘zing’ etc), and so on, ad nauseum…

#8) Which actor was your favorite Batman? Apologies, since you are across the pond let me translate, Who is your favorite Doctor?

Best Batman… hmm… I have to admit I liked Michael Keaton’s go at it. The best Doctor… Tom Baker with David Tennant a very close second.

#9) I recall you are quite the music buff. Is there any music you absolutely can’t stomach?

Two types, but since I think you have to attend an opera to properly appreciate it, I shall let that one go. Jazz, on the other hand…. Pass me that pile of sheet music, will you? I want to wave it under some pseud’s nose and rant awhile…

#10) Which is key to peace on Earth: Bacon or Charlize Theron?

As long as yer not on about Kevin, then I have no hesitation in planting the flag for Bacon.

Hmm…

Somehow I feel like you know even less about him, now. I should really work on my interview skills.

It makes you wonder with the crack acting skills of Keanu, why wasn’t the original film silent?

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Not exactly the scenes I would have chosen, but kudos to the Russians for making a really convincing parody of a silent film, pies and all.

Great news! I’ve managed to capture another blogger for sikkdays.com! Honestly I didn’t capture him, he offered to help out. Plus, he doesn’t have my address so he won’t be able to bill me for his work.

Anyway, Mr. burdenday was the community manager at the game formerly known as PMOG and now he is a community manager/designer at Rise & Ruin. You can also find him at burdenday.com where he shares his experiences managing online communities.  burdenday is just about finished with his English major, so this will be a definite upgrade for those of you that don’t just come here for the pics and videos.

Some of you may be familiar with burdenday, but for those of you that do not know him below are some questions I emailed him along with his answers:

#1) Cake or Pie?

Beefcake!  No seriously though, I’ve never been one much for sweets, but I do appreciate some yellow cake when appropriate.

#2) Do you think it is fair to the other colors of the spectrum to pick a favorite?

Look – here in America we’ve had a long standing tradition of choosing a favorite color and alienating the rest of the spectrum with our “favorite color exceptionalism.”  I’m here to change that 20th century carryover thinking from the past eight years.

#3) Buddy Holly was obviously a star, but if the plane crash of February 3, 1959 never happened who would have had a bigger career, Ritchie Valens or The Big Bopper?

Kurt Cobain.

#4) Automobile of the future: Electric or Hydrogen powered?

So close your eyes for a moment and begin to imagine pictures of the most horrific accidents in the world’s history. Begin to recall those involving air vehicles… Good!  Now I am going to say a word and we’ll do some free association: Hindenburg.

Electric – I’ve been shocked by 120V wires a few times and survived.  I am pretty sure I won’t survive a hydrogen engine explosion though.

#6) We are our jobs, what was your first job ever?

My very first job ever was as a receptionist for my aunt’s Law Firm.  It is considered “very professional” to have a male receptionist, I was told.  I enjoyed it because mostly I surfed the Internet aimlessly and just put people through to voicemail – those were the days!

#7) Theory on why question #5 is missing?

Wow, I didn’t even notice.  I’m adding this to the list of possible drug interactions for Vicodin. (I should note that burdenday just had a minor surgery and is not a junkie that I pulled off the street.)

#8) Favorite childhood game? (video, board, handheld, sport-like activity)

I played EverQuest for far, far too many years.  If I had to choose a favorite, that would be it.  There is nothing quite so satisfying as spending months of your life chopping away at virtual animals and monsters with swords.

#9) If you were stranded on a desert Island, what is the first thing you would build yourself?

A library, so I could begin writing enough books to fill it and then long after my death someone would discover it and they’d all be “classics.”  That’s how it works, isn’t it?

Wow, I thought that last question was weak, but that is an excellent answer. All I could think of was building a bowling alley. Hanging out at the beach is great, but if you lived there I have to imagine you’d get bored of it.

Sikkdays.com hasn’t really had any sort of real focus aside from ‘look what I found on the Interwebs’ & my passion for animation. Therefore, I see no need to constrain burdenday to report on a single subject. I am just happy to have his contribution as long as he doesn’t post anything about Kevin Costner.

So my 3 other blog readers, give a big sikkdays’ welcome to burdenday.

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