Have a Blog Title You Can Be Proud of

King Kong Rah Rah Rah

My good friend King Kong Rah Rah Rah certainly has one. What an awesome title: it projects irony and assertiveness all at once. Blog names do not come much better than that, my friends.

It does help that KKRRR, as she is otherwise known (note, too, that an awesome blog title should be able to acronym itself in a distinct manner), is also a great writer and quite funny. No use in having a good title if you bore people with your content. Recently, KKRRR took some time to answer some of my searing questions about herself and her views of the world. Here are some excerpts from our exchange:

1. What is your favorite planet? Why?
Pluto. I’m always one for the underdog.

2. What is the weirdest meal you have ever eaten?
Hmmm… What qualifies as weird? I recently went to a gastropub and had beef tongue hash, rabbit gnocchi and sweetbreads with creamed corn. That’s weird by some standards, but not by my standards. At a Taiwanese restaurant I had some stewed beef large intestines which tasted like old rubbery shoes to me, not that I’ve eaten old shoes. Then again at a random restaurant in Nanjing the entire meal tasted like it was cooked in some inedible oil; then toward the end of the meal some drunk dude stumbled downstairs and threw-up buckets just three feet behind me. I decided not to look and watched my dinner pals make disgusted faces instead. I’m glad I didn’t look. That was a weird meal.

3. What blogs do you usually read?
YTP of course. And food and mom blogs…
dooce
Cook & Eat
Secret Agent Josephine
Anthony Bourdain’s Blog
Bitten
All & Sundry
ruhlman.com
Chocolate & Zucchini
Lunch in a Box

Editor’s note: Whoa! It took me two hours to put the hyperlinks into the list, because I kept getting distracted and reading all these blogs. What a great selection.

4. Where did you come up with the name King Kong Rah Rah Rah?
The inspiration for the name of my blog comes from the person who most inspired me to write – my brother, who is affectionately known as Brother Ben or Uncle Ben in our house. When we were children, Brother Ben and I would write silly stories together on our Commodore 64, mostly our own Star Trek episodes. Ben was a really smart and well spoken kid, but he made a very poor first, or second, or third impression on people because he was very selective with his words around people he didn’t know well. He still is to this day. One of my best friends in middle school, Jill, had never heard a peep from my brother’s mouth – despite the fact that we had been friends for over a year. It was a running joke that he didn’t speak.

Then one afternoon during one of my post-school telephone conversations with Jill, my brother came into the house and said, “King Kong rah rah rah!” And Jill heard it over the phone. Needless to say, after all those months of never hearing him speak, that those should be the words she finally heard come from him left a deep impression on both of us.

5. What are you going to do once you finish this interview?
Finish my lunch… canned chicken noodle soup.

KKRRR also writes at King Kong Dumplings, and did a guest post for me at Extra (Hour)dinary Parenting this week. And she has a job and two kids. Wowzers.

If you would like to be interviewed at YTP, head on over to the “contact” page or just drop me a line in the comments! I’ll send you my latest list of searing questions so that you, too, can share your vision of the world with the world.