My next interview is with a very good friend of mine, my old pal Zoe. She has a blog: http://behindthemaskofabuse.com/ where she helps people get over the trauma of physical abuse, and she has more courage and strength than anybody I ever met. She also runs a little thing called: http://wepoetsshowit.com/ That is a website where artists and writers and poets and musicians can get their work showcased. I have had a few poems and songs and my tiki carvings shown there… but only because Zoe walks me through it because I am a computer moron. And, if you saw the post not to long ago, she has one of my paintings in her house somewhere in the frozen North.
She is also the one who helps me with all my tech questions and problems, and helped me make the new changes here on the blog. Notice how nicely formatted her interview is, with the different colors and everything, even though I did the same emailing process with her that I did with everybody else… because she is a genius…
Here is the interview:
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1. What do you like best about my blog?
Well my presence on it of course and I guess I should say you, right?
(Well, we do rock)
2. Do you like monkeys?
You’re one right? I do like them, I’ve even held one when I was in Trinidad
(Well now I am just jealous)
3. If you won a free, month-long trip to Paris, but each day for one hour you had to stand under the Eifel Tower naked, would you still go?
Nope, don’t like naked and don’t like travel. I think I would pass the trip along to Trent Lewin word has it, that he’s all for it!
(Ummm… sorry about that… in retrospect, that was a really stupid question to ask you, of all people… sorry)
4. What makes your blog unique?
Which blog? I showcase art on one. The other I don’t know if it’s unique at all. I’m a survivor, I care about survivors and I hope when people drop by that’s what they feel.
(See, I am learning something here… asking the same questions to people is going to lead to some problems)
5. If you were in charge of the universe, what is the first order you would issue?
For all government staff to be paid minimum wage and have no medical coverage or any sort of coverage.
(holy cow, you just solved all the world’s problems)
6. What is the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you?
Why would I share that with the world?? You go first Arthur!
(The advantage of asking the questions is that I don’t have to answer them… also, I am sure I have done a post about every embarrassing thing I ever did… and once again sorry, that was a stupid question to ask you)
7. Would you rather spend the day with an adult, a kid, or a baby?
A baby, they make more sense!
(Yeah they do)
8. What, in your opinion, is the worst thing that Dick Cheney ever did?
Who?
(Oh, that is why I love you frozen tundra people… you have one Rob Ford… we have one in half the cities in the country… and because your igloos don’t even have TV’s in them, I guess)
9. What is the worst thing that you ever did?
Nothing I’m perfect, I thought you knew that by now!
(I did know that, actually)
10. If you could have dinner with one fictional character… including cartoons… who would you pick?
Shhh….be vwery vwery qwuite, I’m hunting wabbits. Elmer Fudd of course. Who else, he should be king….
(Oh… whoops… I think that after I did that Photoshop picture of him in a hunting lodge surrounded by the heads and skins of a bunch of other cartoon characters, they erased all the pictures of him)
11. If you were locked in a room with a knife, a barbeque, and a living cow, would you die of starvation before you could bring yourself to kill and eat the cow?
I would give it my best effort but if the cow began to look like a hamburger or beef, there’s no telling…
(Um… I hate to be the one to break this to you, but no animal just begins to look like a plate of food… you have to… do stuff to it… with the knife and the barbeque first)
12. What one word describes your blog best?
Blog 1 :Art
Blog 2: Abuse
(Okay, that was easy)
13. Is there one celebrity that you would leave your family for if they declared their undying love for you
Leave my family??
(Ahhh… why didn’t I realize how poorly suited these questions were for you? Why don’t I ever think things through? Pardon me… I am going to go whip the crack squirrels)
14. If I got my hands on a photo of you and did funny things to you in Photoshop for a whole week, but you had no input into what I actually did to you, and I posted everything I did, would you be okay with that? And can I have a picture of you?
Does over my dead body answer that question for you?
(Oh yeah… nobody has ever seen a picture of you… or the real you… has your husband even seen you?)
15. What makes you cry?
abuse, the thought of my Hubby dying, pictures of Arthur, talk of crack squirrels…
(Awwww…. that is so … hey… wait… okay, the crack squirrel part is funny, but pictures of me make you cry? That is just crazy talk, because I happen to know you adore me!!!)
16. If you could cuss out one famous person, living or dead, who would that be?
Only one?? I’m Canadian don’t I get more than one like Trent did?? I’m with Trent Hitler, Osama Bin Laudin, any other controlling abusing evil people.
(I can see how you might have a long list of people to cuss out… if you ever want to use my blog for a whole week just to do that, let me know)
17. Tell me the truth, do you really like me?
Do I have time to think about this? Still thinking…..Yeah thinking….
(I realize the pressure of being funny here is driving you insane, because once again, we all know you worship the ground I walk on)
18. What kind of circus trick would you like to be able to do?
I hate circus’ but if there were no animals involved than a trapeze artist or contortionist (get your minds out of the gutter!)
(My mind is never in the gutter… but even when it is, I am staring up at the stars, not trying to look up your skirt)
19. Which drug side effects from those TV commercials disturb you the most?
Anal leakage and I only know of that one thanks to you Arthur! Now how the hell do I get those mental pictures out of my head?!
(Holy crap… uh… no pun intended… how can you not know about anal leakage? What kind of medications do you Canadianoids make that don’t have anal leakage as a side effect? I am now against Obama care! Socialized medicine is evil… we want our medications with ALL the side effects!!!!!!)
20. Who the hell do you think you are?
Who the hell do you think you are asking me that? Is this questioning ever going to end, geeze, I feel like I’m in court..
(You have the right to remain silent! But you won’t… I have seen you comment… you are almost as bad as me)
21. Now tell us why we should follow you…
Drop by and find out why for yourselves
(I told them they should do that)
Just for you…
22. What can we expect to find on your blog?
Well my first blog my story of survival. If you want to know more feel free to drop by.
My second blog/website is a place where we showcase the arts in all forms free. It’s a way for us to give back to the art community.
(Come on people, this stuff is from the heart. You can get your work shown to tons of creative people… or you can talk with other survivors of the horrible stuff people do to other people and gain strength and the will to go on… I think that covers most of the bases)
23. How do you live where the snow is deeper than you are tall?
Well my first thought is very carefully, but we all know Arthur is no smartass. Pft couldn’t even type that without laughing. So I do a lot of shovelling, I had to learn to use the snow plow, and I have a husband who is 6 ft ‘8″ if all else fails. Just for the mental pic, I’m 5 ft 1.
(Please don’t give us that mental image… because Trent is going to read this, and now you know he is going to do inappropriate jokes about that)
24. Have you got a frame for the painting I sent you yet?
What painting?
(You are driving me crazy, woman! I still want my five bucks… and the shipping costs… and in real American dollars, no coins made out of ice or paper with pictures of the Queen on one side and a polar bear on the other)
25. Do you know how awesome I think it is that you think of me as a big brother?
Well I thought I thought of you as a crazy old man with crack squirrels. But I guess a big brother and crazy old man could be one in the same! Right big brother?!
(They can and we are!!!)
(Thank you, little sister)
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Now go and check her out… or her monstrously oversized husband will track you down and walk on your head wearing snowshoes… and I might just help him. It would be fun to hang around with someone taller than me. I never get to do that.
Pouring My Art Out 
She is one of my favorite bloggers
And now you know more about her.
Grrrrreat interview with an amazing person! I am enjoying these interviews…may even come back.
Oh… you are coming back…
Sure, I live dangerously…
Well, this place is so dangerous that we can’t even guarantee the living part… so…
I was raised in a home with landmines…I am pretty darn smart:)
You mean like you had pets that poop a lot, or just a really good security system???
Haha…that’s a cute way of putting it…a parent who spewed a lot of poop and we had to duck a lot…lol. I enjoy your sense of humour.
Oh… those kind of landmines… sorry… have you met Zoe? Or is that where we started???
Yes, I have met that wonderful lady, indeed!! I want to add her books on my page of resources on one of my blogs Stigma Hurts Everyone. January is a busy month here in Canada for Mental Health awareness.
I always assumed that every month in Canada is busy when it comes to mental health awareness… ha… sorry… couldn’t help myself…
Ah Mr. Funny. Actually it is a busy and sad time of year at work here with more calls from youths in pain. That is not reserved to just Canada but areas where days are still short and not much sunlight increases the incidence of depression.
I can see that… I am not making light… I just laugh when I am saddened… it makes going to serious blogs problematic, but sometimes people like it.
Don’t change, kiddo! I love your humour:)
Thanks… but the idea of me ever changing is so farfetched that it boggles the mind…
I love this interview but that’s cos I’m also biased, I follow this blogger and find her inspirational. Pretty great sense of humour too!! In the face of despair, adversity and challenges, I always in awe at the resilience some people have.!! Great great interview!! Oliana
Thanks… she is my buddy, and I am very proud of that.
🙂
Best interview eveah…
We do try.
Love Zoe’s answers and your quips back were pretty good too…. ‘comedy routine for sure’.. Diane
I am just shooting for ‘pretty good’… thanks.
LOL… awesome post…
awww…. shucks…
Arthur you are not kidding. I totally thought she and I were having that conversation on my blog!
I really don’t mind… sort of proud of myself…
Enjoy the pride! 😉
Oh, I am.
😉
What just happened?
I was bad and left you out and I suck and I’m sorry…
Um…okay.
You could do one of these interview things… that would be awesome… or that crazy robot jerk guy you know could do one… that would be really funny…
You can interview HK if you really want…he’s not a nice robot, though…
How would I get in touch with him… it… exactly… dude, I would be the first person ever to interview an artificial semi-intelligence… that would be freekin awesome
Um, I interviewed him on my blog last year, man.
You don’t count… your his friend… you went easy on him…
Um….
Nothing I say to you today is coming out right…
I mentioned you as running wePoets with me because Arthur forgot…lol He has crack squirrels…
Squirrels are nuts.
You said it!
I did!
ha!
yup
I get that.
(His new black armor scares me a little)
I think it’s cool. You should interview Blunt Life Coach!
We are entering negotiations about that as we speak. But I think I made Stuph mad when I forgot to give him credit.
I don’t think Stuph gets upset that easily. Maybe BLC but not Stuph
I am scared to interview him…
why he rocks
I know
Wear a cup!
I feel like a real heel
Aw, that’s an awesome interview. Zoe, you rock. And I didn’t know you had another blog, so I will have to check that out.
Thanks Trent, you set the bar high! We’d love you to drop by our other blog!! TD runs it with me!
Will do. Who’s TD? And feel free to drop by my place anytime, I’m a sprase poster of questionable quality and intelligence, but hey, we Canucks gotta stick together.
I do follow you, and I shall drop by! TD is Twindaddy, I think you know him? Stuph blog? Woot Canucks!
The woods are crawling with moose-keteers.
with what?!
never mind… go back to floating around the room
okay
Don’t hit your head on anything sharp…
okay
ha
I did not know that – cool. Ah, I know Twindadday. I follow Stuphblog, but I’m always confused by who posts there (cause I’m dumb). But at least I’m a dumb Canuck.
Yeah I’m cool like that because you’re cool and I follow the cool crowd….does anyone understand what I just said? Yes there’s a lot of Stuph over at Stuphblog hense the name. It’s kind of like that old commercial for bits and bites…”You never know what you’re going to get!” Ha a dumb Canuck…isn’t that an oxymoron??
what she said
That is just pure dumb caluck
And all beavers are crazy, so you can’t really take credit for that.
The flaming ones are the worst.
I bet
I should have mentioned him…
😉
What?
True story. I don’t get out much. Told you, I only follow about fifty people or so.
Word…
Crazy good answers! Nice interview…colors! (the bar is set high now…)
I wish everyone would use colors…
Thank you! I he may need help 😉
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I can relate to this a lot. Made me tear up a little… not gonna lie. Thanks for putting it out there, seriously. People need to see there are others out there like this that are okay. You’re doing an amazing thing here. Both of you.
Her blog helps a lot of people. I just do jokes.
Your jokes help a lot too. I can only comment for me but they make my days easier sometimes. I followed her…
I try to lighten people’s loads… I am like the Ex-Lax of blogging.
Thank you but I’m sorry that you can relate.
I feel like I actually did something useful here… this being not quite so self-centered thing is sort of cool.
If feels good eh?!
I think my heart just grew three sizes… sniff…
Wow no longer the Grinch!
still green
well yeah some things just can’t be changed!
nope
It’s okay. I’ve learned a whole new meaning to strength because of my children. They may drive me crazy and to a psychotic nervous breakdown sometimes, but I won’t ever let anything happen to them, not like what happened to me.
I’ve been molested by my own uncle and once by my own brother, raped by a person I thought was a friend, verbally abused by my own mother. People think because I’m happy and up beat that I’ve never known stuff like this. What they don’t realize is for years I battled depression. I cut, burned and damn near didn’t survive an attempt of suicide. I’ve thought myself as the ugliest human being alive. I still fight thoughts about that. Being worthless, ugly, horrible, not a social norm…
It’s BECAUSE of all that, and my children that I am this way. I try to find the positives and the humor in every situation because if I don’t then I’ll go back to that. My kids don’t need that in their mommy… my kids need a strong and happy mommy…
I am glad you two met. You now have a safe place to go to talk to people about this stuff… a place that isn’t a light=hearted comedy blog… hint hint… HA!
I’m sorry…
No… I am just kidding! I love it when I do a post that makes something happen. Some of my best posts start conversations that are just crazy deep. I have two posts with more than 1,000 comments on them. I try to be family friendly for the most part, but I don’t ever get in the way of the flow…
I can relate to all that you’re saying. We had to wear a mask to survive. My heart goes out to you. But wow you sound like an amazing mother!! What a gift to have children and the children to have you!
I wish these abusers would end up in jail where they belong. It seems we are always seen as the guilty ones, and there’s very rarely justice.
Or, you could spend a week swearing at them on my blog while me and your gigantic husband put on snowshoes and dance on their craniums!
that would be fun!
It would be
Thank you. My mother has been diagnosed with Dementia and so looking back I always wonder if those were things said to her. She hides things and sometimes from my own father. My parents were always good to each other so I know my dad didnt do anything. he always saved me from her…but it just makes me wonder about her life as a kid. as for my brother, hes rotting in jail for rape and the other two.I have no idea and try my best not to care.
You really do need to meet the people on her blog…
I’m okay myself, but I’d love to help others who aren’t. I’m following her already 🙂
That is so cool…
You know, I was going to say thank you but my baby just attempted to drink toilet water out of a toilet because she wanted to be like the puppy, so any coolness I might have had just vanished….
-.- My children are..well… I love them. If I keep telling myself that over and over, this situation will go away
Not if you have boys… we always try to drink out of the toilets…
True, very true. So that might explain some of the weirdness my brothers have going on. I always knew something wasn’t quite right with them boys. It was the excessive amounts of toilet water…
That’s why we keep the lids up too…
You have quite a story. I know my abusive father was abused by his father as was I by both and my uncle amongst others. Sadly often (but not always) abuse begets abuse. I’m glad at least your brother is in jail. Do you ever wonder why your dad didn’t get you out? I struggle with that in regards to my mother.
Because he loved my mother, and he never really knew the full extent of it. He still doesn’t, I haven’t told him and now with him struggling with the possibility of losing my mother I won’t. All he knows is what he’s heard, and he stopped it then and there. She never did it around him after the few instances of where he got on her case. He had so much stress from work and everything, I kept it to myself.
That must have been such a heavy burden for you to carry.
It did but I’m the type of person you do things like that for people you love, and you know really love you.
I shared my story on your blog. All I ask is that you don’t keep me anonymous. I want to help, that’s why I started blogging again. To help people with the craziness of their lives. From one crazy life to another, right? 🙂
What a kind soul you are. Thank you so much for sending your story! I will use your name if you wish. Is it all right if I schedule it to be posted tomorrow? If so watch for the responses and feel free to respond to them! What a story you have. It’s so sad how much abuse there is.
Please do. Yes, do it on your own time no rush for me!
It is sad there’s so much abuse in the world, and unfortunately it probably won’t go away for a long time. There will always be people who are either unkind, downright sick and twisted or people who have been abused and that’s what they think is right. I’ve broken the cycle, but there are others who haven’t because they haven’t been blessed with the knowledge that it’s wrong. 😦
I agree!
Okay your story is going up tomorrow at 8 am mountain time. I’m guessing if you’re in the States it’s between 9-10 am your time. Feel free to respond! Thank you again.
I’m in the states at Central Time which is an hour ahead of Mountain Time. Where are you from?
Okay great so it’s ready to go. I can’t say publicly where I’m from. I’m in hiding sorry.
Oh I didn’t know. I’m so sorry for asking!!! I feel awful now
Don’t worry, it’s okay, I can email you and tell you. 🙂
That’s fine, you have my email in that post I sent your blog. You can talk anytime if you’d like. Sometimes the helper needs some help once in a while too. I learned that a while ago 🙂
I sent you an email and thank you, it’s true, but I don’t often admit that. I’m really bad at asking for help.
Me too sweetheart, but never let fear (or in my case pride) keep you from asking.
(By the way, I’m southern, living in a northern state, so you’ll get used to my lingo eventually. Everyone after a while is called some sort of endearing term ranging from honey, sweetheart, sweetie and sugar…)
I want to be sugar pie!!!
You can be sugar pie! Just for you!!!
yay
Okay, you too. Sugar pie! 😉
whee
All superheroes have a secret identity and a lair!
True, very true..
I know I do…
(She lives in an igloo inside a log cabin)
Wow you really need to learn about Canada! ha!
I been there twice.
but do you know it?? I’ve travelled all through the U.S. and spent my childhood going to Michigan to visit family
Nobody knows Canada… not even the Canadians… or the beavers!
pft
ha
yay
yay indeed wait until you read it
sigh
I am staying out of this but I am here if you need me… sniff…
Reblogged this on behindthemaskofabuse and commented:
I got interviewed by this crazy guy, check it out, you just might get a giggle or two. There is hope!
Oh man I’m laughing so hard! My work is done, I drove you crazy!
Yes you did…
Love them answers. I can’t go and follow either of those blogs on account of already doing so,
You are just beating the Christmas rush
Yep. Christmas 2027 is going to be busy
I already did my shopping for that one.
I’m a little behind. Unlike J-Lo who is a big behind
Yeah she is… and yeah you are… ha!
Hurumph!
How can a beak even make that noise???
It’s the loose bit at the end, It flaps slightly
Is it supposed to?
Not normally. It just happens
I guess you can’t see a dentist…
I Was up before the beak the other day because I didn’t settle my bill
doh
I posted your interview… I hope you don’t get mad…
I don’t get mad, I get odd
Me too… so I must be mad at everything…
I am defintely odd
yay
Awww you rock!! Thank you!
Yes… but everybody here does…
Yes we do! Igloos?
I am just playing to the audience. I know you all live in log cabins surrounded by maple trees and moose and beavers… that are on fire…
Well you got the moose right
That sounds weird
Ha! We have lots up here but I’ve only seen one and I’m good with that. Hubby has seen many
Trent rides around on them.
I believe that!
Tossing flaming beavers at people. He also sucks the maple sap right out of the trees with a metal straw.
Well of course is there any other way?
You Canadiennes live such interesting lives!
We can also spell
No… you add ‘u’s’ to everything. It makes reading Caunadiaun hard.
say wha
don’t you spell color colour?
yes the right spelling
nou it isnut
pft
Oh and thank you for all you kind words about me on here, I think my head is swelling!
Don’t let it do that… your tiny little elf body could never support the weight…
I’ll get back to you when I stop floating around the room…
Oh, right… I forgot how light you head is… you should be fine.
Yeah I kind of like the floating thing, keep making me sound awesome!
I have those Qualm aliens in the book that float around like that.
cool!
indeed
🙂