IRBHN Interviews: Taarzaan

We caught up with blogger, massage therapist, and insufferable pedant Taarzaan in his high-tech Austin lair, and posed the question on so few people’s minds—

“Taarzan, WTF?”.

IRBHN: So, “Taarzaan”—what’s up with all the big words and shit?

Taarzaan: “Vocabulary”.

IRBHN: Whatever. So, how come you don’t use little, easy to understand words? How come you gotta be all……. I dunno……..

Taarzaan: I never feel comfortable “dumbing things down”—I feel like it is an insult to the intelligence of the reader. As a child, I always resented being spoken to as though I was feeble minded. In fact, I detested Captain Kangaroo—I felt like he was patronizing me.

IRBHN: …………

Taarzaan: I mean, I didn’t know the word “patronize”, but I had a strong sense of it’s meaning—anyway, I always enjoyed something more if I had to stretch a bit—so I guess I project that onto the imagined audience.

IRBHN:………………..ok. So, what about that “roast” thing?

Taarzaan: Believe it or not, I’ve only received three contributions—Kurt read them, seems pretty cool with it---but I keep hoping for more, and a nice rebuttal from Kurt-Kurt-Kurty-Kurt-Kurt. So I wait another few days, maybe a week……..

IRBHN: Stalling—we get it. Like with the Todd clones, right?

Taarzaan: Whatever.

Still to come: Taarzaan’s secrets revealed.

Unless we don’t feel like it.