I took down the interviews that I had post here. As many of you know, they weren't written for this web site originally anyway. Some of the first interviews that I had written were actually for the old Mad Ghoul web site, which I maintained as an investigation into the paranormal. Later when I helped form the online counterculture magazine Key 23 (which later morphed into Key 64), I imported all of the interviews from the Mad Ghoul web site and gave them a new home on the counterculture web site, while also adding newer interviews specifically for Key 23. When I closed the doors of Key 23/Key 64, I moved those interviews to this web site, while giving proper credit to the web sites that had originated them.

Something happened though. The interviews got old. The problem with interviews is that they get outdated pretty quickly, especially if they contain timely information or are about a specific event or product. Although they contained great information and acted as a good snapshot of the paranormal and counterculture at that time, after being imported to this web site, they pretty much just sat at the beginning of the blog post stream as a Q&A of old material. I didn't like that.

Then came the question of what should I do with them. Just taking them down wasn't good enough. They had great information in them, after all. I didn't want them to just disappear into the ether.

I decided to refactor them.

What does that mean? Much like programming code that gets better as you refine it and its purpose, I wanted to take these interviews and make them better. This Spring I learned how to take an informational interview and work it into a research paper effectively - so I figured that would be a good path to venture down in order to take the good portions of information from these older interviews and freshen them up with more timeless information.

I'll be working on these off and on over the next few months, so even if I lag behind on posting other content on this blog, I'll at least be getting these in order.