Q. What is a blog?
A. A journal type website where any mammal can barf opinions and wax poetic, free from editorial constraints and accountability. In other words, just the thing I was looking for.

Q. Why did you create a blog?
A. When JL called me with the idea, my first response was, “What is a blog?” I ignored the idea for a couple of weeks but I was bored one night and started looking around blog hosts. I wrote my first few posts (mostly from ideas in a comedic screenplay I wrote on becoming a dad). I hit publish. Boom. I was a blogger.

Q. Is Mitch McDad your real name ?
A. Yes. As far as you know.

Q. How do you get people to visit your site?
A. First. You have to have something interesting to say, which I manage to have, occasionally. Second. It helps to have kids, like mine, that provide endless material making me more interesting than I really am. Third. Do what I do; walk around town nude with a sandwich board hanging over my shoulders advertising my website. Bail is typically no more than $500.

Q. We’re having our first kid, a girl. What’s the most important thing I need to know?
A. You think you know something about women. Trust me, you don’t know a thing about women until you’re outnumbered by them. If you’re open minded and willing to learn, you may just be stumbling into a fascinating world.

Q. Does sex really fizzle after kids enter the picture?
A. What is this “sex” you speak of?

Q. You often use the saying, “The moments of bliss far outweigh the hours of agony.” Can you elaborate?
A. Crying infants, month after month with no sleep, hormonally charged wife, colic, boo-boo’s, vomit, diarrhea, urgent care, temper tantrums, constant noise, children’s programming, and the list goes on and on: these torturous trials fade away the second your child looks up to you and melts you with that amazing smile, or simply says, “Daddy,” in the most angelic voice imaginable.

Q. Are MRS and the girls real, or do you steal photos from Flickr and make up the rest?
A. Is the Matrix real? Is Big Foot real? Is Nessy real? Was that orgasm real? The answer: yes to all of the above.