

1. How did you get your name/What inspired your name/Why did you name your blog "Poisonous Paragraphs"?
My old emcee names were Invincible Swordsman, Dart Champion and occasionally Millions Knives (pictured below). Invincible Swordsman was a character in the Jademan Kung Fu comic book "The Force Of Buddha's Palm", Millions Knives is a hugely popular anime character from the "Trigun" graphic novels and anime series. Darts are fuckin' HUGE in Europe. When I went to get an email address on Hotmail all of those names were taken (even the numbers afterwards). I input "poisonousdart75" and it took it. In order to avoid confusion every site I joined from 2003 on was as Poisonous Dart (even though it's a generic ass name).

I finally dropped the "Poisonous" off of my name and used my real life last name Adams. My name was inspired partly by my favorite cartoon character as a kid, Jesse Dart, the legendary comic book artist/creator from Holyoke, MA Art Adams as well as former producer turned A&R/manager Dart La AKA Dart Parker.

I used them beacause I felt the reason people were turned off by my blog was that I had too many words and nothing visual to draw you in. I didn't learn how to upload pictures to my blog until I started using Firefox instead of Safari when I used Blogger and all of these options appeared and/or actually worked. That was March/April 2007. I just got folder full of images and went to work.
I usually try to have one picture per paragraph. That adds up after a while. I didn't realize how many computers had trouble viewing my site because of it because I was using a brand new superfast G5 Mac Tower when I started the site. I added the pictures from many of my favorite albums to show new visitors/readers that my taste encompasses Hip Hop from every region and all over the world as well.
3. Why haven't you ever written about your graf career or your Rap career in detail?
The main reason I haven't is because my graf "career" was filled with disappointment because I wasn't especially as good at it as I'd hoped I'd be. I sucked picking colors, I was only really good at picking locations, hand styles and throwups. I could talk about legendary graf artist 'til I was blue in the face and the history of the artform going back to 1968/9 but I was just not good at it in my opinion. Any stories I write would be about me being disappointed that my artistic talents didn't evolve the way I hoped they would.

I'd rather work constantly at something I was good at and never have to worry about money like they did. Eventually, it tuned 2001 and 9/11 happened. By 2002 it was a wrap for any viable Rap career for myself. I'll probably tackle that aspect of my life in another medium rather than this blog. Maybe in a book. Who knows, I might feel different about it in the future.

I've been so busy with writing that I never got around to it but I've talked to my brother and a couple of my Twitter peoples (What up, Frank Lanzkie!) and I've decided to begin digitizing and uploading a lot of the footage I recorded on VHS from 1991-2008 to either my YouTube profile/channel or to Poisonous Paragraphs. I got shit that'll make all of your heads explode on the real. As far as the magazines go, I should really invest in a scanner. I have a gang of old Hip Hop & graf mags from 1997-2004 still fresh in Adidas shoe boxes.
5. Is Poisonous Paragraphs really a team blog/Why haven't you shown your face yet?
Nope. Poisonous Paragraphs is completely written, conceived and planned by myself. No help. I don't use any contributors and I don't post any content provided by other parties. This pisses a lot of people off but I say if it's my blog then it should be ALL me. Every other blog on the planet can use content from the big sites but I do what I want when I want.

6. Why do you introduce new features and then suddenly stop doing them (i.e. Revenge Of The 80's, Lost In Translation, Journey Into Mystery & That's Kinda Racist)?
I have an idea to do something and then I don't want to get pigeonholed so I switch it up and do something else. I don't wan't anyone to read my blog and dare tell me there's something I don't or can't do. I don't believe in being narrowcast or painted into a corner. I'm a writer. I can write about whatever the hell I feel like writing about when I wake up in the morning. That's why I created all of the different features in the first place. I also have had trouble finding online pics or footage to aid many blog subjects. I have the materials myself and I guess I'll upload them so I can do 'em.

7. What is the significance of the "Civil War" Marvel images you always used in relationship to the Hip Hop blogging world?
In Marvel Comics, they had an event where heroes had to choose a side. They could either register themselves, reveal their identities and work with the government. The others decided to stay underground and keep their identities hidden. They wew constantly at odds with one another afterwards resulting in the Civil War. In the Hip Hop blogosphere, we have the sites that get a ton of traffic that industry types often frequent and you have the content/writing based blogs that are considered middle to lower tier. I simply used that parallel in relation to the Hip Hop blogosphere.

8. Do you ever run out of ideas of what to write about/get writer's block?
I have a clipboard where I have planned out a series of projects and posts throughout the Summer as well as a list of 100 blogs/posts I didn't do or have pushed back indefinitely for lack of resources about each subject can't currently be found online as of yet. I get up in the morning with a gang of ideas and write them down. Part of the reason I started my Twitter account was to prove that I just don't seem to run out of shit to write about. The longest bout of writer's block I've ever had was four days long and I wrote four blogs to make up for it in an 18 hour span following it.

I write enough and I'm not interesting in transcribing a bunch of questions and answers without being paid for it. I don't think I'm that interesting of an interview subject (Cuz I'm ME *facepalm*) but I've caved in and allowed my boy Travis Glave, my girl M. Dot and a couple of other heads have requested interviews with me on Twitter lately. The whole "mystery of Dart Adams" aspect does get a little tiresome after so many years of online writing/blogging.
10. You always seem ready to quit in order to take a job that keeps falling through, how long can you continue blogging without pay before you finally give it up?
I honestly don't know the answer to that question. I will admit that my blogging is a means to an end. I fully started this blog in the hopes that it would lead to a job/jobs and bigger things. All of those opportunities have fallen through for various reasons and I can't tell the future. I can promise that for the amount of time I'm blogging no one will match my output and/or production. When I didn't get in that Vibe list I spazzed out a little because I felt like I was busting my ass for nothing. A gang of people let me know that wasn't the case and I thank each of them for that, especially my numerous blogging brethren and sisteren that made the list and didn't make it.

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8 comments:
Yo dart, anyway I can grab an interview from you man? I have one from Travis at wydu and it would be great to get one from you to.
Let me know, either way its cool.
P.S
That is a wicked DVD/Vhs collection.
Jealous of the G5 Tower and fast computer, I'm mad at my G4.
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Some times I'll read your posts via a reader because you have a crazy amount of images.
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Question: what's up with the trio of images, Mos Def, that Philly dude-I forgot his name, and the lovely lady?
@ Brandonian:
Sure. That isn't a picture of my collection. It's a placeholder for the digital photo I have to take of my VHS crates. I'd definitely do an interview. Just email me @ poisonousparagraphs@gmail.com with any details.
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Could you post a link to your youtube videos?
@ Anonymous: I have to upload them FIRST
JOhn's Question:
How you stay cold crushing cats in the blog arena?
/ Still miffed about that BS Vibe LIst (Wait, How can I be mad about something that has no DINERO???!!! YES!! @ Malice from "Keys Open Doors")
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Dart, you TEASE, YOU! You know this didn't tell me shit *I* didn't already know. HMPH!
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