Although the name Dylan Gibbs may
not be instantly recognizable, you are 
holding his issue in your hands right
now, literally. In fact, he holds the record for the longest surviving editor News 4U magazine has ever had! His other
issue, a wee lad named Lincoln
who is nearly a year old now, ain’t bad either. Gibbs is a lifelong writer
(“…starting in the walls in my childhood home.” he recalls), Evansville
resident, an expert on fish and aquariums, a guitarist for local band Tragic
Heroine, and a guest in your living room via Fox 7’s morning show, AM
Evansville. But this month marked his very last deadline here, so who knows
what or where he has yet to be. What is for certain is that everyone I know
would heartily agree with his answer to #23. He will be missed, but we’ll
always have these last few moments from the Hot Seat…
#1 What is the most comforting
comfort food?
Anything with gravy. I like to eat
food that used to walk. An unapologetic carnivore.
#2 Dish on your favorite celebrity
encounter!
A ridiculously drunk Kenny Loggins
at an oceanside bar in South Carolina. He bought drinks, passed
around the pipe, and then got seriously into the Danger Zone. I interviewed
Alton Brown once, which was my favorite. He described himself as the “World’s
grooviest home ec teacher.”
#3 What would your deserted island
picks be for a CD, DVD, and a book?
CD – the Telarc recording of
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
DVD – Pink Floyd’s Live at Pompeii
Book – Desert Solitaire by
Edward Abbey
#4 Will you reveal your most
embarrassing obsession?
Sure. Not an obsession, per se,
but I believe The Cure’s “Close to Me” is the most perfect song, which doesn’t
mesh with my metal heritage so much.
#5 Describe your dream car.
One that runs on Stupid. There’s a
lot of that just lying around.
#6 Cat person or a dog person?
I really like both a lot, but I
lean toward cats a little more I guess. They’re not as needy as dogs.
#7 What is your favorite website?
Fark.com
#8 Do you have any tattoos or
other interesting distinguishing characteristics, like webbed toes?
I have a tattoo that I’d rather
not have. It looks like something I might have gotten in prison with a
makeshift ink gun made out of vacuum cleaner parts. What’s more interesting is that
I have a supernumerary, or third, nipple. Marky Mark has one too.
#9 What is your favorite quote and
who said it?
“Be in nothing so moderate as in
love of man.” – Robinson Jeffers, “Shine,
Perishing Republic”
#10 Who will play you in the movie
version of your life?
I asked around and the consensus
is Anthony Bourdain. Harpo Marx came in a close second.
#11 What was the first concert you
ever attended?
Metallica at Roberts Stadium.
#12 Completely random trivia
question, What was the third studio album by Swedish rockers Europe
called? (No fair Googling!)
Jesus. Uh, how about Bork Bork
Bork! (Fangirl replies: Close, but
it was Final Countdown. *cue synthesizers*)
#13 What’s your poison?
Good tasty beer. Shiraz wine. Bourbon. Not all at once,
usually.
#14 Name your favorite heroes: one
fake, one real.
Fake: Cool Hand Luke
Real: Abraham Lincoln
#15 What was your best Halloween
costume ever?
Hands down, Gene Simmons when I
was little, 1979 or so… It had blood and everything.
#16 Name your favorite invention
ever.
Indoor plumbing. There is
positively no way to better engineer a method for transporting what needs to be
evacuated from your toilet. It works, it’s hidden from view, and without it
we’d all die of dysentery.
#17 Free association time! What is
the first word that comes to mind when you see the word, “conjunction”?
Gesundheit!
#18 Have you ever been arrested?
Details!
Yes. But it was when I was a
minor, so technically it didn’t happen. Something illegal was indeed involved,
though.
#19 If you had a chance to ask
anyone, alive or dead, just one question, what would you do?
To Jesus: “You’re cool and all,
but when and if you come back from the dead, will you be able to tolerate the
people who dig you?”
#20 Any advice for the young
people today?
Listen to people older than you.
The Devil knows more because he’s old than because he’s the Devil.
#21 If you had one wish to use
selfishly, what would it be?
The ability to travel the world at
a whim.
#22 Where is the coolest place you
have ever been?
In the real world, Maui. There’ve been a number of rather, um, lysergic
visits that were pretty neat, too.
#23 What will you be remembered
for?
I was a nice guy, I guess. I know
what it’s like to be on the receiving end of a douchebag’s wrath; so I like to
not be that guy (or lady).
