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I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.

I'm obsessed with Tumblr. I love looking at all the pictures!

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

I'm on Tumblr all the time.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

We live in an age that's very suspicious of preachy political rhetoric, which means that there's room for art that approaches these issues from the side - as satire, as parody, or as a kind of outlandish speculative proposition.

On Tumblr, I'm really careful about not following too many things. I enjoy going on there to discover new things more than anywhere else now.

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.