Wheel Questions

[crenshawseeds.livejournal.com]

I'm Ashley Taylor, a reporter for the Somerville News writing a story about John Monsarrat's Wheel Questions installation currently at Davis Square in front of the 7-11.  

What do you think of it?  

Have you posted questions, and did you appreciate the answers?  Or do you just read it?  

Or have you never heard of it or seen it?

Particularly, as members of an on-line community, what do you think of the idea of having a community based around a physical structure, "the Wheel"?  

Please let me know  explicitly, when you reply, whether or not I can quote you in my article. 

Thank you.

 

Comments

[contradictacat.livejournal.com]

It's a cute concept, but the format (how only he can answer the questions) and the fact that he's a bit of a jackass in his answers is disappointing. He also seems to think this project is bigger and more important than it actually is.

The wheel is actually quite big...

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

In the sense of "bulky" :)

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

Welcome to JonMon's world. Look him up on Encyclopedia Dramatica.

[contradictacat.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I know. The fact that he lives around here terrifies me. I wasn't sure how appropriate it was to bring that up in this kind of context, though. ::shudders::

[ron_newman]

How long should we hold his past offenses against him, and is it possible that he has genuinely changed and found a new path (as reflected by this installation)? I've never met this guy, and I don't know the answers to either question*, but they're worth asking.

* and no, I'm not going to submit either one to The Question Wheel. Someone else can, though.

[contradictacat.livejournal.com]

As long as he's still running "Midnight Seduction", there's no such thing as "past offenses". Being a creepy ethically questionable guy wrt the dating site is one thing- trying to lure teenage girls into his house under a pretense of a "game about vampires" is something else. and AFAIK, that's still going on.

[ron_newman]

Now that, I knew nothing whatsoever about. My comment was based only on the 'MIT-Harvard Match-up' incident. I do think he owes people an apology for that one, however.

[rumpleteasah.livejournal.com]

lure teenage girls (as young as 16) into his house under a pretense of a "game about vampires" which actually has NO game aspect, has no mention of vampires, and is actually just a big play party complete with alcohol.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

I went to the first one; there was actually a *game*, and roleplaying, with a slim book (it's published by a man in...oh, Philadelphia?), and it was enjoyable. And definitely a game, like a sexed up VtM. I went to the second one, and the game aspects disappeared, and I have not been back.