Q: What is this website?
A: This is Tyler Lovell’s website. That’s me.
Q: Well, who are you?
A: I’m just some guy.
Q: If you’re just "some guy", what makes you important enough to have your own website?
A: Important? You don’t have to be important to have a website.
Q: Fine then. What’s on this website?
A: Various things. I use this site as a hosting point for my written works, both fiction and editorials.
Q: So what is "usuallydead" supposed to mean?
A: A young and very foolish Tyler spent a lot of his time playing online shooters. I was never very good, so I took the online name of "Usually Dead", an accurate description since I was literally spending more game time dead than alive. It stuck.
Q: That’s a reason to choose an online name, but not to keep one.
A: That’s true. I just can’t help laughing every time I imagine an old miracle worker saying, "Oh ho ho, look who knows so much. Turns out your friend here is only usually dead. There’s a big difference between usually dead, and always dead. With usually dead, he’s sometimes alive."
Q: What in the world are you talking about?
A: There’s no point in explaining if you don’t already get the reference.
Q: I’ve read some of your stuff and I’ve found this misspelled word/that grammatical error/some formatting bug. Fix it right now!
A: There’s a lot of text on this website. A recent statistics tally reported the total combined content of this site exceeds 670,000 words. I’ve gone through each story, article and post on the site several times myself, but there will always be some flaw I miss. If you spot an error, please tell me about it and I’ll correct it as soon as I can.
Q: Can I link to this website from mine?
A: Sure, but I won’t return the favor. This website is meant only to host my written works, not to be an access point for other websites, so I won’t link to your site from mine.
Q: You’re a complete idiot! Your opinion matters to no one! Your stories are trite and boring and vulgar! You’re a dirty, foul-mouthed, foolish servant of Satan and you’re going to Hell!
A: Okay. See you there.
Q: I’ve read some of your stuff and I can’t even tell you how wonderful it is! You give me such arousing feelings of warmth and fuzziness! How can I ever repay you?
A: Eh, don’t worry about it.
Q: Your website’s color scheme is so boring! Gray on gray with gray highlights? This is the Web 2.0! Get some style, man!
A: I colored the website this way as a specific design decision. I’ve found that black text on a mild gray background is least straining on the eyes while reading from a computer screen for long periods of time. It was inspired by the simple design of mass-produced paperback novels. That, and understatement is my favorite fashion. Simple is good. Less is more.
Q: I’ve looked around your website a bit. You really don’t have that much here, do you? I mean, a couple of stories and reviews, and that’s pretty much it. Nothing to write Mom about.
A: That’s true. But let’s keep things in perspective. I don’t run this website as a service to you or anyone on this great big Internet of ours. I’m doing this for me. This website exists only because I need a public place to display my finished written works. That’s not at all the same thing as needing people to read them. If you dislike the lack of content, or the content itself, then I hope you can find some place that entertains you better, and have a nice day.