Greta Garbage couldn't have picked worse subjects to write about. Author of Greta Garbage's OUTRAGEOUS Bathroom Book and That's Disgusting: An Adult Guide to What's Gross, Tasteless, Rude, Crude & Lewd, Greta is one of the world's foremost curators of feculent factoids.

Greta recently gave some time to PoopReport to discuss her life, her work, and her obsession with the offal.

PoopReport: How and when did you get started with the whole "disgusting" thing?

Greta Garbage: I've always had a taste for the tasteless, but I didn't become the guru of the gross until a few years ago. I realized that whenever I read or heard a story, I always remembered what was most shocking or disgusting -- for example, something about eating feces. So I decided to put a book together that was just of these types of stories or information.

PR: How did you find a publisher willing to publish that kind of stuff?

GG: Ten Speed is cool, and besides publishing my That's Disgusting: An Adult Guide to What's Gross, Tasteless, Rude, Crude & Lewd and Greta Garbage's OUTRAGEOUS Bathroom Book (plus a third book of mine on disgusting web sites), they published another writer's "How to Shit in the Woods," "Who Cut the Cheese, " etc.

PR: How do you research your books and find all this stuff?

GG: I read a tremendous amount -- and then pull out the one shocking or disgusting story. For example, in a gossipy book about Clinton, they told of the time Farrah Fawcett was at a party and had to go to the bathroom. All the toilets were in use - so she supposedly simply went on the front lawn with guests watching her from the window. In Larry Flynt's autobiography, he talks about his first sexual which was with a chicken when he was 9 years old. That's all I remembered from either books - but that was enough! Both stories went into two books of mine.

PR: What facet of the disgusting interests you the most?

GG: Sex. Especially kinky sex. Like Cleopatra supposedly inventing the first "vibrator" by putting bees on her vagina and getting stimulated by the stinging. Or people getting off by licking people's eyeballs. And worse. I had the most fun researching and writing the "Kinky Sex" and "Women Who Play Tricks With their Vaginas" chapters.

PR: Why is it that people are so fascinated with disgusting things?

GG: Oscar Wilde said that vulgarity was the behavior of others. No one is interested in the fact that they pick their own noses or that they fart shamelessly. But if you hear that someone else -- especially someone famous, since we put famous people on a pedestal -- has done something "shameful," then we're fascinated.

PR: What is the most interesting poop factoid you've come across in your writing?

GG: I found fascinating (and included in a special chapter in my book) the descriptions of how astronauts poop in space. It can take them as long as 45 minutes, and since there's no gravity, nothing comes out. So they have special gloves so they can go poking in there. After it comes out, it doesn't always stay in the intended receptacle, and it sometimes floats around, making the capsule smell like a men's room. (Which is why astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before a flight, another fact I found interesting.)

I also think it's interesting that when they leave the capsule, they're wearing special pants so they can go if they have to. I guess the people monitoring the flights were afraid that they'd walk outside the capsule, take one look down at the earth and say, "This is so beautiful I could shit" and then do it. By the way, to prevent them from going, they wear a woman's girdle, so the first man in space was wearing women's clothes.

PR: Tell us about your newest book.

GG: Greta Garbage's OUTRAGEOUS Bathroom Book has lots of interesting bathroom factoids, but mainly it's a book to read on the toilet, containing offbeat, shocking, and fascinating information (lists, humor, quotes, trivia, stories,) about sex, celebrities, sports, movies, etc.

PR: Who is Greta Garbage really, and do your friends know who you are?

GG: Actually, I'm a very successful writer under my real name, and only a few of my closest friends know that I'm also secretly Greta Garbage. I think the rest of them would be shocked -- in fact they'd shit in their pants -- if they knew that I had this secret.

PR: Who are your influences?

GG: I have read all of Uncle John's Bathroom Books and hated them. I think they're boring and contain too much information on each subject, which often isn't interesting anyway. So I decided to write a shorter, zippier, version of those books, with attitude. Uncle John is for constipated people; my books are for people on the run.

You can learn more about Greta and her books at GretaGarbage.com.