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Contributors Lessley Anderson (contributing writer) is a desert goddess, and writes for the Industry Standard.
<<< Tiffany Lee Brown (Editrix) changes her bio picture *every month*. In addition to being a certified megalomaniac who writes about herself in the third person under duress, Miss Brown is a vocalist and instrumentalist for Brain Warmer. She's been known to answers to the name "Yarnhead" and has written for publications including the Utne Reader, Wired, Bust, Bookforum, 21.C, and the Mercury. Mandy Catalano (contributing photographer, illustrator) is a long-standing member of the dUdÜ art collective. When asked for further comment, Ms.Catalano said only "We hate the Fluxus!" –TLB Amy Chace (contributing photographer) is a visual artist living and working in New York City. She has had work pulbished in Yellow Rat Bastard magazine and ARude magazine as well as numerous ezines. She has also had many solo exhibitions in New York City venues. The most recent of which is the International Center of Photography. Most of her work revolves around the themes of freedom, independence, safety, communication, and interaction.
James M. Crotty is an adult child of Catholic Republicans, and a former altar boy. He will be studying the King James Bible this summer at St. John's College Santa Fe. His web site is Monk.com. Bill Cummings teaches Interdisciplinary Social Science at the University of South Florida. An ethnographic historian by temperament, his research interests include the sociology of the body, transformations in cultural perceptions and usages of the body, and the nature of historical consciousness in early modern Indonesia. He is currently working on tattooing and body modification as forms of historical expression in modern American culture and trying desperately not to be as boring as his bio sounds. Mark Dery is a cultural critic whose writings have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Red Herring, Feed, Suck, Salon, Wired, Bookforum, the Village Voice, and Lingua Franca. He edited Flame Wars, a seminal anthology of cybercrit, and wrote Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century. His latestbook is TThe Pyrotechnic Insanitarium:American Culture on the Brink Rick Doble (contributing artist) has been a professional photographer and photography teacher for 30 years, and received his Masters in Communications from UNC-Chapel Hill, NC in 1975. His site includes over 600 digital images and eight articles about art in the 21st century.
Todd Grimson (contributing writer and illustrator) is the award-winning author of Brand New Cherry Flavor, Stainless, and Within Normal Limits. He lives in Portland, Oregon and will soon present the world with a new novel. Helena G. Harvilicz (contributing writer) is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn. By her own account, Ms.H is "naturally surly," but we think she is just cute. –TLB Joseph Hobaica (contributing writer), a.k.a. Mr.X, is known for his memoirs, published in Lithuanian and later translated to the infamous French edition. After it appeared in English as Joey "X": Man of Mystery, Hobaica was rocketed to international stardom, which interfered with his Great Plan. Historians deduce that this Plan involved ukeleles, Brooklyn lager, and Bedford Avenue. They have not, unfortunately, uncovered the meaning of "the stoop." –TLB
Tom Igoe (contributing designer) worked as a theatre electrician and occasional lighting designer, but left it all behind and moved to New York for a more glamorous career in new media. Formerly a teacher at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, he spends his time making talking fountains, .38 caliber Smith & Wesson computer mice, and VR headgear out of gas masks.
Syd Jesus (contributing writer & artist) is the founder and leader of the dUdÜ art collective. B.Jone (contributing writer) is the proprietor of an unnamed record shop in an unnamed city in an unnamed country. He is rumoured to be the sekrit alter-identity of DJ kittenhed.
Barry Kavanagh (contributing writer) is the author of the "surreal... melancholic" novel What the Ostrich Sees in the Sand and is a conspicuous member of the musical group Dacianos ("a source of joy, bemusement and inspiration"), who actually play live, record and release stuff (see www.dacianos.com). Peter Landau (contributing writer) is the columnist behind the "Insider" in New York’s theatre paper, Show Business. He lurks around Brooklyn in fab ties and groovy glasses. –TLB Brenda Laurel (contributing writer) is a designer, researcher and writer. She is editor of The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, and author of Computers as Theatre and a collection of essays entitled Severed Heads. She holds an M.F.A. and Ph.D. in theatre from the Ohio State University and was a founding member of the research staff of Interval Research Corporation. She was also one of the founders and VP/Design of Purple Moon, which was acquired by Mattel in 1999. Jon Lebkowsky (contributing writer) is currently writingVirtual Bonfire for MIT Press, and has written articles about culture and technology for The Austin Chronicle and other publications. He co-hosts the WELL’s Mirrorshades conference with Bruce Sterling and Linda Castellani, and is a co-host of Inkwell. He was co-founder of FringeWare, Inc., and an editor for the Millennium Whole Earth Catalog. Scott D. Lewis (resident critic of the rawk) covers music & cultural matters for The Oregonian and other upstanding publications. He’s a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon, and the former Music Editor for Anodyne magazine. Lulu (contributing artist) recently achieved sentience. magdalen (contributing writer) is one of many transparent pseudonyms used for vague and psychologically unsound reasons by some girl who writes. Chad McEvoy (contributing writer) is a once and future zoologist currently working in the software industry between travel adventures.
Richard Meltzer (contributing writer) is the great unsung, or undersung, or undersomething, man of North American letters and lit. Author of a dozen books, including The Aesthetics of Rock, Gulcher, 17 Insects Can Die in Your Heart, L.A. Is the Capital of Kansas, The Night (Alone), Tropic of Nipples, and the recently published A Whore Just Like the Rest: The Music Writings of Richard Meltzer, he has also done time as a visual artist, filmmaker, garbage picker, boxing authority, rock lyricist, punk rock singer, and DJ. He currently lives in Portland, where he is guest vocalist for the band Smegma. Cletus Nelson (contributing writer) is a regular contributor to Eye and Panik. His paranoid prose has appeared in Utne Reader, Now, Boulder Weekly, Spider, the Boston Phoenix, and other independent pubs. Look for his explorations into post-paranoia culture in an upcoming issue of Signum. Andi Olsen (contributing artist) is an artist whose assemblages and collages have appeared in galleries and journals across the country and abroad, most recently Berlin, San Diego, and London. Lance Olsen (contributing writer) is author of more than a dozen books of and about Avant-Pop fiction, including the novels Tonguing the Zeitgeist and Time Famine, and Rebel Yell: A Short Guide to Writing Fiction. He’s launched a new website at www.cafezeitgeist.com.
*Pighed (resident porcine influence) is a figment of your imagination. VX Potenza (Kahuna Grande) is the publisher of Signum and the founder of Signum Press. He lives underground in Australia, mining opals and dreaming of fine literature. Chris Reddig (contributing photographer) is an Oakland-based photographer, videographer, and noiseographer. Chaleampon "Oates" Ritthichai (Webmaestro, layout) likes Twister, BBQs, Bloody Marys, Scorpios, and math rock. –T. Jennifer Robin (contributing writer) is the author of Bouzi and hosts the Portland radio show NIGHT OF THE LIVING TONGUE: Everything that can be done with words...and the occasional bonus collage of sound effects and music! on KBOO 90.7 FM, Thursdays, 11PM-Midnight. Jodie Rogers (contributing writer) wishes she were 17 again so that chasing around rock stars wouldn’t be so damned unbecoming. In her dotage, she now contents herself with gardening, compulsive home-improving, writing, graphic design, and working on the comic book Cuckoo.
Rudy Rucker, Jr. (donated services) is a cutie-pie extraordinaire. Instead of telling us, "Hey, we could use a search function here" he made us one! Were I still publishing the 'zine Hot Geeks!, I think he'd rate his own Trading Card.-TLB R.U.Sirius (contributing writer) is the Revolutionary Party chairman and candidate for President of the United States (and we got another BUSH instead!! Gawd.). A founding editor of Mondo 2000, author of numerous tomes, and general all-around cultural commentator, his latest work is the little red book: The Revolution®: Quotations from Revolution Party Chairman R.U.Sirius.–TLB Marshall Serna (contributing photographer) says that creating art is about "creating spaces… As a musician, as well as Sumerland's producer/engineer and art director, I have walked into literal worlds which were once only imaginary." Holly Tedford (contributing writer) was born and raised in the great state of Texas, at just about the point where the Bible Belt crosses Tornado Alley and now makes her home in Northern California. She spends most of her time as a halfway respectable nonprofit consultant, with occasional gigs as a less respectable singer with various alt-country and rock bands.
Don Webb (contributing writer) is a native Texan. He’s known for Texas based mysteries The Double and Essential Saltes, his 200 or so published SF short stories, having a sex manual dedicated to him, his occult books The Seven Faces of Darkness and Uncle Setnakt’s Essential Guide to the Left Hand Pat, and more. Blair West (contributing writer) sits too close to the television on purpose so she can get cool cat eye glasses. Frequently falls asleep in everyone else's bed to dream strange dreams, and to wrinkle their sheets. She also fully appreciates the city transit system because not only does it get you from point a. to point b. It also has all of those crazy looking folk that make for such great stories. Scott Westerfeld (contributing writer) is a novelist and composer. He is the author of Polymorph, Fine Prey, and Evolution’s Darling His electronic compositions for dance have been performed at Dance Theater Workshop, The Joyce Theater, P.S. 122, and Jacob’s Pillow. He was born in Texas and lives on New York’s Lower East Side.
Wiley Wiggins (contributing writer) wrote about his experiences acting in, and even animating, the film Waking Life for a recent issue. Wiley is a Los Angeles based actor known for films such as Dazed & Confused. His art & writing have appeared in various publications and online during the last decade; he also published the ‘zine Happy? and was an editor for the Fringe Ware Review. Besides, he’s an excellent roadtrip companion. –TLB Miriam Zellnik (contributing writer) was born in a New York City taxicab. The driver was so touched by her birth that he knocked 5 bucks off the fare, much to her mother’s delight. She spent her earliest years travelling the globe with her parents, part of a troupe of fire-eaters who played before royalty on several occasions, but Mim ran away to the isle of Portlandia, where she currently writes and lives.
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gregoryp™ (contributing
writer) has
written for NetSlaves, Signum, and contributed to How To Mutate
and Take Over the World, CoffeeHouse, Sneakers: A Global
Footwear Experiment, and other weird anthologies. He also
edits "Random Cool Bits." Look for his alter-ego, Gregory
Pleshaw, in aboveground publications.
Ian
Grey >>> (contributing
writer), an American national, writes about culture, film and
music. Author of Sex, Stupidity, & Greed: Inside the American
Movie Industry, he is currently at work on a very long novel
based upon two lines from an old, rather generic Depeche Mode
song. He likes to think he is among the first the first to do
this.
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Andrew Hultkrans (Contributing
Editor) is editor of Bookforum. Previously, he toiled as managing
editor for Mondo 2000, and as a freelance writer for six ass-reddening
years. His hemming and hawing about the media, film, music, literature,
art and the occasional lunatic has appeared in Artforum, Bookforum,
Wired, Salon, 21C, Filmmaker, Stim, and several books. Photo by
the unscrupuless Bart Nagel.
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Richard Kadrey
(contributing writer) wrote the novels Metrophage and Kamikaze
l’Amour, and the non-fiction Covert Culture Sourcebook
series. He recently wrote the four-comic series Accelerate
for Vertigo, and will release the graphically enhanced novella
Angel Scene in 2001. Photo by Lyn Gaza, modified by Gomi
Boy. 
Chris
Karoli >>>
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Mark Pesce (contributing
writer) Mark Pesce is a pioneer of 3D on the web, and is the author
of several books, including Browsing and Building Cyberspace.
He’s written for periodicals such as Wired, Feed, and Salon,
and Ballantine recently published his latest book, The Playful
World: Interactive Toys and the Future of the Imagination.
Pesce was appointed Chair of the Interactive Media Program at
the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television.
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Douglas Rushkoff (contributing
writer) Douglas Rushkoff is the author of seven books on new media
and popular culture, including Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing
the Future, Coercion, and the novel Ecstasy Club.
His radio commentaries air on NPR’s "All Things Considered,"
and his monthly column on cyberculture is distributed through
the New York Times Syndicate. Rushkoff is professor of media culture
at New York University, an Advisor to the United Nations Commission
on World Culture, on the Board of Directors of the Media Ecology
Association, and a founding member of Technorealism. He has written
for Time, The Guardian, Esquire, Paper, and GQ. Photo by Roberto
Todaro.
Brad
Wieners >>>
(contributing writer) is a Senior Editor at Outside magazine and
has a deep husky voice that’ll drive you wild. Oooh! Mrrow!
—TLB