Siobhan Anderson is a worrier, somewhat of a flake and a lover of all things green and gorgeous. She writes to make her Mother happy and to soothe her fidgeting heart. She would like to thank Bob Dylan for her religious beliefs. That being, this is.

"Appelquist is: native to the american midwest; self-educating; aggressively gregarious; reputed to be mean and ironic; twenty-four; very pretty; confused; fashion forward; drunk; addicted to living and nicotine. thank you, please."

i cannot possibly imagine life outside of my cubicle. some would call it stockholm, not me. i call it love. and so offer you the world as i see it from my ergonomically correct workstation - as it lowers itself passed my window on tightly wound ropes, wiping away the mite ridden remnants of suicidal scavenger birds. Fuck you.

Doug Baldwin is an obsessive, grandiose malcontent, living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his delusions and his magic briefcase. He is currently employed as a freelance exorcist.

Doug is the real reason for global warming. His interests include corn muffins and candy that is shaped like animals. He also enjoys cutting photos out of magazines and pasting them together into pretty pictures. Doug Baldwin loves you.

I am RJ Barker, I am a Writer! but you will probably have never heard of me. I'm usually busy feuding with the dastardly Neil Gaiman. Sometimes I Poet but I'm no great shakes.
(you can put up with more of RJ at his myspace page.)

Georgina Banfield is from London. Educated in catholic primary and secondary schools, she went on to study Performing Arts and English Literature. She has trained as a primary school teacher, worked as an anthropologist assistant and in the public library sector. Georgina did her first reading of as part of a Love Poetry Hate Racism event in London, 2007. Since then she has featured as a performance poet in established London venues and in Dublin. She is published in Issue 3 of Quillbillie’s Literary Magazine has been recorded for Poetcasting and also Life UK Poetry Podcast www.ukpoetrypodcast.com (for direct link to her recordings scroll to archives and find episode 14 /dated 23 October 2007, see Georgie Banford ) Much of her poetry deals with contemporary and universal themes about life, love and circumstance in post 1970’s Britain. She explores aspects of isolation, alienation, catholicism and identity.

56 yrs old. Live in the Hudson River Valley of New York. Crossed the country five times on foot. Having lost a son and a wife, my heart is always on my sleeve, but my head is held high in the clouds... Most of what I write is true, but dressed up as fiction...

blue lives inside the postcard. She is just now learning how to do things without words.

William is afraid of you,
but he will still hit on your wife
or ask you to dance, because
he hates himself a little more
than he hates you. He has a
dog named Tobey.

Abandoned as an infant in the bathroom of a Swiss culinary school, Chronic spent his childhood in a bland, beige, neutral world. Upon learning the identity of his American parents he moved to Kansas City and began life anew as a sports commentator. Working the PMWC (Professional Midget Wrestling Circuit) for 13 years, Chronic was unemployed for the first time in his life when the league collapsed in 1999. Working a series of odd-jobs including a stint at Taco Tim's as a burrito-wrapper and a one at a Mexican prophylactic plant producing burrito-wrappers, Chronic only survived thanks to sacred wisdom shared with him by a retired Mexican show pony named Chuckles.

The creator of askapothead.com and popfreeradio.com and winner of The Pitch's Best Of Kansas City 2007 Best Online Radio Personality, Chronic spends his days in a daze listening to music and ranting about politics and pop-culture.

John Dorsey currently resides in Toledo, OH. He is
the author_name of several collections of poetry including
"Teaching The Dead to Sing:The Outlaw's Prayer" Rose
of Sharon Press, 2006 and the forthcoming "Holy
Toledo:The Sonnet River Volume New & Selected Poems"
Primary Reader, 2008. He can be reached by email.

THE FUG is a writer and occasional performer of spoken word. From Nottingham, England. Currently residing in Fukuoka, Japan.
Self published four volumes of poetry - INK, TEA AND PIKELETS, THE FUG and DONKEYS.
Most recent project features a collaboration with Japanese trash monsters and gurus of all things garage, The Porky Stinks.
A new volume of poetry set for publication in Spring 2008.
www.myspace.com/thefugspeaks

GIVN2SIN spends ninety percent of life learning about man and disease, with the other ten percent spent as a deconstructionist of sounds. A small fraction as a reconstructionist of image and prose.
Enter the obsession: http://www.last.fm/user/GIVN2SIN/
Enter the insanity: http://www.myspace.com/givn2sin

Steve Gunnoe lives in the desert of California, where he spends most of his time in traffic and daydreams. He's a quiet neighbor and keeps to himself, other than the occasional howling at night.

Brandi Hutchinson is a camera. She watches you pick your nose. She observes your vanity. She laughs at your perpetually stumbling life. Brandi is not a villain, she is simply a recorder, and she's happy to allot her recordings to you because she's a camera of integrity.

Single-father, second-shift factory worker, and avid hyphenator, Shedim Kabal hopes to become an active protagonist one day, perhaps even leaving his subdivision to find fame, fortune, or just the local library. Until then, he can usually be spotted playing on the Internet, or outside: killing his garden (weather permitting).

I'm a 33 year old displaced Chicagoan now living on top of a mountain in Alabama. I'm far enough away to enjoy the Chicago winters. But I'll never be far enough to keep from lamenting Chicago Cubs baseball. My latest chapbook is Diminishing Returns from www.sunnyoutside.com

The Mad Waiter is a waiter. He is mad. At everything. He doesn’t like you. He doesn’t like what you ordered. He doesn’t like men, women or even children. You will never live up to his standards. You’re habits are trash and your philosophies are meaningless tripe. Live with it.

Greg Oguss graduated cum laude from Columbia University in 1993. He received an M.A. in Critical Studies in 2001 from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is currently finishing a Ph.D. dissertation at USC on American paranoia films of the late 1960s and 1970s. His essays on popular culture have been published in “TV and New Media,” “Film Quarterly,” “Film Comment,” and “The International Journal of Cultural Studies,” among other places. Greg’s short fiction and satiric pieces have been printed by the indie publisher GreenPanda Press as well as online ‘zines such as Gloom Cupboard: Literature for the Common People and BabbleandBeat.com. He has contributed chapters to John Gregory’s upcoming book on the history of rock n’ roll, “Making Music: Bizarre, Creative and Dumb-Luck Production of Hits Since 1955.” He has short stories in the upcoming print edition of Gloom Cupboard: Literature for the Common People and in Bewildering Stories #283. In addition, he’s contributed a foreword to the British writer Richard Wink’s just-released volume of poetry, “The Magnificent Guffaw.”
Greg’s new novel, AngeLust, is about wine speculators, the mortgage crisis, stalkers, investment bankers who breach “the Chinese wall,” grandstanding L.A. politicos, the fusion of Hollywood and Hip Hop, the Cannes film fest, the history of punk rock, and the Getty empire. It will be published as soon as a publisher plucks him like a diamond in the rough from Glendale, CA where he lives with his wife, The Lady V.

Rob Plath is a 37 year-old poet from New York. He has published a shitload of poems in the small presses. He has three poetry chapbooks out. He lives with his woman and their two cats in a tiny apartment near an industrial park and tries his best to keep out of jail.

Adam “Bucho” Rodenberger has been writing for 14 years and has dj-ed across the Midwest for half of that time. A double-major in English (Creative Writing) and Philosophy at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, he will be graduating in May and heading off to graduate school in the Summer of ’08 to pursue his M.F.A. in Creative Writing.

Taking the cue to ‘make it new,’ he is always trying to flip common words and phrasing into something more interesting and lyrical to read while dabbling in the abstract and colorful. As of October of 2007, he has been published in Number One Magazine (a UMKC student-run literary magazine which he is now the Editor-In-Chief of during the 2007-2008 school year) and has won the Monthly Writer’s Choice Award for Poetry (October) on www.editred.com, along with being published in the first issue of Alors, Et Tois?, Agua Magazine, and The Red Pulp Underground.

Ryan Roenfeld has lived in Mills County, Iowa his entire life. He has written several historical books, a wide variety of historical articles, and was formerly a music reviewer for the Icon of Iowa City and Performer Magazine of Atlanta, Georgia.

Jason Ryberg lives in Kansas City, Missouri where he owns and operates a music store, Little Red Rooster Vinyl And Cds. He is the author of five books of poetry with a sixth one on the way. They are most easily found at www.unholydaypress.com. Feel free to drop him a line at myspace.com/whoisjryberg.

Luc Simonic ( born 1973) lives in the Denver Colorado Metropolitan Statistical Area (There is some argument about whether Boulder fits in this MSA. It does.) Luc is not from Boulder, but has been there lots. Luc is a poet, a fairly nice guy, and arguably, prophetic. His first book "Primary Reader" is not published.

Barton Smock lives in Columbus, OH, with his wife and three kids, all of whom are there when he gets home from work. He often convinces himself his mother and father are making love in the attic, but the morning always arrives on one floor and the toothpick in his mouth is really a splinter. He has been published, sporadically, online…most recently here at juked.com, mergepoetry.com, and upcoming at arseniclobster.magere.com.

Winston Sparrow writes postcards to no one and mails them without stamp or return address so that they are lost in a melodramatic, postmodern postal limbo, and then giggles madly at the lack results. Also, she'd rather like to do something important, as soon as she figures out what that is. You can read more of her on her myspace blog.

Jeff Stuckey lives in Indianna & is waiting for something to happen. He ain't sure what he's waiting for but when it happens he'll damn sure know it. While he's waiting he writes poetry. Usually he burns them right after writing them but sometimes he doesn't.

Joseph Veronneau has had poems appear or are forthcoming in the following
publications: Hecale, Clockwise Cat, Ken*Again, Word Riot, Ghoti, Madswirl, Chantarelle's Notebook,
Cerebral Catalyst, Locust, The Smoking Poet, Thieves Jargon, Other Side Of The Ragged Edge,
and many others. He also runs Scintillating Publications.

Duane Cunningham is a freelance illustrator whose work has appeared in the Kansas City Star and The Pitch. He is co-founder of the Comic Creators' Network. His day job is that of product designer for a company that produces Hawaiian shirts. He is a host for KC's Extreme Team Trivia, as well as the announcer for the Kansas City Roller Warriors.

Richard Daley lives in Seattle, WA with his wife and daughter. He is a photographer and 3D artist who loves his coffee with lots of cream.
You can contact him by email.

Larry Duane is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer when he is not busy overseeing his tiny little indie record label, Bully Pulpit Recording Co. He lives in Lee's Summit, MO with his wife and daughter.

Juice Ink started out as a small boy perched on barstools in his parent’s restaurant, doodling on bar napkins and handing them out to patrons. He moved on to math class where he ignored homework to the indignation of his teachers and was constantly reprimanded. He never stopped drawing (or improved at math) and it was obvious he would do something with art. Juice began his professional career designing logos and t-shirts, eventually stepping up to computer graphics. To this day, he creates entire business identities; logos and large scale graphics while still working with the same company he originally signed on with.
He has occupied his last couple of years with hot rods, musicians and the Hollywood icons of yesteryear, working on a portfolio of illustrated pinups in tribute to the genre of days gone by and the tattooed pinups of today (he is especially fascinated with the Bride of Frankenstein, “The combonation of grace, beauty and elegance with the dark, scarred, grotesque appearance of the the bride is so stunning and enamoring to me, I have found myself captivated by her as a subject.”

KW Monster has been doodling for longer than he can remember. As a means of distracting young KW from the joys he found in torturing his sister, his mama taught him to grasp a pencil and scratch it across a white sheet of paper. Although poking his sister with that pencil would have been grand fun, KW soon learned there was sufficient joy to be had in drawing himself torturing his mean ol' sister. KW began scrawling countless revolting images on paper, across walls, in library books, hymnals, and whatever else just happened to be laying around. KW never went to art school; he learned by staring for long uncomfortable amounts of time at the works of his favorite artists: Al Capp, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Will Elder and the guy who drew Baby Huey. He also loves old Sci Fi and Horror pulp art of the 40s and 50s. KW's other hobbies include sculpture, film, writing and recording music, and entering and winning Handsomest Man Alive contests. Check him out at www.myspace.com/keithwmonster. Also in the very near future, you will be able to visit with him at his new evil lair, www.forbiddenzombie.com.

Lauren Murphy is a youngish artist living in
Melbourne, Australia. She lives with three cats and
enjoys traipsing through cemeteries with charcoal and
a sketchbook. Her artwork can be seen in such
esteemed venues as her mother's lounge room and her
best friend's hallway.

Her vision the vision of creation, warped through fisheye lens, all things achingly beautiful and desperately vulgar, complete and shattered and captivating.
(Sorry Nez, I couldn’t get a hold of you so I made up your bio. If you want to send in one of your own, please write me. I’ll get it fixed. –jacob)

Shawn Peterson is a Kansas City native who specializes in animal, scenic and contemplative photography. A socialite that always has a camera in hand, Shawn aims to eventually slip slowly out of the retail world and into a spot behind the lens.
Contact Info: email

Robert Wiles has developed a Neo-Retro style of art over the years, getting his formal education at such places as Portland CC, Clackamas CC and Columbia College. He further has expanded his study through a plethora of classes and private lessons, studying the works of masters, old and new. Online tutorials and trial and error round out his artistic education. His influences are anything retro/vintage, from architecture to advertising, from comics and cartoons to a variety of music (especially punk rock). And, of course, the female form in every shape and size. His current projects are a new, but as yet unnamed, t-shirt line, featuring his own style of low-brow designs and an unnamed graphic essy investigating the retro/vintage culture and it's influence on his life. He runs RNW Graphic Productions, Inc and can be reached at his myspace account: http//:myspace.com/mw_graphicproductions

Cliff's true origins are unknown, yet several rumors persist. One states that he comes from the future, but only one second in the future. Another one claims that he was born in 1802 and frozen in a block of ice till the mid 80’s. But the one most people believe says that he is a giant robot originally built by a mad scientist for the soul purpose of rebuilding the world in the image of every RKO movie ever made. In his true robot form he is able to take junk and show the world how it was meant to look before silly humans got to it. Due to a bolt of stray electricity, Cliff remembers nothing of this life as a giant robot and, despite all of its challenges, is forging on ahead as a man, trying to live a good and happy life. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with his wife (Cathi) and his three year old son (Zane) Cliff currently works full time while trying to build and paint as much as he can, from what he loves most; our junk and discarded toys. The Digital images created by Cliff have been seen on display at the Alcott Art Center in Kansas City. Vintage, retro art has been used and updated to the images you see today. The digital art is created in the spirit of rebuilding and reshaping. None of these images were planned or predicted in any way shape or form. Cliff never thinks thing should be planned. It takes away the life of the object! (Boy, I sure do wish I could still change into a giant robot!)