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Butch
and Sundance said it bestt....
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Kyle Texas
graduated
from Northwestern's Medill School
of Journalism in 1997, where he acquired the start-up jones as
employee #3 of U-WIRE, still the
nation's only wire service of student publications, founded by NU
students in 1995; And where he kicked-up ruckuses for The
Daily.
He moved to Austin,
TX, to write for The Austin
American- Statesman, and in 1999 became a Texas correspondent
for The Christian Science Monitor.
He's spent the last two years slinging drinks and waiting tables for
some of the city's swankiest
and drinkin'est establishments,
and trying to get this bumper sticker thing off the ground. Holy....
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| Jon Lebkowsky
is an authority on, and evangelist for,
computer-mediated communications, social media, virtual communities,
community technology, and online social networks. He has served
variously as a CEO, technology director, project manager, systems
analyst, and online community developer. His current consulting
practice focuses on web usability and strategy and effective use of
online social technologies. He is knowledgeable of Internet policy and
trends, and is a strong proponent of universal broadband access to
computer networks. Has written about technology and culture for
publications such as Mondo 2000, 21C, bOING bOING (World's Greatest Neurozine Edition), Whole Earth Review,
FringeWare Review, Wired Magazine, and the Austin Chronicle.
He is co-editor of the recent book, Extreme Democracy, and contributor to
the just-published Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century.
Jon's Industrial Strength Weblog is at weblogsky.com, and he contributes to other blogs at worldchanging.com, and smartmobs.com.
A proponent of online tools for civic engagement, he served
on the organizing committee for O'Reilly's Digital Democracy Teach-In (February 9, 2004) and is president of EFF Austin, an independent nonprofit civil liberties organization concerned with emerging frontiers where technology meets society.
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| Melissa
Young
exists
on a plane between insomnia and narcolepsy, making spiritual paintings
with the mess of the human condition. Raised in the wilds of Alaska,
fed on rythmn n' blues, educated by the system and liberated at age
8 by Poe's Ulalume,
her plans over the decades rode on the whimsical wind of woman.
A former member of the Houston-born Magnificent Seven -- whose legendary
jazz-funk via punk gymnastics propelled them to relative obscurity
-- and a motorcycle maiden with the Austin
Roadrunners, Melissa has rocked & rolled with some the most innovative
musicans and mechanics in Texas.
She is currently working on several public art projects for Harlem's
Studio Museum
and The Apollo Theatre.
Now, if only The Peculiar
Works Project would return her calls and assist with her lifelong
dream of producing the off-off-Broadway burlesque version of Electric
Boogaloo....
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| Napolean Thurman
graduated from Iowa State University in 1997 with a degree in English. Unable to reconcile his desire for happiness with any study of Derrida, he went to law school, earning a degree University of Oklahoma in 2000. Unable to reconcile his desire for happiness with hanging around attorneys, he began his current career as an administrator in college athletics. He works at an undisclosed university in the Southwest. In his spare time he plays guitar, reads the New Yorker and walks his two dogs, Che and Fidel.
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| Mike
Steinman
is
lead graphic designer and production manager for Austin Architectural
Graphics, the city's coolest outdoor-sign shop for going on 22 years
*. When he's not doing that or handling bumper sticker production,
Mike raises Siberian
Huskies. Before becoming a respectible family man, he was also
King of the World Endurance Racing Assocation
superbike circuit, winning a National Title as an amateur in '90,
and finishing on Top 10 teams in the National Endurance Series, '97,
'98, '99.
These days, you're
more likely to find Mike racing go-carts out at Round Rock, TX's,
RPM Indoor Raceway. For him, it
may be methadone for his high speed jones, but for us it's beer money
in the bank. (We bet on him.)
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| Markoff
Chaney
This
Guy keeps showing up in our office, we don't know what the deal
is, we've given up trying to get rid of him. He's like The
Guy on the Couch (.WAV file) in Half Baked. We hear he's
a distant nephew of Lon Chaney,
though he's not even four-feet tall, and goes nutso anytime anyone
mentions it. Which is, uh, kinda like the Wolfman, when you think
about it.
Chaney doesn't
do Jack to pull his weight -- which isn't much -- around here. Every
now and then, he'll print up a mess of truly obnoxious bumper stickers,
then disappear weeks at a time. When it happens, we're not really
sure if we should be worried, or relieved. Dude owes us hundreds of
dollars. So if you catch ahold of the little bugger.... |
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