Contributers to Op-Ed:
Alan Baxter
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Alan Baxter is an independent author based in Sydney, Australia. He has been described (by himself) as an optimistic cynic – someone with little faith in the chances of anything, but hopeful nonetheless. Convinced that the humanity seems to be fighting a battle between progress and idiocy, Alan has placed himself firmly in the no man’s land between the two camps, happy to make sandwiches during breaks in the fighting. He is also a martial arts instructor, so don’t complain about his sandwiches. |
Number of posts: 2
Email address:
alan@alanbaxteronline.com
Web site: http://www.alanbaxteronline.com
Beth Massa
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Beth Massa is an expat American who lives, works and writes in Amsterdam. She was both 37 and 38 in the same year. She hopes to do it again this year. By day she works for Microsoft. By night she is asleep. She enjoys the gym when it is closed and the bar when it is open. That's not entirely true. She also liked the gym when it is open. She just doesn't go often enough. All tomorrow's parties always came one day too early. |
Number of posts: 2
Email address:
bethmassa@yahoo.com
Web site: http://amsterbeth.vox.com/
Chad Calease
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Chad Calease is a filmmaker currently living in Minneapolis nearing completion on a documentary film about the game of Tag. It's likely he can stay awake longer than you can. |
Number of posts: 5
Email address:
chad@thinfilms.net
Web site: http://thinfilms.net
DaveTheGrinch
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DaveTheGrinch doesn't like Christmas - that's why he's a grinch. He's also a grinch because unless he does something really quickly his world might crumble under the pressure of all the 'nice' people in it. |
Number of posts: 7
Email address:
dave@davethegrinch.net
Web site: http://davethegrinch.net
David Browne
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David once wrote for his school newspaper. He has spent the subsequent years earning money from writing, playing, singing and typing for other people. As of 2008, his net worth from such pursuits is estimated to be around $1.27. In January 2007 he left his home in the United States to travel the world in the hope that non-native English speakers would enjoy his company. He has not returned home since (although their enjoyment is currently unproven). He was born in England, resides in Amsterdam but is domiciled in Seattle. |
Number of posts: 9
Email address:
dbrowne@oped-magazine.com
Web site: http://davethegrinch.net
Ed Eibel
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Ed Eibel has written for Seattle Dining.com, Sound Rider and Sounds of Seattle. He engineered the live music show, The Live Room, on KEXP in Seattle for three years before moving to Asia. He now is desperate for opportunities to speak in English and is happy to share with you the insight into the Western World he has gained while not living in it. First off, traditional Asian toilets suck. Otherwise, it's the end of the world as we know it. |
Number of posts: 5
Email address:
ed@edeibel.com
Web site: http://edeible.com
Steve Bachman
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Steve Bachman is aging like cheap wine in Saint Paul, a quiet suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He spends at least 40 hours a week toiling as a UNIX systems administrator, while metaphorically wearing a large bumper sticker that reads "I'd rather be traveling, birdwatching, playing Scrabble, reading, listening to music, playing volleyball, basketball, or softball, finishing a crossword puzzle, or taking a nap." Occasionally he writes down some nonsense, but he discards most of it. He wears a beard. |
Number of posts: 3
Email address:
sbachman@bachster.com
Waxieus
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waxieus is the god of adaptation. he is capable of communicating with and relating to any culture and/or sensibility, thus, able to navigate nimbly through most any environment with a voracious appetite and knack for learning his way around. his weakness? well, he has no individual culture of his own, instead he's a rather strict product of environment. waxieus makes choices based on experiences and intuition rather than established forms and functions. he tells it like it is, without sentimentality but not without care. |
Number of posts: 3
Email address:
wax@gmail.com
Web site: http://waxieus.net
