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BaloolaPalooza.com Staff

The people you see here are the few the proud and the brave folks who keep BP.com running smooth between the forums and the columns. Beyond that they are highly accessible and approachable people (well except maybe Bear) and would love to hear from you, feel free to drop any of them a line via either AIM or email or look for them on the forums.

John Morrison

John is a 21 year old student at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He is a working graphic designer who is frequently doing jobs in and around New York City and Long Island. All of BP's site design and maintenance is done by John. Never one to stay quiet with his opinions John co-founded BaloolaPalooza.com with Bear and has been running the site since 2002.
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Bear Frazer

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Joe Nichols

This is Joe. 21, lives in a dead end town, works a dead end job. What he brings to BP is a love of the entertainment industry and a wealth of knowlege on the subject. He aspires to one day become a great writer, and if his column, Soundtrack to Life, is any indication, he has a bright future ahead of him. Often a cynic, often down on himself, and can usually be found on our boards brandishing a sock puppet, shovel, and his cache of mod-like powers He joined with John and Bear on BaloolaPalooza after being a long time poster on the old forums.
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Aaron Rhoades

Aaron is a 24 year old from the great corn state of Indiana. When he's not cruising the forums of BaloolaPalooza.com, he works a full time job as an AMIT at an auto parts store. In his free time he enjoys spending time with is daughter, Ashley, music, concerts, cars, and video games. He has visited the BP.com site and forums since the beginning, and now that he's been given the almight Mod powers, it doesn't seem he's going away any time soon.
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Mike Plass

Phillip Quinn

Phillip is a 16 year old stud from North Cackalacky (North Carolina). While hanging out around the BP.com forums, he avidly learns new things about music, movies, and television. With his role on the writing staff, he plans to contribute his ideas for the bettering of the entertainment world.
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Jeff Martin

Jeff, known as Walrus by his friends, is a 17 year old slacker... er, student, from Edmonton, Alberta. He enjoys music, movies, video games, comic books, and a bunch of other stuff. He digs metal and hip hop music, but is mostly too cheap to pay for the massively overpriced CDs, so his column Buried Treasure reviews old stuff that he probably found for cheap or that somebody else paid for. It also reviews stuff that he liked enough to actually pay full price for, which means it must be good.
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Brett

Little is known about the man known as Brett aka Vagabond. His constant relocations have allowed him to see the world, yet he can call no place home. The only way to track his journey is to follow the smell of the fresh krylon, or the blood of the lackluster emcees that lie along the sides of his path. As he journeys across the globe in search of the next fresh track to rip, or the next break to chop, he sends reviews of music born of his only true culture... hip hop. His hopes are to share visions from outside the norm, to enlighten and broaden the minds of those who share his space, both physically, and spiritually, and of course to piss most off with his obnoxious comments and views no one could agree with.
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Cary Hansen

Cary is a 17 year old senior in high school, currently taking classes in the fields of Biology, Kinesiology, and English. He plans to one day become a successful writer, possibly for magazines such as Guitar World, or Spin. This spot on the BP staff has given him alot of incentive to start writing more, and getting some experience in the field. Aside from writing columns and browsing around on the forums, Cary is an avid hockey player, as well as guitar player, which will greatly effect the inspiration for which he writes his pieces. Look out for his topics on music with underground labels, as you may see them in the mainstream limelight one day. He has alot to offer to the literary world, and your all getting a sneak peak. Enjoy.
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Bryan Bishop

It is unclear why Bryan Bishop is on the Baloolapalooza staff. Some believe it's charity. Others think it's Bear, paying off a little of the old 'public service'. For whatever reason, Bryan is around... for better or worse. The Arkansas native is always there to lend a helping hand... unless he's having a violent mood swing, in which case he's best left alone. Remember, that's Bryan B I S H O P, not Bryan A D A M S. We should be so lucky.
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Hector Mercado

Hector is a 23 year old sports freak. He has decided to write "the gut" to live out his child long dream of doing something he loves for a living. While he may not earn a living writing here at BP, or do something he loves where he makes his money at T-Mobile at least he has both of them. In his free time you can find him playing video games, buying football jerseys, or driving around in his 2000 chevy cavalier.
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The Raven

He lives in a nest larger than most, in a tree larger than most. And he's blacker than most and more clever than most. He is a raven.
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Nina Lutwick

Nina Lutwick (alias Miss Cat Cabana) is a musician/college student/music snob/counter princess at a BBQ restaraunt/ drama fag. She is originally from Long Island, but currently resides in Worcester Mass where she goes to college and perfects having a "wicked good new england accent." In her spare time (which she mysteriously seems to have alot of) she enjoys playing online scrabble, "whoopin' ass" in pool, and quoting south park until someone smacks her upside the head. Her favorite bands range from Nirvana to Sunny Day Real Estate to the Temptations, her favorite color is blue, and is convinced that one day she is going to marry a man who looks exactly like Kurt Cobain.
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Richard Kane

Richard Kane, AKA The RKane One, is a guy of 20 years. A guy that rumour has it... is English. And he is, oddly enough. Hailing from some crappy little island that the majority of Britain is blissfully unaware of he works a crappy shift at a crappy job earning crappy money, leaving little time for that little life thing that many seem to enjoy. On the plus side he's the weirdest, most hardcore heavy-hitting heavy metal DJ in town, his base of operations being known simply as "The Pit". Heavy metal is pretty much the central focus in this freakshow's life, though he's also a wrestling zealot. What's any of this gotta do with anything? Maybe nothing, but since you're obviously still reading you must give some sort of a damn. In any case The RKane One now finds himself thrown in amongst the BP elite, busting out The RKane Domain whenever he can to shed light on that which he loves and that which he doesn't. Opinionated? Just a little. Odd? Just a lot. Openly obsessed with the female form? Rhetorical. As Mr. Kane would say... respect and out ya'll!
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Zack Macomber

Zack the Mack Macomber, aka God Nightshade, is an 18 year old video games expert from Saginaw, Michigan. He's currently residing in Mt. Pleasant while attending Central Michigan University. He's been in love with video games since the first time he played Joust on the NES. Over the years his love for gaming has evolved into what it is today. He's currently working for Gamestop Inc. at Software Etc., where he gets the down low on the newest games. He hopes his column will inform and interest the gamers of bp.com.
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Christine Bell

Bell is a 20yr old english/visual arts major in NYC. Hobbies: the color green, writing, reading, riding, avoiding people, small animal infatuation, eccentricity and perfecting the great art of androgyny. An avid music listener, movie goer and reader of anything with words; Bell's tastes are eclectic. Wants to help BP achieve stardom and is engaging on a personal side project to be a major creative brainstormer/contributer to the site in all its facets. She is hell bent on beefing up the literature forum and general site format/lit. Open to any suggestions, comments, etc, please feel free to contact here using the links below.
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