Allison

Sitting at my kitchen table with a bowl of pasta, large glass of milk, iphone, and stack of papers to grade on a Friday night, I thought to my self "self, find a way to procrastinate!" And thus, I decided it was time to write my introduction. While this encompasses most of my life, if you need more detail, read on!

My name is Allison, I am 22, and I am currently residing in the fantastic city of Chicago. Although I originate from Saint Paul, Minnesota, I spent four years at UW-Madison and have now made yet another move. According to that diploma that I spent years working towards, I am a secondary education English teacher. According to my job that I get paid way too little for, I am a 5th grade paraprofessional.

Working at a charter school in one of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods on the west side has taken over my life, and thus most of my posts will probably center somewhere around there. The school day runs from 8 am to 5 pm and I spend it working primarily with a boy who suffered a stroke due to his sickle cell anemia 2 years ago. At age 11 he walks with a cane, suffered some brain damage, and is one of the sweetest children I have had the pleasure to work with.

Interests outside of teaching involves copious amounts of reading when given the time, drinking a lot of coffee, tweeting, and hanging out with my roommate that I have known since age 5 when she asked me to be bus friends on the way to kindergarten.

Happy reading!

Noah

 Howdy, reader- my name is Noah, and I am a husky voiced, handsome twenty-something that enjoys long walks on the beach, candle-lit dinners and altercations with tentacular horrors from beyond the stars.

Here is a picture of me. Please, don’t stare like that- I embarrass easily.

Let's get to know each other.

I live in the fine city of Madison, WI, living out my post-college days as a general-use underling at a factory. It is precisely as interesting as you have already assumed, and I won’t waste your time with the details.

I am, by aspiration, a writer of fictions; by perspiration, a manufacturer of comics; and by leisure, a complete media-vore: literature, comics, music, television, film, videogames and the trapping of the internet. As such, my contributions to this glorious land of Scrabblegories are those of review, preview and examination of whatever is currently catching my eye and devouring my time.

I can already tell we’re going to get along fine.

Jake

illustration by MoxyCreative

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Rather than do a lengthy intro, I thought I might just give you a digest of links I tweeted [follow me!] today. Lazy? Yes! But it's emblematic of what I'm interested in and the gist of topics that I'll probably be posting about here.

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I currently work as an intern at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a journalism non-profit that funds in-depth reporting on under-cover issues around the globe and spend a lot of time on the computer at work.  

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I am a photographer. Find my work at my website, Jake Naughton Photography.

more after the jump

An Introduction: James

Greetings fellow citizens of the internet, my name is James T. Tynion IV, and I am generally pretty awesome. Here is an awesome drawing of me, so you can see for yourself:

(Art by Joe Kuenzle)

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