| Kurdisha Estaminetz (“Kablooie!!!”) is the editor of Musika Grumpika, the well-respected journal of music played on instruments made of animal bladders. She is also a longtime film actress in Slavonia or Slovakia (depending on the season) and has appeared in several films that garnered the coveted Golden Palm Leaves at the Adriatic Riviera Revue de Kinema (1999, 2003).
Constance Reeder (“More Moderne Klassix”) is back with us again, after a triumph in Issue No. 3 of jpt. This time she introduces us to the unpublished dreck of cultish short story meister Raimundo Craven, scraped off the bottom of his steamer trunk. Ms. Reeder is best known as an anthologist of stories and poems dealing with death, morbidity and anguish (The Black Wreath on the Study Door, Gnome Press, 2006).
Professor Loose (Frosty Mug Lecture #004) resurfaces in time to share a pot of stout and a further indictment of human cognizance vis-à-vis the inscrutability of the universe. The news he bears is mildly terrifying but, as delivered in the convivial context of happy hour, is bearable enough as it fades into haze.
Byron Swivet (“Cool Rules”) has sustained a long academic career as the last of the pure behaviorist psychologists. His two children—Watson and Emma—were raised in Skinner boxes and have prospered in later life. His many publications include Who R U? (Pox Press, 1997), Living for Results (U. of Manitoba Press, 2004) and Up Against the Firewall, Mother (Two Aces Publications, 2007).
Septimus et Ultima Hooper (“‘Emperor Norton’s Hunch’”) is the last descendant of a famous (or notorious) family of Abolitionists, Temperance Workers and Militant Vegetarians who have stirred up trouble for anyone to the right of Karl Marx for six generations. Sept is an obsessive author with a vast list of titles notched in his belt –titles like Who Stole My Bill of Rights? (Dockworkers Union Press, 1968), My Two Godfathers—Sacco and Vanzetti (Atheists and Anarchists’ Coop Bookstore, 1979) and Eat My Dust, Mr. Polluter (Greenenough 4U Printers, 1998).
Titus Andromeda (“The Lazarus Affair”) is a much-beloved historical novelist whose publications stretch from 1936’s Phillipa the Beautious Slave Girl to Last Days of Aleppo (1988). Many were translated onto film by directors such as C.B. DeMille and Clyde V. Featherstonehaugh, and his works are a staple in TV series on the World Bible Cable Network. He has lived outside Barksdale, California since 1929.
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