Croesus P. Morgan (“Filthy Lucre”) is an offshoot descendant of the famous House of Morgan who labored for two decades as a Wall Street consultant and commentator until the recent economic meltdown.  He now serves in a Fifth Avenue Horn & Hardart as a cubicle-packer, which work makes him very happy and “stress-free for the first time in thirty years.”  This is his first appearance in jpt.

Marion Jones (“Boots,” “Visit Back,” “Short Talk On Balance”) breathes lustre into this loping issue with three more poetic gems from New Zealand, extending her jpt hit streak to six-for-six.  Dearly may we hope to see her back for future runs.   

John Rice, Esq., whom you’ll remember as the motorcycling attorney whose mountaintop confrontation with a mother bear traumatized the readership last issue, has accumulated many tales and photographic images from his biking runs through the years, and has kindly consented to share them in these trend-rendering pages you hold in your eyes.  We kick off his saga "Go West, Old Men!" with the first blazing installment.

Lionel R.R. Gilbert (“Model Trains”) is a certifiable lunatic about model cars, boats, planes and trains, usually found on weekends at some meeting of ungrown-up oldsters tinkering with teeny trash.  He has written a series of manuals on most kinds of models, published by TinyTown Press and chockfull of useful tips for dedicated time-wasters.  We won’t pass on his Web site, but you can always Google him, if you are hell-bent on knowing it.

Martha Q. Schafer ("Mr. Mole and the Little Old Lady") delivers an "official" rendering of a Mr. Mole story following William Schafer's introduction, in Issue #14, of Mr. Mole to the stew-eating world via transcripts of a child's creative syntheses. There just might lie in our futures an advice column and other offerings of inestimable value from M.Q., so let's show some love for Mr. Mole!

Ima Lyttel Blackbyrd (“Another View from the Trenches”) presents us with a new found-poetry gem from her assiduous research and reading in Great War memorabilia.  She is currently on a reading tour of Eastern Europe and is enchanted with what is left of the Balkans. She is contemplating a multimedia extravaganza on the unconscious poetry imbedded in letters from all the fronts in The War that Failed to End All War.

Professor Loose (“Rise of the Reptilian Brain,” Frosty Mug Lecture #008) appears on these screens for the last time as a guest Contributor.  We reintroduce him now as a JPT staffer and our Chief of Advanced Concepts, in which office he will presumably continue to analyze the universe with rigor and vigor, reporting here his findings and convictions no matter the shrill resistance.  Put your mitts & dainty bits together now for Advanced Conceptor Prof. Loose!  He’ll be gunning for all you think you know, you know. Congratulations Professor Loose! You should feel beaucoup honored.