John Rice (“Go West, Old Men!” part 2) The panache of the seasoned communicator animates Kentucky attorney Rice’s (http://www.johnricelaw.com) motorcycling adventures, explorations, observations & ruminations.  Here’s your chance to go wild with vicarious living, packing behind John and The Colonel through America’s grand West.     

H. Twooh (“Squirt Guns”) is a jpt newcomer.  He abides most often in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, counts himself a deep-dyed Cheesehead, and is a devout believer in alien abduction, crop circles, levitation, teleportation and anything else outré that comes down the pike.  He is compiling an almanac of such stuff, to be titled Either Believe It or So What?  He has been approached by Incredulity Press for a possible publication, possibly in 2011, unless the world ends first.

Carlos “Nosy” Quiznoe (“So What Did Happen to Amelia Earhart?") came to fame by winning for three  consecutive weeks on TV’s “Name that Tune” in the early 1950s.  Since then he has lived the quiet life of a Certified Public Accountant in Fiasco, Ohio, while teaching himself to play the cornet in the style of Bix Beiderbecke.  Retired, he hopes to get onto a TV talent show and win big one more time before he expires.

Apollo Peckersun (audio recordings “Ere Even Prior Solstice” and “Tickapoo Blues,” jpt AudioPile) is a folk legend in some of the toughest-to-remain-in locations on the American landscape.  There even echo the whispers that he is something more than human.  These recordings, digitally-engineered derivations of raw tape recordings a quarter-century aged, kick off our Juxtachronic audio category.  Feeling experimental?   

B.N. Ratchett (“Saturday Nite at the ER”) has published much verse in those big yearbook-like leather-bound anthologies you have to send money to and you get a few free copies at the end, and they always sound like you have won some huge poetry award on the lines of the Nobel Prize.  This makes her much happier than working the late shift in the kidney dialysis division of her hospital, I can tell you!