Contributors
Kurt: Trivia Master
The team here at Slice of SciFi had been developing a new trivia segment for the weekly podcast, and although we had over 400 audio clips at the time to feature, none of the executive staff at FarPoint Media had the time necessary to give the segment the kick it needed to be a successful part of the program.
Initially, our good friend Doug Kress came to the rescue and filled that post for over two years. Eventually, due to other commitments Doug had to hand the duties to another fine expert in sci-fi and genre-related movie trivia, Kurt in St. George, who has been dutifully and very capably been bringing excellent sources of trivia clips to the show and our worldwide audience to ponder ever since.
You to can help Kurt out by submitting clips to him at sliceoftrivia@gmail.com
Michael McCafferty: Editorials - Special Reports
Mike McCafferty is an actor, writer, director and producer who has starred in such movie and television features as “The Invisible Man,” “National Treasure: Book of Secrets,” HBO’s “True Blood,” “The Shield,” “ER,” “Six Feet Under” and on the internet with several episodes of “Acceptable TV” and “Chad Vader.” Mike appeared as a guest on Slice of SciFi and was an instant hit with fans. Soon he began writing editorial pieces and offering up special on-site and on-location reports becoming one of Slice of SciFi’s most read contributors. Mike can next be seen with Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich in the Clint Eastwood directed film “Changeling” due out October 31, 2008.
Michael Lohr: Print Interviews
Michael Lohr is a professional journalist, outdoorsman, poet, whiskey connoisseur, music critic, treasure hunter and adventurer. His writing has appeared in such diverse magazines as Rolling Stone, Esquire, The Economist, Southern Living, Sporting News and Men’s Journal, to name a few.
Cynthia Lee
From time to time Cynthia, an avid reader, and as a very small girl was “weaned” on The Space Child’s Mother Goose, provides us with very interesting editorials from her unique point of view.
She earned her first library card at the age of four, and officially began reading SF&F with Schmitz’s Telzey stories in Analog to find out whom her big sister was named after. A NASA Fellow and former Asian cinema Programming Director for a local Twin Cities non-profit, she has volunteered in educational demos in the S.C.A. and in neighborhood community gardens. A longtime sewer, she enjoys pattern design and historical recreation, and is an original member of the Minnesota Costume Guild.
Always the resident spell-check and editor for classmates and colleagues, her work ranges from writing work manuals and legal proofreading to NaNoWriMo and articles published in Asian American Press. Ever-busy in fandom, Cynthia is a long time convention goer who has co-hosted a Space 1999 room party, bellydanced, been a HK hopping vampire, organized and run the 1999 Asian Children’s Film Festival on Studio Ghibli works, and recently became a Browncoat with her fellows in the MN Firefly fan group.
She fits all of this into her “copious free time” as she is usually occupied raising and homeschooling two younglings with the help of her husband and Casey the companion cockatiel.
Paul Puri: Game Reviewer
Paul Puri is a repressed, self centered individual who forced himself to retire from the recording studio business because there was no money in it. He decided to recently get into podcasting, because he feels he could retire from it much faster.
So still broke and full of himself, he tries to make his mark in this world by donating his time to help the weak, the oppressed, the pathetic people he would normally step on in order to claw his way up to middle management.
His struggle with duality can only culminate in one goal. To become a barista at his local Starbucks coffee franchise, and the way things are going, next year might be the one that makes it stick.
But all seriousness aside, Paul just wants to be a good podcaster, and a great advocate for podcasting. He is currently the chairman of the Podcast Guild Planning Committee, a blogger/podcaster, and is building his podcasting consulting business called Puri Podcast Productions.
He is a father of 2 girls, and a husband of 1 wife, cause really, one wife is more than enough, and his better half will testify to that.
A man so good at podcasting, he’s podfaded 3 times. What else is there to say?
Mur Lafferty: Geek Fu Essayist
Mur was born and raised in the south, but it’s not her fault. She is a writer of essays. magazine articles and role-playing-games. Someday she may actually publish some fiction. She’s been podcasting her essays since December, 2004. Most of her time is spent at home taking care of her toddler and playing games. She really likes talking in third person, it makes her feel important.
Jay Hinkelman: Doctor Who Aficionado
Jay Hinkelman comes to us via The Dragon Page and Wingin’ It and is our resident Doctor Who guru.
If it’s about the good Doctor, Jay is our man in the know.
