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Pam Torno~

Pam Torno is living just enough for the city in Oakland, California. She is wise and vigilant like her spirit animal, the owl. She is not ashamed that her first concert was the (reunited) Monkees, sans Mike Nesmith. She has worked many years as a writer/producer in television, but is now toiling away on a branded web series for an Internet video company


Eileen Greene

Eileen Greene~
Eileen Greene has oatmeal for breakfast every day. A former music industry
insider who now works for The Man, Eileen lives locally and thinks globally
whenever possible. She now freely admits that she never liked punk music
and was faking it the whole time. Unless Depeche Mode counts – but she
knows they don’t…

Asher Rapkin
Asher Rapkin~
“Asher Rapkin was born in New York City and has lived in Ohio, Brooklyn,
California and England, though not necessarily in that order. He likes dim
sum and arguments, and probably wants to fight with you about one thing or
another. He works for MTV and doesn’t watch The Hills (much).”

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