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35th INSTALLMENT : 4/10/06

Ike To My Tina
By Carrie Friedman
(Prides herself on failing big - huge! - and is currently assembling the mammoth Anthology of My Unpublished Works.)

Large Charge of Completion
By Adam Paul
(Actor, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, Without a Trace, Las Vegas; film and stage writer/director.)

Preggo Land
By Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
(Comic, Evening at the Improv, Comedy Central; writer/producer, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, etc; Author, Sippy Cups Are Not For Chardonnay: And other things I had to Learn as a New Mom )

The Truth About Peeps
By Deborah Stoll
(Writing has appeared in Swivel and LimeTea. Book of short stories, Drink Love, is coming out from Equator Books.)

You Talking to Me?
By Jim Dover
(Has written for Advertising Age magazine and The Rocky Mountain News.)

I Do! I Do!
By Alien #7005634
(Has written for BUST magazine, Whole Life Times, Science & Spirit, and Penthouse.)

36th INSTALLMENT : 4/28/06 ::: GREATEST HITS #2 Featuring some of our reader's past faves.

Jerry's Kid
by Mark Rizzo
(Writer/performer, developed new show with Dreamworks and NBC; Solo show at Double Helix Theater's ONE Festival in NY and Comedy Central Stage in LA.)

The Dragon Slayer
By Leigh Kilton-Smith
(Writer when she feels she has a good story to tell; Acting coach, The Good Girl, The Cooler, and The Constant Gardener.)

What Plastic Patio Furniture in my Living Room?
By Tiffany Zehnal
(TV writer, Veronica's Closet, Dag, That '80s Show.)

Pieces
by Tanya Greve
(Performer, graduate of New York's Neighborhood Playhouse; starred in celebrated play Kicking and Screaming.)

What's So Wrong With The Brady Bunch?
by Kimberly Brittingham
(Articles, essays, short stories and poems in publications including The Evergreen Chronicles, The Advocate, Mobius, One Trick Pony and Axe Factory.)

True Crime Whore
by John Geirland
(Former editor-in-chief Shockwave.com; Frequent contributor to Industry Standard and WIRED magazine; Author DIGITAL BABYLON.)