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This is one of Morgan’s favorite web sites! Why? Because it’s Alsome!
Also because he owns it, he runs it, and when he finds something he doesn’t like, he spanks people until it gets fixed. Here are some other sites he likes.
Anorexic Dancer: Julián Porta
Current life: Software developer and Roman Empire history buff. Previous life: Skateboarder, guitar-bass-drum player in a few indie bands, sound engineer.
Tween #1: Guillermo Rubens
Guillermo divides his time between mentoring indigo kids, translating Matt Gröening, writing lyrics for progressive-rock wunderkinds, and his two pet projects: babbling incoherences on the radio, and advising English-speakers about Buenos Aires.
Nunja: Alvaro Casanova
Alvaro lives in Uruguay and is a student of Graphic Design and the new designer of Overheard in New York. When not building layouts or doing things for university he plays the guitar and listen to retro music..
Loud Girl on Cell: Adina
Adina is a former day-camp minibus driver and textbook clerk. She does those banner pictures on top of the sites. She will take a photograph of pretty much anything.
anything. Even you.
Suit #1: Dave Barnette
Dave lives in New Hampshire where he has a secret identity. He
remembers when Woody Allen was funny, he reads too much, and his love for New York has always been unrequited.
JAP #2: Nick Saint
Nick is deaf as a doorknob and obnoxiously loud, so he was going to end up on Overheard one way or the other. He splits his time between heaping scorn on his fellow man and attending graduate school for philosophy.
Meathead #2: Adam Holland
Adam represented Harvard in the ’96 Olympics, back when he had a 7.1 liter VO2 and could clean 130 kilos. He’s now a father of two, coaches high school soccer, wrestling and rowing, writes short SF stories, and just finished a novel about clones and Absurdism.
Fratboy #3: Danielle Lindemann
Danielle is an insomniac Columbia grad student. Before becoming editor of Overheard, she was our #1 Best Eavesdropper Of All Time. Like, you know how Superman can hear through walls, like, X‑Ray vision, but for hearing? So can she.
Cracker Chick: Jenny Weiss
Jenny is a graduate student and does things with words for money. She is also an accomplished blurbist, having written hundreds of decontextualized paragraphs on pointe shoes and lesbian genre fiction.
Drunk Guy: Dan Horwitz
We don’t know why, but we do know that Dan is Very, Very Important. Something to do with ninjas. He likes reading long, incoherent rants by unhinged conspiracy theorists, so go ahead and send them along.