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| Windbag |
Editor-in-Chief / Publisher
Attention to detail and deep pockets make for a wonderful Editor-In-Chief. Sometimes tries his hand at writing which led to this legendary turd, the single most defamed post in TWL history.
Websites visited every day: TeaWithLemon
Favorite quote:
“Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.”
– William ShakespeareTWL gig: Letters from the Editor. Read the Editor-in-Chief's Columns. Contact him.
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| All day, every day |
Senior Editor
Follow @CaliforniaKara
According to her second grade report card, "Kara likes to talk. A lot." Lucky for her, this gal parlayed that into a writing career, worked on the Oscars and spent 5 years as senior editor of ScoopeMe.com, an entertainment site. She once stepped into an elevator with Barbra Streisand during a tech rehearsal, and was immediately informed by Babs' handlers to "face forward. Don't look at Ms. Streisand." Meh.
Websites visited every day: TED.com, Facebook, Twitter
Favorite quote: "I'm going to set my expectations high, and one day I'll exceed them." – Will, Young Americans
TWL gig: Glee recapper, Instant Message Movie Reviews, and ComicCon correspondent. Read CaliforniaKara's columns. Contact CaliforniaKara.
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| Perfect white picket fence life: 2 kids & hunky fire-fighter husband |
Columnist
Follow @coreenie_k
Balancing marriage, motherhood and a corporate career, GingerbreadMama was a writer and Assistant Editor for Scoopme.com, chronicles the joys of parenting as a mommy blogger and plays nice with others at Tea With Lemon. She has mastered the art of operating on minimal sleep but is still working on running in heels.
Websites visited every day: Facebook, People, Tasty Planner
Favorite quote: “Remember to always be yourself, unless you suck.” – Joss Whedon
TWL gig: Weekly gossip column, Gingerbreadmama's Gossip Wrap. Read GingerbreadMama's columns. Contact GingerbreadMama.
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| Salty |
Columnist
Singer/songwriter and movie-lover who kinda fell into this gig.
Websites visited everyday: Facebook, Hulu
Favorite quote: "You ladies play your cards right, you might just get to meet the whole gang." – Brian Fantana
TWL gig: Whatever comes to mind. Read Lex's columns. Contact Lex.
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| World's only heterosexual Dancing With the Stars fanboy |
Senior Writer
Considers himself lucky to have racked up so many life experiences that are really critical for a good writer – like poverty, a latch key childhood, extensive travel in third world countries, and work in the video games industry.
Websites visited every day: Ain't It Cool News, my bank, your Facebook page
Favorite quote: "I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying." – Woody Allen
TWL gig: Recaps The Walking Dead season 1 and 2, True Blood and Instant Message Movie Reviews. Read SDMattchew's columns.
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| Hysteric |
Columnist
Balancing motherhood, heavy drinking, and world domination, Marja chronicles the joys of parenting and complains about hypocrisy at Tea With Lemon. She has mastered the art of operating appliances, but is still working on spinning in heels.
Websites visited every day: Ruminations, Huffington Post
Favorite quote: "Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men." – Joseph Conrad
TWL gig: Covers music and life. Read Marja's columns.
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| Civil rights activist |
Columnist
Former TWL publisher that stepped down to focus on what is really important: losing weight so people have one less thing to talk about when he walks down the aisle as one of Twin's bridesmaids; getting his bearings together after the "stressful" season 2 of The Walking Dead; and pointless drivel.
Websites visited every day: Newsarama, Entertainment Weekly
Favorite quote: "He's fabulously gay and tart - you'd love his sharp tongue and honest truth." – CaliforniaKara
TWL gig: General banalities about life, The Walking Dead season 3 recap, Game of Thrones recap, and T's Trailer Park, a running commentary on new movie trailers. Read T's columns. Contact T.
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| Lean green machine |
Columnist
He's not afraid to get laughed at while riding a crazy-looking folding electric bike down University Avenue. He put a tramp stamp on the back of his Toyota Prius. He hobnobbed with fellow delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009. And he believes you haven't arrived at a place until you've checked in on Facebook.
Websites visited every day: Drudge Report, Engadget, Facebook, Moped Army
Favorite quote: "The sense we have that it's important to repay debts corrupts the impulse to take care of each other. Debts are not sacred, human relationships are." – David Rolfe Graeber
TWL gig: Muses on environmental, nutrition, and global issues in GreenTech Geek. Read GreenTech Geek's columns.
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| Recappy happy |
Writer
Joshowa tries to kill people with kindness, but can only maim at best. He can often be found proofreading everyone's work but his own. Steve Guttenberg once called him, "John," and the experience has left him confused about his true identity.
Websites visited every day: ScaryGoRound.com, Project: Rooftop, IMDB.com
Favorite quote: "Tis a far far better thing doing stuff for other people." – Cher Horowitz
TWL gig: Recaps Supernatural. Read Joshowa's columns.
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| Married well |
Columnist
With a passion for cooking, Fly spends her free time searching the web for new and decadent recipes, planning the next meal for a dinner party, and finding people to be beta tasters. For the love of the food
Websites visited every day: Google +, Twitter, Tastespotting
Favorite quote: Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one’s belt buckled.” – Frederic Raphae
TWL gig: Shares recipes and kitchen trials and triumphs in Lettuce Eat. Read Fly's columns.
Websites visited every day: Google +, Twitter, Tastespotting
Favorite quote: Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one’s belt buckled.” – Frederic Raphae
TWL gig: Shares recipes and kitchen trials and triumphs in Lettuce Eat. Read Fly's columns.
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| Cute face, sharp tongue |
Writer
Follow @TheAwardsWitch
11 years ago, she returned a pair of pants to a boy-bander in the departure terminal of the Dublin airport in exchange for photographic evidence of the chance opportunity. It doesn’t really matter that she fought her friend for the pants as they fell off the hanger while the boy bander was running to make a flight or that you’ve probably never heard of the boy band. The important thing is that it was the single nicest thing that you will ever catch her doing for anyone even remotely famous. Also, he was hot. At least until she got close enough to tell he smelled like last night’s Guinness and stale smarmy-dance-move sweat.
Websites visited every day: Facebook, TWL, Huffington Post
Favorite quote: “Matt Damon.” – Sarah Silverman
TWL gig: Live blogs awards shows, like the Oscars, the Emmys, Golden Globes and more. Read The Awards Witch's columns.
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| Liz Lemon...ish |
Contributor, Movie Reviews
Watch out folks, shaunapiranha may bite with that sharp tongue of hers. Ever the sarcastic realist, growing up, her answer to "what do you want to be when you grow up" through jr high was always "not to be a bum", which amusingly conflicts with her earlier childhood dream of picking up trash on the side of the freeway. Thanks to those wonderfully low expectations, she considers her life to be a complete success. Constantly overextended but always open to new things, when T referred her to the Editor In Chief to write Instant Message Movie Reviews for TWL, she couldn't refuse. She often gets teased for having the interests of an octogenarian, which include bowling, watching 'Jeopardy', and complaining about how annoying children are. Dark rimmed glasses and white boy afros are her kryptonite.
Websites visited everyday: EW.com, Facebook, CNN.com, BillPullman.org
Favorite Quote: "May the schwartz be with you!" -Yogurt
TWL gig: Merciless movie reviews. Read Shaunapirahna's columns.
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| Hack magician |
Contributor
Just a small town boy with big city dreams and a sarcastic talking cat for a sidekick. Will I be able to avenge to untimely murder of my uncle in time for the big school dance? Only time will tell. Stay tuned kids!
Websites visited everyday: 2012 Danger, Garage Sales Tracker, Modern Woman
Favorite Quote: “A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life it’s the only weapon we have.” – Roger Rabbit
TWL gig: Dispenses advice to the love-lorn and desperate in Michael Knows Best. Read Michael's columns.
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| Taps dances all up on Tyra's grill |
Contributor
Dancer is a self acclaimed TV addict with an ongoing relationship with her DVR. In her real life she works in Human Resources and she is a semi-professional Belly Dancer in the Bay Area. In in her spare time from TV and work, Dancer enjoys photography. She's principal photographer on Dawn Devine's upcoming book "The Cloth of Egypt" (releasing summer 2012).
Favorite quote: “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Websites visited every day: Facebook, Tom & Lorenzo: fabulous and opinionated, Pinterest
TWL gig: Covers America's Next Top Model.
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| Dragon wrangler |
Contributor
FutureCindy is an expert in surrealistic trash, the future, and knowing what’s good for you even if she’s never met you. Her greatest wish in life is to have a robot deliver her a carton of Fabergé Eggs. In the meantime, she will settle for quality television that covers either the (possible) future (Fringe, Battlestar Galactica) or past (Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey). FutureCindy is not interested in inquiries regarding the present or the Kardashians.
Websites visited everyday: Gawker, Wesmirch, Techmeme, Fab.com cat sales
Favorite Quote: "What we have here is a failure to communicate." – Cool Hand Luke
TWL gig: Recaps everyone's favorite "Winter is coming" show, Game of Thrones. Read her GOT recaps.
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| Braggart |
Contributor
Barry Gnu (no relation) has been hobnobbing with the rich and famous his entire life. He has ridden the elevator with Muhammad Ali, been accused of stalking Meredith Baxter-Birney in a Chinese restaurant, and even received a Bar Mitzvah card from former Oakland Raider Marcus Allen. Barry changed the course of human history. Twice. He currently lives in seclusion with his wife, Dr. Wife, and 3 year old son, J.J.
Websites visited everyday: The Huffington Post
Favorite quote: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” – John F. Kennedy
TWL gig: Covers politics in The Gnu View. Read Barry's columns.
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| Attention seeker |
Contributor
Her mother once told her: never trust a man with a unibrow, you'll be thankful for your small butt when you're older and everyone else is pear-shaped, and if you learn how to cook you're half-way there to a man's heart. She was right about all of them... except her small butt.
Websites visited every day: Facebook, Food Network, Tuyenh Tran
Favorite quote: "Keep talking that mess, that's fine. Could you walk and talk at the same time? Baby drop dem keys. Hurry up before your taxi leaves. Standing in the front yard telling me how I'm such a fool, how I'll never find a man like you... you got me twisted." – Beyonce Knowles
TWL gig: Writes about food, fashion and trends. Read Twin's columns.
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| Glenn Beck's arch-nemesis |
Senior Writer
Follow @HeatherPVJ
Heather's feelings about entertainment are a strange mixture of adoration and repression. Which explains why she built her children a stage in their playroom... closet. She's worked for TV Guide and The Hollywood Reporter, and once stood in line for the bathroom next to Whoopi Goldberg. Good times.
Websites visited every day: Old Hollywood, Awkward Family Photos, tywkiwdbi
Favorite quote: ''Be a first rate version of yourself not a second rate version of someone else." – Judy Garland
TWL gig: Recaps American Idol and The X Factor. Read Heather PV's columns. Contact Heather PV.
