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Lance Sharps on September 8th, 2005

	Lance Sharps Editor-In-Chief Author of Re-Evaluating Art and The Four-Panel Directive, Lance began his career at Modern Humor Authority as a staff writer covering Canadian film and television. His column, Lines From Lance, ran for seven years before his eventual move to Editor-In-Chief of MHA. He lives in Edmonton with his eight cats.
	Andrew Carlssin Senior Staff Writer Andrew’s duties as Senior Writer at Modern Humor Authority don’t stop him from "getting around." He still finds time to take in off-off-Broadway American theatre, such as Dead in Petersburg and the wonderful performance art piece vagina*, of which he wrote "a symphony of dissonance performed by instruments that don’t exist."
	Todd Lemon Staff Writer Born and raised in Toronto, Todd Lemon’s life ended when Late Night with Conan O’Brien was filmed four blocks from his apartment. Now a slacker expatriate, he resides in Portland, Oregon, providing our only newly "American" perspective.
	James Lawrence Black Staff Writer James is not a believer in distilling one’s life down to two or three sentences. He advises you consider the same.
	Jackson Rootberg Staff Writer Jackson is a native of Richmond, BC, and earned his MA in Political Humanities at the University of Vancouver. In addition to his work at MHA, the occasionally writes for academic journals. His 1995 whitepaper, “Wal-Mart Pie: Commercial Campaigns in the United States and the Lure of the Pseudo-Left,” was published in American Onlooker Quarterly.
	Van Dyke Campbell Staff Writer Van Dyke’s two-story summer home is in Louisiana, where he vacations with his wife to take in the Acadian ("Cajun") culture. "The air vibrates with color and sound," he wrote of New Orleans in his 1997 travelogue, A Summer Below: Louisiana on $400 a Day (Give or Take).
	Isobel Rai Belpheger Contributor World-weary Isobel’s art career started in fourth grade when a jar of paint was effortlessly knocked over by her graceful hand. Her teacher, not seeing the accident, gave it a gold star. This was perhaps the most formative of Ms. Belpheger’s experiences. Now she plys her trade online for Canadian bands, having found a home in Edmonton at last.
	Sarrah Lillard Staff Writer Merging the sensible and the profane, Lillard slashes away at convention and the conventional until paradigms collapse, opinions change, and empires fall. She lives with her faithful Collie mix, Perksy.