InutilityC.D. Bassetto, Allegro con moto. A longtime veteran rock ’n’ roll commentator with credentials dating back to the Beatles at Shay Stadium, Bassetto is the admired author of such classic compilations of rock-critik as Honky Blues (Owl Droppings Press, 1976), Leavin’ on a Jet Plane (Rolling Tones Ltd., 1988) and Who Put the Bomp in the Oo-Bomp-Shabam? (Yellow Book Pub., 2001).
Democritus, Jr. Review of Charles Fort, Egad! The pseudonym of a chickensh*t academic too bashful to have his tidy old
Willis Quick (aka. Bronco Billy McCoy), The Day They Didn’t Rob the Leeland Bank. One of the most pertinacious Grub Street hacks of modern times, Quick grew up in the golden age of pulp fiction and mastered all its avatars, writing under scores of pseudonyms for Science Screams, Ultra Fantasy, Space Demons, Rocket Rangers, Cowboy Crime, Western Horror, Murder Masquerade and other magazines. Later he was acclaimed as a best-selling writer of historical fiction such as Steamboat Chimneys over
M. Hertz DeForest, Crystal Radio; Bobby Watson, Boy of the Rodeo. A specialist in media studies, DeForest has focused in recent years on defunct, failed and archaic technologies and their (lack of) consequences. His studies on tricycle cars, canard-configured aircraft, perpetual motion machines, never-dull razor blades, engines that run on water or air, etc., are classics of patient minutiae. See especially his careful review of ornithopters as mass transit, Ah, For a Wing of My Own! (Botsford, Del.: Civil Engineering Press, 1993)
Maynord Monez, Film Flam & Flik Flops. Once the protégé and right-man of Wolfman Jack before the notorious Incident of Juarez that blighted Jack's declining years, Monez is an assiduous student of the Cinema of Wretchedness, including a massive tome on drive-in special movies (I Survived the Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman, Spanish Fly Publishers, 1996) and a select filmography on Vincent Price with extensive production stills attached (V.P.: My Ghoulish Alter Ego, Luminaire Bros. Press, 2004). Monez has been featured in various short-running radio and TV movie rating programs and was beloved for using a system of bats and rats to rate them.
Jaxon T. Fozzle, Hex Libris: Books for Brains on Hold. Once the personal masseur of Wolfman Jack, Fozzle is now chief conservator at the
Malinda McMalisse, Hex Libris: Pay-per-Review. Ms. McMalisse has an impressive C.V., including a short stint in the women's house of detention at
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