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[Ragingape]

This is me at the National Archeological Museum of Athens, Greece. The statue was recovered from a shipwreck believed to be from ca 400 BC. I had the same haircut in a past life.

Name: Caleb Alan

Location: Chicago, IL

DOB: Feb 27, 2025

A Favorite Author: Neal Stephenson

Two songs you enjoy: "Waiting for the 7.18" by Bloc Party, "A Pillar of Salt" by The Thermals

Some movies you like: Casablanca, The Jerk, Harvey, The Maltese Falcon, Grosse Point Blank, Die Hard

Some things you are looking forward to: summer leagues (softball, soccer, ultimate)

Your nerdy hobby: comic books, video games, science

Good advice you got from someone else: "To make it in this world you have to be ever so smart or ever so pleasant. For years I was ever so smart. I recommend pleasant."

Something interesting about yourself: I have a Master's Degree in forensic sciences. I enjoy playing and watching sports but I am most passionate about playing Ultimate.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: StumbleUpon found the list of Calvin and Hobbes strips and the Futurama scenes so I investigated and enjoyed.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: The Jumping and Standing Forum, 50 Greatest Fight Scenes, The Stand, My Animal, and the archives are filled with greatness.

[Wohngespenst]

Name: Axel

Location: Gettysburg, PA/Bergen County, NJ

DOB: 26 November 2025

Favorite Author: Vonnegut

Two Songs You Enjoy: The North Sea - Raising the Fawn, The Unbeliever - Steve Burns

Some Movies You Like: LOTR, Project Grizzly, The Seventh Seal

Some things you are looking forward to: Goin' out with the lady I like

Your nerdy hobby: Dungeons and Dragons has to be my nerdiest.

Good advice to someone else: Proverb: "A small but excellent party" said the man. He was drinking alone.

Something interesting about yourself: People want me to become a pastor. It's kinda crazy.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: I don't even know for sure anymore, it was quite some time ago.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: HySpace, Spiderman's Worst Villains, Spiritual Warfare and pretty much anything by Bill. Though pretty much everything on the site is fantastic.[/img]

[thePlebeian]

Name: Brian

Location: Westborough, MA

DOB: March 18, 2025

A favorite author: Fitzgerald

Two songs you enjoy: "A Whiter Shade of Pale," Procol Harum; "Papa Was a Rodeo," Magnetic Fields

Some movies you like: The Apartment, Almost Famous, Goodfellas, Star Wars Trilogy, Rushmore, Kevin Smith's Flicks, Shawshank...

Some things you are looking forward to: Really getting going on my oft-delayed novel, finding any chance to get to Fenway this season

Your nerdy hobby: Theatre

Good advice you got from someone else: "In the time of your life, live." -William Saroyan

Something interesting about yourself: It's less interesting, and more bizarre, but I have this tendency to not leave the room if someone on TV is looking at the camera, because somewhere in my mind, I think they're looking at me, and I don't want them to see me leave. So I wait until they look away, and then I scurry out of the room.

How you became a regular visitor to P-Boi: The Dugout was mentioned on Surviving Grady, so I started reading the Dugout, which lead to reading some of the other features, which lead to looking around the forums, and then I joined up to partake in the Lists of Shit.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: The Dugout, and there's a bunch of stuff in the archives I enjoy.

[More Like]

Name: Adam cubic zirconia...

Location: Chicago, IL

DOB: July 31, 2025

A favorite author: Noam Chomsky

Two songs you enjoy: "All the Things You Could Be by Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother" by Charles Mingus, "Hat and Beard" by Eric Dolphy

Some movies you like: Kung Fu Hustle, Brick, Unbreakable, Oldboy

Some things you are looking forward to: Taking time off from working (hopefully never to return to the for-profit world), Spider-Man 3 disappointing me

Your nerdy hobby: Tournament Scrabble, veganism

Good advice you got from someone else: Being a straight, white male makes your problems not worth shit

Something interesting about yourself: I just finished a 32-day fast from electricity in my home

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: Brother sent me link to Tecmo Super Bowl article on W-D, made an idiot of myself on the forums there, and started posting irregularly on P-Boi about 6 months after the switch

P-Boi feature/article you liked: Jumping and Standing Forum

[bericbnauff]

Name: Eric Knauff

Location: Baltimore, MD

DOB: 9/10/2025

A favorite author: Stephen King

Two songs you enjoy: "Town Called Malice" (The Jam) & "Abra Cadaver" (The Hives)

Some movies you like: Dirty Work, War of the Roses, This Is Spinal Tap, Royal Tenenbaums, Major League, Fargo and Harry Potter

Some things you are looking forward to: Slow-pitch softball, wedding

Your nerdy hobby: Guitar Hero

Good advice you got from someone else: Anything worth doing is worth doing right.

Something interesting about yourself: there is nothing interesting about myself

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: Top 5 lists are a favorite hobby of mine. Stumbled across this site and couldn't resist!

P-Boi feature/article you liked: Lists, lists, lists

[Raymond Stereo]

Hi everybody.

Name: Robby Ethan Cole II

Location: Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA

DOB: July 8th, 1984

A favorite author: Kurt Vonnegut

Two songs you enjoy: "Pale Horse" by John Vanderslice and "20 Days" by The.Albert.Square

Some movies you like: Rushmore, The Zero Effect, Casablanca, His Girl Friday, The Fountain

Some things you are looking forward to: If things go to plan, I'll be working on the show X-Play next month. Also, the Giants winning the NL West.

Your nerdy hobby: Palindromes, and other restricted writing styles. "God dammit! I'm mad, dog!"

Good advice you got from someone else: The best advice I've ever gotten was from my dad. "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime... Are you in?"

Something interesting about yourself: I almost became a professional bowler. When I was thirteen my average was 228.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: I started out on X-Entertainment and five years later here I am.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: Tuesdays With Frankie, and everything else by Justin. That guy's the best.

[normalman]

That guy behind my shoulder creeps me out. It's like he's my conscience or something...

Name: Adam Jason Snively

Location: Parkersburg, West Virginia

DOB: February 1st, 1985

A favorite author: Terry Pratchett

Two songs you enjoy: "Corazon de Oro" by Rancid. "The River" by Nomeansno.

Some movies you like: Robocop, Battle Royale, Reservoir Dogs, Goodfellas, Dead Alive, Return of the Living Dead

Some things you are looking forward to: Moving out. (Nerd Alert! Hur!)

Your nerdy hobby: Making webcomics, Video Games, Buying expensive nerd games and never playing them with anyone.

Good advice you got from someone else: Don't take things too seriously.

Something interesting about yourself: I've owned every major game console at one point or another, but had to trade in the previous one to get the new one every time.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: Got linked to it from some website or another. I read the nostalgia articles, then noticed how well done all the other things were.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: The Illusion of Gaia article. It hit me really hard for some reason. Also, I'm a huge sucker for any sort of list.

[Shamrock]

Name: Jason Shambaugh

Location: Stockton, CA

DOB: 7/21/86

A favorite author: Douglas Coupland

Two songs I enjoy: "When the Ship Comes In" by Bob Dylan and "Halo" by Foo Fighters

Some movies I like: A Scanner Darkly, Children of Men, Paths of Glory, Barton Fink, Apocalypse Now, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds.

Something I'm looking forward to: Living with 8 people in a 3 bedroom house this summer and drinking a lot.

My nerdy hobby: I go to wikipedia, click the random article button and read them for hours.

Good advice I got from someone else: "Take that ridiculous thing off your head. You look like an idiot and it demeans us all" My dad after I tried on a Yankees hat in a store when I was around 7.

Something interesting about me: Last week I finally fully completed Super Mario World for the 96*. A feat 10 years in the making.

How I found P-boi: A couple years ago I was looking for songs to download and since I'm such a fan of lists, I found the 100 Songs You Should Download list. I was about to dismiss the sight when I saw a link to "Doomsday" by B. I read it, then stayed up all night reading everything else on the site.

P-boi feature I like:
B: Doomsday, Akira Kurosawa's Dream Team
Bill: Video Game All-Stars to the Rescue, Interview with a Reaper
Emily: Blue, Tracy's Face, It's Our Time Down Here: Troy Movie Review
Jon: Baseball's Tribute to Shel Silverstein, Flowers for Skid Vicious, The Marshal's Endgame
Justin: Everything from the Movie Monologue list
Kyle: The Threat Matrix: Yeatsy and Stiles, ahomosayswhat?, Holy Wars
Lindy: Strangers in the Same Family
Mike: The Red Snift, Pegs
Nick: Forest Gump Journals, Information for the College Bound Senior, The Montreal Expos.
Pholby: Ask Eli Wallach #51, 46, 34, 29, 23, 17

[ohlookitsthatguy]

Name: Adrian

Location: Saint Paul, Minnesota

DOB: July 21st, 1991

A favorite author: Robert Cormier

Two songs you enjoy: "Kiss From a Rose" by Seal and "Wish I Had an Angel" by Nightwish

Some movies you like: Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind, Clerks., The Warriors

Some things you are looking forward to: Being able to attend an ROH show here, being able to watch Baseball without shaking my head at Joe Mauer's injuries, Summer

Your nerdy hobby: Talking about classic games to whoever wants to listen.

Good advice you got from someone else: "If you really care about someone, you'll do anything to make that person happy, even if it doesn't include you."

Something interesting about yourself: I can write, and I can read better than most people can outloud, but I occasionally mess up while I read, tripping over my words.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: I don't remember how I got to Dyslexic Penguin, but I read the Royal Rumble 2003 article there and eventually I found myself reading the Royal Rumble 1994 article. Considering I'm a big fan of Calvin and Hobbes, I looked around the site, and found more than that there. Needless to say, it's an awesome site.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: The Simpsons Arcade Game. It reminded me that this was one of the greatest games ever.

[Jon]

Brochure courtesy of Mike.

Name: Jon

Location: Louisville, Kentucky

DOB: September 24, 2025

Two songs you enjoy: "To Go Home" by M. Ward, "Spitting Venom" by Modest Mouse

Some movies you like: Field of Dreams, The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Big Lebowski, Raging Bull, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Red Dawn, Children of Men, The Pursuit of Happyness

Some things you are looking forward to: dinner

Your nerdy hobby: Chess, MLB 2007: The Show, Internet Scrabble (seasonal)

Something interesting about yourself: I'm a really nice guy.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: I co-founded it with B, Nick, Justin and baollis.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: R2 Local to Warminster

[Supafly]

Name: Adam

Location: Washington USA

DOB: June 28th, 1984

A favorite author: H.P. Lovecraft (SHUT UP)

Two songs I enjoy: Happy Birthday, and Wipeout

Some movies I like: Tombstone, 28 days later, Flash Gordon

Something I'm looking forward to: The invasion of space squids in 2041

My nerdy hobby: This is it

Good advice I got from someone else: "Its a good idea to always use (secret font) on your papers. It'll add around 10% to your page length."

Something interesting about me: I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance.

How I found P-boi: X-entertainment I think.

P-boi feature I like: I dunno, what got me reading was the american idol essay by Emily. Was that a feature? If not, just enter one of the things by Emily that counts as a feature and that's it.

[Jaspers]

Name: Adam Jaspering

Location: Iowa City, IA

DOB: August 22nd, 1986

A favorite author: J.D. Salinger

Two songs I enjoy: In a Big by Big Country and Walkie-Talkie Man by Steriogram

Some movies I like: Clerks, Jurassic Park, American Beauty, The Graduate, Pulp Fiction

Something I'm looking forward to: A world without Kevin James on TV

My nerdy hobby: running a webcomic

Good advice I got from someone else: "Never insult somebody before you insult yourself."

Something interesting about me: I can fit my entire fist in my mouth.

How I found P-boi: Jengajam.com

P-boi feature I like: The 100 Greatest Christmas Shows. Heck, any of the lists.

[mp5]

^Me at Disneyland on the Indiana Jones ride^

Name: Martin

Location: Brea, CA

DOB: April 9, 2025

A Favorite Author: Micheal Stackpole. Much more recently, Micheal Lewis, the author of 'Moneyball'.

Songs you Enjoy: "Living In America" by The Sounds, everything by The Smashing Pumpkins...and Vladimir Guerrero's walk-up music.

Movies you Like: Road To Perdition, The Godfather, 61*, The Terminator franchise, oh god there are so many movies. if you want to know, IM me!

Things you are looking Forward to: The Angel-Dodger game tonight, every new Dugout, the end of finals and meeting that special someone or somethin'.

Nerdy Hobby: Fantasy Baseball, Pro Wrestling (if you didn't notice the Dave Finlay avatar), Shadowrun, and making stupid jokes about Warhammer 40K.

Good Advice you once got: "Don't see Delta Farce. Punch yourself in the head instead."

Something Interesting about Yourself: I can balance almost anything, weight be damned, on my chin and I have photographic evidence to prove it.

How you found Progressive Boink: I was linked to the 'WWE Fantasy League' Dugout entry when it was first written and I started lurking for a while, eventually sending some feedback and registering here.

P-Boi Feature you like: The Dugout!

[Jamie]

Name: Jamie

Location: Rochester, NH

DOB: 3/1/83

A favorite author: I don't really have one. I read a lot of different, really girly books.

Songs you Enjoy: "Don't stand so close to me" by The Police, "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" by Billy Ocean

Some movies I like: Love Actually, Boondock Saints, The Breakfast Club.

Something I'm looking forward to: My son learning to sit up on his own

My nerdy hobby: I sometimes play WoW with my boyfriend.

Good advice I got from someone else: "Do NOT try the deep fried Twinkies." I wish I had listened.

Something interesting about me: I collect PEZ dispensers. I make my own candles. I flush used Q-tips down the toilet instead of putting them in the trash. I have a little purple birthmark on the tip of my nose.

How I found P-boi: Back in 2005 I googled "The Party" and found the article by Mr. Mike Faireball. I registered as Nachogrl01 and posted a little and then went A.W.O.L for a while.

[Dissonance]

Name: Lisa

Location: A Northern Californian in a Southern California town

DOB: 11/10/86

A favorite author: George R.R. Martin

Two songs I enjoy: "Icarus II" by Kansas and "Master of Puppets" by Metallica.

Some movies I like: That Thing You Do!, original Star Wars trilogy, Lord of the Rings, Fantastic Four (the non-Roger Cormanized edition), Spider-mans 1 and 2, Shaun of the Dead, Batman Begins, the X-mens.

Something I'm looking forward to: Fantastic Four 2 and the rising of a surfing silver man, getting my own place, a Giants World Series victory , and a new job.

My nerdy hobby: Comic books, baseball, video games, and too much internets, to name but a few.

Good advice I got from someone else: "With great power comes great responsibility." - Stan "the Man/God" Lee

Something interesting about me: I would love to be a comic book or television show writer someday. Unfortunately, I haven't written anything more than two pages in about three years. I am also engaged to the great Dugout banner-maker Captain Walrus.

How I found P-boi: A Red Sox fan posted a Dugout on her blog (I believe it was Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson's "D:"). I followed the link and was hooked for life.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: The Dugout, The Jumping and Standing Forum, Shut up and sit down, you big bald fuck, Brain Drain! (the power of rubber band balls is enough to defeat the mighty Doom), and so forth.

[StuTheShoe]

Who my dogs?

Name: Stu J.

Location: Seattle, WA, soon to be Moscow, ID

DOB: October 4th, 1983

A favorite author: Nick Hornby

Two songs you enjoy: "Kitty's Back" by Bruce Springsteen, and "All Is Forgiven" by Jellyfish

Some movies you like: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Big Lebowski, Little Miss Sunshine, Jerry Maguire

Some things you are looking forward to: Grad School in Music Composition, teaching second year undergrads some music theory.

Your nerdy hobby: Watching time attacks and speed runs (I check http://www.tasvideos.org nearly daily)

Good advice you got from someone else: Save often.

Something interesting about yourself: I'm still using checks from two addresses ago.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: Used to read Whatever-dude back when B was a writer. I was saddened when he left, but read the NBA Jam article with Jon and loved it. A long time went by and I wondered what happened to B, and then one day while reading Mike's livejournal, he mentioned that B was writing for P-Boi now (prior to Mike getting a writing job here too). Been reading ever since.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: Mike Jones: An Album Retrospective. Illusion of Gaia and my cousin David (Not for P-Boi originally, but still, when I read it for the first time I knew that I would be following this guy's writings for a long time to come).

[wagnike2]

Name: Nic W.

Location: Indiana

DOB: October 16, 2025

A favorite author: Kurt Vonnegut

Two songs you enjoy: "The Cold Part" by Modest Mouse and "Funeral Dress"" by William Fitzsimmons

Some movies you like: Shaun of the Dead, Black Sheep, Tommy Boy

Some things you are looking forward to: Grad School in Music Composition, teaching second year undergrads some music theory.

Your nerdy hobby: Playing Tecmo Super Bowl almost daily

Good advice you got from someone else: Laughing makes everything better.

Something interesting about yourself: I write for a music website, but eh that's not really interesting.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: I found Whatever-dude from X-Entertainment. Then, I forgot about that website for a long period of time. Then, I found this site when Mike came over here from his site.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: The Dugout, NFL PictoChat, The Jumping and Standing Forum, The Hangin' Out Gang (I'd definitely like to see a THOG update)

[Karen]

Name: Karen

Location: Winter Haven, FL

DOB: March 28, 2025

A favorite author: Mike Westfall (Also enjoyable: B Thompson Stroud, Viktor Frankl, Lewis Carroll)

Two songs you enjoy: "Shameless" (Billy Joel), "Wishing Heart" (Lisa Loeb)

Some movies you like: When Harry Met Sally, Empire Records, Little Miss Sunshine, Love Actually

Some things you are looking forward to: July 12, Teaching 3rd Grade in the Fall, The next Harry Potter Book (and movie!), Next week's P-Boi articles )

Your nerdy hobby: Filling out myspace surveys, listening to Country Music, Watching the movie "Only You"

Good advice you got from someone else: Smile. Be sunny. Laugh at silly little things. Cry at the things that upset you. But most importantly, never give up on yourself. (Or.. something like that ;o) <3.)

Something interesting about yourself: 12.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: Mike.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: The Dugout, Hangin' Out Gang, Progressive Boink's Baseball Opening Day Ceremonies: 2006, The Sandlot, Pretty much everything that doesn't go over my head (Video games and such...)... Beads, Pegs, Everything (Mike); The Glendale Avenue Complex, Seven Hill City, Everything (B); Billy Joel: American Idiot, The Adventures of Bud, Everything (Emily); Project Runway, Everything (Lindy); The Dugout

[Jober]

(rubbing my eye like a bandit)

Name: Jason Oberbichler!

Location: Melbourne, VIC, Australia!

DOB: April 8, 1989!

A favorite author: James Kochalka!

Two songs you enjoy: Sleater-Kinney - "Oh!" and The Ergs! - "Aja"

Some movies you like: Shaun of the Dead, Evil Dead 2, High Fidelity, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Shopgirl...

Some things you are looking forward to: I am going to start a hardcore band with songs about eating cupcakes, drinking soda, petting kittens, etc.

Your nerdy hobby: I draw, I have started collecting vinly, I read comics, and that's about it, I guess. Does internet count? If it does, then add that to the list, too.

Good advice you got from someone else: "You're not going to get anywhere by rebelling. Play their game, and soon enough you'll be influential enough to change the rules from the inside. Also do not forget your own morals." or something along those lines. We were both pretty drunk at the time.

Something interesting about yourself: You tell me. ;)

Seriously, though, I don't know. I'm no good at that. Mainly because I don't think I'm interesting, but then people are like "You are interesting, you silly!" and I'm like "But how am I interesting!?!"... But... They never tell me... :'(

How you became a regular visitor to P-Boi: I knew Mike from another forum (gasp!) and I decided to check out some of his work (which is very good, by the way), and then I started looking at other people's work! Woo!

P-Boi feature/article you liked: HySpace, NFL Pictochat DS, IHBFd, I always love a good list of favourite things (movie monologues, video games, Halloween costumes, etc.), The Sandlot, Rating the Lesbian haha. And lots of others!

Hooray! Introduction COMPLETE.

[Matto]

(doesn't have a picture, the cheap shit)

Name: Matto (<- not his real name, it's Matt)

LOCATION: That big state above Montana (Canada).

DOB: He's twenty! ('87)

Favorite Authors: Hiromu Arakawa (he likes manga, what a fruit), Novala Takamoto

Some (Disney) Movies I like: The Little Mermaid, Alice In Wonderland, Aladdin, Beauty and The Beast, Lilo & Stitch, Toy Story (1 & 2), Monsters Inc., Cars

Hates: *changes in daily twenty minute periods*

Likes: Good fan fiction, Nintendo, creative writing.

How did he get into P-boi?: Around two years ago, I was visiting Mike's old website "Poprocks and Coke" while he was merging his stuff to P-boi. Thanks to him, B = Best, hands down.

Favorite P-boi articles: Hanna-Barbera Fashion Database, HySpace, The Last Unicorn, Shut Up You Bald Fuck, Attack of the Disney Sequals 1 & 2, any artcile invovling Calvin & Hobbes, and more!

Hooray, done!