Progressive Boink

[Flames]

Name: Paul

Location: Calgary, AB, Canada

DOB: June 29th, '82

A favorite author: George RR Martin (Honorable mention: Robert Jordan).

Two songs you enjoy: "Home" by Econoline Crush, and "Devil in a Midnight Mass" by Billy Talent.

Some movies you like: Gladiator, Lord of the Rings (all), Star Wars.

Some things you are looking forward to: Blue Jays winning the AL East (some year), NHL season, finishing my degree this summer.

Your nerdy hobby: Video Games: Computer + PS3.

Good advice you got from someone else: Wrap up.

Something interesting about yourself: I used to have creepy dreams of doing mundane tasks and would frequently remember doing them throughout the day as real. I guess it is reassuring that it doesn't happen anymore. I also speak some German.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: Link posted in one of the Blue Jay forums I visit (battersbox.ca), and I started reading the dugout comics on a regular basis.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: Insert random dugout article here.

[Nigel]

Name: Nigel

Location: Portland, OR

DOB: 4/22/1983

A favorite author: David Sedaris

Two songs you enjoy: "Turnpike Gates" - Lifetime, "Dine Alone" - Quicksand

Some things you are looking forward to: The rest of summer, especially vacation time from work.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: I think I found the link on x-entertainment.com in 2005, roughly. I found the writing funnier and more interesting than most and decided to keep coming back.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: Too many to list. I like at least a little something about almost everything on the site.

[First-Tiger]

Name: Mike Sennott

Location: Nashua, NH / Upstate NY for college

DOB: August 9, 2025

A favorite author: Vonnegut

Two songs you enjoy: "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine" by Modest Mouse, and "Radio Cure" by Wilco

Some movies you like: Clerks, BASEketball, The Royal Tenenbaums, Still We Believe

Some things you are looking forward to: The rest of college, doing more stuff with music and the First Tigers brand rock band, writing more

Your nerdy hobby: Vidja games, and being a computer science/creative writing double major

Good advice you got from someone else: Never post personal information about yourself on the internet

Something interesting about yourself: When I was in high school, I lucked into a job testing video games for cell phones. It was a small company and everyone there was young, so it was surreal and awesome. Then, the company got bought out and the quality of my jobs has been steadily decreasing ever since.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: Let's see... three years ago, a friend at that job linked me to the Dugout, and I found out that there was a ton of ingenious stuff on this site. I registered for the forums a year or two ago, but picked a lame name and shortly Sportzilla'd out into lurkerdom. I still rue that day, and vow not to make the same mistake, et al.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: Jumping and Standing, THOG, pretty much all the articles

[This is Bill]

Name: Sam, which is why my username is Bill.

Location: NH, soon to be VA.

DOB: Shan't tell.

A favorite author: People on the internet do not read books.

Two songs you enjoy: Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), and King Crimson - Starless

Some movies you like: Martin Scorsese = Amazing


Some things you are looking forward to: Payday

Your nerdy hobby: Posting on message boards when I should be working.

Good advice you got from someone else: " ..."


Something interesting about yourself: I'm not an interesting person.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: Dugout. Duh.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: There's A New World Coming!

[Wes]

Name: Wesley Dreusike.

Location: Sunnyvale, CA.

DOB: February 4, 1985.

A favorite author: I can't remember if I put Douglas Adams or Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. last time.

Two songs you enjoy: Crime in Choir - A Girl Named Jesus, Primus - The Chastising of Renegade.

Some movies you like: Raising Arizona, Major League, Airplane!

Some things you are looking forward to: Getting Security Clearance so I can find out what I will actually be working on soon and then not being able to tell anybody.

Your nerdy hobby: Baseball.

Good advice you got from someone else: Don't be late. Papa.

Something interesting about yourself: I'm an Eagle Scout.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: On the Primus bullboard, baseball's greatest rivalry was met with the posting of some Dugouts and I was pretty much instantly hooked.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: The Dugout. The Comics. Julio Franco. The Greatest Bargain Ever Struck. Stay Gold, Pony Ball. The Red Snifit. Tony Danza's Nightfire.

[patch555]

Name: Patrick K.

Location: Indiana, soon to be South Carolina for college

DOB: 6/2/89

A favorite author: C.S. Lewis is a man I enjoy very much and not just because silly animals duke it out in narnia.

Two songs you enjoy: "WALKING ON SUNSHINE" (katrina & the waves, not ally & aj garbage) and...um...."Something I Can Never Have" Hot damn those are two different ends of the spectrum.

Some movies you like: Star Wars, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine, Ghost World, Garden State, any other artsy-fartsy late teens movie you can think of. Oh yeah and Die Hard


Some things you are looking forward to: Getting to see my first live wrestling event (It's RAW) on November 26

Your nerdy hobby: I'd say wrestling or video games, but writing/ranting is pretty emo for me anyway.

Good advice you got from someone else: "lifess short eat dessert first" it's so my favorite


Something interesting about yourself: I don't know how to ride a bike. I also took a tapdancing class in fifth grade.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: A friend introduced me to it. We read some Family Guy list. I thought Stewie was a silly little man.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: Rating the Lesbians has provided me with some good times.

[blacktoothgrin]

Name: Black Tooth Grin

Location: Glasgow, Scotland

DOB: April 11th 1993

A favorite author: Chuck Klosterman

Two songs you enjoy: "Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats, "Angel Of Death" by Slayer

Some movies you like: Anchorman, 40 Year Old Virgin, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore

Some things you are looking forward to: I'm not looking forward to anything.

Your nerdy hobby: Pro Wrestling.

Good advice you got from someone else: Don't eat yellow snow.

Something interesting about yourself: I drink an unhealthy amount of a soda that is banned in the US.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: Linked from X-Entertainment.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: Jumping And Standing forums.

[oaktowntruds]

Name: Trudi (Hanstock) Frazel

Location: Oaktown, beezees!

DOB: 2/22. I'm in my thirties.

A favorite author: I like a lot of books, don't really have a favorite author. A recent book that blew me away was East of Eden. Everyone should read that book.

Two songs you enjoy: "Wonderful," Brian Wilson; "The Only Living Boy in New York," Paul Simon

Some movies you like: Hot Fuzz, the Harry Potter movies, most things Pixar

Some things you are looking forward to: VACAY!! Going away for two weeks to the mountains! Woo hoo!

Your nerdy hobby: Freecell?

Good advice you got from someone else: Don't lie on federal applications for aid. Just don't do it.

Something interesting about yourself: Not yet 35, and I've been w/ my husband for 13 years. Is that interesting? If not, well, I sold cars for a week or so when I was 19. Interested yet? No? I had a previous career as a hairdresser? Still not interested? Well, screw you, anyway.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: It's all Hanstock's fault.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: Hanstock's Peanuts meets Bukowski, but he already knows how much I liked it. The Dugout's good, too.

[Mally]

Name: Molly

Location: Portland, Oregon

DOB: 9/4/80

A favorite author: Judy Blume

Two songs you enjoy: "The End of the Innocence", "The Goonies R Good Enough"

Some movies you like: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Back to the Future, Beauty and the Beast

Some things you are looking forward to: Indiana Jones 4, the release of Feast of Love in September to see if my arm blurily makes it into the film, getting my own place

Your nerdy hobby: I collect those touristy smushed pennies

Good advice you got from someone else: "Just because someone says something you don't want to hear doesn't mean they're out to get you." A quote from a Paula Danziger book.

Something interesting about yourself: I have number form synesthesia. I think it's cool. Oh, you meant something that's interesting to other people? Uh... both my first name and my last name are the titles of movies. Movies I've never seen.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: Mike's old site ---> this site

P-Boi feature/article you liked: The Art Gallery of Mike Fireball age 2-5

[grandstands]

Name: Charlotte

Location: CT, but NY for college

DOB: 11/29/86

A favorite author: John Searles

Two songs you enjoy: "Just Like Heaven" - The Cure "Motorcycle Drive By" - Third Eye Blind

Some movies you like: Office Space, but Robin Hood: Men In Tights is a very close second.

Some things you are looking forward to: moving into my new apartment, starting my senior year of college

Your nerdy hobby: I collect destination shirts...and actually wear them. Also lurking these forms but now can't really lurk since I now have to register to read them

Good advice you got from someone else: "Don't worry about what you can't change." -my dad

Something interesting about yourself: I get electrocuted a lot. I'm not sure why.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: through the dugout a couple years ago

P-Boi feature/article you liked: the dugout, of course.

[Frustrated]

Name: Mike

Location: The Ocean State

DOB: 3/17/79

A favorite author: Myself

Two songs you enjoy: "Ticket For 2" by Camp Lo and "Bad Side" by Lil' Wayne Feat. Juelz Santana

Some movies you like: Rocky I-VI

Some things you are looking forward to: Tomorrow

Your nerdy hobby: Watching baseball

Good advice you got from someone else: "Get up, you son of a bitch, 'cuz Mickey loves ya!"

Something interesting about yourself: I own a poodle

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: I read the Dugout

P-Boi feature/article you liked: Anything with Kyle Farnsworth

[BeeJ]

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Name: BeeJ. People actually call me that.

Location: Ohio

DOB: 12/1/86

A favorite author: I don't read, despite my minor in English. I'll say Mick Foley and be done with it.

Two songs you enjoy: Jay-Z/The Beatles - Encore; Metallica - Turn the Page

Some movies you like: Wet Hot American Summer, Beerfest, Kung Fu Hustle


Some things you are looking forward to: Graduating, my wedding, the next time ROH comes to town

Your nerdy hobby: I hack gameshark codes in WWF No Mercy for N64. For instance, my Undertaker can do either the Tombstone or the Last Ride as a special, and when he does the Tombstone, it automatically links into the Darkness Pin, but only if the match can be won by pinfall. He also reverses normal punches with a Chokeslam. Batista has the Jackhammer as a normal strong grapple. Chris Jericho does a double powerbomb that links right into a now S-powered Walls of Jericho. The list goes on...

Good advice you got from someone else: If you think too hard about something, you'll inevitably come up with a negative answer.


Something interesting about yourself: I've performed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: I stumbled upon the site and liked the articles. Then I joined the forum last summer. Then the forum crashed. Then I left. Then I met B later on, and he invited me back. Then I came back.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: The Radioshack Standing & Jumping Forum

[Great Apollo]

Name: Dalton Lusk

Location: Parker, Arizona

DOB: 6/28/1990

A favorite author: J.K. Rowling

Two songs you enjoy: "The Red Summer Sun" - Third Eye Blind and "Boomerang Theory" - Gym Class Heroes

Some movies you like: Star Wars 4-6, The Princess Bride, LOTR Trilogy, Fight Club, Serenity


Some things you are looking forward to: Talking to this cute girl at my school, getting an apartment with one of my good friends, launching my clothing line, lunch, a cure for insomnia

Your nerdy hobby: I play a 10 yeard old online game called "Ultima Online"

Good advice you got from someone else: "Don't be a slave and behave the way they do, utilize the gifts that God gave you"


Something interesting about yourself: I'm obsessive compulsive about a very small number of this. The main one is I can't complete a game of spider solitaire without having my cards stack in some sort of red and black pattern at the bottom of the screen. I'll restart the game if I can't work out a pattern.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: Followed Mike here once I found out he joined the Staff. I was a fan of poprocksandcoke.com.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: The Art Gallery of Lil' Mike Westfall, Ages 2-5 by Mike

[Mr.5dollarbill]

I'm the studdly one on the right.

Name: Tim Perry

Location: New Jersey

DOB: 2/27/88

A favorite author: To tell you the truth, I don't read enough to have one.

Two songs you enjoy:
Holland, 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel
Suddenly Everything Has Changed - The Flaming Lips

Some movies you like: Go, High Fidelity, The Warriors, Halloween, O Brother Where Art Though


Some things you are looking forward to: Moving out and marrying my sweet sweet lady.

Your nerdy hobby: I juggle. Big time.

Good advice you got from someone else: Play soccer.


Something interesting about yourself: I'm working on learning how to unicycle, so maybe if my career choices don't work out, I can join the circus.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: It was so long ago, I really can't remember what got me hooked. It might have started with the "Great Inventions of Our Time" article.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: Shut Up and Sit Down, You Big Bald Fuck

[unclephilsmovie]

(me dressed as a kitty cat for a class project)

Name: Kon

Location: Tempe AZ

DOB: 8/13/84

A favorite author: Louis Sachar

Two songs you enjoy: "Nothing Better" - The Postal Service, "A Quarter to Three" - Sleater-Kinney

Some movies you like: Back to the Future, Toy Story, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Bill and Ted

Some things you are looking forward to: Going back to school tomorrow, getting a car sometime soon.

Your nerdy hobby: Buying many DVDs and watching every single bonus feature on them.

Good advice you got from someone else: Nothing is coming to mind. I'm gonna say "don't give up" or something.

Something interesting about yourself: I can name any Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode and its guest stars just by number.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: Found a link to Mario on Ice from collegehumor.com.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: Pretty much anything by Bill, 25 Best Wonder Years moments, Threat Matrix, Internet Hanna-Barbera Fashion Database, Step by Step, Boy Meets World, basically any TGIF-related article.

[Cory/Corrinna]

Hey all. I registered here a long time ago as "Edam", and probably a couple other names. Then like, last month I came on as "AppleCory". Then the server did it's magical thing and I was no longer a registered user. So, like any douchebag, I bitched about it to Justin and said "Nah fuck it! I'm not re-registering. Just tell everyone I totally love reading the articles and stuff. I'm gonna quickly fill this thing out, go to work, then when I'm alloted some time, I'm gonna edit it and read every freaking introduce yourself post on here. Only because people that read P-boi are fun and smart.

Name: Corrinna Emerson, but please...I respond to Cory.

Location: Midland, Ontario, Canada. It's just another small town much like the one you might live in.

DOB: Febuary 11, 1980.

A favorite author: Douglas Coupland, Neil Gaiman, and Russel Banks.

Two songs you enjoy: Subterranian Homesick Alien by radiohead, and Cold Cold Ground by Tom Waits, currently.

Some movies you like: Grave of the Fireflies, thanks to P-boi, and a slew of others, thanks either through here, friends, or well done trailers or synopsis' on the back of a rental.

Some things you are looking forward to: Saving up enough to become a Registered Practical Nurse so I can have a job that entitles me to seniority, but I still get to hang out with the people I I care for and stuff.

Your nerdy hobby: Reading online articles, blogging, making homemade icons for my computer folders, photography, knitting, baking, cooking, making mixed cds of my favourite songs -but being OCD about it (finding the right song to start on the end-note of the current song then retitling said track with a letter or numeral to accomodate whatever burnin' prog I use.), and playing cribbage with my 80 yr old godfather that's more like a grampa. ALSO NOTE: D&D Ain't Nerdy!

Good advice you got from someone else:
"accept the things you cannot change, change the things you can, and know the difference between what you can & cannot change." - My Dad & Godfather are both long-time AA members so I hear a lot of the doctrines, like, EVERYDAY. But, I find a lot of their phrases and such pretty applicable.

Something interesting about yourself: I have a strawberry-coloured blotch under the base of my hairline in the shape of a thumbprint as a birthmark. If you like to believe that angels pushed that indent above your lips to hush you of the secrets of life, then you'd be predisposed to believe that it is either "God's thumbprint" or the mark of something etherial. It's probably just from when the doctor pulled me out, but it's there and I pretty much like it being there.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: Through the links dumped in X-E's links page. I didn't understand the obscure description he gave at the time, and this was when his updates were full articles and such on remnants of pop-culture I adored. Then I found you guys. While I don't agree with EVERY point of view on some given artifact of the 80's or something, I thouroughly enjoy the way you convey it. I contentedly giggle or emote something everytime.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: Today, I'll go with B's Jumbo. I don't recall an author writing on the subject of a WWF wrestler and getting all misty-eyed. Hoh man, I sobbed at the line about storing away the stuffed tiger.

Picture:
I believe this will suffice. I'll trust one of you admin dudes will message me if having a "viewed image" from facebook a bandwidth stealer. I'm pleading dumb on the workings of the interweb bandwidth thingies and how it all works. I'll remove this if need be. PS: I'm the one on the Left.

[MessageInABottle]

Name: DJ AKA SHIT ITS THAT GUY AGAIN

Location: St. Louis, MISERY. GET IT BECAUSE MISSOURI

DOB: 6/12/90

A favorite author: RL STEIN. DUDE IS A GENIUS.

Two songs you enjoy: "We Are The Few" by Streetlight Manifesto, "It's My Job To Keep Punk Rock Elite" by NOFX

Some movies you like: The Sandlot, The Departed, Little Miss Sunshine, Superbad, Wedding Crashers

Some things you are looking forward to: Eventually getting a life

Your nerdy hobby: PLAYING VIDEO GAMES AND LOTS OF VIDEO GAME PLAYING

Good advice you got from someone else: "Never ever stick that there ever"

Something interesting about yourself: In the 4 years I've played baseball, I've gotten a Team MVP award 3 times.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: THE DUGOUT IS PRETTY SWEET

P-Boi feature/article you liked: 192.168.100.1 by Jon. A LOT more. Every baseball feature.

[undude]

Name: Kyle

Location: Michigan

DOB: 8/10/82

A favorite authorsss: (fiction) John Gardner, Cormac McCarthy, Jim Harrison, Pinckney Benedict, William Gay, Breece Pancake, Samuel Beckett, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Stephen Crane, Herman Melville, Mark Richard, Franz Kafka.

Two songs you enjoy: Little Rain by Tom Waits, Shoplifters of the World Unite by The Smiths

Some movies you like: Anything Coens or Werner Herzog

Some things you are looking forward to: Everything

Your nerdy hobby: Books/writing, eating vegetables and whey protein and crap like that.

Good advice you got from someone else: Take it easy.

Something interesting about yourself: I like antlers.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: Oh it was a long time ago, I forget.

[mike1305]

Name: Mike

Location: California, where I surf on the beach ALL DAY EVERY DAY DUDE LIKE TOTALLY

DOB: October 1988

A favorite author: Steve Alten

Two songs you enjoy: Ball and Biscuit (The White Stripes), When the Levee Breaks (Led Zeppelin)

Some movies you like: 300, tommy boy, any comedy (I suck at making lists of favorites)


Some things you are looking forward to: Owning a business, moving back to college

Your nerdy hobby: Making my website (http://www.mhoff.us)

Good advice you got from someone else: Be honest, even when you shouldn't. It makes life SOOOO much easier.


Something interesting about yourself:

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: I did a Google search for Calvin and Hobbes back when the Dugout just got started, and found this article. Then I found the Dugout. I've visited the page every day since!

P-Boi feature/article you liked: The Dugout!!!!!1

[Jerrydooper]

Name: "Jerry Dooper"

Location: Classified

DOB: Classified

A favorite author: Jean Claude Van DAMN

Two songs you enjoy: Classified

Some movies you like: Double Team, An Eye Fer An EYE


Some things you are looking forward to: Classified

Your nerdy hobby: NEEEEEEERDS! I'LL GET YOU BACK FOR THE ICEY HOT IN THE CROTCH

Good advice you got from someone else: "Karate Chop some in the face right, there head will roll off" AND ITS TRUE


Something interesting about yourself: I've killed the real Jakel White.

How you became a regular visitor to Progressive Boink: Everyone looks up to me, thought I'd stick around.

P-Boi feature/article you liked: Illusion of Gaia and my cousin David