Minutiæ

Clark Dawes (“Costa Rica Report,” p. 7) is a jour­nal­ist and the only Minu­tiæ staff mem­ber cur­rently in prison.

Tam Par­sons (“Sports Round Up,” p. 12) is a writer, actor, dancer, singer, gui­tarist, painter, sculp­tor, pho­tog­ra­pher, film critic, standup come­dian, chef, teacher, D.J., magi­cian, prancer, and mar­itime lawyer liv­ing in Los Ange­les. This is her first time cov­er­ing sports for Minutiæ.

Andrew Witty (“The Rap Game Today,” p. 15) is an aspir­ing writer from Brook­lyn and the C.F.O. of Glax­o­SmithK­line, a mas­sive multi­na­tional phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pany. Check out his Kick­starter for bring­ing Lovaza to schools in Detroit in an old cherry red Ford pickup.

Nicholas Knocker (“Dance Like Your Wife Depends On It,” p. 19) is the pseu­do­nym of a very famous writer who did not want to use his real name because he is embar­rassed by how badly his piece turned out. Let’s just say he likes play­ing games about thrones…

Ronaldo Can­tone (“Hover Craft, Hover Never,” p. 20) is an award-winning bus­boy at a local diner.

Karen Lisa (“Watch Your Baby,” p. 21) was born in Chicago, grew up in Den­ver, briefly lived in Tuc­son, then moved back in Den­ver, then spent six months in Toronto, four in Charleston, one in Atlanta, then went to Hous­ton, back again to Den­ver, had a three day stopover in St. Louis, spent some crazy years in Lit­tle Rock and Port­land, and now she calls Miami home. But really, after all that, is any place really home, Karen?

Raquel O’Brien (“Black Van,” p. 23) is 91 years old and has writ­ten a piece for every issue of Minu­tiæ since 1960. For many years, how­ever, she was cred­ited as “Robert O’Brien” — but then one day, Robert walked into the office and said we should call him “Raquel” from now on. And that was that.

Mr. Cooper (“Smokin’ In The Boys Room,” p. 25) is the school secu­rity guard and says you can’t park in this lot unless you’re a stu­dent. He doesn’t care if you’re dat­ing a stu­dent. The lot is for stu­dents only.

Dr. Frosty (“Movie Reviews: Ted & Total Recall,” p. 27) is a supervil­lain who has the power to slowly lower the tem­per­a­ture of a room sev­eral degrees over the course of an hour and also to always know exactly what time it is.

Jean Paul Gotye (“Some­body That I Used to Whoa,” p. 29) is a musi­cian, a fash­ion designer, and a com­bi­na­tion musician/fashion designer.

Dan Davis (“This Month’s Con­trib­u­tors,” p. 2) is the edi­to­r­ial intern for Minu­tiæ respon­si­ble for assem­bling the bios for this month’s con­trib­u­tors. Since he’s known for his office hijinks, his super­vi­sor Mr. Molina warned him not to do any­thing funny with this month’s list, like put him­self in. Well, guess what, Mr. Molina? He did.