Good morning! Today 10 of our favorite commenters will take over Slog. Here are brief biographies for each.

AISLINN

Aislinn made a name for herself on Slog by defending bestial-necrophilia and sticking up for ECB (aspiring Freaky Friday-ers, take note). She’s a 24-year-old office monkey and part-time student. She goes to a lot of shows, reads a lot of books, and drinks a lot of gin; sometimes all at once. Despite hailing from coastal Maine, she has fully embraced Seattleism and is liberal, vegetarian, and gay-friendly, with a pierced nose and frequently-fluctuating hairstyles—just like everyone else. She plays too much Scrabble and takes Trivial Pursuit more seriously than anything containing the word “trivial” is meant to be taken.

BIG SVEN

Big Sven is a Midwestern transplant to the Pacific Northwest, and an unapologetic suburban breeder. He is an engineer in the aerospace industry, but neither works for Boeing nor designs anything that ever gets sold to, or used by, the Department of Defense. Having campaigned for Carter over Ford with the all important first-grade vote, he has been a Democrat ever since. He shares his mountain lair with Inga (Mrs. Sven), Lena (10), and Sven Jr. (7). He gets worked up some times, and begs your preemptive forgiveness.

DOUG.

DOUG.’s pet/street stripper name is “Lady Orchid.” He grew up in Santa Barbara, idolizing Steve Garvey. His first concert was the Simple Minds. He has an English degree from UCLA, yet finished no books last year.
Bumbershoot cost $6 when DOUG. moved to Seattle. He met his wife at the Fremont Dock. They rented near Broadway for a decade, now they’re in Wallingford.
DOUG.’s eaten 200 mini-pizzas at Bill’s Off Broadway. He subscribes to The Nation and Sports Illustrated. He loves anagrams, palindromes, and squirrels. He makes large pancakes and wishes he were Picasso. If Oprah gave DOUG. $1,000,000 he’d still live in Seattle.

EXELIZABETH

Exelizabeth moved from Sacramento to Seattle when she was 18 to attend the UW—she graduated in 2005 with a degree in English and a plan to work in politics. However, working multiple campaigns left her burnt out and made her realize that she actually wants to be a teacher. So she’s a desk jockey for now, but is hoping to be accepted to the UW Masters in Teaching program for next year. Ultimately, she would like to teach middle school. She has yet to meet anyone who doesn’t cringe when she tells them that.

GEOFFREY INFREQUENT

Geoffrey initially called himself “infrequent” because he didn’t think he’d comment often (he was wrong about that). He loves Washington, Seattle, and Capitol Hill—he was born in Seattle’s Providence Hospital, and the longest amount of time he’s spent outside of Washington was three months when he gave Portland a try.
Goeffrey likes music—he plays organs and synthesizers in razrez, and used to play in infomatik. He also likes movies, walking places, synthesizers, tight jeans, sushi, school, selling things and buying them back later, Scrabble, and, of course, Slog.

IT’S MARK MITCHELL

Mark Mitchell is a local yokel—Capitol Hillbilly division—of the last 25 years. He’s never considered a conservative vote of any kind, is great at a party, and is blissfully “gay married.” He makes custom clothing and costumes and lives in a pagoda.

KID ICARUS

Kid icarus has been crushing eggplant wizards since his formative years in the Bay Area, CA. He fell in love with Seattle a decade ago and now happily(?) whiles away his hours clicking Refresh at a downtown biotech. He thinks this town is rocking some of the greatest cuisine in the country and can’t understand why Top Chef hasn’t filmed here yet. His favorite Slog moment ever was that one time when Fnarf was all “Eat my fuck” to Mr. Poe. That was awesome. Kid icarus would like to remind you to please not feed the trolls.

MR. POE

Mr. Poe was born in Minneapolis and raised in Boise. After years of excessive right-wing political action, with the support of his abhorrently racist and conservative family, he flew 3,100 miles away from “home” and finally wrapped his lips around a nice big cock. Finally ditching his religion and politick, he studied film, film theory, entertainment law, and older men. Rarely will he take anything seriously, and no, he’ll never care what anybody thinks of him. The only thing he cares about is having a sense of humor.

SIX SHOOTER

Six Shooter loves the sound of his own voice. He sees facts and figures as crutches for the unimaginative. When he gets old, he hopes he’ll be slightly deaf and completely cranky. Complaining, to him, is as American as voting.
Six Shooter is 34 years old and has lived in Seattle since 1996. He, like almost every guy knows, moved to Seattle to follow a girl. When that didn’t work out, he got a computer job, made some Internet money, married a girl way out his league, reproduced and reevaluated his day job.
Six Shooter is a professional firefighter. “The fire service is the sorority I always wanted to join,” he says. He’s never loved a job or the people he works with more than he does now. Most days he feels like he’s won the lottery.

TSM

TSM lives in Capitol Hill with his girlfriend. After carting dead bodies around a gross-anatomy lab and playing in punk bands to an audience of three, he went on to spend too much time in school and then took a postdoctoral position at UW. When not toying with probabilistic models or feeding his insatiable internet addiction, he may be found playing any number of musical instruments, playing Scrabble, and cooking strange and unfamiliar food.

Slogging is hard work, so make them feel welcome and cut them a little slack while they figure out how best to feed this blog monster.