• Michael Houghton (Owner, Publisher, Senior Editor, Business Manager, Writer, pretty much everything 1998-2003)
• Bill Powell (Founding Head Photographer, Associate Editor 1998-2003)
• Josh Staples (Founding Head Designer 1998-1999)
• Judah Nagler (Founding Designer 1998, Writer)
• Owen Otto (Founding Writer 1998-2003, Circulation Manager 2002-2003)
• Barry Lazarus (Writer 1998-2003)
• Logan Whitehurst (Founding Comic Artist, Illustrator 1998-2002)
• Dominic Davi (Founding Comic Artist 1998-2001)
• Adam Theis (Founding Writer 1998-1999)
• Sara Bir (Managing Editor, Head Writer 2000-2003)
• Chris Ryder (Layout, Editor, a bit of everything 2000-2003)
• Geoffrey Dawson (Contributing Writer, Assistant Managing Editor, Michael's Errand Beeotch 1999-2002)
• James Walsh (Distribution, Show promotion, 2000-2001)
• Dylan Abbot (Writer 2001-2003)
• Brandon Scot (Managing Editor, Writer 2001-2003)
• Kevin Jamieson (Managing Editor, Writer 2002-2003)
• Ryan Whittenburg (Best Intern Ever 2002-2003)
• Alex Charlow (Writer 2003)
• SHOULD YOU BE ON THIS LIST? WANT TO UPDATE YOUR PROFILE? Write me at michael@sectionm.com

11/14/05 - As I've written in several other "news" spots on this here website, I am now fully out of debt. Anyone who asks me "so, you wanna start another magazine now?" will likely be punched squarely in the throat. Or at least will receive a wilting glare.

I've been keeping myself pretty busy lately with a big list of new-ish creative endeavors, and some of them are actually starting to pay off now.

First off, the big news is that I'm doing the album art for Love Equals Death, (the band featuring ex-members of Tsunami Bomb, Loose Change, and 26 MPH) on Fat Wreck Chords. And I'm actually getting paid for it (sound of jaw dropping). I'll make sure to post an update here when the album comes out. I'll jinx it no further than that.

I also just designed the logo for the band St. Peterbilt, featuring members of Cropduster and The Feud.

Secondly, I finished the two music videos I did last year, and you can see one on the love equals death website at www.loveequalsdeath.com and the other, for Life in Braille, on my own completely undeveloped portfolio site www.explodingfistofdeath.com. Yes, that's right. Exploding Fist of Death. Thought you'd like that.

The thing I'm enjoying the most is that I am finally learning to record music and have started recording some of the vast back catalog of my own songs. Okay, so the portion of it that is actually good may not be that vast, but I've now recorded fairly rough versions of three of them. Just finished one last night. And it features me playing guitar, singing, and playing one of the melodicas I purchased for just this reason. When I finish those, I'll post something here and direct you to Exploding Fist of Death, where I'll be housing them.

It's not up yet, but I'm in the process of redesigning the Designed By Monkeys, my online t-shirt company that I'm doing with two other fellas (listed below). We're going to be turning it into a site for bands to sell their shirts through, and we'll do all the shipping and printing and such. Haven't worked out all the details yet, so I'll be posting more information on that here later.

And I've been doing a lot of biking (from Sebastopol to Santa Rosa for work two or three days a week, at least until it started raining this year) and skim boarding every Friday, because I definitely need to learn about this "having fun" concept that you humans keep telling me about.

Oh, and I guess I should note that I beat "Doom 3", and instead now have Tivo to keep me enslaved. Is it irrational that I feel anxiety about falling so desperately behind on my Tivo viewing? I'm pretty sure Tivo was supposed to alleviate anxiety, not become a new source for it. Oh well.

I'll do my best to keep you updated this time. Peace out, homies. (was my vernacular convincing? Hmm, probably not).

9/28/04 - Michael Houghton has decided that if he does everything he used to do for the magazine as separate creative endeavors, he will be considered a Renaissance Man (intelligent readers will likely figure out he wrote this bio himself). Aw, nevermind. I'll just write this in the first person. In order to acheive this status of Renaissance Man, I am doing the following: