Matthew Pyson
Voice of: Himself
Favorite Anime: Dirty Pair, Ranma 1/2, anything from Studio Ghibli
Website: None
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "Sure! Join my fan club! (Yeah, right)"
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow:
   "He who would cross the Sea of Fate,
   must answer me these questions twenty-eight--
   WAAAAAAAAHHH!!!" ::Splash:: ::Sound of Pirhana Frenzy::
   Matt watched Warner Brothers cartoons as a kid, Battle of the Planets (Gatchaman) as a slightly bigger kid, and Heavy Metal as a teenager. He discovered Bubble Gum Crisis in college and wound up showing anime to all his friends (four of them later started Otakon). He became an Otakon video ops staffer in 1994, and was head of Video Ops 1995-2000. Matt does the Mad Scientist part in Mystery Anime Theater 3000. Along with Duane Johnson, he is currently one of the Otakon AMV Contest coordinators. Matt wishes he had more time to actually sit down and watch some anime with his friends.

Terence Tao
Voice of: "Leave Me Alone" Krillan
Favorite Anime: Ranma 1/2
Website: "::maniacal laughing sounds::"
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "What? A whole weekend with unwashed, cranky, unslept, frustrated, poor Otakus (like me)? Of course!"
What is the airspeed: "42? FORTY-TWO! That's the answer to everything in the universe! Oh, what's the unit? Do I care? I'm no fscking physics major!"
   Terry is an Australian who studied at Princeton, and now works at the University of California, Los Angeles (a strange hybrid of an academic institution and a major film set).
   No, we Australians aren't secretly taking over the world, we're just laid back people who love beer and sports (yeah, right).

Blake Deakin
Voice of: "Spinning Bird Kick" Vash, Carl Macek, "Evil Twin" [Gekiganger Guy]
Favorite Anime: Trigun
Website: None
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "Yeah, Probably"
What is the airspeed: "Not worth measuring -- can't get a completely correct reading because by
   measuring its velocity, we, in some way, alter it. (Curse you, Heisenberg!)
   "I'll think of something clever in the near future."

Marc McKenzie
Voice of: "In the OAV..." mountain bandit, "And mine!" [Gekiganger Guy]
Also: Responsible for much of the art and graphic work in the parody.
Favorite Anime: Mobile Suit Gundam, Macross, Patlabor 2, Vampire Hunter D (2000), Trigun, Irresponsible Captain Tylor, Jin-Roh
Website: "No personal site; used to do work for The Slush Factory, plus fan art posted here & there."
What is the airspeed: "What the #@!* do I look like, a Jeopardy™ contestant?!"
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "I really, truly, hope so. If not, my art will."
   Do not be fooled by his unassuming looks (well, okay, his specs and weird looks) or his constant gripe that he "really can't draw" --or the fact that he looks younger than he really his-- Marc has been an anime fan since the B.P. era (Before Pokemon). A chance encounter with Robotech while in high school changed his life for the better (or worse). While he cannot sing, dance, rap, play sports, and lacks the looks of an actor and/or male model, he can write and draw somewhat. That's what he says.
   In reality, his anime/manga-influenced art has recieved praise over the years, despite the fact that he spent much of his days at St. Peter's College working on his biology degree. After earning said degree, he toiled in the consumer products industry for a bit, while continuing his art. In a fit of self-honesty (but one brought on by... er, advice from friends and family), he switched gears and attended art school in Philadelphia. He is currently living in Hillsborough, New Jersey, and is currently attempting to find permanent employment (that, more than a few commissions, will help pay the bills). He would also like to see all the episodes of The Big O. Previous otaku efforts include fan art contributions to the Art Gallery at Otakon 2000.
   His biggest dream? That Yoshiyaki Kawajiri, James Cameron, and Mamoru Oshii join forces to do a film. That would kick serious @$$.

Carl "I sure did" Filler
Voice of: "Cherry Blossoms of Friendship" Kouji
Favorite Anime: Cowboy Bebop
Website: Wonton Destruction [Webmster's Note: It fails to load for me too, kids]
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "Perhaps"
What is the airspeed: "Forty keys, biotch."
   [As he told me personally, he will come later...]

Jacob "Smashbot" Goldston
Voice of: "Tyler" Mitsukake, Optimus Prime, Richard Hackard's Biggest Fan
Favorite Anime: Giant Robo, Ruroni Kenshin
Website: None
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "That information is classified at this time."
What is the airspeed: "Precisely 26.4 coulombs per newton."
   Jacob was found in a basket on the doorstep of a London orphanage. When he was 15 years old. After his brief stint as an professional lubricant tester, he was press-ganged by a group of unscrupulous anime traders and served as crew on their ship, the Cherry Blossom. In six months time, however, the Cherry Blossom sank due to a sudden storm, and Jacob was forced to cling to a piece of driftwood until he came ashore on a small island off the coast of Siam. There he met a mysterious old man who taught him the ancient arts of Jew Jitsu. Eventually, though, Jacob felt the need to discover his roots, and was mysteriously drawn to the town of Princeton. There, he underwent brainwashing by a group of renegade CIA agents and his memories were erased. Now, it is said that, if you listen closely on a cold winter night, you can hear his eery calls resound throughout the trees ...

Andrew Hunter
Voice of: "No More Music Videos" Video Ops Guy, "Feminine Side" Sailor Moon, Various background voices
Favorite Anime: The collected works of Masamune Shirow
Website: Project 2501: The Puppet Master
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "Yep"
What is the airspeed: "..." ::falling-to-one's-death sounds::
   I'm orginally from West Windsor, NJ and go to school at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. I plan to graduate this January and I study sex, drugs, rock and roll, and oh yeah -- audio engineering. 2001 will be the 5th Otakon that I have attended and I have been into anime for about 8 years now. I'm also a big big fan of Hong Kong cinema. I have yet to make any music videos but I have a couple ideas once I get some time, a computer, and bigger balls. I enjoy watching TV/movies, video games, bar hopping, and playing with my band. If I sound interesting enough to talk to, you can reach me at WTBah@aol.com.

Dianne Adler
Voice of: Jessie's Mother
Favorite Anime: Fushigi Yuugi, Marmalade Boy, Trigun
Website: "Website? I'm lucky that I can manage e-mail!"
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "Sure are! We've been waiting all year, since our first time in 2000."
   I'm not sending a picture, but I'll be the middle-aged anime groupie at the con with a bunch of anime/manga addicted kids around me. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em! This has been my first attempt at voice acting, and first contribution to anything otaku, but the "bug" bit me a long ago, and it has been great fun to even help out a little bit!
[If only my mom were this cool]

Michelle Adler
Voice of: "Oh Duane" Belldandy, "My Favorites Are..." Tomoyo
Favorite Anime: Fushigi Yuugi, Marmalade Boy, Trigun
Favorite Manga: Fushigi Yuugi
Website: None
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "Yes, I will be there"
   [Webmaster's note: At this time, it appears Ms. Adler has no further comment]

Carly
Voice of: Citizen Lain, "Wow, TV" Sakura
Favorite Anime: Fushigi Yuugi, Marmalade Boy, Trigun Cowboy Bebop
Website: None
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "Yeah, I'm gonna be at Otakon"
   Uh...I really don't have anything to say, except that I like to draw.

Craig J. Clark
Voice of: "The Chair" Consuite fan, Karaoke Engineer
Favorite Anime: Serial Experiments Lain, Cowboy Bebop, Everything Miyazaki
Website: Stuffed, Legless Duck Productions
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "Unfortunately, the groupies will have to learn to live with disappoinment."
What is the airspeed: "Blue. No, yelloooooooooow!"
      [Finally! A correct answer! "And it was funny too!"]
   I am a playwright and theater technician who works primarily in the Philadelphia area. I have had a number of my short plays produced in Philadelphia and in such exotic locales as Wilmington, DE, Tucson, AZ, and even Ewing Township, NJ. I also have a day job, but that is of interest to no one but my landlord and my mother, who always wanted me to have something to fall back on if I insisted on going ahead with the theater thing. I have also written a number of screenplays, one of which was runner-up for an award, and a novel, which I should probably see about getting published one of these millennia.
   I like soup.

Janet Hsu
Voice of: "Outlaw Star Toy" Catgirl, "I think I'm lost" Fan, "17th angel..." Video Ops lady
Favorite Anime: X, Tokyo Babylon, Gensomaden Saiyuki, CLAMP Campus Detectives, Digimon
Website: akaisakura's Page of Stuff
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "Hmmmm... yes... I suppose I should show up... ::pondering sounds::"
What is the airspeed: "Is it a happy unladen swallow or a depressed one? @_@ Hmmm... The possible ramifications are incredible..."
   Nothing to share here... Just a boring person from New Jersey... Who spends waaay too much time at work dealing with six & seven year old terrors... er, kids... ^_^ Who reads waaay too many fics from the waaay too many mailing lists she's lurking on in her little miniscule bits of spare time... And tries to make anime Winamp skins in the crumbs of time left over...

Desiree Liu
Voice of: "Count me out" school girl
Favorite Anime: Detective Conan, Doraemon, Fujiro Fujiko, Princess Bride, Miyazaki Stuff, Hime-chan no Ribbon, Hana Kimi, Hercales, Fushigi Yuugi, Sailor Moon, El Spiritu del Mar, Marmalade Boy, B. Hunter, Trigun, Clamp Works, Akemi Takada, Kaori Yuki, Angel Sanctuary, Miyuki Yamaguchi
Website: "::maniacal laughter sounds::"
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "What? A whole weekend with unwashed, cranky, unslept, frustrated, poor Otakus (like me)? Of course!"
What is the airspeed: "42! Forty-two! That's the answer to everything in the universe! Oh, what's the unit? Do I care? I'm no fscking physics major!"
   Ah... For all those who knew me from the Penpalling ring, this is Chiko Ri or Ruri Hime, or for those who knew me from Princeton, you know who I am. Anyway, Bio, bio... I'm a poor, little, pathetic college student from Rutgers University. Just transferred from Livingston College to Cook College to persue my major, Landscape Architecture, which I do hope to stay in by the end of my sophomore year... It's a terrifying program where the department makes up a 4-year schedule for you. Really, they do. Anyway, otherwise, I'm just an average, everyday, girl you see down the street that you might not even notice when you walk past her. Damn straight, I'm short, so what? Unlike Lukas, I'm no bootleg. I'm a fully copyrighted at 1982, one and only, 120% Chinese, 1st generation Hong Kongnese, produced and packaged in Hong Kong. Really, I am real. If you see a look-alike Chiko running around beyond Princeton and New Brunswick, it's very likely that it's some sort of cheap Taiwanese bootleg. (No, I'm not dissing Taiwanese, for that I am half myself) [Wait, that would make her half bootleg...] There's one and only one me running around. You could see that "Copyrighted: 1982" sign tattooed on my right hip; it's no "SM" label. Anyway, I shall shut up and go. You could find out more about me in the penpalling ring, be seeing you in Otakon, or the FB ring!