Sprocket Ink is a site that takes on the latest news in entertainment, politics, lifestyles and technology. Adding our own personal opinions to what is happening in our world makes us a unique news site. Our writers below take pride in their work and love to reply to your opinions. From current news and all things Hollywood, to learning about the latest gadget you can’t live without… you will find it here at Sprocket Ink.
The Founders:
Jerrod has been through a lot during his relatively short blogging career of just over 4 years After many titles, revisions and mental breakdowns, he has settled down at Never Had One Lesson where it will be his final blogging home. Seriously, if this one gets taken away by the state, he’s done. He likes writing but would never call himself a writer. He likes most of his friends and if you were to be standing directly in front of him, he would probably give you a smirk.
Jules has a great life in the Midwest. She lives comfortably in a house made of glass with her hubby while her tiger sleeps in the garage out back. She has a fake boyfriend known to most people as “Jon Stewart.” She believes that most of life’s lessons can be learned through The Brady Bunch, Seinfeld, and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. She falls asleep to Ira Glass’s voice on This American Life as often as possible. She’s both a news junkie and a reality TV show junkie… somehow she makes that work.
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The Crew:
Adrienne Jones is living la vida buena in Albuquerque, NM with her husband and an assortment of critters, some human and some canine. She believes the internet has near mythic power and is the last best hope for the restoration of true democracy in the US. She’s been called an idealist and she’s OK with that. She writes the memoir blog No Points for Style.
Andrea is the quirkiest thirty-something writer slash photographer, crazy cat lady this side of the Mississippi. She’s a California girl turned Portlander and she has the plaid shirts and Valley Girl accent to prove it. She wonders how the hell she ended up with a big girl job, spends her weekends dominating the Portland karaoke scene, and blogs when she feels like it at Crazy with a Side of Awesome Sauce. Andrea was lucky enough to be with Sprocket in its conception and is ever so stoked to be back snarking it with the best of ‘em.
Becky lives in Texas with her hubcap, Chuck and two tiny dogs, Pants and Scratchy. She moved to Texas when she was nine but she doesn’t call herself a Texan, maybe in another 20 years. She pokes animals with shiny needles (only to help them!) during the work week and relaxes at night with a sharp and gluten free knife. On the weekends you will find her in the pool with a good book or a kindle in a waterproof case and her waterproof camera around her neck. She started her blog in 2006 when she discovered boyfriends watch a lot of football. Like a lot of football.
Brahm lives in northern Canada with his patient husband, adorable dog, and handsome step-dog. When not living his double life as an international man of mystery, he dabbles in pop culture obsession, watches The Big Bang Theory over and over, has a career in retail, runs long distances very slowly, and blogs at Alfred Lives Here where he rants and raves about TV, movies, morons, books, gay life, and why the Kardashians really are a sign of the coming apocalypse.
Mom of 2 kids and 2 pups, Christina spends her time working her way through legal research and trying to solve the problems that arrive daily to the U.S. court system. When she doesn’t have her head stuck in some old dusty book of statutes, she is taxi-ing her children to sports practices or writing on what her children refer to as her “handy dandy notebook”. The writer of several novels, she had her first published in 2010 and is looking to get the rest on book shelves near you. Christina lives in the Nation’s Capital but left her heart in Southern California. When she wants to get away from it all, she hops on her bike, rides for miles, forgets that she probably left the oven on (that damned ADD), and rushes right back home. Check her out for some snarky posts with a little bit of attitude…. she’s gotta let it out somewhere, right?
J was born and bred in Texas, where she still resides with her husband and daughter, and their posse of random farm animals. She leads a quiet life in a town of less than 2,000 people, where the most action seen is when the town drunk gets smashed and rides his horse into the local grocery store. Her grandmother thinks she’s famous, because she “writes on the internets and drinks those fancy, expensive Starbucks drinks”. She spends her days playing dress up and finger painting with her two year old. She spends her evenings sipping on good beer and making fun of celebrities. You can normally find her yelling at people on twitter or blogging random nonsense at her blog, An Unstyled Life.
After making her fortune selling kitten mittens, adult footie pajamas, and those ridiculous Rudolph noses for your car, Jesse retired to Middle America. She is now immersed in the raising of her two small children and her one large husband. When she’s not cleaning something gross off of something or someone, she writes the mommy blog, A Mom, A Bear, and a Chubby Baby, where she freely criticizes competimoms, princesses, Barbie, and anyone else that pisses her off.
Jim grew up in Montana, home of good old fashioned horse-sense, family values, and the unibomber. He graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and immediately got a job selling shoes. He honed his writing technique composing tens of thousands of applications for employment before taking a job where his dad knew a guy who knew a guy. He is a married father of two who brews beer, reads, and blogs at Just a Lil Blog (parenting/special needs parenting) and Your FACE Is My Blog) (all other things imaginable) while his wife and children sleep.
J.R. is the full-time single dad of a teenage daughter and the creator of Reed My Writing. A former radio talk show host and color commentator, he’s also an off-the-hook cook, a bit of an argyle-loving dork, part-time gangstah and has a word in Urban Dictionary. J.R. has a serious guacamole addiction and a torta dealer named Danny. He uses the words “rad”, “bitchin”, “dude” and “bro” a lot. Probably too much. J.R. believes that any story beginning with, “OK, check it out…” will not end well, but a sentence that ends with, “…and shit” is probably going to be good.
Known as a Purveyor of Fine Words, his work has appeared in more than 30 magazines and newspapers in North America and Europe in addition to several websites. He has also been honored as a Top 25 Single Parent Blogger and was one of only two males to make the list. Word to your mother.
Kristi is a robot masquerading as a writer. She figured it would be the best cover prior to the inevitable droid take over. Supported by these humans in her house, the snark flows out of her through her writings. Sometimes the filter is broken. You’ve been warned.
Find her ramblings on The Robot Mommy or parenting advice on Mom 365.
Lance, from My Blog Can Beat Up Your Blog, is an anxiety ridden, sarcastic, punk rock loving, sports, music & politics obsessed robot-human hybrid writer living in the deep south with 4 women and not talking about Fight Club.
Lex is your average spastic and slightly awkward girl. She has a blog, Lex in the City, where she yammers on about how funny she thinks she is and her plots to take over the world. She has not yet started hoarding cats, however she is a wino and on occasion talks to herself. She won’t drop any “eh” bombs, but she is Canadian.
Rebecca lives in Michigan with her boyfriend K and a gassy pit bull named Frank. She’s currently pregnant with her first child, whom she and Kirk hope to cultivate into the most awesome tiny person ever of all time. She spends an awful lot of time googling things like “when was the most recent comment left on myspace?” and “do zombies go to heaven?” When not googling, Rebecca infrequently blogs at her personal website, ‘oh, rebecca,’ about whatever thoughts are flitting about in her mind that day. She has a serious blue raspberry slush addiction and is working on getting help for it.
Sarah has the husband, kids, house, job, and the stressed-induced insomnia to prove it. She lives in the Midwest with the above-mentioned menagerie, and works in academia. She revels in nerdiness. When she’s not working, she ignores the mountains of dirty laundry and blogs at La Casa di Frigerio; mainly about tortilla chip-induced panic attacks and keeping the vermin at bay.
From the shores of Trinidad & Tobago comes Vinny C. First sighted on As Vinny C’s It, not much is known about this international blogging enigma. What is known is that he is married (apparently to a very patient woman) and holds a strange obsession with coffee. Evidence also suggests he tends to favor humor, pop culture references and drawing crude stick figures – often with large breasts. Even more mysterious is how he manages to continually breach our security in order to leave his writings behind.
