| BROWSE THE ARCHIVES
Issue 1: August 1993 Issue 5: January 1994 The Lost Issue |
THE CAFFEINE STAFF: A PARTIAL LIST
From 1993-94 CAFFEINE Magazine littered bar counters and coffee tables throughout hipster Richmond, imploding only when core staff members scattered to Portland, or medical school, or D.C. Today, the key writers and artists who helped Caffeine thrive are running Fortune 500 corporations and tarpon fishing in the Gulf. Here's what the rest of us are doing: ALLEGRA began her life as our advice columnist and now spends her time fighting allergens in the form of a tiny caplet. CLAY DYE served as our pop culture guru. No one on staff knew more about 70s television, Richmond's psychological struggle with its Confederate past or astrology. Clay was renowned for the creation of "Horoscope Noir," which replaced traditional astrological signs with icons from our media-laden youth. After a decade living his own "Marcus Welby" dream as a doctor with an ironic heart, a gentler Dr. Dye has returned to Richmond. It's no accident that he's working with nuns. ANGIE FAUNCE, world traveler. If it involved traveling or dancing, we knew she'd come through. And today she still stays out later than anyone else affiliated with Caffeine. BOB GORMAN continues to make kick-ass art. And he does stuff for GWAR. MICHELLE HARRIS is wrestling two children in Binghamton, New York, and working as a Dorothy Parker stand-in at the local newspaper. JIM JOHNS, the idea man. Jim was the coal that fed some of the odder creative flames on the staff. In addition to consistently adding an amusing (and usually on-target) skew to most ideas tossed out at staff meetings, Jim wrote, edited, handled photography chores and kept his kvetching to himself when coerced into driving around the city delivering stacks of the magazine to area businesses. He loves him some mezza. He's married and is part-owner of the world's cutest kids. BOB MASSEY, local man of mystery. He'd arrive silently, and then burst forth with a hair-brained idea. Most recently, Bob has created an opera. He also rocks in the Gena Rowlands Band, and recently escaped the thoughtful life in D.C. for a more sexed-up version of the same-ol, same-ol in L.A. RALPH PAINE...? MARY REYNOLDS showed up one day wanting to write serious articles. Since we didn't have the heart to laugh at her, we let her be the newsy counterbalance to some of our more madcap extremism. One of our smarter decisions. A professional urban planner, Mary is less serious than she was in 1994. GREG RITTER is missing in action, though rumors have placed him in the D.C. metro region. JOHN SARVAY handled production and content, which basically meant gluing scattered ideas into something that would emerge from the printing press as a seamless whole. He also wrote. Today, John does much less interesting things, such as putting the Caffeine archive online. He has a job, and hobbies. RICHARD SEBASTIAN was the left-brain of the group, if by left brain one meant that he erred on the side of cultural deviance. An out-bin of creative ideas, Richard developed and wrote more outlandish stories than anyone on staff, giving Caffeine an offbeat edge that more than tempered its desire to be hip. Richard has taught prisoners, made movies and served pizzas. He's now working in education. |