The Usual Suspects - May 2001

Erin Fleckenstein
Erin holds a graduate degree in Hammer pants and is the current Macarena expert for television's Soul Train. However, as she's fond of telling anyone who will listen, "What I really want to do is direct...Assistant Art Direct, that is." Actually, she's so fond of saying this that she plans to get it copyrighted and then imprint it on everything from bumper stickers to training bras. She's already signed an exclusive deal with Wal-Mart, which is especially interested in carrying her signature line of handmade sock puppets and will be the exclusive distributor of her yet to be released spoken-word karaoke album.

Tyrone Rodriguez
Tyrone became the five-time North American Street Fighter 2 champion using the unlikely fighting choice of Dhalsim. He later made headlines by implying that Chun Li and Blanka were secretly married and that Zangeif was their illicit love child. Tyrone has mastered every video game, from Q-Bert to Crazy Taxi, and his love for all things electronic runs so deep that he recently opened a wildlife refuge for abused Tamagochis. Tyrone's job as Super Street video game expert is especially cushy, requiring him to wear vintage Pac Man pajamas while sitting in a damp closet for 12 hours a day playing Tomb Raider.

Digital Doug
Digital Doug saw his life-long dream of becoming a professional mime go down in flames after an attempted 'trapped in a box' routine resulted in a horrible accident that sent several people to the hospital for intensive mouth-to-mouth treatment. After his miming license was revoked by an angry and bitter Marcel Marceau, Doug went into hiding, where he taught himself the dark arts of juggling and writing people's names on grains of rice. Even though Doug is now the big cheese behind www.superstreetonline.com, he has a hard time forgetting his mime past and occasionally comes to work wearing black tights and face paint.

Gary Inman
If it weren't for Gary Inman, we'd have to make up all of our European coverage. You'd be reading about how flying cars are a common sight in the U.K. and how tires there are now being made from all-natural vegetable patties. But, alas, we have Gary Inman to keep us honest. At least, we hope he's honest. Technically, there really isn't any way for us to check. In fact, there isn't even a way we can verify that Gary Inman is in fact, Gary Inman. For all we know, Gary Inman could be some 90-year-old grandma with a condo in Florida. Well, if that's the case, at least she writes damn good copy.