DC Tan

Full Name: Classified

Occupation: Financial wage slave by day, hack cartoonist by night, family man by choice.

Profile: Turning 30 and getting married forced this former slacker to grow up and settle down. Where once his highest aspiration was to commandeer an Oscar Mayer wienermobile, he now spends the majority of his time trying to get his cartooning studio off the ground, pay the rent, and ensure his wife has a reason to stay married to him every day. Though occasionally wistful for the halcyon days of his 20’s and still unused to sharing the remote, DC is the happiest he’s ever been.

Digs: Comics, video games, fantasy novels, cartoons, cooking.

Private Shame: Musicals, Country Music, credit line at Bed Bath and Beyond.

Annie

Full Name: Annette F. Tan, nee Long

Occupation: Veterinarian

Profile: Having the spent the last few years caring for helpless animals with shedding problems and a tendency to drool, Annie has been able to apply this knowledge to being DC’s wife. Having come from a long line of performers, entertainers and professional clowns, she possesses the perfect mix of whimsy and brains to keep her husband in line and in love with her.

Digs: Musicals, theater, horror films, murder mysteries, and anything Disney.

Private Shame: WWE (especially Jon Sena), and Saved by the Bell reruns.

Lily

Full Name: Lily Li

Occupation:Occupation: Freelance consultant and aspiring stunt woman.

Profile:Profile: With her two best friends having moved on in life (DC getting married, Erich moving overseas) Lily finds herself with a lot of free time an a too-big apartment. With relative financial independence (her parents are loaded), she spends a lot of time at DC and Annie’s place. After a few bad relationships in recent history, she’s single and liking it thank you very much.

Digs: Action movies,

Private Shame: Chocolate anything, Viggo Mortensen, John Hughes films.

Nate and Terry

Nate and Terry

Full Names: Nathaniel Tei, Terrence Tan

Occupations: Internet Wildmen

Profile: Transplants from Seattle, DC’s cousins have embraced the Midwest, unpredictable weather and all. Their online stunt show The Nate and Terry 15-minute Hour of Power (a cross between Mythbusters and Jack@$$) is doing relatively well, although paying their insurance premiums keep them on a tight budget. In fact, after an unseemly altercation involving a truckload of jellied eels and their landlord’s Corsica, they were recently evicted. Unable to afford rent anywhere else, Lily took pity on them and let them move back in with her now empty apartment.

Dig: Nate- Turning internet scams against their creators, gonzo journalism. Terry- action figures and obscure rock bands.

Private Shame: The cousins have no shame. At all.