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Stuff
The Daily Clog accumulates various tidbits about Berkeley and college life. We focus on the UC campus, the city of Berkeley and Berkeley’s online community. We give our two cents on all the goings-on—whether you like it or not.

The Dudes

Evante Garza-Licudine—Blog Editor
evante@dailycal.org
While Evante spends his daytime blogging, he moonlights as a guy who may or may not be speaking with actual words. And yes, he really sounds like that in real life. At least during Rock Band.

Jill Cowan—Former Blog Editor
jcowan@dailycal.org
Jill–a third year majoring in English–is world-renowned in the art of making bad puns, or, as those in the industry refer to them, “buns.” When she isn’t busy honing her ample buns, she enjoys eating, sleeping and doing absolutely nothing.

Alex Bigman—Writer
abigman@dailycal.org
Often receiving comparisons to such fictional characters as Peter Parker, Waldo and Elvis Costello, “Alex Bigot” is a vicious crackpot who can only hope to someday live up to their respective guilt-induced altruism, frustrating elusiveness, and knack for British elitism and sarcastic wordplay. His commentary is often smug and dehumanized.

Valerie Woolard—Writer
vwoolard@dailycal.org
Valerie Woolard, who has formerly served as both a news reporter and the assistant university news editor for the Daily Cal, transplanted herself to the Clog after tiring of taking things seriously. She hails from Yosemite, a sparsely populated and heavily-touristed area of California. In her free time, she enjoys singing to no one in particular and reading about ridiculous things.

Diana Newby—Assistant Blog Editor
dnewby@dailycal.org
Diana tends to be obnoxiously enthusiastic about nothing in particular—a trait that manifests itself most frequently in spontaneous and janky outbursts of dance. She would like to emphasize her use of “janky,” as it is currently one of her favorite words. Also ranking high on that list is “schnurrbart,” which is German for “moustache.”

Ruby Elizabeth Lee—Writer
rubyelizabethlee@gmail.com
Ruby grew up as an only child living with her reclusive mother and 13 cats in Compton. Now she spends her time squirrel-watching, practicing freeganism, cafe-hopping and consuming copious amounts of caffeine. She does not hope to be a cat lady, although she does hope to own cats.

Kate Scarlett Mitchell—Writer
kmitchell@dailycal.org
Kate Scarlett Mitchell usually orders the soup. And frankly, in this economy, we could all use a girl like that. She enjoys talking to your parents and whittling obsidian hand axes. Blogging in her pajamas, eating cold pizza, she longs for the days in which she used to serve on Lincoln’s cabinet. Alias: William H. Seward.

Cassie Myers—Writer
cmyers@dailycal.org
Cassie Myers is a bespectacled Jeopardy fiend who likes satire, Movitz, the 1st Amendment, mediocre 80’s music, Marjorie Williams, penguin socks, snickerdoodles, the 19th Amendment, armadillos, Jane Austen, the 26th Amendment, cream soda, blue, Fawlty Towers, Mr. Rochester, commas and karaoke. Just kidding about the karaoke.

How It All Went Down, Yo
The Daily Clog is a blog from The Daily Californian. In the spring of 2006, Arts Editor Soo Oh had a blogerific idea. Then she split and went to France.

That didn’t stop us. Managing Editor Oscar Shine approached an unsuspecting Jonathan Yorde and propositioned him. Then he asked Yorde to manage the Clog. Without a bead of sweat, Yorde passed the feat of pulling a sword out of a stone and he was since known as King Arthur. Wait, sorry, wrong story.

Anyway, Yorde started out with a splendid cast of characters: Angie Baecker, Gerald Nicdao and Lucas Westmaas. They all helped the blog emerge from its womb on October 16, 2006. It was alive and kicking, but no one knew what was to come.

Almost a month later, on November 8, Jeff Bowman dressed up this baby, and the Clog entered the real world, the big boys’ club if you will. The monster was alive.

Now, here we are, ready to bowl. Just as long as it’s not Shabbos. We don’t roll on Shabbos.