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So a famous astronomer was giving a lecture explaining all the atoms and particles and scientific rules that allowed the world to exist.
During the Q&A, an elderly woman raised her hand and said, “That’s all well and good sir, but really the world is a website balanced on the back of a turtle.”
Not to be undone, the astronomer replied, “Oh? Then what, pray tell, is holding up the turtle?”
“Very clever, professor,” chuckled the woman. “But it’s turtles all the way down!”
Blaine Tolentino
Guest Editor, Issue #7
Blaine Tolentino blogs about music and beautiful objects at societyofanimals.com; Blaine Tolentino is a 6 ft. woman with nothing to spare; concerned about diamonds, cacao, and anything else that is being held in a special storage, away from the public (supposedly); terms like “transcelestial”; moon obsession; Anne Carson; Olmecs; Blaine Tolentino is into it.
Julia Wieting
Guest Editor, Issue #7
Julia Wieting calls herself a linguist but, having recently completed her M.A., she realizes that she really just likes accents of all persuasions. This former editor of Hawai‘i Review and founding editor of Ka Lamakua is ready to be enchanted again by the world of the mind. She is honored to be a guest editor of Vice-Versa and could not be happier to be conspiring with the avalanche of intelligence that is Blaine Tolentino. You can find her distracted mind at Real and Imagine Taxa.
Aiko Yamashiro
General Editor
Aiko Yamashiro is currently learning how to play hapa-haole music from the 1930s, cook what’s on Tastespotting, be a more consistent blogger, aen rid aen rait Pidjin. She is also a coeditor of Routes, an anthology of word and image about TheBus in Hawai‘i.
Anjoli Roy
General Editor
Anjoli has edited for Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Feminist Press at CUNY (including the journal WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly), Kahuaomānoa Press, and University of Iowa Press. A 2009–2010 Grace K.J. Abernethy Fellow, she is honored to have been made guest editor of the winter 2010 issue of Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. You can learn more about her here.
Mark Guillermo
Art Director
Mark was supposed to be a doctor, engineer, and a computer science geek, but is a graphic designer and front-end programmer. His inadequacies in symbolic reasoning (aka math) had him flee to the world of arts and design. While attending the art program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, his passion grew into a drive to pursue a focus and career in graphic design. Oh, and he is a social media networking addict.
Tim Denevi
Former General Editor
Tim Denevi, editor of Vice-Versa issues 1–4, recently received his MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa.
Pat Matsueda
Founder and Advisoria Extraordinaria
Pat Matsueda is the managing editor of Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing and the editor and publisher of Mixed Nerve. You can learn more about her here.
