About The Naked Loon

General

The Naked Loon is, as our subtle subtitle states, the Puget Sound’s Most Spectacular Newspaper. Founded on April 1st, 2008, The Naked Loon is the premier source of news for the entire Puget Sound region.

Editorial

The Naked Loon is a satirical publication with new content published probably a few times a week. More often if you deadbeats get off your tails and send some money our way. The Naked Loon is published by Thatch Mound. The contents of The Naked Loon are © Copyright 2008 by Thatch Mound. Be nice and don’t copy our junk. Seriously.

All stories on The Naked Loon use fictional names, except when satirizing public fools figures. Any other use of real names is accidental and coincidental. Or is it?

The content of The Naked Loon is not intended to be mean-spirited, foul, or crude. Our stories are a light-hearted take on local issues and anything else that happens to tickle our fancy. The Naked Loon is an equal-opportunity mockumenter. Don’t hate, congratulate.

Editorial submissions are encouraged, however The Naked Loon makes zero guarantees of any response or compensation for unsolicited submissions. Basically, if you send us ideas, you’re giving up all rights to them, so don’t complain if we use them. You may contact The Naked Loon here.

Staff

Click on a name to view that writer’s recent stories or blog posts.

Editor-In-Chief: Marty E.

• Frigyes Karinthy, Neighborhood Correspondent
• Björn Maximus, Business Reporter
• John Fostr, Technology Reporter
• Ash Grimm, Political Reporter
• Alfred Matthew, Entertainment Reporter
• Martha Kostyra, Living Editor
• Josh Devena, Ecto-Seattle Correspondent
• Nigel Jones, Photographer / Illustrator
• Anya Lynne, Photographer
• Mark S. Meister, Photographer
• Reporters-at-Large
  • Jaime Rodriguez
  • Tad Huffington
• Opinion Writers
  • Addison Berkeley
  • Alexander Brooks
  • Joe Freeman
  • Stephanie Wiltshire
  • Rupert McCarthy
  • Pirk Adams
  • Guy Mozart
  • Randall Morgan
• Dylan Wilbanks, Freelance Consultant
• Pete Newland, Freelance Consultant

Technical

The Naked Loon is powered by WordPress, and is built on a customized version of the Structure theme by Justin Tadlock.

The following WordPress plugins are utilized (and in some cases, customized) on The Naked Loon:

• Akismet by Matt Mullenweg
• WP-Cache 2.0 by Ricardo Galli Granada
• Live Comment Preview by Jeff & Iacovos Constantinou
• Smart Archives by Justin Blanton
• Custom Fields for Feeds by Justin Tadlock
• Ozh’ Better Feed by Ozh
• WP-ContactForm by Ryan Duff / Douglas Karr
• Audio Player by Martin Laine
• Similar Posts by Rob Marsh, SJ
• Post-Plugin Library by Rob Marsh, SJ
• Revision Control by Dion Hulse
• Co-Authors by Weston Ruter
• WP-EMail by Lester Chan
• WP-PostRatings by Lester Chan
• WP-PostViews by Lester Chan
• WP-Print by Lester Chan
• Dual Personality (powers the filter-friendly version) – by Naked Loon Staff

The nifty image-zooming is courtesy of a script called FancyZoom v1.1 by Cabel Maxfield Sasser.