Who the hell is this bunch of misfits that runs this so-called magazine? Just who do you think you are trying to tell us what’s important in the world? Well, “world” is right, because Blast has two Bureaus outside Boston and more than 100 contributors on three continents.

Here’s who you can blame — or pitch stories to if you’re a publicist, cause we know this page is the most important thing on the site as far as you’re concerned.

John M. Guilfoil — Editor-in-chief

John and Mario in Hollywood

The head-shot. (Blast staff photo/Aram Boghosian)

John has worked in media since 1997 when he wrote software reviews for SharewareJunkies.com. He started ReviewCenter.com, in 1998.

He blogs at his personal page, PRrag, and he Tweets, and he’s on Facebook.

John writes for The Boston Globe, covering a healthy mixture of breaking news and business/tech. He’s a 2007 Northeastern University grad and is doing the grad school thing at Emerson College.

The old man of the group, John is 26.

John attends E3 every year in Los Angeles and writes the occasional video game review.

Feel free to email him about advertising, business matters, press/media inquiries about Blast and anything not specifically covered by another editor.

Elizabeth Raftery — Managing editor for features

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We work hard here at Blast.

Liz Raftery is a 2006 graduate of Emerson College. She has been a reporter for The Boston Globe and The Press Enterprise of Bloomsberg, Pa.

She’s a real hotshot.

Liz is an original Blaster, helping in 2006 to get the first issue off the ground. Her main area of expertise is music. She’s also responsible for anything going on in New York. So email her about your band playing a gig in NYC.

Brooklynne Peters — Entertainment Editor

Brooklynne does music, movies, TV, and pop culture

Brooklynne Disneyfied

Brooklynne manages our coverage of music, movies, television, pop culture, celebrity gossip, and anything else that involves her and her staff meeting the coolest people on earth.

She’s from Arizona and loves dogs!

Email her about interviews, reviews, movie screenings, and juicy gossip.

Marc Normandin — Games editor

Marc dresses down one of his reviewers for writing a poor article.

Marc edits a junior reporter.

A sportswriter by trade, when he’s not putting out quality content for Baseball Prospectus, Marc is making sure Blast stays ahead of the curve — and the other guys — in the video gaming world.

Marc is a 2008 graduate of Merrimack College.

He’s responsible for a healthy beefing up of Blast Games. He even started a separate games blog, Chibi Gamer. Email him for all things related to games.

Erica Marcus — Life editor

Erica is a graduate student at Emerson College

Erica tries to decipher an obscure news story.

Erica is the life of the party here at Blast. She is responsible for Boston lifestyle, nightlife, sex, food, drink, fashion and travel.

A 2007 University of New Hampshire graduate, Erica is also doing the journalism grad program at Emerson.

She enjoys wine, taking pictures, and long walks on the beach. She also write the Put a Cork in it column.

You can email her about any of the topics in the Life section.

Allison Hanna Hughes — Sci/Tech editor

Allison is from Celebration, Florida

Don't let the hot blonde motif fool you -- she's a total geek

Allison arrived in Boston by way of a small town called Celebration, Florida. Don’t let the hot blonde motif fool you. She’s a total geek.

Allison joined Blast in 2009 and quickly became one of our hottest reporters. Now she’s running out Sci/Tech section. You can e-mail her about anything related to cars, the environment, gadgets, software, science, health, and fitness.

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Staff in Boston

Mark Baard is a renown Boston technology writer who recently started an alt-tech blog at Blast.

Eddie Makuch is the Blast Gaming News Director, responsible for the day-to-day breaking news in the multimillion-dollar video game industry.

Lindsay Milgroom writes The Poor Grad Student’s Guide column

Megan Vick is an entertainment reporter

Emma Rose Johnson and Ned Prickett are Blast movie critics.

Ashley Dean writes the Sky celeb gossip blog.

Allison Hughes: is a lifestyle reporter.

Andrew de Geofroy is the Blast Ombudsman, answering all your complaints.

Other staffers: Krystal Beaulieu, Britt Braudo, Christine Cassis, Sarah Coughlin, Jess d’Arbonne, Farah Fard, Lindsey Ferris, Rick Fisk, Gina Fraumeni, Meghan Gargan, Anthony Geehan, Joe Godlewsky, Sarah Gordon, Stephen Greenwell, Logan Greiner, Chrisanne Grise, Allison Hughes, Carly Rose Jackson, Tanya de Jesus, Michael Kaufmann, Ben Lindbergh, Tara Lira, Torrey Meeks, Bill Palmer, Mike Preble, Adam Sell, David Smail, Claude Strayer and Jill Vallecorsa

BlastWest

Conception Allen — West Coast Bureau Chief

Connie covers television and all things Hollywood.

Connie reports to Brooklynne in Boston

Connie reports directly to Brooklynne in Boston. She heads up our efforts on the left-coast.

She lives in San Diego, where there are a surprising amount of Boston ex-pats.

She loves her television and does some our hot interviews.

You can email her about stuff going on over there in Cali.

BlastWest Staff

BlastWest staffers report to the section editors they write for

Bradley Ouellette and Chase Gharrity are our links to video games in the west. Brad lives in Seattle. He’s been with Blast since the beginning but took a reduced role since he got a wicked awesome job at Microsoft as a software engineer. He still covers PAX and E3 and reviews games, peripherals and computer hardware. Chase is simply “the man” as Marc puts it.

Meg Queally is another former Bostonian who settled on the Left. She reviews PC games and writes lifestyle stories.

Lauren McCombs lives in San Diego and writes political thought pieces, including the Power Behind Closed Doors column.

Jessica Elford and Pasquale Augustine are based in La Jolla, Calif., and contribute to Power Behind Closed Doors.

Sarah Coughlin and Jess d’Arbonne are entertainment staffers reporting from Denver.

Blast New York

New York Staff

Liz Raftery lives in New York and heads up all news operations coming out of that other city in the Northeast besides Boston. From her base in Brooklyn, she covers the hottest musical acts, often right before they arrive in Boston.

Alana Levinson is an Emerson College grad living in New York. She is a general assignment reporter.

Bessie King has been with Blast since the beginning. The former entertainment and culture/life editor is a graduate journalism student at the Columbia University.

Kelly Bodami is a former entertainment editor at Blast.

Trevor Timm writes the PSA Blog for Blast.

Samantha Lavine is a general assignment reporter in New York.

CarlyErin O’Neil is a traveling model who writes about her worldwide adventures for Blast.

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Southern Bureau Staff

Gabriella von Rosen is our editor in Miami.

Roger Gude is a staffer in Miami doing general assignment.

Joe Sinicki is a past tech/games editor living in Orlando.

Sarah Mullins is The Diva of Driving, living in and reporting from Orlando.

Liz McClendon reports on entertainment and Twilight from Virginia Beach, Va. She recently hit up TwiCon in Dallas.

Elsewhere

Sachin Seth is a Blast staff writer and world news reporter in Toronto. Former culture editor and original Blast staffer Dan Peleschuk is there also, as a grad student.

Leysha Penfold reports from Sydney, Australia. Liz Rennie from Brisbane.

Manuel Uribe is an entertainment correspondent reporting from Dallas.

Chris DeMatteo is a sports and pop culture reporter in Milwaukee.

Luna Moltedo reports from Rome.