Paul Sorene is the Anorak. He survives on donations and the tolerance of Old Mr Anorak, our patron. Paul is hawked out to various media outlets whenever OMA is low on supplies.

Contact him on UK: 07980 578831

Friends Of Anorak - they give until it hurts

Ed Barrett - has written for numerous national newspapers and magazines, including The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Independent on Sunday, Spectator, Modern Review, Punch, Business Week, Mojo, The Quarterly and The Face. He has worked as Commissioning Editor at Arena and Special Correspondent at Esquire. Ed invented the “Two Lagers” dance

Paul Berger - is a winner of the Society of Editors’ Award in 2002. Based in New York, Paul has contributed to the New York Times, the Washington Post and US News and World Report.

Tim Worstall - has been variously a waiter, bartender, games developer, telemarketeer and a member of the shadowy international scandium oligopoly. He has recently gravitated to the eventual home of all who do not wish to work for a living, freelance journalism

Burt Kearns - used to be a bigshot American tabloid television producer until he wrote a book called Tabloid Baby, whereupon he was given a party at Elaine’s and then blacklisted. Now he lives in L.A. and writes and produces TV shows, documentaries and movies, but he doesn’t recommend you see the movie he made with Burt Reynolds

Tom Mayhew - Sound recording for TV (Channel 4, Sky). Camera Operator for Box TV ( Music channel) mainly band interviews, The Lab and LWT various London magazine productions. Sound Engineer at Metropolis Recording Studios, London. Worked with many artists from Nigel Kennedy to The Rolling Stones and U2. Expert in Post Production (Audio/Visual editing). Single. GSOH. QPR

Neil Hepburn (Beau Bo D’Or) - is an online artist, winning first and second place in Channel4’s 2005 image viral of the year competition. Neil is regular contributor to Channel4 News and the Guardian

Kirsten Sellars - has written for numerous national publications, including Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Los Angeles Times, Australian, New Statesman, Spectator, Esquire and Vogue. Her first book, The Rise and Rise of Human Rights, was selected as one books of the year in the New Statesman. An Australian who does not miss home

Julian Segal - is a sports reporter and winner of Yahoo!’s Best Celebrity Website of the Year award 2005. Read the book here

Rupert Youngman – is an expert in international relations and a journalist who has written and edited for Reuters and created online magazines for many leading names. Roo knows more than is decent about pyjamas and ‘cardigowns’

Andy Lea - is a reporter for the national tabloid press, reaching the summit of tabloid life on the Daily Sport, where thanks to his ability to walk and chew at the same time he was known as ‘The Professor’

Alan Duffy – is a writer who has written for Baddiel & Skinner and BBC Radio 2. He knows David ‘Platty’ Platt

Alex Hilton - is the editor of Recess Monkey, the satirical political website and Labourhome, the site for Labour Party supporters. He has represented the Labour Party in the general election, standing for office. Canterbury was not yet ready 14 - illustrates the sordid world of gossip and slander. The American artist’s work features in the New York Post, Vanity Fair and more

Jay Heinrichs - has spent 26 years in magazine publishing as a writer, editor and executive. He also maintains the popular language blog Figarospeech.com. His book, Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion is available