Dances with Bass Industries
The staff here at Dances with Bass Industries is pleased to meet you. We’ve assembled a crack staff of crackpots to provide you with top-notch journalism, copious amounts of intellectual badassery, and a dram (or two) of addlepated humor. If you would like to join our team of writers, please contact Rick Kughen via the contact form below. Of course, your curriculum vitae will need to be first-rate. We have standards to maintain.
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Rick Kughen is a writer, editor, and fishing bum who lives in Kokomo, Indiana with his lovely wife Charlotte, children Alexa and Eric, a flatulent beagle, two devious cats, his imaginary friend, Ned, and Ned’s imaginary dog, Steve. He is a former Executive Editor for Pearson Education in Indianapolis, IN, where he worked for 19 years. He’s now a full-time freelance writer and editor; he and Charlotte own and operate The Wordsmithery, a freelance editorial company. In a previous life, he was a newspaper reporter and columnist covering police and criminal courts news. He is a fine graduate of Ball State University where he moonlighted as a student. Kughen is an avid fisherman, writer, fly tyer, bait manufacturer, and baseball card collector. He is a devoted fan of both the Green Bay Packers and Cincinnati Reds, and of course, he is an incurable audiophile. He is the superhero known as Adjective Man (action figures sold separately). Kughen also answers to “Editor Boy,” but only because he appears to have no choice. |
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Mike Muckenhirn is best known for flashing, dancing, and romancing in a prancing fashion. At least that’s what he tells everybody. The Phoenix resident, along with his superfabulous wife, Lisa, off and on resident kids, Kristina and Jon, and dog, Copper (the Phoenician dingo) maintain the No Whine Inn, where people come, and people go. Then they come back with other people. Then go again. Then come back with different people. Then go and come back again. He is the Dances with Bass tax authority, and he has worked for the Arizona Department of Revenue, Internal Revenue Service and currently slides the abacus beads for the Arizona Department of Economic Security. The Arizona transplant has Hoosier roots, having grown up in Anderson, Indiana, and graduated from Ball State University in Muncie with a degree in Criminal Justice and Criminology (a degree he has yet to put to good use). The avid music lover is on an insatiable quest for new tunes and loves to share his discoveries whether the recipient wants to hear it or not. |
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Peter Franklin Kughen is the official legal beagle at Dances with Bass Industries. In addition to his duties at Dances with Bass, he is a professional baccarat player, editorial assistant at The Wordsmithery LLC, and he is Adjective Man’s official sidekick known as Semicolon. | |
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Chippy von Bushytail is a member of the family Sciuridae (a fancy name for tree rodents) and is mafioso of the vaunted and feared Bushytail crime family. He is the chief nemesis of Peter Franklin Kughen, local beagle extraordinaire, and lives in a giant black locust tree in Kokomo, Indiana. He heads the esteemed research staff at Dances with Bass Industries. |
Muck passed away July 4th 2018. WOW, I am shocked.
Just looked at this again. I am grinning from ear to ear….as the tears slide down my face. Happy memories. Miss that guy so much.
– Lisa Muckenhirn