Doctor Popular

A third place World Yo-Yo Champion, Doc Pop yo-yos, juggles, draws and makes funky weird pop music. His hip booty currently resides in San Francisco (with the rest of him attached) and he is the founder of the College For the Easily Amused, a national skill toy group mainly located in larger freezing cities in the chilly chilly north.

Doc is most well known in the international yo-yo community for finding new tricks and styles of play, including Moebius, Astro (sliding freehand), the Martini, the Cheese Whip, alpha style, and Skin the Gerbil but he’s almost more well known for his great hair. When he isnt doing any yoyoing, drawing, or writing he’s probably riding his bike, hair modeling professionally, or riding his bike to and from hair modeling gigs. He likes to ride bikes, and has many bikes that are probably way cooler than any bikes you own.

He’s also been the first ever recipient of the National Trick Innovator Award (a yoyoer so unique they had to make a new award just for him), a 3rd place World Yo-Yo Champion and he’s starred and co-wrote an educational science video with Yo Guru Mark McBride called Unboring Science Volume 1: Physics.

• Websites: www.doctorpopular.com AND www.easily-amused.org AND www.adirtylittlesecret.com
• Favorite yo-yo(s): zan navi, patriot, big ben, modified vipers (beefcake and axys mods both okay)
• Favorite Trick: “Hesitating” the yo-yo!
• Favorite Joke: There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don’t.
• Favorite Bands: Anticon., dosh, why?, Louis Prima, Stereolab, Pavement, Nirvana, Prefuse 73, Bullfrog, Doctor Octagon, the Rat Pack, Perrey and Kingsley, Sebadoh, The Jesus Lizard, Self, Blackalicious, Enon, Brainiac, Postal Service, American Analog Set, Grandaddy, Portishead, Blonde Redhead, Sonic Youth, P.O.S. (doomtree), Lyrics Born, Modest Mouse, Tribe Called Quest, Arto Lindsay, Morphine, Dj Shadow, Work of Saws, Weezer, Aesop Rock, and Tricky.
• Favorite Movies: The Jerk, Brain Candy, Billy’s Balloon, Mystery Men, Death Race 2000, They Live, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo.
• Quotes: “Oh, you’re using base ten… I get it” & “Sploosh!”