Who is "ZOOT"?

Zoot (a.k.a. Chris Curren) was born May 4th, 1967 in Queens County, New York. He spent the first ten years of his life in the urban town of Seaford, Long Island, New York.
In 1977 he moved to Waukesha, Wisconsin (home of guitar legend Les Paul).
After graduating from Waukesha South High School in 1985, he attended college at the University of Wisconsin- Oshkosh, where he majored in Radio/TV/Film, emphasizing in radio. He soon became the program director for WRST-FM, the university's radio station.
After leaving college, he work part time for, first, radio station WNAM in Neenah/Menasha, then WHBY in Appleton ("adopted" home of Harry Houdini).
He soon got full time employment as an assistant manager for Video Watch (a Michigan based chain of video rental stores).
In 1993, he was transfered to the new Video Watch in Fond du Lac (now known for it's multiple winners in the "Power Ball" lottery).
In 1996, he moved back to south-eastern Wisconsin (this time Milwaukee), where he worked for Planet Video (a Milwaukee based chain of video rental stores) as a Senior Assistant Manager, traveling from store to store to help train new store managers and to "fill in" when management go on vacation. In June of 1998, Planet Video declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy too quickly, and because of this a judge allowed Blockbuster Video to buy Planet Video. Zoot now works for them.

Zoot got his nickname in high school due to the fact that he played the saxophone in the Waukesha South Jazz Ensemble ("Zoot" was the name of the saxophone player from "The Muppet Show"'s band "Dr, Teeth and the Electric Mayhem", who was named after jazz saxophone great "Zoot" Simms.).

Zoot's other interest include model railroading in HO scale, video games (Sega Genesis, Sega CD, and Playstation), and drinking good beer (no massed produced "piss water", as he likes to call it).

Zoot's father, Art, works for Kalmbach Publishing Co. in Waukesha (origanally located in Milwaukee), publishers of hobby magazines (best known in the trade for Model Railroader and Trains magazines) where he is the advertising production manager and also writes articles from time to time on "kit-bashing" models (a process of combining parts from two or more different kits to make one "unique" model. Art prefers the term"kit-mingling".). His mother, Carol, is a manager/hostess for Tupperware.