Following a short stint in the KISS-Army and a dishonorable discharge for becoming a huge Ramones fan, Brian Mazo had his first column in a sports collectibles magazine at the age of thirteen. Since then, he has graduated from NYU Film School and had a couple of handfuls of movies produced for both the big and small screens from his scripts; he claims to be the only screenwriter in captivity to write movies starring women who have won both the Best Actress Academy Award (Oscar) and the porn equivalent (AVN).

He has impersonated David Blaine at the Magic Castle in Hollywood for a piece for the LA Weekly, irked the Scientologists for a piece for the LA Alternative and faked the death of a fictitious friend in the WTC bombings to get out of his fantasy baseball league and for a story he occasionally remembers to tell at cocktail parties.

Mazo now writes books as an excuse to get tattoos. His first book, “A Rose by any Other Name,”  a collection of twenty-five short stories and a “Dear Jane” letter for which he had no other good use, was published in 2012. He’s currently on the road promoting it – and getting more tattoos – while working on a novel entitled, “Live Fast! (Die out of Town).”  Mazo is currently ducking the Scientologists by residing in Minneapolis, MN with Thurman, his Russian Blue cat.