:: JULY 2005 ::

OCCUPATION: Uhm... Geek?

Kristi's Geek

NAME: Agent Marshall J. Flinkman of Alias

OCCUPATION: Computer Genius/Gadget Guru/God of the Drums

BIRTHDAY: December 29, 1971 (Los Angeles, CA)

WORDS OF WISDOM: "Hush little baby, don't you cry; Daddy's gonna' teach you about lanthanides..."

WHY DID I PICK HIM TO BE A FANGIRL CENTERFOLD? 

As played by Kevin Weisman, Marshall is the resident computer genius and gadget inventor for J.J. Abrams' spy drama. He is married to a fellow CIA analyst and has one son, Mitchell. But that's where the normality stops. Alternating between frazzled and frustrated, Marshall is always called upon to deliver a massive amount of technobabble to the APO crew during their mission briefings, usually adding in a few wisecracks or even a verbal smackdown in German or Ewok. Oh, and he's pretty lethal with a spork.

Actor Kevin Weisman can also be seen as Dreg (one of Glory's minions) in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as a commentator on those VH1 "I Love The..." specials, and banging the drums onstage for the band Trainwreck with Kyle Gass from Tenacious D.

Slick's Geek

NAME:  Scott Spiegel

OCCUPATION:  Director/Writer/Producer/Actor/Fake Shemp

BIRTHDAY:  December 24, 1957 (Walnut Lake, Michigan)

LITTLE KNOWN FACTS:  He has every episode of Lost In Space on tape. The character Scotty in The Evil Dead is named after him. His favorite film of all-time is Hitchcock’s North By Northwest.   

WHY DID I PICK HIM TO BE A FANGIRL CENTERFOLD?  Scotty is easily the most enthusiastic film, horror and Three Stooges geek you could find. He has been very close friends with Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell since they started making Super 8 films together in middle school and is also close friends with Quentin Tarantino (who credits Scotty with starting his career), Lawrence Bender and Robert Rodriguez. Scotty forms a kind of nexus between these two camps of filmmaking genius. He is a very talented filmmaker in his own right. He co-wrote The Rookie (starring Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen) and Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn and wrote and directed both Intruder and From Dusk Til Dawn II: Texas Blood Money. His latest directorial effort is My Name Is Modesty, a movie based on the Modesty Blaise comics from the ‘60s. Also a talented actor, his turn as Phink in Skinned Alive shows how hilariously funny he is. Scotty is a walking encyclopedia of movie trivia and information. And though he’s been in the business for decades now, he remains a most excited movie fan.

Finally, Scotty is utterly tormented by the fact that there are some fake trees used in Evil Dead II (listen to that DVD’s brilliant commentary with him, Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and Greg Nicotero). If that’s not geeky, I don’t know what is.

Nic's Geeek

NAME: Wil Wheaton

OCCUPATION: Writer/Blogger/Actor/Comic/Cool Stepdad/Supreme Geek

BIRTHDAY: July 29 1972

LITTLE KNOWN FACTS: Was the person with whom one Ashley Judd, as Ensign Robin Lefler  shared her first screen kiss on Star Trek: The Next Generation. (Stitch that, Wesley nay-sayers!)

 WHY DID I PICK HIM TO BE A FANGIRL CENTERFOLD? Where do I start? He's a hometown boy. (OK, he's from the SGV and I'm from the South Bay, but the shared LA memories are there!) Because Gordie LaChance was basically me at 13, only a boy, ¦and wow, did he ever capture me. At 33, he's a former child star who has managed not to fall prey to any of the old cliche's. Because though he's struggled in his own way, he's emerged from "what ever happened to?" status and the shadow of Wesley Crusher as a beloved internet personality, a terrific writer, and a dedicated family man (The kind who gets misty when his step-kids want to pay with his old D&D stuff aww!). Wil is, in fact, so spectacularly cool that he managed to swing Neil Gaiman (who he's never even met) to write the foreword to his latest book, Just A Geek. Brrrrilliant.

Jessica's Geek

NAME:  Seth Green

OCCUPATION:  Director/Writer/Producer/Actor/Action Figure God

BIRTHDAY:  February 8th, 1974

LITTLE KNOWN FACTS:  He's 5 foot 4 inches tall, he had a show on a Sony website called Sweet J Presents that was one of the funniest damn things you've ever seen.  This show has now become Robot Chicken and is one of Cartoon Networks biggest hits EVER. 

WHY DID I PICK HIM TO BE A FANGIRL CENTERFOLD?  Because not only is he hot, he's funny, and he knows the true beauty that is old school action figures.  Seth is one of the funniest guys around, and he brought to life Oz from Buffy the Vampire Slayer in a way that no one else could have.  Robot Chicken is gold baby, gold!  Oh and he looks great in drag, just check out Party Monster.   Oh and the immortal words "Time to shave your genitals." as spoken by Starscream of the Transformers.  If you saw Sweet J presents, that last sentence would mean so much more to you.