About Us
PHOTO: PodCamp Boston 3: Chris Clark by Steve Garfield on Flickr CC BY-NC-SA
Geek Force Five is a blog dedicated to the study and analysis of modern popular culture, and of the geeks, nerds, dweebs, and dorks who obsess about it. Since February 2008, we've been discussing the most notable manifestations of awesomeness we can find online. Whether it's movies, television, music, comics, or video games—or maybe even something stranger still—Geek Force Five exists to provide a forum for geeks of all stripes to obsess over their passions with like-minded Fivers from across the Web.
The site is the brainchild of E. Christopher Clark, an author and all-around geek from the great state of New Hampshire. From 1999-2008, he ran the irreverent blog That Little Bastad, a sort of online scrapbook for his thoughts on life and pop culture. Geek Force Five rose from the ashes of its predecessor as an attempt to bring focus to Chris's blogging by narrowing down the list of available topics to his five greatest obsessions at the time (Nine Inch Nails, View Askew, Apple, Marvel Comics, and Lost). In the years since, the site's focus has shifted to include whatever topics are deemed the most geekout-worthy at the moment, but that early focus on digging deep into whatever subject we're covering has remained.
The site's name was inspired by Chris's college friend Zeke (now the co-host of Brilliant Gameologists and the Double Meat Podcast), who coined the term during their time at the late, great Bradford College in Haverhill, Massachusetts. We thank Zeke for not suing our pants off.
Credits
Geek Force Five 3.0 was designed by Leah Creates, with illustrations provided by Erik "RoboYuji" Paul. The site was coded by E. Christopher Clark and is powered by EllisLab's Expression Engine 2.3.1.
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Contributors
Bodhipaksa is a father, Buddhist, husband, vegetarian, iguana owner, meditator, blogger, author, teacher, Battlestar Galactica fan, Mac-ophile, PhD wannabe, and Tea lover. You can find him on Twitter or at Wildmind.org.
Chris Bujold is a teacher, improv artist, actor, director, and writer. He is a member of the Stranger Than Fiction improv theater & comedy troupe.
E. Christopher Clark is an author, educator, and all-around geek who is passionate about storytelling in all its forms.
Larry Clow is a freelance journalist, technical writer and movie critic based in New Hampshire. You can find him online at blog.larryclow.com.
Jeremy Couturier is a pen and ink illustrator from the milltown of Newmarket, NH.
Michael Collado is a blogger, Web 2.0 and tech lover, TV buff, and a podcaster. You can find him at Twitter.com/TheMBC or michaelcollado.wordpress.com.
Leah Creates is a web designer/developer, graphic designer, photographer, and mixed-media artist
Jon Frazier is a writer, filmmaker and photographer studying at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. He is involved in several media projects throughout seacoast New England. Find more information at JonFrazier.net.
Anna Goncalves is celebrity culture geek.
John Herman is an artist, writer, producer, and Web adventurer. He is fond of cookies and milk.
Kara Kaloplastos will graduate this spring with a BA in English Lit. from UMASS Dartmouth and will be pursuing an MFA in Creative Fiction Writing at Lesley University this fall. She's a huge book nerd and loves writing, people watching, soy vanilla lattes, cartoons, tattoos, travel, and intellectual conversations.
Shawn Lampron has written on comic books, G.I. Joe, Tucker Max, Eric Wareheim, and more.
Mike MacKenzie has written on Street Fighter IV.
Brendan Mahan has written on role-playing games, comic books, Kseniya Simonova, and terrible eating experiences.
Jon Martin is a music nerd, digital humanist, Sysop, and Eternal Doctoral Candidate at the University of York. He blogs at Shh, Listen... and hosts Generation Goat with E. Christopher Clark
Mark Mazzenga is a Rhode Islander in Diaspora, teaching and living in London, UK. Committed to the art of play/screenwriting, he is currently working towards his MFA in Writing for the Stage and Screen at Lesley University. Mark has also had an incalculable number of affairs with the short story and has been published in the Kelsey Review and the online literary journal, Glossolalia.
Jeremy Murphy is a life-long gamer, techie, writer, and musician from New Hampshire. He performs with the Attic Bits.
Heidi C. Parton is a writer currently living in Columbia, South Carolina, with her husband and animals. Her blog, Something Looseknit, covers primarily philosophy, art, literature, and the ways in which the aforementioned intersect.
Brian Paul is an improv comic, aspiring scientist, space fantasy writer, and indie RPG enthusiast. He writes regularly for Astroarcane.
Jonathan Schlaffer is deeply involved in the technology world with an Associates degree in Computer Science and a Bachelors degree in Information Systems. He has been playing games since the late 80s on every major system that was released. He is currently an avid Xbox 360, PS3, and PC gamer but has been known to dabble with arcade classics and prefers games that concentrate on campaign story lines. He uses Android and iOS platforms for mobile gaming needs and is undecided on Windows Phone 7.
Bethany Snyder is an instructional designer by day and an aspiring novelist by night (and on the weekends).
Tara Sullivan is an interactive graphic designer.
Jillian Thiele is an English teacher, writer, and new media enthusiast from Derry, NH.
Bryan White is the editor of the horror, cult, and exploitation news and reviews blog Cinema Suicide
Shay Willard has written about the ten most improtant games of the last decade.
Chloe Wittes is a student at the University of Toronto, studying mass media, music and art history.