Stefan Blitz (Editor-in-Chief; Guilty Pleasures) is the creator of forcesofgeek.com, former associate editor of Comicology Magazine, freelance writer, creative guru, and spent a summer working at the Liberty Bell dressed as a Colonial person.
Elizabeth Young (Managing Editor; Sweet Nostalgia) is a thirty-five year old geek of pop culture who has spent most of my life amassing a vast collection of comic books, movies, bad art, and thrift store finds that celebrates all passing fads. Professionally she has been a technical writer of art materials, an Arts Editor for a magazine, a contributing writer for an erotic anthology, an office manager at an escort agency, and a alt-crafter.
Nick Doll (Movie News Editor; Three Hits and a Miss/Sincerely, Nick Doll) is officially classified by his employer NBC as a “Page,” though he prefers to consider himself a mild-mannered, wanna-be screenwriter (with a BA in Screenwriting). Being the only person in the entire city of Los Angeles with aspirations to become a writer is tough, but he somehow manages. Though Nick does not literally eat/sleep/breath movies (and TV) because Blu-rays are not edible and can’t fit down his windpipe, they are his area of geek expertise nonetheless.
Kyle Jackson (Movie News Editor) resides in the great town of Warren, RI (think Knight's Ridge from Beautiful Girls) with his girlfriend and their daughter. A self-professed movie and music geek, he spends his weekdays in the throes of the Community College of Rhode Island working as an Instructional Technologist. On weekends he can be found in one of the many bars or clubs of RI, playing guitar in his band Six Star General.
Steve Ahlquist (Mythographical Meanderings) is a writer of comics, conspiracy, and all things Wold-Newtonian and Fortean. He’s an amateur filmmaker, part-time teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design, nominee for the Harvey Award, creator of Oz Squad, Strange Eggs and Peeny-Boy and proud father of three. He voted for Obama. Steve will write about whatever media strikes his interest, with special attention spent on continuity, mythography, conspiracy and psychology.
Matt Barry (The Bad And The Beautiful) is an MA student in the Cinema Studies program at NYU. He completed his Bachelor's in Electronic Media and Film at Towson University (2007). He produces a blog, "The Art and Culture of Movies", focusing on film history and criticism. His research focuses on narrative in early cinema, Classical Hollywood, and emerging trends in digital media, and has also written extensively on silent comedy.
Charles J. Baserap (Danger Rooms) is a graduate of Fordham University. He served in the US Secret Service at the White House and Foreign Missions Branches, and currently consults at the Pentagon. He’s the author of a book on terrorism and foreign policy, “An American at the Crossroads,” due out in Fall 2010, reads more comic books per week than is normally recommended by mental health professionals, and is perhaps one bad day from becoming a supervillain.
Andrez Bergen (Flash in Japan) is an expatriate Australian journalist, musician, photographer, DJ, artist, some-time filmmaker, writer, wayward graphic designer, and ad hoc beer connoisseur who’s been entrenched in Tokyo, Japan, for the past nine years. He's written for Geek Monthly, Anime Insider, Impact magazine, Mixmag and the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, and has an upcoming novel called Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat.
Mike Calahan (The Mouse Trap / General Pop Culture) was raised by a family of raccoons in the magical kingdom of Animalopolis. When it became obvious he was not an hereditary member of the family, Mike left to re-enter the world of Man. Self-educated, self-motivated and, unfortunately, self-groomed, Mike went on to become one of the richest men in the world creating solar-powered night vision goggles for the US Dept. of Defense. One year later, he lost it all to a conman named Phineas J. Trustworthy. Today, he is attempting to recoup his losses by writing. It's a very, very slow upward climb.
Emma-Jane Corsan (Excuse Me While I Geek Out) is a gamer...oh, and a girl. The latter shouldn't matter but as it's the geek holy grail combo, it kinda does. When she's not wandering the wastelands, playing a plastic guitar or shooting at zombies, she spends her time watching films, reading Vertigo comics and making films with Cheesemint Productions, the filmmakers behind Unlocked the Web Series, in which she plays the character, Pip Wesker. She also blogs at her own site, Excuse Me While I Geek Out.
DJ Crystal Clear (DuRANT) is a Pop Culture demolition specialist with her wrecking ball squarely aimed at all of the well known Hollywood award shows (Emmys, Oscars, Grammys, etc.) and also the craziest current TV shows. She started writing her “rants” about the award shows and sharing them with her music industry friends.
Salvatore S. Cucinotta (The Footprint of Monsters) is a science enthusiast, Drexel Graduate and continues to ponder the question "How on earth did I manage to get a BS in English?" His dual enthusiasm for the natural world and monsters was sparked by an early exposure to the film King Kong (1933) and being offered as a snack to the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurs rex by his loving father at the tender age of two.
Robert Jaz (The Mystery Box) is a Providence, RI based musician and recording artist / visual artist / writer and collector of a variety of pop culture items. During the 90’s and ’00s operated the Mystery Box weekly Film series at AS220; helped found the NicePaper; the Terrastock music festival; and has performed with a number of legendary cult groups including V. Majestic. He is currently working on soundtracks and listening to secret shortwave number stations.
Seth Levi (Maximum Pixels) was born and raised in Philadelphia. He was a film studies major, turned political consultant, turned legislative aide, and is now working for a non-profit in the Deep South. This is what a life without any direction looks like. Equipment list: front speakers B&W CM7; center B&W CM Centre; rear B&W 602 S2; Samsung 46" HD LCD TV; Panasonic DMP-BD35K Blu-ray player; Yamaha RX-V1065 receiver; and Sony SCD-CE595 SACD player.
Bill Machon (Geek Tech) is a proud geek whose interests lie somewhere at the intersection of technology, philosophy, music, the cosmos, sci-fi, and even the ridiculous minutiae of American politics. He currently resides in NYC with his wife Melissa, where he fixes computers for a living.
John P. McCann (Overthought Reviews) has had a career writing TV animation on shows such as Animaniacs, Freakazoid! and Scooby-Doo Mysteries, and recently he has penned short stories appearing online in Every Day Fiction and the Journal of Microliterature. He is ever-so-close to completing a horror novel and blogs at Write Enough, a friendly site for kindly folk both writer and non.
Marvin Pittman (Blerd Vision) grew up on TV, reading and drawing comics, and taping songs off the radio. These days he works in television, shooting digital photos and arranging his Batman action figures. He's enjoying the new age of the black nerd since Obama got elected, and he takes pride as a Harvard grad solely because he was an early Facebook user. Marvin lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with his nerd girlfriend.
Rich Redman (Learning from Movies / Just Look Away) is an eccentric recluse who publishes digitally because it’s easier, from his mountaintop fortress in Tibet. Mr. Redman is a past winner of National Novel Writing Month. He has written for dungeonaday.com, Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game, Pathfinder, Star Wars, Dark*Matter, and d20 Modern. He also writes fiction and maintains his own blog and twitters when the mood strikes.
Todd Sokolove (In Defense Of), a resident of New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen for over 13 years, and is originally from Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he grew up on a healthy diet of Disney double features and late-night slasher flicks. Todd teaches an annual film course to elementary students in New Jersey, co-hosts a weekly podcast, and is an active voting member of BAFTA and EMMY. In his “spare time” Todd also enjoys running, reading, DJ-ing, and hanging out with his cats Thor and Heather Locklear.
