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I can’t believe I’m thinking of finding this. I read this when I was in junior high and loved it. I have a big place in my heart for the secret baby.
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by Candy • Wednesday, April 13, 2005 at 09:08 PM
At the end of my Geek Heroes post, I noted that SF provides some good geek role models. On my drive home tonight, my CD changer switched to Strongbad Sings and Other Type Hits and I was again overwhelmed with love and awe for the Brothers Chaps. And I realized, DUDE, those two guys are excellent examples of sexy geeks. They’re cute (I mean, look at the picture! So! Cute!), they’re smart, they’re talented, and they came up with catchphrases like “Burninate!” and “YOUR HEAD A SPLODE.” HOT.
So here are examples of some real-life geeks I think are attractive--guys who would almost definitely be unutterably creeped out to be mentioned in a site called “Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Novels.”
Matt Chapman: He’s the primary voice actor for almost everyone on homestarrunner.com, from Strongbad to Bubs to Homestar himself. I can’t even express to you the depths of my swoony, fangirlish delight when I saw him do Strongbad and Bubs in this interview.
Mike Chapman: Mike came up with Homestarrunner, initially a parody of crappy children’s picture books, then decided to animate the characters in Flash for shits n giggles. GENIUS.
Christian Rudder: Any of you guys remember TheSpark.com? For a few years they were one of the best Internet comedy sites around, with a real gonzo attitude when it came to their “science” experiments. When Christian Rudder, one of the editors, decided he needed to deliberately infect himself with athlete’s foot in the Stinkyfeet Project and document each excruciating moment with charts, graphs and close-up photos, a new crush was born. How many guys d’you think developed a geek girl following by deliberately fungifying their extremities? Not too many--for which the world in general is no doubt grateful.
Favorite quote from the Stinkyfeet project: “Remember how your crotch feels after a day of swimming at the beach? Right. Well, now I got a pair of crotches on the ends of my legs, and they both feel goddamn disgusting. That brings me to three crotches, total, which is right past my limit. Jesus.”
He’s now one of the founders of OKCupid, purveyor of such fine tests as “What Kind Of Thug Are You?” and “What Kind of Book Are You?”
Chris Livingston: An example of a guy who’s not a techie and not a science freak, yet still manages to pull of the geek thing. A healthy love of computer games and Star Wars always helps, as well as having friends who are techies and science freaks like Lore Sjöberg (see below).
Lore Sjöberg: He’s responsible for The Book of Ratings, whose format I unabashedly ripped off when I decided to do Lightning Reviews, AND he came up with a way to play rock, paper, scissors on-line with your friends (the script no longer works, alas and alack). I am full of the Geek Love (of the non-Katherine Dunn variety) for Lore.
Ummm, in actual romance novel-related news: I’m reading. And it’s a fun book. Only I’ve been so tired lately that I keep falling asleep two pages into the novel. And I’m working on the last two installments of the Mr. Impossible Thumbnail Theater, which will be up by this weekend. I know, y’all just peeing with excitement.
Yeah, I got nothing. I hope that the links above at least amuse. Feel free to share your admiration of real-life Internerds so I don’t feel so goddamn alone in my dorkiness. PLEASE.
Geeks I pant over:
This list is so embarrassing I might want to hide under the blanket while I type this:
Medical Geeks:
Grissom and the men of CSI, particularly Greg.
The coroner on CSI:NY but he might be just over the border from geek to hypersmart hottie.
Sports Geeks:
Jeremy from Sports Night
Greg Maddox (pitcher, Cubs)
Political Geeks:
My Husband
*sob, choke* I was so lonely, so very lonely here, and you came and relieved the solitude....
A TV geek I find very appealing is Eric Forman (Topher Grace) in That 70s show. Gawky, skinny, baby-faced, disco roller derby--y’know, the usual geek turn-ons. OK, he plays a teenager, which should perhaps squick me out more than it does. But it doesn’t. Because I’m a dirty old(er than him) woman.
Hyde is pretty hot too. Sarcasm is hot.
Girl, even if we don’t like the same books, you know we are mad for les geeques. And oh yeah, that geek on the 70’s show. He’s cuuuute.
I went to sleep last night thinking of all the geeks I thought were cute - and came up with another:
The tech guy on “alias,” the one who can make bombs out of lipstick and stuff.
Basically I am giddy for any of the “Q"-esque dudes on spy shoes.
OH! And how could I have forgotten? Yet another tv geek (can you tell I have a TiVo?)
Charlie, the younger brother math wizard from Numb3rs. Also, Don, the older brother played by Dr. Fleishman from Northern Exposure - he’s hot, too. But Charlie? Yowza: math-guru and cute! he’s played by David Krumholtz, who I believe also played Kumar in “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.”
My favorite all-around geeks signed on to a major record label: They Might Be Giants. pant pant.
“The sun is a mass of hydrogen and gas...” I mean, c’mon! What could be more geeky than a song about the sun?
Excuse me, “Incandescent gas.”
Even more geeky!
And you know, being geeks, at least one of them snorted and said, ‘Heh. Gas.’
Because one of the marvelous things about a good number of geeks is that they don’t take themselves so super seriously.
Oh yes! Much love for TMBG! I loved Weezer’s first album too because they sang about loving Kitty Pryde and Nightcrawler and having a 12-sided die. I thought I’d found my musician geek soulmate.
Ditto on the CSI-spytech guys, and Alton Brown from The Food Network’s GOOD EATS: food geek. What’s not to love? *g* Tyler Florence is more Pillsbury doughboy cute than geek, but that’s another one. Agh, can’t think of any more right now.
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