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Aaron Duran

Aaron Duran is founder and head writer of GeekintheCity.com, a website devoted to the latest in movies, comics, tabletop games, digital pastimes, and all things Geek. His fascination with comics, film, music, and obscure trivia has transformed into a lifelong pursuit of pop culture knowledge. A precocious writer who started out by spinning elaborate stories based on his favorite sci-fi and adventure franchises, he befuddled his grade-school teachers, who were convinced that no child could write that well at such a young age.

When not hard at work on his plans for world domination, Aaron creates highly acclaimed independent films, freelances in many forms of media, explores the minutiae of pop culture, and shares his love of all things Geek with the world through his writing.

Illusionaire

Jenn has been writing about life in Portland, Oregon, since March 2001. By day, she is a less-than-mild-mannered project manager for a local technology company. By night and weekend, she's a crafty geek-extraordinaire, cheap eats connoisseur, travel junkie, vintage chic devotee, collector of bizarre refrigerator magnets, and wicked coffeehouse-crawler.

When she’s not roving the streets for story ideas, Illusionaire designs whimsical accessories, volunteers for several non-profits, and spends altogether too much time making technology do her bidding.

Nerdy Girl

Brought into this world by a painterly mother and a ham radio dad, Joni is a pedigree nerdy girl with a background in photography and visual arts who one day found still photos no longer satisfying and set about learning how to make the pictures move. Her first feature-length script earned her status as a semi-finalist in the 2000 Project Greenlight competition, and she has since penned many screenplays of musicians, sleazy hotels, and half-unclad teenage girls in various stages of emotional bondage. Obsessed with the challenge of writing the world's sexiest white trash trailer park movie, she can often be found crouching in the shadows, watching with quiet awe and reverence the naughty antics of the beautiful and the bedimpled.

Ersogoth

Only one of a handful of souls to escape the fires of Susanville, the fantastical Ersogoth took to the seas in search of high adventure... Alas, they locked him in a small room never to see the light of day. (Where he was able to hone his hacking...um, perhaps I shouldn’t say anymore). Still, Ersogoth left a better (and trimmer) Geek! His love for all things pop culture is only matched by his stunning knowledge of the tech world. The hetero-lifemate of your friendly neighborhood Geek, Ersogoth is temporarily stuck in the deep south while his bad-ass wife (who looks hot in her uniform) does her duty for the Man. Ersogoth counts the days when he won't be surrounded by Hurricanes and shrimp (both of which can kill him like so many chunks of Green Kryptonite). When asked his ultimate goal in life, Ersogoth answered: “To find a way to roll higher than a friggen 9 on a D20!”

Diana from DT

Known as Artemis to some and as Diana from Downtown to even more, the lovely and vivacious Diana may be the tallest Geekette to grace these pages, perhaps even the world. She is a self-professed D&D junky with an unhealthily obsession with playing Barbarians. She joined the Army at a young age to honor Robert Heinlein, per a fan speech given by Spider Robinson. Proving herself as a true word Geek, Diana, while at the Defense Language Institute, was the accordion player for the Russian Folk Ensemble! She had great fortune to teach English in Kazakhstan during the death throes of the Soviet Union and could tell you more, but she would have to kill you... Which she could do with her bare hands!

Scott Dally aka Huckleberry

Scott’s love for films began when he was a wee lad of seven. The second the house lights went down and the infamous "A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far, Far Away..." illuminated the screen he knew some how some way movies were going to be a part of his life.

Fast forward 19 years Scott and two great friends found them selves working in a video store and spending all their time dissecting the films they watched in the store and ridiculing customers for choosing a Pauly Shore title over well...anything else. We decided to create a public forum for us to spew forth our "opinions" on and about film. Thus Film Fever was born on the Portland, Oregon cable access air waves.

Now in its 10th year (of various media forms) Scott is proud to keep Film Fever alive as Film Fever Radio.

Scott does not like to be called a critic, after all, as some caller pointed out years ago, who is he to criticize someone else’s films? Scott is a film commentator who just loves to discuss films and movies (yes there is a difference).

Scott’s all time favorite film maker is David Lynch with Quentin Tarantino a very close second. His all time favorite film "Glengarry Glen Ross" with "Casablanca" a close second.

Lady Vader

Like the Sith Lord with whom she shares her name, the great Lady Vader is known by many names. To some, she is the nubile Cat. To others, she is called the deadly Razor. Finally, the people of her country line-dancing past call her Darth Buckle Bunny. (Okay, no one really calls her that, at least not sober). A very talented and versatile artist, Lady Vader is just as comfortable with a paintbrush as she is with her Darth Maul Lightsaber. The youngest of the Geek in the City writers, Lady Vader is the exception to the rule… The rule that all Geeks must be stinky dudes living in their basement, glued to Worlds of Warcraft. (Well, 2 out of 3 isn’t bad).

KaraokeFanboy

Even as a child, I knew I was great. Sprawled on the floor with dozens of action figures, I staged storylines, that's right, STORYLINES that rival the greatest films, theater, and literature ever made. As a young adult, I quickly mastered all media at my disposal, first as the beloved "Top 10 Boy" of Peoria, Arizona's Centennial High School's televised morning announcements, then as a co-star of the public access TV show "Dumbfounded." Between '99-'00, my scheme to manipulate the mainstream liberal media reached its zenith with the much envied "Baby Jesus" prank in Peoria, Arizona, then with the faux Jesse Ventura protest staged in Westwood, California, both of which were aired on nationwide news channels. Now living in Orange COunty, California, print media became my next conquest with the launch of K.O. Comix, a self-publishing comix juggernaut responsible for the Diamond-distributed "The Successors," "Doug Deever, Dumpster Diver," "Little Christmas," and our latest "The Signal," all illustrated by Brent Otey and available through www.kocomix.com. My zines, including "The Mattel Manifesto" and "Protest," co-authored by Eric Geiling, have established a new standard in underground pop culture excellence. Now, YOU have the privilege of joining me in my latest media takeover: the Internet. My blogs are revolutionizing the world wide web, and my comic-blog experiment, A Comic A Day, has inspired new heights of introspective and interactive multimedia creativity. Yes, this new century has now OFFICIALLY begun because I am on the Internet.

Fatboy Roberts

Bobby "Fatboy" Roberts is a professional smartass born in Portland and raised on a healthy combination of geekery, Rip City, and two-fisted debate from arguments by the swings on the playground, to flamewars on usenet, to helping run Lucasfilm messageboards during the prequels. A sort of self-styled geek anthropologist, a Pop-Culture Dian Fossey residing amongst the Gorillas in the Mist, Fats has previously written for UrbanEarth.net, Jedinet.com, X-Realms.com, T-Bone's Star Wars Universe, and most frequently for OperationSombrero.com. Fatboy is one half of Cort and Fatboy, a radio program on 101.1 KUFO-FM in Portland, podcast with bonus features at www.cortandfatboy.com.