Cute Geek Updates Galore!

My boys are doing so well. I couldn’t be prouder!

Simon Pegg‘s new movie Paul has a great blog with behind-the-scenes photos, video blogs and fun. It’s so sweet that they love and respect their fans so much that they take the time to do this stuff. Most movie stars would not bother. Highlight: Simon and Kristen Wiig (girlcrush) learning how to drive a motorhome.

www.whatispaul.com

From the website: “Paul is a comedy about two sci-fi geeks who embark upon a pilgrimage in a RV to the center of America’s UFO heartland: Nevada’s infamous Area 51. While in the middle of that desert, the two friends encounter a fugitive alien by the name of Paul. Somewhat reluctantly, they embark upon an adventure that will change not just their lives forever, but also the lives of the friends and enemies they encounter along the way.”

June 2009 British GQ! Yay!

Plus, Simon’s book will be released in October. On my birthday. It’s fate, you guys.

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Chris Hardwick has just started hosting Web Soup on the G4TV Network (an off-shoot of the hilarious and trashy The Soup, hosted by the equally dreamy Joel McHale). Don’t get G4? Subscribe to the the iTunes Podcasts!

And now you can get him on your chest!

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Chris Leavins is taking a hiatus from Cute With Chris. Boo. But he’s uploading stories like crazy to The Chris Leavins Story Hour! Yay! I highly reccommend his podcast. The premise is simple – he records live readings of his short stories and essays and uploads them to iTunes for the people not lucky enough to see the show. His stories are funny, personal, touching, dark, sarcastic and just terrific. Chris + iPod + walking to work along the seawall = BLISS.

Click photo for link to L.A. Weekly's great article about Chris

Also, he’s publishing a book of his stories soon on this new self-publishing platform called Lulu.com. You just pay a fee, upload your content and cover art, choose your own price, then promote your book on the site. You print as many as you want, and readers buy the book right there. Genius. And geeky!

Cute Geek Alert – Chris Leavins

Chris Leavins is “working 24 hours a day, pioneering the internet,” or so he says. I know he means that facetiously, but he’s not far off the mark. Chris is a writer, actor, comedian and video blogger who is blurring the line between performance and the internet.

He started his career as an actor in Canada, and and found some success on shows like Slings and Arrows and The Eleventh Hour. He did run into some struggles, and he became frustrated with show cancellations and empty theatres. He moved to Los Angeles to make a go of it a few years ago and continued to work, and in his spare time he started a hilarious web show and blog called Cute with Chris. On it, he asks his viewers to vote on the cutest pet photo posted on his blog, rants, tells stories and makes fun of his Crazy Cat Lady and teen fans. It’s rife with inside jokes, dark humour and a rotating cast of characters: Colty the Christian plastic horse, Pervy the perverted plastic horse, and his sidekick Peanuts, a bag of styrofoam packaging peanuts. It’s kind of like Cuteoverload.com and The Jon Stewart Show had a baby.