Brooke

An extreme journalist by trade (it even says so on her waterproof business cards), Brooke Geery has seen it all. Okay, maybe not all, but most. As a high school student in Vermont (where Pat Bridges, the founder of snowboarding grew up) she carried a lunch box, wore a mechanic-style jacket (with a tag bearing the name “Joe”), and drove a used Saab.. make that two used Saabs. There was an incident with the first one. Today she drives a new Toyota Corolla, complete with a fender dent, which she blames on Matt Kass, who, like Brooke, used to snowboard.Brooke could best be described as productively lazy. She takes care of business, but also recently slept through a live emo show, where she was in the front row. Her pride and joy (aside from her fabulously sweet man) is her new patio… more specifically its slate covering and bitchin’ plants. Patios, after all, are a good place to be lazy while thinking about being productive. Speaking of lazy, she recently installed a sprinkler timer, so the awesome plants she is so proud of will now water themselves at 5:30am as she dreams of a slate kitchen floor (to compliment the patio), and a new sliding door.Brooke graduated high school a year early, and has all of the acceptable two letter scrabble words and most of their definitions memorized. Triple word score? She prefers to use the letter “X” in that situation. Extreme indeed.As the founding editor of Alliance Wakeskate, an online magazine, Brooke lives the extreme. Frontside or backside, she can rock n' roll, and occasionally still likes skateboarding. Occasionally. She also is a regular contributor to Future Snowboarding Magazine, and has been a part of several failed dot coms.When not being generally extreme, Brooke watches TV — lots of TV. TIVO helps her avoid commercials, as good thing since she is easily annoyed. In fact, she is probably pissed you had the patience to make it to the end of this. She would have fallen asleep.