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Bonnie

Geeky and proud of it!

About Me


I'm an author, editor, journalist, craftster, blogger and geek grrl as well as the founder of the pop culture site Grrl.com.I recently wrote Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean to Each Other and How to Stop the Hating (Orange Avenue Publishing), which is due to hit shelves Jan. 2009!I also wrote the drawing book You Can Draw: Star Wars (DK Publishing). You can read all about it here: Inside You Can Draw: Star Wars . And don't forget to check out the You Can Draw Star Wars Myspace Page!
My writing is in the women's comic anthology The Girls' Guide to Guy's Stuff published from Friends of LuLu. Previously, I published a book called Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers: Best of Blogs . You can read more about the book here at Best of Blogs on Myspace.
I've also written for a bunch for magazines like BUST , Geek Monthly , Star Wars Insider, Wired and Organic Gardening -- and plenty of underground zines.
I hosted two video podcast shows (for the Web Waste channel on the @Home Network site) called "Ask Bonnie" and "Ask @Sock ." I was also a VJ for the music video shows "Teletunes" (Denver) and "Subculture" (San Francisco). Sometimes I end up on TV as a "pop culture media pundit" for CNN, E! and BBC. I'm featured in Entertainment Weekly magazine (Oct. 13, 2006) for my Bettie Page fandom.
My dayjob is writing for Starwars.com . And no, I don't see Darth Vader at the watercooler. But I do interview bands and celebs such as Nine Inch Nails, actor Hal Sparks, Richard Patrick, Snow Patrol, actor Seth Green, Jane Wiedlin, Sean Lennon, Mogwai, Fall Out Boy, Ween, director J.J. Abrams, Kid Koala, Cut Chemist, Coheed and Cambria, Slipknot, Ash, Anthrax, UNKLE, pro wrestler Chris Jericho, The Decemberists and many more about why they love the saga in a section called Star Wars Rocks .
And I do a lot of geeky crafts too like Bossk Bean Art portraits, Chewbacca Tissue Box Cozies, Mouse Droid Cat Nip Toys, Action Figure Wreaths and more as you can see here in Star Wars Drawing Tutorials and Crafts.
Be sure to check out this podcast interview with me on BoingBoing.net!

My Interests

writing, blogging, crafts, mail art, forensic entomology, cryptozoology, natural history museums, paranormal studies, playing with my dog, solving mysteries

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who can quote "The Mighty Boosh" ad nauseum, whip up a batch of decent waffles and make me laugh so hard I hurt. My main vice: snarky, quirky creative types.

Music:

Nine Inch Nails, Gary Numan, David Bowie, Radiohead, Robots in Disguise, Army of Anyone, Aquabats, Failure, Tweaker, Ken Andrews, Silversun Pickups, Peter Murphy, Slowdive, Die Warzau, Foo Fighters, Beatles, John Coltrane, Coil, Ash, Bauhaus, The Wrens, DEVO, English Beat, Japan, Meat Beat Manifesto, Pop Will Eat Itself, Mingus, PiL, Kasabian, Viva Voce, Fuzzbox, Oranger, Filter, Scarling, Mazzy Star, Kaiser Chiefs, Cranes, Dressy Bessy, The Clash, Love and Rockets, Heavenly, Radiohead, Le Tigre, Pyschedelic Furs, Curve, Yo La Tengo, Tones on Tail, PJ Harvey, Elliott Smith, Ramones, Bjork, Muffs, Veruca Salt, Idaho, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Johnny Cash, Sonic Youth, The Go-Gos, Flock of Seagulls, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Pixies, Journey, Cut Chemist, Sigur Ros, The Automatic, The Horrors, Dirty Pretty Things

Movies:

ALL films from John Waters, Sixteen Candles, Night Watch, Anchorman, Watership Down, The Dark Crystal, Valley Girl, Rushmore, Office Space, Snatch, The Big Lebowski, Star Wars saga, Blade Runner, Donnie Darko, Run Lola Run, Kill Bill Vol. I and II, This Is Spinal Tap, Shaun of the Dead, Hardware

Television:

The Mighty Boosh, Torchwood, The Office, 30 Rock, Invader Zim, Sherlock Holmes, CSI, Strangers With Candy, Dinner for Five, Mystery, Midsomer Murders, Miss Marple: Series II, Psych, The Young Ones, Twin Peaks, Law and Order, Project Runway, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Black Books, The IT Crowd, Doctor Who

Books:

MY BOOKS: Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean to Each Other and How to Stop the Hating; You Can Draw: Star Wars; Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers: Best of Blogs *** AUTHORS: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, David Sedaris, La Loca (poet), P.K. Dick, Bukowski, Susan Compo, Kerouac, Byron, V. Vale *** COMICS: Optic Nerve, Fables, Dirty Plotte, Eightball, Sandman, Gloomcookie, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee, Lenore, Skeleton Key, Love and Rockets *** MAGAZINES: BUST, Giant Robot, GEEK Monthly, MAKE, CRAFT, ReadyMade, Hi Fructose, Venus

Heroes:

Bettie Page, Gary Numan, David Bowie, John Waters, Amy Sedaris, David Sedaris, Bill Nighy, Jeremy Brett, Jane Wiedlin, Jancee Dunn, Trent Reznor, Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt

My Blog

Bonnie Burton book signing and panel at Comic-Con

Matt Busch, Bonnie Burton, and Tom Hodges at the You Can Draw Star Wars book signing at the DK Publishing booth during Comic-Con 2007. Photo by Nicole Love. You Can Draw Star Wars book signing:DK Boot...
Posted by Bonnie on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:51:00 PST

REVIEW: Greg Gossel "Make Believe" Art Show

Photo by Bonnie Burton. Art by Greg Gossel"Make Believe" solo showThe Shooting Gallery, San FranciscoJune 14, 2008When I first saw Minneapolis-based artist Greg Gossel's mixed media paintings that mas...
Posted by Bonnie on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:19:00 PST

"The Paper" Shows Frenemies in Action

Watching MTV's reality show "The Paper" makes me so glad I'm not in high school anymore. I was an editor at my high school newspaper, and I remember us all being passionate as editors and writers, but...
Posted by Bonnie on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:48:00 PST

Ill Miss You, Gormaanda

(Harvey Korman as Chef Gormaanda)By Bonnie Burton When I think back on some of the first movies I saw with my dad, or hours spent at home as a latch-key kid watching comedy skit TV shows, it's full of...
Posted by Bonnie on Sat, 31 May 2008 07:15:00 PST

San Jose Super-Con 2008 Recap

I've been to more comic book and sci-fi conventions than I can count. I rarely turn down the chance to spend the weekend geeking out with fellow comic book fans, writers and artists, so on Sunday, May...
Posted by Bonnie on Tue, 20 May 2008 07:07:00 PST

My "Girls Against Girls" book is available for Pre-Order

So I have some pretty exciting news! My new book Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean to Each Other and How to Stop the Hating is already up on Amazon.com for pre-order -- it comes out in 2009! Yay!He...
Posted by Bonnie on Fri, 02 May 2008 07:29:00 PST

My Diesel Sweeties Doppelgänger

(C) 2008 R. Stevens -- from DieselSweeties.comArtist R. Stevens dedicates his 1977 numbered strip of "Diesel Sweeties" to a Star Wars debate some of us hold near to our hearts -- Why didn’t Chew...
Posted by Bonnie on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:19:00 PST

Ask Bonnie -- Pet Cockroaches

Ask Bonnie -- Cockroaches .. Grrl.com Vlogger Bonnie Burton answers all your questions about Pet Cockroaches! The show previously aired online on Web Waste which is now long gone. So if ...
Posted by Bonnie on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:46:00 PST

Bonnie Burton Action Figure

Created by artist Grant Gould.
Posted by Bonnie on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:57:00 PST

Ask Bonnie -- Bizarre Product Warning Labels

Ask Bonnie -- Bizarre Product Warning Labels Add to My Profile | More VideosGrrl.com Vlogger Bonnie Burton answers questions all Bizarre Product Warning Labels. The show previously aired o...
Posted by Bonnie on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:31:00 PST