Yes, it’s true. Geek Girl has gone where no geek girl has gone before (that we know of):

That’s right! We’re in American Cheerleader Magazine, or more precisely, there’s a review of The Geek Girl’s Guide to Cheerleading in the May/June 2010 issue (which we haven’t seen yet, but copies are on the way).

And Darcy and I chatted some more with senior editor Brittany Geragotelis for an interview on their website here: Time Out With: Authors Charity Tahmaseb & Darcy Vance.

Plus, keep an eye on their contest page. Pretty soon, five autographed copies of Geek Girl will be up for grabs as well.

May is shaping up to be a cheer-tastic kind of month.

I don’t know about all of you, but I just can’t resist a good cheerleader movie and Bring It On was one of the best. Imagine my surprise when I found out that there are more Bring It On movies — a lot more, enough to hold a cheertastic movie marathon with.

If only I had the time.

Wait! I’m on vacation next week. We’re supposed to leave the icy tundra known as northeast Indiana and head to Florida. Maybe instead I could pop a big bag of fat free popcorn, chill a case of Diet Pepsi, fire up the DVD player and…

Nah. I’ll see you guys in a week. Except for those of you at Naples High School. I’ll see YOU GUYS on Tuesday!

And for the rest of you, if you’d like to plan your own cheerific movie marathon, here’s all the info you’ll need:

Bring It On: How a sleeper hit about cheerleading became a direct-to-DVD franchise.

Geek Girl Charity adds: OMG, y’all. Just in case you don’t have time to read the article (although it’s quite good), I’d like to point out this tidbit:

Bring It On was in the news recently after a team of Tony Award-winning songwriters announced that a musical based on the film is bound for Broadway in 2011.

A musical. Man, that’s the best news I’ve heard all week. Well, okay, maybe not all week. Still. I hope it goes on tour. I am so there.

The Geek Girls think this might make an excellent Halloween costume — It’s zombies! It’s cheerleaders! Add a pair of geeky glasses and it’s zombie geek girl cheerleaders! You can purchase a costume already put together, or you can get creative, like these folks:

Or you could just buy the T-shirt:

What do we want?
BRAINS!
When do we want them?
NOW!
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!

Today, we’re visiting Laurie J. Edwards. A while back, Darcy decided she didn’t know enough about me, so she peppered me with a few hard-hitting quetions. Come on over to see what she asked me.

And, as always, if you leave a comment, you’re in the running for our Summer Geek Read Prize Pack, which includes a signed copy of The Geek Girl’s Guide to Cheerleading and a signed copy of Prada and Prejudice by Mandy Hubbard–not to mention the totally cool geek girl tote.

Today we’re over at Frenetic Reader, where Darcy is talking about unexpected cheerleaders and expectations.

As always, if you follow us there and comment, you’re in the running for the big geeky prize pack at the end–the contents of which will be revealed very soon.

Geek Girl Darcy checking in from her mom’s house in Illinois. I spent Friday with some of the coolest kids ever at Westville High School. I’d love to tell you more about it – and I will (!) – but not until I get to meet even more WHS students on Monday.

Being back at the high school where I spent my Junior year, almost wrecked the driver’s ed car, and received my one and only ‘F’ (It had to do with Mahatma Gandhi, calisthenics, and Chinese water torture – no really!) brought back all kinds of memories. Most of them were even good!

And … what goes with high school?
Bacon?
No, cheerleaders!

Geek Girl Charity was twittering the other day about cheering and haikus, and look what we’ve found on Google! It’s Tiffany of Poetry and Hums. A few months ago, Tiffany was wondering about cheerleading and haikus too. She gave cheer-ku a try and this is what she came up with:

Pirates pillage and
Plunder, raid the other team
Win the game tonight

Wildcats attack
Cardinals, true Blue will triumph
Go Kentucky, win!

This looked like fun so the Geek Girls jumped in:

Westville High School rocks!
Orange and black awesomeness
Tiger for the win!

We were curious about this woman who cheers in haiku, home schools her kids and blogs about both poetry and food, so we asked her a few questions:

1. As our readers know, the Geek Girls are totally anti-stereotype — yet we’re perpetually curious. If you had to put a label on yourself back in high school, what would that label be?

Hmmm, my group of friends called ourselves the “unclick” group. We were all very different. Band people, orchestra people, techy/math geeks, artsy, brainy… We didn’t really fit anywhere else, but we fit together.

2. We loved the Fictitious To Do Lists post on your blog. Imagine you are Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice (let me know if you haven’t read this yet and I can change the character). What’s on your To Do List?

I’m so glad you liked the Fictitious To Do Lists! Those are so fun to write and I hope you give some a try yourselves. I haven’t read the book Pride and Prejudice, but I have seen the movies (I know – I need to read the book someday.) So here’s my try at Elizabeth Bennet’s to do list:

1. Read a book
2. Pretend to ignore Mr. Darcy as much as possible
3. Be annoyed with Mr. Darcy
4. Say something snarky to Mr. Darcy
5. Act above it all, as if I don’t need or want love
6. Dance with Mr. Darcy
7. Fall in love with Mr. Darcy
8. Kiss Mr. Darcy

3. BTW, what is on your real life list for today?

1. School the kids. (Is it summer yet?)
2. Work on my food blog, attempting to change it over to self hosted.
3. Worry a bit about teen daughter driving herself to dance with the new license.
4. Take teen son to guitar practice.
5. Laundry (this is never off the list)
6. Make dinner and remember to take pics for food blog
7. Try not to eat all the chocolate chip cookies made by daughter earlier.
8. Change youngest daughter out of mud covered shirt (more laundry)
9. Hope to catch on old M*A*S*H episode on TV
10. Crawl into bed

4. Can you write a haiku about bacon?

Smoky meat scent drifts
Awakening me from dreams
Breakfast sticks to hips

Sizzling hot pork fat
Juicy, delectable strips
Tantalize my tongue

5. What interview question do you wish someone would ask you?

“Where in the world would you like to go on the vacation we are giving you?”

Thanks, Tiffany, for sharing your cheer haikus, bacon haikus, and answering our questions!

More on light sabers later this week. Today’s subject is (surprise!) cheerleaders. Brian has always been more impressed with Girls Gone Pom-Pom than I was, but that was before I saw this …

Star Wars + Cheerleaders = HOT!

Maybe your tastes run to the dark side …

Darth! Darth! He’s our Man! If he can’t kill you, nobody can! Goooo … Sith!

And we mean really, really cool. Cold even.

Content warning:

• Contains gratuitous (but still pretty awesome) 70s and 80s music.
• At the 5:00 minute mark there are splits. On the ice. Splits! ON. THE. ICE!

Go Gophers!