A Moment of Topless Robot Self-Pleasure: Happy Birthday to Me
Posted at 4:27 PM Jan 07, 2009
I can scarcely believe it, but Topless Robot is 1-year-old today. It was waaaay back in January 7th, 2008, that I spent my first full day posting (although I had seeded the site with a few premature articles prior to that, it's a problem I'm working on). There was no Daily List, no Fan Fiction Friday, almost no art used, no comments on any of the articles, and most of all, I had clearly had no idea what the fuck I was doing other (now I know, and am just too lazy to care).
I thank all of you who have stopped by TR on a regular basis and especially those people who comment, even if it's just to call me an idiot. I understand. We're nerds. We all get unreasonable about our favorite series--myself included, if you've seen any of the Masters of the Universe coverage around here--so I don't begrudge anybody from getting pissed. But hopefully, you've also seen that we're all huge, huge nerds here ourselves, and we're simply trying to help everyone remember how silly it is to get worked up over toys or comics or videogames or whatever. Except for the G.I. Joe movie, of course, cause that shit looks horrible.
I'll do my best to continue during 2009, but if you have any suggestions, throw 'em in the comments below. My spelling and punctuation will not improve, sadly, as much as we'd all like it to. As a gift, I'll leave you all with this commercial, which actually features a Topless Robot in it (safe for work; few topless robots have nipples):
It's apparently a commercial for the German electronics store chain Saturn, but the car company Saturn might as well just use it themselves. I'd buy anything from a company who ran this masterpiece on TV.
Comments
Posted 01/07/2009 at 01:39:38 PMHappy Birthday, sir. It's been a good run so far, I just hope the Heroes live blog continues so I can actually be entertained by the show/continue my alcoholism.
Congrats. You help make my workday a little less dull.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 01:42:29 PMI can't wait for the return of the Heroes Liveblogs.
Now that was an awesome commercial.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 01:45:08 PMWe hate expensive
Posted 01/07/2009 at 01:47:25 PMHappy Birthday! If only we could combine the GI Joe movie and the DBZ movie and get both disasters over with at once.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 01:57:56 PMWoo! Ever since Wizard Magazine started sucking this has been my primary source for nerd news.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 01:58:03 PMMan, I love your site. Seriously good at killing boredom with a ten feet light pole. Can't beat that with a compass in the face any day of the week. May the force stay strong with you good sir.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 02:10:39 PMCongrats on creating a site that's almost as cool as a steam punk Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 02:12:52 PMSeems longer then a year.
But I am glad there is a site to keep me awake during the work day
Posted 01/07/2009 at 02:14:09 PMCongratulations! I didn't realize TR was so young...PGPoA hit a year back in December. Now I feel old.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 02:16:52 PMWow that commercial was amazing. Almost as amazing as Fan Fiction Friday.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 02:17:16 PMMuch love. Really really enjoy the site.
My suggestion is to add a way to create a profile as a commenter on here. For some reason when I click the "Remember personal info?" box on here, it doesn't do anything.
Srsly, though, TR rocks my world.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 02:26:46 PMCongrats on surviving a year. I figured all that drinking during the Heroes live-blogs would have killed you already.
In your honor, I wasted a half hour today reading Masters of the Universe entries on Wikipedia.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 02:27:22 PMw00t!
Posted 01/07/2009 at 02:29:51 PMHappy birthday man!
Do and always have loved the site!
Keep the half assed good work!
J/K
Love it!
Happy birthday! May it be one of many. Congrats.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 02:39:58 PMHappy Birthday dude.
I think we're aiming at making this puppy a little prettier in a couple months, with some shiny new accessories and a brand spanking new pull string. I still remember getting frustrated at doing the slideshow functionality, only to have it use 1 slideshow. What was, worst movie monsters or something like that?
Anyways, congrats on the success.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 02:40:49 PMPj Perez just gave me a great idea! This site needs a Wikipedia page.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 02:43:35 PMHappy B-Day and well done on creating a site with text that I actually read.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 02:44:08 PMOnly a year? Such a precocious toddler! Now that you can walk and talk, I can't wait to see you run. Congrats and happy b-day.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 02:58:29 PMIt seems like yesterday i stumbled into your site while Googling for Robot Porn, Congratulations man!
Posted 01/07/2009 at 03:02:46 PMCongrats on keeping it going, happy birthday :D
Best wishes for many lovely posts in 2009 ;)
Posted 01/07/2009 at 03:05:01 PMCongrats, man!
And yeah, that's a truly awesome commercial... I... pretty much don't *care* what they're selling...
Posted 01/07/2009 at 03:06:41 PMYou, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. And a massive nerd. Many happy returns.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 03:12:35 PMThanks to Zach Oat for pointing me to this site. Toyfare was where I first heard about it.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 03:16:33 PMWow congrats. Seriously what an amazing year for a blog. I must eat your corpse to gain your powers.
Yeah, that was the most nerdy thing I could think of saying. Hope you continue to have much sucess!
Posted 01/07/2009 at 04:00:32 PMhappy birthday... you site takes up countless amounts of batteries from my smartphone everyday.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 04:13:26 PMCongrats! Love the Site!
Can't wait/dreading the return of Heroes Liveblog!
Posted 01/07/2009 at 04:16:10 PMI must commend you on the site: It's a daily read and every Daily List makes my day a little easier.
Thanks for all the Nerd-dom.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 04:17:02 PMCongratulations on making it a year! May you be able to keep entertaining me for free for years to come!
Posted 01/07/2009 at 04:58:21 PMHappy one year, the sun shined a little bit brighter today for nerds across the world...assuming we have left our basements to see the sun...
Posted 01/07/2009 at 05:03:23 PMAh, the Saturn fembot. She's gotten so much hotter/more robotic in the last year. A lovely b-day present.
Special Trivia: their old slogan was "Geiz ist Geil!" which means (loosely) "stingy is horny/awesome." Any language that conflates describing something as sexually aroused with describing it as awesome is a good language.
So, yeah. FFF is my favorite part. The more warped, brain-melting, borderline illegal you can find, the better. Any chance there's an FFF entry for that naked dude wearing the horsey head?
Posted 01/07/2009 at 05:17:06 PMAlso: I'd like to start a wiki entry; do we have any references that *aren't* blogs?
Posted 01/07/2009 at 05:25:47 PMCongratulations and happy birthday!
Posted 01/07/2009 at 05:29:27 PMHappy Birthdayversary, man. I'm glad I found your site, because it's pretty fucking awesome. Even if I don't always agree with you, I can't dislike a guy who is so dedicated to the causes of geekdom and nerddom.
I encourage all the old-school AICN members to pop over here and consider it a new geeky home. You're a lot more interesting than Harry, Herc, Mori, and the gang, and the sense of humor is much appreciated. You also happen to beat them on printing some stories.
We geeks and nerds may not always agree on our particular area of interest (or degree of expressing our love for it) but we can all get along on th ebasis of being on the same team in the social olympics.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 05:41:19 PMYour'e an idiot. Now thank me. Happy birthday.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 05:53:53 PMI can't get through a day without Topless Robot. Thanks for all the work. Happy Self Pleasure!
Posted 01/07/2009 at 06:46:23 PMHappy birthday, TR!
Posted 01/07/2009 at 06:49:08 PMCongrats on your first year! I'm here every day of the week, and have been for about 2 months. I'll make an effort to leave more comments!
Posted 01/07/2009 at 06:54:38 PMYou can thank Zach Oat for plugging the blog in Toyfare, that's where I found the site.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 07:03:58 PMAnd a great year it's been! Congrats, I love the site.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 07:43:35 PMHappy Birthday!
I hope to see MORE news about comics, toys/action figures, video games, sci-fi/fantasy, weirdness, wacky japanese lifestyle, anime & general nerdery/dorkness.
More power and congratulations.
Also, thanks to ToyFare. It's where I found out about Topless Robot.
Posted 01/07/2009 at 08:57:46 PMCongrats! Every post is entertaining!
I saw this on Cracked.com and thought it would be a perfect gift (especially considering the banner for the blog): http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/dan/moviedisaster/starwars4.jpg
...and for those too lazy (or scared) to click on the link, it's an actual topless robot.
Cheers!
Posted 01/07/2009 at 10:18:34 PMCongratulations, sir! May this joint last another 365, and beyond!
Posted 01/07/2009 at 11:03:13 PMbest of luck with the future of this blog!
Posted 01/07/2009 at 11:04:01 PMKeep up the oustanding work, sir! Happy Birthday!
Posted 01/07/2009 at 11:08:00 PMSweet, we share the same birthday!
Posted 01/07/2009 at 11:11:29 PMI've never commented before but I thought i should say I read your site everyday and have enjoyed it greatly. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Posted 01/08/2009 at 06:08:01 AMHappy Birthday Topless Robot
Posted 01/08/2009 at 07:24:50 AMAh, it seems just like yesterday that Topless Robot was crawling around on its hands and knees. Or was that last weekend, Rob? Zing!
Posted 01/09/2009 at 11:23:49 AMThis is my first comment, but for a thirtysomething boozy comic geek like myself, your site is awesome. Happy birthday.
Posted 01/10/2009 at 06:24:41 PM