A Moment of Topless Robot Self-Pleasure
No, I’m not doing anything dirty here (that you could prove in a court of law). But I did want to take a moment to congratulate myself and the L.A. Weekly / Village Voice Media minions who’ve made this blog possible, since we’ve made it one full month! Yay to us all! I bet you didn’t think the site’d be used for posting gay Scrubs porn, did you? Well, you probably should’ve asked.
I also want to give a shout-out to Zach Oat (Editor of ToyFare magazine) for writing The 10 Star Wars Toys that Unintentionally Look Like Other Celebrities earlier this week. The internet ate that shit up, getting Zach and Topless Robot (and me, vicariously!) mentioned on: Digg, Fark, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, USA Today’s Pop Candy Blog, the Boston Globe and more that I’m too lazy to look up. But congrats, Zach! Thanks for working hard, and allowing the blog to reap the benefits.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.