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Keith Richards Will Burn Your Toys and Smoke Them
Keith Richards Will Burn Your Toys and Smoke Them
By Rob Bricken
March 10, 2008
Toys
The word hero gets thrown around a lot nowadays, but Japanese toymaker isn’t afraid to call the Rolling Stones’ guitarist Keith Richards a hero. Keith has waged his own one-man war on drugs?by trying to do them all himself?while simultaneously rocking for the last 40+ years. Medicom is celebrating him with a 12-inch action figure as part of its Real Action Hero line, complete with guitar. You can import Keef through Sideshow, for a mere $150, which might cover Keith’s breakfast smack. (Via Action-Figure)
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.