Geek Apparel of the Week: Samurai Flag T-Shirt
All right, film geeks, it’s time to represent. You should know what this is?the flag representing a certain band of seven samurai from a certain famous Akira Kurosawa film (you get no credit if you’ve just figured it out); the triangle represents a drunken Toshiro Mifune, as per usual. As with the best geek shirts, only your fellow film nerds will know what you’re representin’. At $20, it’s a hell of a lot cheaper than hiring someone to defend your village from bandits?buy it here.
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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.