Watchmen’s Ozymandias Is Desperately Concerned with How You Smell
If you’re looking for a way to kill a lazy afternoon (or, perhaps, are a semi-employed nerd blogger looking for a way to kill a post on a spectacularly slow Wednesday afternoon), you could do far worse than heading over to the Watchmen movie’s YouTube page, where fans have uploaded hundreds of commercials for Ozymandias/Adrian Veidt’s empire of consumer products, such as the above one for Nostalgia perfume. Some are kind of crap, and some are amazingly thoughtful; half the fun is not knowing which is which.
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.