Geek Apparel of the Week: Venkman
Seeing that “Ghost Buster” short got me wanting a Ghostbusters entry for Geek Apparel of the Week, and it wasn’t hard to find my choice. I’m not generally a huge fan of the costumes-as-t-shirts thing, but I feel like the Ghostbusters’ understated brown jumpsuit is a nice exception to the rule. Plus, Stantz, Spengler and Zeddemore all get screwed this time, since on Venkman gets a shirt — equality for everybody but Bill Murray! It’s $25 over at My Tee Spot.
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.