Super Terrific Japanese Thing: DBZ Frypan
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Sorry, there’s nothing too traumatic in STJT today — I’m still recovering from the Pok?mon maxipad from Monday morning (and still trying to wrap my head around the idea of it not actually being Japanese). But I do find it wonderfully bizarre that Japan is still making batshit insane Dragonball Z merchandise like this “Dragon Ball Kai Tobikiri Saikyo Mini Frypan,” used to make miniature pancake with four stars inside, like the 4-star dragonball, or the character for “Kame,” as in turtle, which Goku wears for much of the first hunk of DBZ. The whole thing is ridiculous and unnecessary and there’s not a 6-year-old Japanese girl alive who gives a shit about DBZ-themed pancakes, no matter what the picture above implies. (Via 16bit)
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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.