This little nightmare comes courtesy of Great White Snark, so if you tear off your ears or pluck out your eyeballs to make the madness stop, it’s his fault, not mine. However, I am going to see if I can keep this up and start each day this week with an impossibly nerdy music video. Your suggestions — aside from me to die in a fire after running a video of Total Recall‘s Kuato singing “Chocolate Rain” — are much appreciated.
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.