Make It Sir
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?From CNN:
He has played kings, princes, captains and professors on stage and
screen, but now actor Patrick Stewart will have a new title all his
own: “Sir.”The 69-year-old Yorkshire, England, native tops the list of those receiving New Year’s honors from Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, the Cabinet Office announced Thursday.
Stewart,
well-known for playing Capt. Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next
Generation,” will receive a knighthood. It means he will now be known
in Britain as “Sir Patrick.”
Good deal. Patrick Stewart — excuse me, Sir Patrick — has certainly made an indelible mark in the world of acting beyond his nerd roles (although he’s had quite a lot of those).
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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.