TR Announcement, Holiday Schedule and Contest
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?Before we get into this weekend’s contest, let’s go over a few things.
? First, the announcement: The Design Topless Robot’s Topless Robot Contest is still going on. Sorry, it slipped my mind for a bit, but it will be open for the rest of 2009. Feel free to send in your designs to [email protected]; winner will get a TR shirt and $300 of nerdy goodness and five others will get shirts and fame everlasting. Remember, it needs to fit in the same area as the current robot above.
? Now, the Holiday Schedule: I’m going on vacation for a few days, so Fake Daddy Chris Cummins will be posting on Monday and part of Tuesday. I may try to slip in a few posts on Tuesday myself, but chances are it’ll just be a weird day. Wednesday will be normal, then TR will be closed on Thursday the 24th and Friday the 25th.
? Holiday schedule part II: Next week, Monday the 28th through Thursday the 31st will be normal, and TR will be closed on Friday the 1st. Because I’d hate for you all to go two weeks without a mind-scarring FFF and a TR contest, I’ll run both of ’em on New Year’s Eve. You’re ever so welcome.
? And now for the contest, whose results — like my Avatar review — I have no when I’ll run (maybe Wednesday the 23rd, but maybe not). The contest is to tell me your Worst Holiday Presents, and I’ll make up for the absolute worst with a TR shirt or two. Please, NO GENUINELY TRAGIC STORIES. Unless your loved one died and was actually wrapped in a present for you to open, I don’t want to hear about it. One entry per person, contest still ends on Monday the 21st at 12:01am EST. You guys be good, because Santa doesn’t bring stories of cartoon pedobestiality to bad little boys and girls!
Wait. he totally brings tales of cartoon pedobestiality to bad little boys and girls. He avoids bringing them to good children. So be good, for goodness sake!
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.