Where It’s AT-AT
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Chicago’s Chiditarod is some kind of weird Iditarod/pub crawl/canned food drive hybrid that I don’t fully understand. What I do understand is awesomeness, and this AT-AT “sled” most certainly is. Why? Because it has a fucking keg inside of it, for the “racers” to imbibe in-between the lengthy feet between pubs. So beautiful, so brilliant — even if the AT-AT does dispense the beer by a tube located suspiciously at its groin. Awesome All Day has more pics and details; I’d suggest bringing a handkerchief or some tissues, because you may very well weep at its beauty.
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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.