Reminder: Topless Robot at ROFLcon, Fringe Live-Blog and TR Meet-Up
I’m sure I’ll do this again later, but just in case you need time to mentally and emotionally prepare:
? I’ll be attending ROFLcon this weekend at MIT in Boston on April 30 and May 1st. Chris Cummins will be taking care of you on Friday (there will still be an FFF and a contest). My panel — which also includes the guys behind Chad Vader, Garfield without Garfield and “I’m the Juggernaut, Bitch” — will be at 2pm on Saturday the 1st, I believe.
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?? I’ll actually be taking a half-day on Thursday for my flight to Boston, but I will still be live-blogging the musical episode of Fringe on Thursday the 29th at 9pm EST. I love Fringe, but I’m pretty terrified of this idea; here’s hoping my hotel room has a mini-bar, just in case.
? And speaking of me getting drunk in Boston, if you’re going to be in the area on Friday, I’m going to be holding a TR Meet-Up on Friday night at 8pm at the Miracle of Science bar at 321 Massachusetts Ave. It’ll run until people stop buying me drinks, so feel free to stop by any time. Hope to see at least… uh, two of you there?
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.