Some troubadours get all the slatterns, but when you have mad rhyming skills like this minstrel, it’s not hard to imagine why all the ladies and peasants drop their breeches for him. I apologize if you’re disappointed that this isn’t about LARPing, but it appeals to the literary nerd in me. Well, that and because in the YouTube description it says it stars Soce “The Elemental Wizard” and is “for my homies in Kent, Ghent, and Trent.” Drop it like it’s plague indeed. (Via Gorilla Mask)
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.