Geek Apparel of the Week: Home Sweet Tauntaun and Word Series
There are so many great nerd shirts out there — not even counting the one design per day sites — that I’ve decided to list two shirts in GAofW from now on. I KNOW, YOUR MIND IS BLOWN.
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Home Sweet Tauntaun, $19 over at Split Reason.
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This is slightly more complicated: a company called Novel-T is making faux baseball jerseys for famous authors and characters. There’s the American Canons, with “players” like Whitman, Prynne and Thoreau, and then the National Punc, including Gatsby, Dickinson and my favorite, Vonnegut. Each player has his/her/its own symbol on the front — Prynne has a large A, natch — and if you’re a Vonnegut fan, you probably know what his symbol is and why I’m delighted by it. The shirts are $25 each and can be ordered here. (Via Super Punch)
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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.