Geek Apparel of the Week: “Hail to the King” and “Boombox Thor”
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?? Two of the four major one-shirt-a-day websites that I know of have nerdy shirts available today, so I figured it was a sign I should show at least one of them. My favorite is this one, which takes Army of Darkness‘ Ash to an illogical conclusion, but is still pretty damned cool. It’s $10 at Ript.
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?? I don’t pretend to understand this shirt, and I feel like just promoting it on TR makes me part of some kind of social ill. Still, it’s Thor holding a boombox, which makes me laugh every time I see it. $24 over at 80sTees.
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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.