There’s a new trailer for HBO’s Game of Thrones series, and here’s the big difference to me — I’ve actually read part of the book. I’m 350 pages in, so I recognized enough of the scenes and characters to be losing my mind of how potentially awesome this show might end up. Hell, the intensely perfect casting of Peter Dinklage as Tyrion is enough to make me light-headed with nerdy glee. I can. Not. Wait. Thanks to Sarah C. for the tip.
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.