Geek Apparel of the Week: Frakking Puppets and Centipede Swat Team
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?? This shirt has been available for a while, but I’m posting it now because if you don’t know it exists, YOU NEED TO KNOW. Statler and Waldorf as BSG‘s Adama and Tigh? That is a nerd culture mash-up I approve of 100%. The only way this shirt could be better is if they were drunk and slumped over on the floor together. It’s $20 at 604 Republic.
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?? I know I’m heavy on the retro-gaming shirts, because that’s where my interests lie. So I try to be good most of the time. And then I see a shirt like this, with a totally badass illustration of a centipede from Centipede, and I instantly give in. It’s $30 at ‘80s Tees.
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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.