A Special Education
This is a 12-minute short film about a man and his son Zack. I know that’s a long time on the internet — beyond comprehension, really — but watch the first minute, and I think you’ll be hooked. I certainly was. It’s a genuinely wonderful, moving, melancholy piece of the sort that I rarely post on TR, because it’s almost certainly going to bum you out, but honestly, I felt it was so good it needed to be posted anyways. Also, I’m pretty certain that today’s FFF will cheer everyone right the hell back up, so you won’t be down for too long. Just sayin’.
About The Author
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.