George R.R. Martin’s Book of Fairy Tales
What’s more adorable that A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin (or a reasonable facsimile) reading his version of beloved children’s nursery rhymes and fairy tales? Almost anything, really, but here’s a brilliant parody of GRRM doing it anyways. I find the take on “Little Miss Moffet” particularly apt. Really, “Children’s Story Time with George R.R. Martin” should be its own regular web series. It’d be like “Fractured Fairy Tales,” except this time the “fractured” would refer to the characters’ skulls. (Via The Mary Sue)
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.