All You Need Is (Nerd) Love
Hello, folks! I hope you had an excellent weekend. I’m not sure my weekend was really excellent per se — in the last three days I drove 16 hours across the country and then had to unload a 16-foot moving truck by myself (I know you’d think that, being a professional blogger, I’m in peak physical condition, but it actually turns out that’s not the case) — but I am safely moved, my internet works, and I managed to get my TV hooked up just in time to see Game of Thrones on Sunday night, which happened to be one of the best, most exciting episodes of TV I’ve ever seen. So really, I have no complaints. Except that I’m incredibly sore. And that none of my other shit is unpacked. But really, other than that, everything is peachy.
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.