Please note: I am not running this video of Kermit the Frog interview the stars of Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (and a variety of other celebrities) because it is a promo for Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (although if I were going to cover a PotC movie, this would obviously be the way to do it). No, I’m running this video because it’s technically a promo for the new Muppet movie coming out this November, something I will be happily covering on TR, and because Kermit is one hell of an interviewer. The only way this video could have been any better is if Kermit had admitted that Miss Piggy and Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas are actually the same person. (Via Geeks of Doom)
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.