Geek Apparel of the Week: Raccoons Are Super
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?Man, if raccoons really did look like Super Mario after he grabbed the Super Leaf, life would horrible. Sure, raccoons would be 50x more adorable than they are now, but we’d all leave out garbage out in the open in hopes of drawing the cute little critters into our yard. Filth would line the streets, and the cities would be ankle deep in garbage and filth. Still, as a $12 shirt from Teextile, it’s pretty goddamn adorable.
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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.