Rock-a-Fire Rocks the (Arcade) Fire
I know of at least of a dozen more voting or politics-related nerd videos to end the day with, but it you’re like me, the whole election process is making you a little nauseous and you just want the day over with (also, I’d like my local liquors stores open, dammit). So instead, you’re getting one of the utterly untimely but always creepy performances of alt-rock songs?specifically, “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)” by the Arcade Fire?by Chuck E. Cheese’s Rock-a-Fire Explosion band, which never fails to crack me up or give me nightmares. Hang in there for a few more hours, and then it’ll all be over. Whoever wins, there’ll still be some ridiculous action figure to talk about tomorrow.
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.