Photo by Dave Surgan. This past Sunday Brooklyn was host to a Robot Parade. Why? Some residents put one together and marched their metallic legs from Park Slope to Prospect Park, "just for fun." Check out more photos of their journey, here.......

So we love They Might Be Giants as much as the next blog. And of course we've occasionally thought "gee, it'd be fun to paint lyrics to a TMBG song onto a silver cardboard box," but we never actually went through with it or anything. But it seems that somebody did. Contributer vermillonink caught this photo out in Park Slope and it has us scratching our heads. Yes, Robot Parade is a fun song,......

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We know you've got an old toy robot , or a "droid" (for you sci-fi folk), that you've been laboring away on after hours in your basement. Whether you're a professional robotics engineer, a fan of robots, or just a geek...bring your mechanical friend down to the Robot Parade! We love this idea, and we're sure it'll be just a little more interesting now that's raining out. Rusty robots, explosions...we're in! All submissions welcome, and......