This Thursday, July 20 at 4:17 PM, to celebrate the 37th anniversary of man walking on the fucking moon, we’ll be having a special slate of programming:

• Flight of Apollo 11
• Crash of Moons as seen in MST3k episode 417
• Invisible Diplomats, featuring Audrey Meadows, who many expected would be the first woman to walk on the moon.

It’s like 11, but one more so! Round Robin #12 will be starting soon, so be sure to sign up by Sunday, July 16. The marvelous storytelling will commence on Monday, July 17. Fun in ways that ought to be illegal in more states!

Even though there’s not a huge number of votes in the poll yet, there’s an actual slim majority choice in spite of having five choices. Plus, the weighted average rounds nicely to five hours too. Maybe this just means I loaded the choices. I don’t know. Either way, unless there’s a huge outcry or swing in the votes, I’m adding two more hours of features, entertainment shorts, tv shows, cartoons, trailers, and drive-in ads AKA “non-ephemeral” films to the slate at 10 AM and & 7 PM eastern. The full schedule can be seen here (you may have to refresh once or twice to make it look pretty. Uh, prettier.)
Also, thanks to all who’ve expressed interest in the book so far. I’m sure you’ll be hearing more soon.

At last it can be revealed, I’m trying to put together a book with some of my favorite captions from Inventing Situations. I mean a real live honest to goodness you-can-go-into-a-bookstore-and-buy it book. I’m going to need everybody’s help in making this happen. I can already hear you asking “what’s in it for me?” In brief:

1. A chance to see your caption (and name and/or handle) in print. Maybe possibly. No guarantees. (The book will probably have around 300 captions gathered from IS’ four plus years. In the last week alone, there were close to 7,000 captions from over 100 cappers*. You do the math.)
2. A chance to see some of your favorite captions that other people wrote in print.
3. Spreading the joy of capping.
4. That warm fuzzy feeling that I hear comes with helping another human being. You know, one who’s so kindly run this site for so many years.

So, now that I’ve told you why you should help, here’s how you can help:

1. Links links links. The better my stats, the better the chance of a publisher accepting the books. Here’s a page with some nice link buttons to use. Link to IS on your gallery, blog or other website. Link to it in your favorite forum. Stand on street corners handing out fliers with the URL. I’m still not running a link exchange around here – but notice there’s still a lot of room on the blogroll.
2. Permission. It’s still a little early going to know for sure who I’ll need permission from, but since my old policy was to let cappers retain the rights to their caps, I’ll probably need permission to print those caps. If you want to give me a verbal ok just in case, drop me a line at book@sector7g-zz9.com. [Edit 7/4/6: I'm not looking for anything legally binding just yet, mostly I just want to know that you'd sign something something legally binding if asked. Yeah, I'm confused too.] If you’ve got loads of email addresses of old cappers, let me know that too.
3. Putting up with my new copyright policy.

*101 if you count Jazz AND Hippie.