I just added two new picture sets at Wasting Precious Time. You may have noticed that I got so caught up in preparing for Turkey Week, that this is the first WPT update in over three weeks. I say “may have” because nobody commented on the absence to me, which reinforces my opinion that there’s not a lof of enthusiasm for this site. That’s not to say that just because you didn’t comment means you don’t care, but it’s just not a good sign. I’ll admit that my own neglect and the quality of the grabs has helped drain whatever interest there was. However it happened, it’s reached a point where it seems however much effort I put in, the best outcome is going to be maybe 3 stories written for the average set (that’s including the Round Robins run by UnReality, and UpSky2 before him). That’s not very good incentive for me to go back to serious work on the site.

I’m not going to shut it down all together. I am seriously considering cutting back to just one or two of the so-called ‘random’ picture sets gathered out of the Inventing Situations stock each week. Those are relatively easy for me to do. If anybody out there has some ideas on the future of WPT, let me hear them. Maybe somebody out there has a camera and can start staging photo dramas for us? Perhaps somebody can do a better job of culling images from old movies? Are there previously silent people who want ‘non-random’ sets badly enough to pay for them (thereby revitalizing my enthusiasm)? Maybe there’s some cartoonists out there who could contribute? Maybe you think it’s run its course? Anybody? Bueller?

Since the Turkey Week graffiti wall went over pretty well, I’m giving into popular demand and leaving this open thread for people to leave messages to other cappers on, stuff like “Stepping out to steal the neighbor’s paper, back in ten minutes”, “will you marry me?”, “my hovercraft is full of eels”, or just the simple approriatconventional “I saw Elvis in my bathroom today”. The thread will be pruned, archived and/or replaced as appropriate.

Note: Inventing Situations and its subsidiaries do not condone the theft of your neighbor’s paper.

Here we are at last, our week long marathon of turkeys at Inventing Situations. Since this is one of our highest traffic times and folks have requested a way to better keep track of who’s coming and going, I’m making this post mainly so you can go ahead add your comments to say things like “are you looking for me? you missed me, but I’ll be back at 5″ or “I’m gonna try to make it for the Friday Mitchell” or “wow, that new PayPal button is really sweet” or “sorry, had to go dip the kids in gravy”. You know post-it note sort of stuff. Thx to keogh and ReptilianSamurai for pestering me for a feature like this.

[Note 11/22/6: We've been spending a lot of time running much more than 5 minutes off schedule. I have to jury-rig the system to be able to have items start and end at appointed times, and usually that rig works a little better than it does this year. First off, I will do my best to make sure the premieres (the stuff labeled as 'new') start. Second off, most of the stuff I've trimmed from the schedule to catch up, will replay starting late Sunday afternoon between the capper choice segments.]

[Edit 11/23/6: Happy Thanksgiving! I just adjusted the Turkey Week festivities. If all goes according to plan, items may start up to 5 minutes after the labeled time. If things don’t go according to plan, then you’re guess is as good as mine. There’ll be more repeats into the day on Sunday, but those are gonna be decided by poll and whim. All times eastern standard

Mon Nov 20th 12:00 AM 101 The Crawling Eye
Mon 1:10 AM 102 Radar Men From The Moon Chapter 1
Mon 1:45 AM 102 The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy
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Do you like stag films that could easily get a PG-13 rating? Maybe a PG? How about when they’re crossed with Lost, but minus the easy to follow plots and pesky intrigue? Do you wish Spider-Man wasn’t so chock full of heroics and believable science? Then have I got the movie for you! Horrors of Spider Island, as featured in mst3k #1011 is what I like to refer to as a really horrible awful terrible bad not at all good film. It’s the fourth out of five new to IS movies in this year’s Thanksgiving marathon.

Running at Wednesday the 22, 8:35 PM and Sunday the 26th, 2:35 AM.

[Edit 11/17: added links]