I’ve decided I’m going to start aiming for Wednesday mornings for new picture sets on Wasting Precious Time. I think they may have been getting lost in the backwash on late Sundays.

Anyhoo, there’s a new a meaty picture set for you to play with called Rah rah rah.

Back by unpopular demand, it’s the Inventing Situations Merch Shop! Now with a black design. If I ever get around to redesigning the site again, that might be the new font for the logo. I haven’t ordered mine yet, so you can still be the first to get one. And the classic gallery style shirts are back too, along with the mousepad, card, and mugs. If you send in a pic of yourself in an IS tshirt you can either get capped or put up in the ad topside on IS.

And on another note, there’s a capping section on the Cinematic Titanic forum now. Go over there and show ‘em how it’s done. I’ve even started a couple of threads. (p.s. check this thread to see how to register and login)

You know how Rhino is re-issuing the volume 10, replacing 212 Godzilla vs. Megalon with 402 Giant Gila Monster? Not only is it finally available for pre-order at amazon complete with a sketch of Joel, Josh and Trace explaining why the disc needed to be replaced, rumor has it that it also features some of the work of beloved capper and known Zamboniist JoeCrow. Rhino is supposed to be offering Giant Gila Monster as a standalone disc via their website at some point for a limited time, targeted at the people who already got volume 10 when it was briefly on the shelves. The set also contains 503 What to do on a Date / Swamp Diamonds, 514 Is This Love? /Teenage Strangler, and 810 Giant Spider Invasion.

Order it now so you can be amongst the first to celebrate JoeCrow day when it arrives at your home. The disc, not the day.

(Link via Satellite News, associate id shamelessly altered.)

Since even some of us who ordered it three weeks ago haven’t gotten it yet, it’ll probably be midweek until all the early orderers have it and had a chance to watch. So, if you have it and want to share some thoughts that might spoil jokes for us poor saps, do it here. If you have a more general point, do it over here.
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Today I had my second, more indirect, interaction with one of the Cinematic Titanic crew this week, and perhaps oddest responses a mstie has ever had to opening up their mailbox: “oh, it’s only the shadowrama cling off of Mary Jo Pehl’s fridge.” Maybe it was more like “at least it’s the shadowrama”, but still, there was a lot of disappointment that there was no Oozing Skull in there, since I really thought today might be the day. But it’s not like you care about the minor downturns that make up my life. You just want to know how I came to possess such a fantastic piece of celebrity swag. It’s simple, really, I finally achieved what every capper secretly aspires to, recognition for their genius from the Brains. Or at least one of their spouses. You see, over on the mst3k review / Satellite New message board, forum member RAD a.k.a. Total Husband Ron a.k.a. Mary Jo Pehl’s mate has been running a Caption This! thread to help pass time while we wait for our Titanics to come in. In one post, he offered up a picture of their fridge for capping, with a prize of your choice of anything off of the fridge. The prize was too good to pass up, but I was a little stumped and ended up going a little against my grain with this caption:
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