Round Robins… Remember those? Basically, it’s a collaborative story (of sorts) told through captions.

Well, we’ll be starting up again, with what for the sake of argument we’re going to call #18. It will start first thing Wednesday, February 28. If you’d like to join in the fun, there’s still plenty of time to sign up!

That’s right - less than a week until TV’ Frank Conniff and crew come back to town with a load of Z-grade cartoons and their demented live not-for-children kid’s show, Cartoon Dump. There’ll be some number of cappers greater than zero and less than 1,000 in the audience, contact me if you want to get in touch with them. Buy tickets here.

After going on and on about JoeCrow Day, here’s a little screengrab of his work on the new mst3k vol 10.2. The new segment, with Joel, Trace, and Frank returning to the roles that made them famous (and Frank taking on a new one), is only three and a half minutes, but along with Cinematic Titanic (and Rifftrax, if that’s the way you roll), makes for a great 20th anniversary present for msties. (more…)

Hey, it’s Manny’s sisters! Cap away.

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You may recognize the frighteningly earnest fellow on the left as the star of Act Your Age, the first short I played at Inventing Situations when it rose out of the ashes of HCT six years ago this month. Until I started shuffling the shorts a few months back, he was also the sign that we’d cycled through the rotation again.

Well, Kevin, Mike, and Bill have made the short the target of their latest on-demand offering at RiffTrax.com, and it’s a pretty solid and nicely priced effort. I’d like to think they chose it to honor IS’ birthday. Plus, if you’re like me and you don’t care for the divx player they use, you can also download the track from rifftrax and the movie from archive.org and synch them up yourself. Anyway, to honor the occasion, some brand spanking new grabs from the short will be playing on IS at 1 PM Tuesday the 5th - aka JoeCrow Day