It’ll just be a four day affair, Thanksgiving to Sunday. As usual, there’ll be screengrabs from the original versions of films that were featured on mst3k for everyone to come and riff on their own. You can see the list of movies here, but you’ll have to guess when your favorites are airing. I like the element of surprise.  Sorry for not making a bigger production out of it, but (a) the kids at Rifftrax  and Cinematic Titanic have re-lit the torch sufficiently that I don’t feel as much of a need to keep it going and (b) because.

This past weekend a few of us cappers got together to see Cinematic Titanic’s live shows in Philadelphia. Before Saturday night’s movie JoeCrow was kind enough to take us into his Jersey lair aka The BotCave, where he builds Servos, Crows and other bots for common fans and even folks like Joel Hodgson (pictured at left with me at my goofiest).

We got to see the wonders of how a bot is built, and Joe even made us some Servo heads that we were able to be goofy with at the show (hoisting them when Servo was mentioned or alluded to).

Anyway, the show was excellent, and I’ll be running some of the pictures for your capping pleasure Monday June 22 @ 8 PM Eastern on Inventing Situations. You can preview (and well, caption) them by clicking the image here (that’s the end of the stream, the start is here).

I know about the new strange stuff with handles and images getting mixed up. It should be fixed by, oh, about April 2nd. So have fun with it while it lasts.

And do let me know if there’s any other lingering bugs from the improvements.

Most of the bugs introduced with the overhaul should be fixed. In fact, if you’re still experiencing any weirdness, please let me know. Thanks.

(Though you should probably hit refresh at least once before letting me know.)

I’ve just unleashed a bunch of updates to Inventing Situations that bring it in line with the state of the art maybe five years ago. For a side project, that’s Not Horrible, I suppose. Some highlights:

• Navigation free capping: No more shuttling between the gallery and the newest screengrab. Everything’s on one page, the gallery still autoupdates, and now as soon as a new grab is available, a thumbnail appears that you can click to cap.
• Chat! After years of resisting and arguing against, I’ve finally given in and added chat. In part because I figured out what I think is a sufficiently unobtrusive way to present it that still doesn’t require cappers to switch it on. With things like the favorites gallery making captions available out of context, I should’ve given cappers a way to remove their chat from their captions ages ago. You do need to be mindful of the caption/chat button, and I’m not crazy about it appearing before the gallery, but it was the best compromise I could come up with.
• The autocappomatic is in a transitional state. I’m tempted to remove it all together, but for now, editing one of its captions means you get full credit.

Feedback and bug reports are welcome. Keep in mind that while I’ve made an effort to make the site usable without javascript, a lot of the new features hardly translate without it.