Our weekly dose of the movies and whatnot that cappers have rated as their favorites to caption has moved to Monday nights at 8 PM eastern. So those of you swinging by on Wednesday nights - sorry, you’ll have to make due with our usual fare. Though we might toss on something special for the first week of the move (4/23).

Don’t forget that the programming for four star theater is decided by your votes - so when you see that ‘tag it & rate it’ notice, click it and rate the ‘cap’-ability of the material - anything that averages a rating of four or better gets a slot in four star theater, in addition to its usual slot in the rotation. And the stuff that comes in at two or lower will play less frequently in the regular rotation.

And don’t forget to tune in to Inventing Situations on Monday 4/28 @ 8PM for The Amazing Transparent Man, as featured in mst3k episode [623].

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

To celebrate his part in bringing back the real live properly voiced Tom and Crow, if even for a brief segment, I’m declaring this Tuesday JoeCrow day at Inventing Situations. I’m trying to get the day honored throughout the capper community, but I may have moved too late on that.

To properly honor the day, drink whenever Joe tells you to. Tea-totallers and the underage may substitute hot tea for booze, but they have to chug it.

And since this is all happening on a release of the mst3k episode Giant Gila Monster, we’re showing the unmstied version at 8 PM that day.

p.s. the disc is also available in a limited single order pressing direct from Rhino, that ships on the 11th.

Update: The holiday has been picked up at hipsoda and Glitter’s told me they’ll be celebrating at the CPB too.

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)

Don’t forget Tuesdays are still the days to get fresh grabs to caption here at IS. The first few have gone pretty well, despite the second and third happening on holidays where a lot of people might have been away from their computators.

This Tuesday between noon and midnight (eastern), we’ve got Bela Lugosi in color, our first episode of the Richard Deacon Show (known in syndication as the Dick Van Dyke show), Bela Lugosi (in glorious color), Popeye, and some sword and sandal nonsense with a hero who is not Hercules. He might be Sinbad for all I know. (The Spartans be different from the Athenians). And the usual bunch of fresh grabs from old shorts.

Of course, as I expected when I started this, real life has crept in and I may not get 12 hours of new grabs a week - would folks rather I made it 2PM - Midnight, Noon - 10PM, or just include more filler?