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Yes Virginia, There is a 2009 Turkey Day Marathon at IS

GersonK — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:25:34 +0000

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.

Cap the Cappers at Cinematic Titanic and the BotCave

GersonK — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:22:39 +0000

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).

Our t-shirt (and a capper) meet Joel

GersonK — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:21:18 +0000

Check it out kids, known capper Matteus (back right) attended Joel Hodgson and Trace Beaulieu’s recent appearance at MIT. Check out Matt’s barely visible visible t-shirt, it’s one of the old limited edition* Inventing Situations t-shirts that I used to sell @ cafepress. (Not the new ones that don’t sell).

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Wow, an indirectly mst3k inspired t-shirt I designed in the presence of Trace and one time t-shirt factory employee Joel. At the school whose rejection letter sent me into a nearly two decade long downward spiral. This means something.

* Limited to the tiny number I could sell.

Joe and the bots

GersonK — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:01:59 +0000

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.
If the dvd sets are a little pricey for your taste, then buying all four discs for this single segment is probably overkill, but Rhino is making the disc available for special order at a more than fair price. While they might not look exactly as they did a decade or so ago, the cast members sure act like them old selves and it was certainly great to see Dr. F giving Frank a well deserved beating again, not to mention Tom getting a RAM chip and taking advantage of the chroma needed to get him back on the SOL bridge. As for Joe’s bot-building prowess – if I hadn’t known these were fan made, I’d have never guessed they weren’t the handiwork of the Brains themselves. Unless Joe has perpetrated an elaborate and prescient put-on, the autograph at left from the big man himself puts it best. Hopefully we’ll get to see more of Joe’s bots in action when Shout Factory takes over the release of mst3k discs, and he’ll actually get a little shout out on the discs themselves.

Best Servo

mst3k Volume 10.2, the Capper Connection

GersonK — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:05:15 +0000

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.)

Cinematic Titanic – be cool and order it now

GersonK — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:44:12 +0000

As you’ve probably heard by now, the first episode of Cinematic Titanic, The Oozing Skull (aka Brain of Blood) is now available to order. yaaaaay. The preview is out (and in lower res on the order page) and it looks great. I’ve previously dismissed the ‘but there’s no Shadowrama’ complaint about other post-mst3k efforts to be splitting hairs, but did it ever feel right to see it again. On the downside, the download option won’t be available until April, and the discs won’t ship for up to two weeks.

[Addendum 12/23]

There seems to be an official version of the trailer on YouTube now:

Cartoon Dump in NYC

GersonK — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:57:09 +0000

TV’s Frank and the rest of the cast of Cartoon Dump will be doing three live shows in New York between January and March. There’ll probably be a few cappers at the January 8th, 8pm show. If you’re going and want help finding the gaggle or wonder if there’s a way to get $5 off your ticket, contact me.

Order tickets here. (Regular price $10 in advance, $15 at the door, two drink (or item as they call it) minimum.

Classic Thanksgiving Bumpers Coming to mst3k.com

GersonK — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:46:56 +0000

Since we’re busy preparing our own homage to the classic mst3k Turkey marathons, we’d be remiss if we didn’t point out that some of the special commercial bumpers from those very marathons will be showing in the videos section at the official site starting Monday 11/19 (until ?) along with (we think) a new Thanksgiving bit with those animated bot-like objects. Word on the street is that those cartoons should start showing improvement any episode now.

Turkey Day Schedule Released

GersonK — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:44:06 +0000

Here’s when you can see your favorite movies during the Turkey week festivities It all weighs in at just over seven days, showing most items twice.

I’ve added two more “new” movies, Ring of Terror and Gamera. It’s not exactly the same version of Gamera the Brains used, General Curly Joe’s not in there, but close enough by my standards. I’ve also got fresh grabs for Master Ninja I and First Spaceship to Venus.

I’ve got two more new movies that’ll be surprises during the marathon, they’re listed as “Mystery Box” on the schedule, and I’m going to try to add new grabs for a few more movies.

Turkey Day Video

GersonK — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:58:40 +0000

Once again, rather than work on the grabs for the Turkey Week marathon I’ve made another video promo that probably won’t attract new cappers. This time reflecting on what we as msties, have to be thankful for:

Help see if it appeals to the non-capper msties out there by taking it down and passing it around.