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

Over the years, a lot of you have enjoyed, suffered through, endured or just plain missed copious opportunities to riff on stills from the atrocious promotional film, A Visit to Santa on IS. Well, now this string of blown bulbs has gotten the full Rifftrax on demand treatment. [Technical aside: if you installed the divx player as admin on windows, you've got to run it as admin. If it insists you upgrade, that may be the problem.] To celebrate its Rifftraxing, it’ll be running again on IS at 1 PM on Christmas. (more…)