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. Read the rest of this entry »
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.
