You might have noticed I have a bunch of movies listed on the schedule for Friday. Unfortunately I managed to kill something on the PC that runs this stuff, so unless I can fix it tonight, the movies are off. Yes, yes, I need more redundancy and backups.

Perhaps more incredible than Hulu’s enabling of RiffTrax’s free riffing of an episode of The Incredible Hulk is their putting the episode that probably helped launch Caption This! onto the world. Legend holds that in the early days of SciFi.com, when the net was still ruled by .edu’s, alt.’s and rec.’s, some techs were installing a screengrabber to add a ‘now playing’ image to the schedule page and saw more or less this image:

One of them cracked wise, “I’d like to buy the Hulk a Coke”, and a light bulb went off. Soon, Caption This! was unleashed on the world and the rest is history. You can watch the whole episode (complete with Gordon “the Big Guy” Jump) for the price of sitting through some ads.

While I’ve got your attention, save these dates:

This Friday, Oct 31, Noon to 2AM, the IS Halloween special. [Ed's note: Halloween special canceled unless I get my PC working tonight]

Wednesday November 26 to Tuesday December 2, the 7th annual IS Turkey Week Marathon.

2009 – Thursday October 1 to Sunday October 4, Las Vegas Capfest.

If you missed out on getting a postcard from the LA Capfest, or even if you didn’t, you can get in on the fun now. In the grand Porpoise Project tradition, I’ll send mine along to you. All you have to do is forward it to the next person in line, with an added caption, until it finally reaches WEIRD_1. I think there’s still room for a few more captions. Use the form linked here to send me your mailing address, first come first serve. Don’t post your mailing address here unless you want it in google.

Oldskool capper TravisBickle has a new site, and he’s trying to catalog as many links to cappers’ sites as he can. Even ones that have nothing to do with capping. As my dad might say, lots of luck. Anyway, go give him your links. We’ll probably take them too, though we tend to prefer ‘em a little cap heavier.

Go declare your fanhood of Inventing Situations over on Facebook. There are even some photos for you to cap.