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.

I’ve decided I’m going to start aiming for Wednesday mornings for new picture sets on Wasting Precious Time. I think they may have been getting lost in the backwash on late Sundays.

Anyhoo, there’s a new a meaty picture set for you to play with called Rah rah rah.

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)

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.)