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Joel Will Hold Workshop at Rowan U.

The College of Communication and Creative Arts at Rowan University, in Glassboro, N.J., is bringing in Joel to lead a movie riffing workshop with students on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 6-7, and he and the students will give a public performance on the evening of the 7th. The workshop is free, but there is limited enrollment available. Go here for more info. Love to get a report if anybody goes.

Pared-Down Episodes Headed to Public Television

After hinting it might happen last Novemnber, it looks like a edited versions of a few MST3K titles will come to some public television stations.

Programmers get four episodes of MST3K, as fans call Mystery Science Theater 3000, in what APT hopes will become The Best of MST3K on PTV. Broadcasters also have digital rights for streaming online. The episodes, which run from 94-97 minutes, will be edited to 88 minutes to conform to public TV schedules.

Sounds like pledge drive fodder… Now if only they’ll show “Overdrawn at the Memory Bank”…

RIP Joe Franklin

Joe+Franklin+Premiere+Crazy+Love+PArJ_Kqf-bil NEW YORK — Pioneering radio and TV host Joe Franklin died Jan. 24 of cancer. For several days I have been pondering if he was mentioned during a host segment and thanks to two helpful twitterers, @mst3kbots and @frostyplum, I have pinned it down to a comment by Frank during the invention exchange in episode 205- ROCKET ATTACK USA. You can see it here, at the 4:15 mark.

The New York Times has an obit.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Riff or Line as a Slogan

Yes, it’s another topic from Sue:

If you could pick one MST3K riff as your personal slogan, what would it be?

I’d have to go philosophical with “I wonder if there’s beer on the sun?”

I’m expanding this to include anything they said on the show, including during host segments. Mine, for a long time, has been:

“I’ve undergone a complex personal evolution wherein painful confusion has given way to what I like to think of as some degree of wisdom culminating in my current Zarasthustrian sense of self. Is that it?”

What’s yours?

Now Available from RiffTrax…

DarkPower_Poster

Just one letter away from being a Stephen King movie. Stream or download it here.