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“Manos” Sequel Press

The Polk County Itemizer-Observer recently did a piece about the ongoing work on the “Manos” sequel.

If you want to see what the printed version looked like click below:

Also, to see the movie’s first teaser poster (a special bonus from out pal Rupert) click below:

Josh on Podcast

J. Elvis Weinstein is the guest on the latest Pop My Culture podcast with our pal Cole Stratton and Vanessa Ragland.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Gay Riffs

We did “Cave Dwellers” in the episode guide, and somebody in the comments said that one time he watched it he counted 30 gay jokes, and another person said it may have had the most blatant gay subtext of any MSTed movie.

That reminded me of a suggestion I got a few weeks ago from alert reader Christian:

It might be interesting to discuss gay riffs.

As an example, in “Hired! Part II”, the dude says, “I remember one of the first things that Harry drilled into me…” and Crow riffs, “was Harry”.

Or, many times when a male character says something to another male character that can be misconstrued as homoerotic, the riff will be a provocative sounding, “Say!”

As an example of that, I always crack up at the pasty old Mole Men leering at the newcomers and Crow murmuring “Say…hmmm…”

What’s your pick?

One more thing: I expect a spirit of tolerance in this thread. The attitude BBI has is that gay sex — like ALL sex — is hilarious. Which is certainly true. That’s pretty much the tone I expect here. Irreverence is fine, intolerance is not. If you disapprove of gayness, you have a right to your opinion, but please keep it to yourself. We’re not discussing gayness, we’re discussing the jokes BBI has made over the years about it. Thank you.

Upcoming Discussion Thread Reading Assignment

For those of you who take part in our weekly discussion threads, I wanted to give you a little advance notice. Our topic for the July 4 weekend will be Michael J. Nelson’s novel “Death Rat.” I wanted to give you a few weeks’ heads up so you can dig out your copy and re-read it, or read it for the first time if you never got around to it (you can get at Amazon for under $5).

New VOD Title from RiffTrax…

This is a video-on-demand (VOD) title, which means that you get the movie and riffing together. You can download a Divx version or a file you can burn to a DVD.

See a sample and buy it here.