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Trace Web Site Interview

Author D.M. Cunningham interviews Trace about “Silly Rhymes for Belligerent Children.”

Update! Weekend Discussion Thread: Toughest Tough Guy/Gal in MSTed Movies

Update: Site regular Andrew Marker went for it: He’s put together a full bracket and is asking for your votes!

Alert reader Matthew got the ball rolling by writing:

While watching “Teen-age Strangler” the other night, I wondered to myself, “Hey, I wonder if the Fastbacks (the gang that made an art of drag racing well w/in the speed limit) got in a rumble w/ Jaime’s oh-so-Klandictu No-shoulder Gang from “What About Juvenile Delinquency?”, who would win?”.

And that’s when I took that thought a step further – “OK, so lets assume that the Fastbacks took that one, what about, say, Benazir Bhutto and her gang of shakedown artists from “The Sinister Urge?”, could they handle those ladies?

Matthew went on to suggest an elaborate bracket competition that I think may be overkill for our purposes (though I welcome any reader to put one together if they have the time or inclination).

But it does bring up a vital question: Which tough guy/gal and/or tough gang from a MSTed movie could take all the others in a fight? Show your work!

Oh, and just to make it interesting, monsters, aliens and other non-human creatures don’t count.

I’m gonna go with Moon from “The Beatniks.” He was a badass and HE KILLED THAT FAT BARKEEP!

Media Scrutiny Theater 2010?

As an example of how our favorite cowtown puppet show has permeated the culture, we offer this almost-offtopic item:
The hosts of NPR’s “On the Media,” Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield, have turned to a familiar visual format in order to take aim at some of this election season’s political ads.

(Full disclosure: Bob Garfield is a long-time acquaintance of mine.)

Because of the blatantly political nature of this item, we are turning comments off for this one. However, you CAN comment on THEIR site. :-D

Now Available from RiffTrax…

Watch a sample here. Download it here.

RiffTrax Guys to Be on Podcast

The folks over at CHUD.com (Cinematic Happenings Under Development) have partnered with Fathom to flog the HELL out of the upcoming RiffTrax Live event one week from today in something like 500 theaters, in which they’ll riff on “House on Haunted Hill” (lots of new riffs, they promise) and also a couple of shorts with the help of comedian Paul F. Tompkins. What was that about flogging?

Anyway, over at CHUD.com they are doing a live podcast at 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT and Mike, Kevin and Bill will be their guests, and you can listen live here.