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CT’s Latest Gets a BoingBoing Nod

The influential BoingBoing.net and Cory Doctorow approve of of Cinematic Titanic’s “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.”

Weekend Discussion Thread: “Personal Riffs”

Emailer “Dyne” offered this great idea for a thread, and I’m going with it:

Thread suggestion: “Personal Riffs.” These can either be riffs that the person has done himself that made other people laugh or coming up with the same riff as J/M&tB at the same time during the movie.

I occasionally manage the latter. One I can remember was in “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.” The character in the movie said “Crush him!” and, sitting on the couch, I said “You were adopted!” just as Servo (I think) did.

Forrest Ackerman, RIP

LOS ANGELES — Writer, editor, agent, movie fan and Hollywood character Forrest J Ackerman, who discovered author Ray Bradbury and was widely credited with coining the term “sci-fi,” died Dec. 4 at his home here of heart failure. He turned 92 last week, on the same day MST3K celebrated its 20th birthday. MSTies will recall his bit part as “park victim” in episode 1004- FUTURE WAR

Read his full AP obituary here.

Lots To Read at DVDCorner

Dvdcorner.net has reviews of “Cinematic Titanic- Santa Claus Conquers The Martians” and “The Best Of Rifftrax Shorts Volume 1.” Also, the MST3K 20th Anniversary set, all of the Cinematic Titanic discs and the Rifftrax Shorts discs made one of the reviewer’s best discs of 2008 list.

Comic-Con 20th Anniversary Shirts Available

At their booth at the most recent Comic-Con, Shout! Factory was selling a limited edition MST3K 20th Anniversary t-shirt. A small supply of unsold Medium, Large, and Extra Large shirts have made their way out of storage and are now available at the Shout! Factory Store for $25 each (plus S&H). If you want one, you’d better hurry. Only 400 were made, and once the remaining shirts are gone, they’re gone for good!