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Post by HighProtein on Sept 30, 2008 4:44:58 GMT -5
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 674 (Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined)
H R 3997 RECORDED VOTE 29-Sep-2008 2:07 PM QUESTION: On Concurring in Senate Amendment With An Amendment BILL TITLE: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide earnings assistance and tax relief to members of the uniformed services, volunteer firefighters, and Peace Corps volunteers, and for other purposes
Ayes Noes PRES NV Democratic 140 95 Republican 65 133 1 Independent TOTALS 205 228 1
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Ackerman Allen Andrews Arcuri Bachus Baird Baldwin Bean Berman Berry Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blunt Boehner Bonner Bono Mack Boozman Boren Boswell Boucher Boyd (FL) Brady (PA) Brady (TX) Brown (SC) Brown, Corrine Calvert Camp (MI) Campbell (CA) Cannon Cantor Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Castle Clarke Clyburn Cohen Cole (OK) Cooper Costa Cramer Crenshaw Crowley Cubin Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (IL) Davis, Tom DeGette DeLauro Dicks Dingell Donnelly Doyle Dreier Edwards (TX) Ehlers Ellison Ellsworth Emanuel Emerson Engel Eshoo Etheridge Everett Farr Fattah Ferguson Fossella Foster Frank (MA) Gilchrest Gonzalez Gordon Granger Gutierrez Hall (NY) Hare Harman Hastings (FL) Herger Higgins Hinojosa Hobson Holt Honda Hooley Hoyer Inglis (SC) Israel Johnson, E. B. Kanjorski Kennedy Kildee Kind King (NY) Kirk Klein (FL) Kline (MN) LaHood Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Levin Lewis (CA) Lewis (KY) Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Lungren, Daniel E. Mahoney (FL) Maloney (NY) Markey Marshall Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCollum (MN) McCrery McDermott McGovern McHugh McKeon McNerney McNulty Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Melancon Miller (NC) Miller, Gary Miller, George Mollohan Moore (KS) Moore (WI) Moran (VA) Murphy (CT) Murphy, Patrick Murtha Nadler Neal (MA) Oberstar Obey Olver Pallone Pelosi Perlmutter Peterson (PA) Pickering Pomeroy Porter Price (NC) Pryce (OH) Putnam Radanovich Rahall Rangel Regula Reyes Reynolds Richardson Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Ross Ruppersberger Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Sarbanes Saxton Schakowsky Schwartz Sessions Sestak Shays Simpson Sires Skelton Slaughter Smith (TX) Smith (WA) Snyder Souder Space Speier Spratt Tancredo Tanner Tauscher Towns Tsongas Upton Van Hollen Velázquez Walden (OR) Walsh (NY) Wasserman Schultz Waters Watt Waxman Weiner Weldon (FL) Wexler Wilson (NM) Wilson (OH) Wilson (SC) Wolf
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Abercrombie Aderholt Akin Alexander Altmire Baca Bachmann Barrett (SC) Barrow Bartlett (MD) Barton (TX) Becerra Berkley Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blumenauer Boustany Boyda (KS) Braley (IA) Broun (GA) Brown-Waite, Ginny Buchanan Burgess Burton (IN) Butterfield Buyer Capito Carney Carson Carter Castor Cazayoux Chabot Chandler Childers Clay Cleaver Coble Conaway Conyers Costello Courtney Cuellar Culberson Cummings Davis (KY) Davis, David Davis, Lincoln Deal (GA) DeFazio Delahunt Dent Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Doggett Doolittle Drake Duncan Edwards (MD) English (PA) Fallin Feeney Filner Flake Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Garrett (NJ) Gerlach Giffords Gillibrand Gingrey Gohmert Goode Goodlatte Graves Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Hall (TX) Hastings (WA) Hayes Heller Hensarling Herseth Sandlin Hill Hinchey Hirono Hodes Hoekstra Holden Hulshof Hunter Inslee Issa Jackson (IL) Jackson-Lee (TX) Jefferson Johnson (GA) Johnson (IL) Johnson, Sam Jones (NC) Jordan Kagen Kaptur Keller Kilpatrick King (IA) Kingston Knollenberg Kucinich Kuhl (NY) Lamborn Lampson Latham LaTourette Latta Lee Lewis (GA) Linder Lipinski LoBiondo Lucas Lynch Mack Manzullo Marchant Matheson McCarthy (CA) McCaul (TX) McCotter McHenry McIntyre McMorris Rodgers Mica Michaud Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Mitchell Moran (KS) Murphy, Tim Musgrave Myrick Napolitano Neugebauer Nunes Ortiz Pascrell Pastor Paul Payne Pearce Pence Peterson (MN) Petri Pitts Platts Poe Price (GA) Ramstad Rehberg Reichert Renzi Rodriguez Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Rothman Roybal-Allard Royce Rush Salazar Sali Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Scalise Schiff Schmidt Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Sensenbrenner Serrano Shadegg Shea-Porter Sherman Shimkus Shuler Shuster Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Solis Stark Stearns Stupak Sullivan Sutton Taylor Terry Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Tierney Turner Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Visclosky Walberg Walz (MN) Wamp Watson Welch (VT) Westmoreland Whitfield (KY) Wittman (VA) Woolsey Wu Yarmuth Young (AK) Young (FL)
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Abraham Biggs, 19, from Pembroke Pines, near Miami, killed himself hours after announcing his plan on his blog.
His father said it was "unimaginable" that neither the website's operators nor any viewers alerted the police.
Biggs took an overdose of anti-depressive drugs, but remained comatose online for hours before he died.
His father, Abraham Biggs Sr, said he had no idea his son was contemplating suicide.
''We were very good friends,'' Mr Biggs said of his son, adding: "It's wrong that it was allowed to happen.''
Biggs Jr, who was studying to be a paramedic at the college where his father is a maths professor, suffered from mental illness which his mother said had finally claimed his life.
''My son, Abraham Biggs Jr, was well-loved and cared for. However, the mental illness of bipolarity and depression got the better part of him,'' she wrote on MySpace.
'Nothing happened'
The sense of disbelief at the teenager's death was heightened by the realisation that his end was drawn out and, most likely, preventable.
He began the process by posting messages telling people he was going to kill himself, and then started streaming live pictures from his home.
Abraham Biggs's father and sister pay tributes Reports say that some of viewers who logged in to watch began to encourage the teenager to kill himself, while others tried to dissuade him.
After several hours, when he had not moved some viewers finally notified the site's moderator, who then called the police.
The boy's sister, Rosalind Biggs, denounced the website, Justin.tv, which allows people to broadcast themselves online: "They got hits, they got viewers, nothing happened for hours."
It is unclear how many people watched Wednesday's suicide unfold, although reports suggest that some viewers thought it was a hoax.
The last transmission from the webcam was of a police officer bursting into Abraham Biggs's room, where he discovers his body and then places his hand over the camera.
Michael Seifert, chief executive of Justin.tv, said the company and its staff would "take a moment to recognise and reflect upon the tragedy that occurred within our community" and offered condolences to the Biggs family.
The footage has since been taken down and his father is now calling for more regulation of chatrooms.
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Post by HighProtein on Dec 4, 2008 4:53:15 GMT -5
Home Programm Informationen Galerie Presse Tickets Neuigkeiten NEUE BANDBESTÄTIGUNG: AGONOIZE Monday, 17.11.2008 Mit Agonoize dürfen wir Euch einen spektakulären Neuzugang ankündigen. Spätestens seit ihren Clubhits „Koprolalie“ und „Femme Fatale“ gehören die Berliner Splatter-Disco Könige zu den unangefochtenen Abräumern der Tanzfläche. Ein mitreißender Spagat zwischen unwiderstehlicher Eingängigkeit und mörderischer Härte, der besonders live begeistert. Bekannt für ihre effektgeladenen Shows werden Agonoize auch auf dem Amphi Festival für einigen Gesprächsstoff sorgen. Frei nach der Devise: “Warning there is blood on the stage!”. Elektrisch – hart – direkt! NEU IM TICKETSHOP: AMPHI FESTIVAL GESCHENK-BOX Monday, 17.11.2008 Ab Dezember haben Socken, Pullis und Krawatten ausgedient. Pünktlich zur Adventszeit präsentieren wir Euch mit der Amphi Festival Geschenk-Box das perfekte Geschenk für jeden Festivalfan und Szenegänger: Bestehend aus einer hochwertig veredelten Metall-Box im DIN A5 Format enthält jedes Set ein Original Amphi Festival Wochenendticket, eine 100g Tafel Amphi Festival Schokolade sowie eine Amphi Postkarte als Geschenkbeilage. Darüber hinaus erhaltet ihr in der limitierten Erstauflage noch eine zusätzliche Überraschung. Ob zu Weihnachten, an Geburtstagen oder zu ganz besonderen Anlässen, mit der Amphi Festival Geschenk-Box habt Ihr immer das passende Geschenk um Euren Lieben eine besondere Freude zu bereiten. Ein echtes Sammlerstück, dass sich mit seinem zeitlosen Design auch als idealer Blickfang im Regal oder zur Aufbewahrung Eurer ganz persönlichen Schätze eignet. Die Amphi Festival Geschenk-Box könnt ihr ab sofort exklusiv im Amphi Ticketshop online unter www.synotec-newmedia.de/amphishop/welcome.html zum Preis von 59,99 € inklusive Vorverkaufsgebühren, zuzüglich Bearbeitungs- und Versandkosten vorbestellen. Die Auslieferung der Boxen erfolgt ab Anfang Dezember 2008. Kooperation mit HRS - Günstige Hotels für Euch Wednesday, 29.10.2008 Günstige Hotelzimmer am Amphi Wochenende - das ist der Slogan von HRS. Wir freuen uns Euch auch dieses Jahr wieder mitteilen zu können, dass wir mit HRS einen Partner gefunden haben, der Euch Hotelzimmer zu besonders günstigen Konditionen anbieten kann. Unter der Rubrik: Informationen / Übernachtungen / Hotels findet Ihr den Link, der direkt zur Zimmerreservierung führt! Website: www.hrs.de/?client=de__MT&customerId=701486Neue Bandbestätigungen: KMFDM, Qntal, The Other Sunday, 26.10.2008 Mit Beginn der dunklen Jahreszeit freuen wir uns, Euch heute drei brandaktuelle Neuzugänge ankündigen zu dürfen. Zum Start in die zweite Hälfte des Programms erwartet Euch jede Menge Abwechslung mit drei absoluten Juwelen der Szene! Macht Euch bereit für den Ultra-Heavy Beat, mit den Industrial-Metal Pionieren KMFDM. 1984 in Hamburg gegründet gehören Mastermind Sascha Konietzko und seine Crew zu den kreativsten und einflussreichsten Motoren der Szene. Hart aber gerecht befeuern sie mit ihrem unverkennbaren Stil aus deftigen Riffs und futuristischen Electroattacken jeden Kessel und lassen es sich nicht nehmen, mit Euch am Tanzbrunnen ihr 25jähriges Jubiläum zu feiern. Nicht minder prägend, wenn auch auf anderem musikalischen Terrain, heißen wir QNTAL auf dem Amphi Festival willkommen. Seit Anfang der 90er Jahre steht diese Ausnahmeformation für die perfekte Symbiose aus mittelalterlichen Klängen und moderner Elektronik. Wer einmal dem Zauber QNTALs verfiel, den entführen Sängerin „Syrah“, Fil Groth und Michael Popp (Estampie, ehem. Deine Lakaien) in eine Welt, in der Gesetze der Realität keine Anwendung finden - mystisch, magisch, erhaben, experimentell! Ein echtes Heimspiel am Tanzbrunnen absolvieren zudem die Kölner Horrorpunker THE OTHER. 138% bei der Sache, rocken die Jungs das Amphi Festival mit fetzigen Gruselgeschichten und einer saftigen Portion schwarzem Humor. Getreu dem Motto „Du bist wen du frisst!“, sind The Other sprichwörtlich ein Spaß für die ganze Familie und erweitern das Amphi Festival mit ihrem druckvollen Sound um eine neue Facette! Neu: Hocico, Marsheaux, Auto-Auto, Jesus on Extasy Thursday, 02.10.2008 Mit ihrem aktuellen Album „Memorias Atrás“ bewiesen die mexikanischen Elektrogötter Hocico wieder, warum sie zu den weltweit erfolgreichsten Acts ihrer Zunft gehören. Scharf wie Chili und heiß wie ein Vulkan, servierten Erk Aicrag und Racso Agroyam erneut kompromisslosen Vollblutelectro, der jeden Saal zum Kochen bringt. Für den kommenden Sommer haben sich Hocico nun ganz dem Amphi Festival verschrieben und begrüßen Euch am Tanzbrunnen zu einer feurigen Fiesta Mexicana, bei ihrem einzigen Festivalauftritt in Deutschland 2009. Unser zweiter Neuzugang für heute hört auf den klangvollen Namen Marsheaux. Beheimatet in Athen, gehören Marianthi und Sophia, die musikalischen Köpfe hinter Marsheaux, zu den erfolgreichsten Musik-Exporten ihres Landes. Ihre Spezialität: brillanter Synthi-Pop in der Tradition von Yazoo, Human League, OMD und Depeche Mode, gepaart mit einem Schuss mediterraner Weiblichkeit! {pic2}Auto-Auto, alias Johan Hellquist und Erik Frankel, sind einigen von Euch sicher schon durch ihren Clubhit „Shadowlands“ vom „Awake The Machines Vol.6“-Sampler aufgefallen. In der Tat haben sich die Neuankömmlinge aus dem Hause Out of line schwer in die Elektronik ihrer Maschinen verliebt. Vergleiche zu den Pioniertagen ihrer Landsmänner Covenant braucht das Duo keineswegs zu scheuen und auch auf der Tanzfläche treten Auto-Auto gehörig aufs Gas. Aufregend und neu haben Auto-Auto viel zu geben, kommt und holt es Euch! Nach der erfolgreich absolvierten Deutschlandtournee als Support für Eisbrecher, dürfen wir Euch zudem Jesus On Extasy ankündigen. Die Essener Industrial-Glamrocker um Sänger Dorian Devereaux starten mit ihrem neuen Album „Beloved Enemy“ gerade gewaltig durch und bereichern ab sofort das Programm beim Amphi Festival 2009! Neue Bandbestätigung: Laibach! Monday, 08.09.2008 Niemand geringere als LAIBACH geben sich auf dem Amphi Festival 2009 die Ehre! Die slowenische Künstlervereinigung um Sänger Milan Fras zählt zu den letzten großen Unikaten der Szene. 1980 gegründet, bewahrten sich Laibach stets eine erfrischende Unberechenbarkeit, die sie in elektronischen Hymnen und avantgardistischen Clubstampfern mit Kreativität und künstlerischem Pathos zum Leben erwecken. Vor allem Live bieten Laibach das ganz große Kino. Ein Fest für Augen und Ohren, inszeniert auf höchstem Niveau. Website: www.laibach.nsk.siNeue Bandbestätigungen: Eisbrecher, Diorama, Solar fake Friday, 29.08.2008 Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein? Nein! Als Eisbrecher 2007 erstmals auf dem Amphi Festival auftraten, war es Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Eiskalt erwischt und knallhart serviert spielten sich Frontmann Alexx Wesselsky und seine Jungs in Eure Herzen, gefolgt von einem heißen Tanz beim Amphi Festival 2008. Vielfach gewünscht, kehren Eisbrecher 2009 mit ihrem neuen Hammer-Album „Sünde“ (VÖ.: 22.08.2008) an den Tanzbrunnen zurück, um Euch, düster und packend wie nie, ein amtliches Pfund deutschsprachigen Electrorocks um die Ohren zu hauen! Von der Wucht einer Abrissbirne ebenfalls unweit entfernt, präsentiert sich auch unser zweiter Neuzugang für heute: DIORAMA! Musikalisch weitläufig dem Synthi-Pop zuzuordnen, wird das Rudel um Bandkopf Torben Wendt auf der Bühne zum Tier. Als janusköpfiger Wolf im Schafspelz gelingt es der Band live stets aufs neue, ihre anspruchsvolle Elektronik und ausgefeilten Arrangements, mit einer amtlichen Portion Adrenalin zu versehen, die man ihnen auf den ersten Blick gar nicht zugetraut hätte. Zu Recht stehen DIORAMA daher auf Euren Wunschzetteln ganz weit oben und wir freuen uns Euch diese außergewöhnliche Band auf dem Amphi Festival 2009 präsentieren zu können. Den Dritten Neuzugang im Bunde könnte man mittlerweile als einen guten Bekannten des Amphi Festivals bezeichnen, trat er doch bereits mit Zeraphine und den Dreadful Shadows erfolgreich bei uns auf. 2009 beehrt Euch Sven Friedrich allerdings in eigener Mission. Mit seinem Soloprojekt Solar Fake erfand sich der umtriebige Berliner im letzten Jahr wieder einmal neu und bewies, dass er sich auch auf elektronischem Terrain zu Hause fühlt. Mit seiner unverwechselbaren Stimme als Markenzeichen, bittet Sven Friedrich nun das Amphi Festival zum Tanz und läd Euch Ein, mit ihm zu Träumen. Vorverkauf für das Amphi Festival 2009 gestartet Friday, 01.08.2008 Der Ticketvorverkauf ist nun offiziell gestartet. Originaltickets erhaltet Ihr nur im Amphi-Ticketshop bundesweit sind Karten u.a. bei Ticket online, CTS/Eventim und Kartenhaus Vorverkaufsstellen erhältlich! Telefonisch könnt Ihr Karten unter der Rufnummer 01805- 568200 oder auch im Internet unter www.dark-ticket.de bestellen. Bands Amphi Festival 2009 Absolute Body Control Agonoize Auto-Auto Diorama Eisbrecher Feindflug Front 242 Hocico Jesus on Extasy Jäger90 KMFDM Laibach Marsheaux Panzer AG Qntal Saltatio Mortis Scandy Solar Fake The Other Unheilig Xotox +13 weitere Bands Sitemap Sitemap Archiv 2008 Amphi Radio @ Last FM Counter by WebHitsWebdesign SYNOTEC new media / www.synotec-newmedia.de
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Post by HighProtein on Dec 6, 2008 0:03:20 GMT -5
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Post by HighProtein on Dec 6, 2008 0:11:07 GMT -5
When Ashley came home with a headache and body aches and pains, she thought she had caught the flu. But by the next morning, Ashley's temperature had soared to 103° F (39° C) and her throat felt like she'd swallowed hot coals. Even worse, she was so tired she could hardly lift her head off the pillow. Ashley had never felt this bad with any cold or flu.
Ashley's mom took her to the doctor, where a physical examination and a blood test revealed that Ashley had mononucleosis.
What Is Mono? Infectious mononucleosis (pronounced: mah-no-noo-klee-oh-sus), sometimes called "mono" or "the kissing disease," is an infection usually caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). EBV is very common, and many people have been exposed to the virus at some time in childhood.
Not everyone who is exposed to EBV develops the symptoms of mono, though. As with many viruses, it is possible to be exposed to and infected with EBV without becoming sick.
People who have been infected with EBV will carry the virus for the rest of their lives — even if they never have any signs or symptoms of mono. People who do show symptoms of having mono probably will not get sick or have symptoms again.
Although EBV is the most common cause of mono, other viruses, such as cytomegalovirus (pronounced: sye-toe-meh-guh-low-vye-rus), can cause a similar illness. Like EBV, cytomegalovirus stays in the body for life and may not cause any symptoms.
People often kid around about mono, but as Ashley discovered, it's no joke. A case of mono can keep you out of commission for weeks.
How Do People Get Mono? One common way to "catch" mono is by kissing someone who has been infected, which is how the illness got its "kissing disease" nickname. If you have never been infected with EBV, kissing someone who is infected can put you at risk for getting the disease.
But what if you haven't kissed anyone? You can also get mononucleosis through other types of direct contact with saliva (spit) from someone infected with EBV, such as by sharing a straw, a toothbrush, or an eating utensil.
Some people who have the virus in their bodies never have any symptoms, but it is still possible for them to pass it to others. Experts believe that EBV can even spread from people who had the virus months before.
How Do I Know if I Have It? Symptoms usually begin to appear 4 to 7 weeks after infection with the virus. Signs that you may have mono include:
constant fatigue fever sore throat loss of appetite swollen lymph nodes (commonly called glands, located in your neck, underarms, and groin) headaches sore muscles larger-than-normal liver or spleen skin rash abdominal pain People who have mono may have different combinations of these symptoms, and some may have symptoms so mild that they hardly notice them. Others may have no symptoms at all.
Even if you have several of these symptoms, don't try to diagnose yourself. Always consult your doctor if you have a fever, sore throat, and swollen glands or are unusually tired for no apparent reason.
Because the symptoms of mono are so general and can be signs of other illnesses, it's possible to mistake mononucleosis for the flu, strep throat, or other diseases. In fact, occasionally some people may have mono and strep throat at the same time.
When making a diagnosis, the doctor may want to take some blood tests to see if mono is causing the symptoms. But even if the blood tests indicate mono, there isn't much the doctor can do other than advise a person to drink lots of fluids and get plenty of rest.
How Can I Get Better? There is no cure for mononucleosis. But the good news is that even if you do nothing, the illness will go away by itself, usually in 3 to 4 weeks. Because mono is caused by a virus, antibiotics such as penicillin won't help unless you have an additional infection like strep throat. In fact, certain antibiotics can even cause a rash if you take them while you have mono.
Although there's no magic pill for mono, you can do some things to feel better. The best treatment is to get plenty of rest, especially during the beginning stages of the illness when your symptoms are the worst. Put yourself to bed and pass on school, sports, and other activities.
For the fever and aching muscles, try taking acetaminophen or ibuprofen. Steer clear of aspirin unless your doctor tells you to take it: Aspirin has been linked to a serious disease in kids and teens called Reye syndrome, which can lead to liver failure and death.
If you have a sore throat, chew gum, drink tea with honey, or suck on hard candy or ice pops. Even if you're not hungry, try to eat a well-balanced diet and drink lots of water and juices to prevent dehydration. You can get some nutrition and soothe your throat with cold fruit smoothies or low-fat shakes.
When you start feeling better, take it slow. Although you can return to school once your fever disappears, you may still feel tired. Your body will tell you when it's time to rest — listen to it. By taking good care of yourself and resting as much as you need to, you will soon be back to normal, usually within a few weeks.
Doctors also recommend avoiding sports for at least a month after the illness because the spleen (an organ in the body that sits under the left rib cage) is often enlarged temporarily while you are ill. An enlarged spleen can rupture easily, causing internal bleeding and abdominal pain and requiring emergency surgery. Do not participate in contact sports, cheerleading, or even wrestling with your little siblings or your friends until your doctor gives you permission.
As you recover, make sure you don't share the virus with your friends and family. Chances are they will not get the disease from casual contact with you, but you can take a few steps to help them stay germ free. Wash your hands often, cover your nose and mouth when you sneeze or cough, and keep your drinks and eating utensils to yourself. This is one time when your friends and family will thank you for being selfish.
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Post by HighProtein on Jan 20, 2009 22:30:49 GMT -5
Skip to Content Complete coverage of the 2009 Detroit Auto Show AOL Tech Europe ↓ Polska Deutschland Asia ↓ 繁體中文 简体中文 日本版 한국어판 Español HD Mobile Engadget Engadget Engadget Web Images Video News Local RSS Feed Contact us Tip us on news! Verizon Hub in the wild on way to February 1 release by Chris Ziegler, posted Jan 20th 2009 at 9:58PM Our tipster tells us these bad boys can't be activated just yet, but they'll be available in stores as of February 1 -- and you won't need anything crazy like FiOS to get 'em. The Hub is the evolution of the Verizon One concept first shown at CES two years ago, featuring family-friendly features like a digital corkboard, scheduler, photo frame functionality, and integration with Verizon Wireless handsets to fire MMS shots straight to the screen. In a way, you can think of it as the watered-down realization of that awesome videophone in Back To The Future II, but with less teleconferencing and fax capability and way, way less Lea Thompson. Gallery: Verizon Hub in the wild on way to February 1 release PermalinkEmail this4 CommentsSony doth protest too much: don't call the VAIO P a netbook? by Joshua Topolsky, posted Jan 20th 2009 at 8:53PM Our main man "Rick" over at the Sony Blog has penned another short-form stunner entitled "You Can't Tell a Netbook by its Cover," which aims to dispel the seemingly persistent myth that the VAIO P is... gasp, a netbook. We'd thought we'd break down the points (which Sony has helpfully broken down) and see if they hold water. Since the Sony Blog moves through these killers one-by-one, we're going to do the same -- read on for the hard facts. Continue reading Sony doth protest too much: don't call the VAIO P a netbook? Read PermalinkEmail this62 Comments Google's Android Engineering Director leaves for... Coupons, Inc. by Nilay Patel, posted Jan 20th 2009 at 7:56PM While we're primed and ready for Android to take over the mobile marketplace, it looks like Steve Horowitz, Google's engineering director for the upstart OS, has other thoughts -- he's bailing out for Coupons, Inc. Yep, it's a coupons site. We have no idea why Horowitz thinks a company working on a "digital coupons and promotions platform" is more exciting that leading Android's development, but he's certainly jumped ship before -- he started his career in Apple's Macintosh group before a stint at Be, and prior to taking the reigns at Google he was on the teams at Microsoft that shipped Windows Media Center Edition, UltimateTV, and WebTV. We'll be honest, those all sound infinitely more interesting than doling out coupons, but maybe dude just really loves typing in instant savings codes. As for Android, it doesn't sound like Andy Rubin's going anywhere, so we're certain work will continue with nary a hiccup -- or at least we're hoping it does, because we're getting pretty hungry for some Cupcake. [Via Electronista] Read PermalinkEmail this42 CommentsScientists develop piezoelectric motor for medical microbots by Ross Miller, posted Jan 20th 2009 at 7:23PM Researchers at Monash University in Australia have developed a piezoelectric motor that's 0.25 mm wide, which they claim is 70% smaller than the smallest design out there. The Proteus motor, named after Fantastic Voyage's microscopic vessel, uses an E. coli-like flagellum to swim through the bloodstream. The goal is to one day have it power microbots that'll enter the body by injection to take photos, deliver medicine and eventually do surgery. According to lead scientist James Friend, escape would come from it returning to the point of entry or, should something break down, via a micro-catheter -- no tear ducts necessary this time. [Via Yahoo! Health] Read PermalinkEmail this18 Comments Bose announces it's cutting 10 percent of its workforce by Laura June, posted Jan 20th 2009 at 6:37PM Well, more awful news being flung our way. Bose, hallowed manufacturers of a plethora of fine iPod docks and countless other expensive, luxurious electronic goods, has just announced 1,000 job cuts. That means that about 10 percent of their workforce -- across several areas, including their manufacturing sector -- will be out of work in the very near future. The Bose rep cited the decline in the global economy as the main reason for the "reductions." Reductions? Cute. Read PermalinkEmail this44 CommentsMSI Wind U100 Valentine Edition: geek romance, exemplified by Darren Murph, posted Jan 20th 2009 at 5:44PM Oh sure, there's all manners of garb and chocolates that you could get your lover this Valentine's Day, but the true geek knows just how hard it is to pick up those all-too-clichéd items when it's a gadget you're really after. Enter MSI, who has just delivered the appropriately named Valentine Edition of its Wind U100 netbook just in time for that special holiday. If you'll recall, this isn't the first time MSI has outed a minuscule laptop oozing with romance, but this one boasts a limited edition label (figuratively, at least), a 6-cell battery, 160GB hard drive and a 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor. You can purchase 2.6 pounds of lovey-dovey right now for $429.99, but you better act fast -- no lady worth having will accept the "my UPS guy didn't come through" excuse. The full release is after the break. Continue reading MSI Wind U100 Valentine Edition: geek romance, exemplified PermalinkEmail this12 Comments AMD sells handheld graphics unit to Qualcomm for $65M by Nilay Patel, posted Jan 20th 2009 at 5:03PM AMD's been looking to sell off its handheld graphics business since July, and it looks like it's finally found a buyer in Qualcomm. The $65M deal announced today is already approved, and Qualcomm is planning on hiring key design and development people from AMD -- some nice news amid the most recent round of layoffs at the struggling chipmaker. We'll see if this cash infusion helps AMD get back to its feet -- and, on the flipside, if the tech infusion helps Qualcomm actually do something with Snapdragon except demo clunky vaporware prototypes. Read PermalinkEmail this20 CommentsBelkingate - as new evidence turns up, the company keeps mum by Joseph L. Flatley, posted Jan 20th 2009 at 4:21PM We found out yesterday that there is something amiss with the ratings that Belkin products have been receiving on Amazon -- and while the company's president pleads ignorance, more evidence of wrongdoing continues to mount. According to The Daily Background, Amazon accounts with names like B. Ekim (whose nickname is listed as "mikebayard," same as the name of the employee that seems to have started this whole mess) exist with little to tie them to reality, aside from the fact that they enthusiastically rated Belkin products on sites like Amazon and PriceGrabber. When we asked a representative of the company point-blank whether or not anyone at Belkin has been offering money for positive reviews, we received this evasive reply: Thanks for your email. We are still investigating the situation, and we hope to have a follow-up statement that will answer these questions later this week. To be entirely honest, we don't know what's worse -- that someone would outsource fraudulent five star ratings for his company, or the fact that the alleged fraud was so painfully obvious. Looking back, it does seem suspicious that so many people were so psyched about TuneCast. Read PermalinkEmail this58 Comments BenQ goes for the kitchen sink approach with new line of 16:9 monitors by Donald Melanson, posted Jan 20th 2009 at 3:34PM Never one to go half-way with a product line, BenQ has now filled out its G-series of LCD monitors with a full complement of 16:9 LCDs, including both 1080p and 720p models. Those range from the 23.6-inch G2410HD and 24-inch G2411HD/HDA, which each boast an Advanced Motion Accelerator that BenQ says improves response time and brightness, to the decidedly smaller 15.6-inch G610HDA and 18.5-inch G910HD/HDA models, which use a dual lamp system to conserve energy depending on the level of brightness needed. Complete specs on each model are otherwise a bit light, but you can apparently expect dynamic contrast ratios ranging from 10,000:1 to 40,000:1, response times of 2ms to 5ms, and DVI, HDMI ports, and built-in speakers on a few of 'em. No word on prices either, but they'll apparently start hitting China this month, with a "worldwide" rollout planned for later in the year. Read PermalinkEmail this17 CommentsPhoenix Technologies HyperSpace instant-on OS coming to ASUS laptops by Darren Murph, posted Jan 20th 2009 at 2:46PM We already knew that Acer was signed on to load Phoenix Technologies' HyperSpace instant-on OS onto some of its machines, and we had a hunch that ASUS would be next in line. Today, the aforesaid outfit has affirmed our suspicions by announcing that the company responsible for the overpopulation of the Eee will "incorporate HyperSpace into its next generation laptops." Oh, and we get the idea ASUS won't be the last to join in, so you Gateway fanboys can feel free to hold out just a bit longer. Read PermalinkEmail this22 Comments CES 2009 HDTV mega-guide by Darren Murph, posted Jan 20th 2009 at 2:00PM CES 2009 may be over and done with, but we'll be feeling the ramifications of it for months to come. For those not watching for every last announcement from the show, you may be surprised to find that dozens upon dozens of new HDTVs were introduced, with many of them slated to start shipping this Spring / Summer. Engadget HD has hosted up a thorough mega-guide to showcase what sets made their debut in Vegas this month, complete with links to more information as well as release windows and pricing where available. If you're even remotely considering a new set this year, you owe it to yourself to give this one a look. Head on over, won't you? Read PermalinkEmail this14 CommentsSony ushers in change, hope with upcoming PS3 2.60 firmware update by Paul Miller, posted Jan 20th 2009 at 1:15PM Sony just dropped some details on its upcoming 2.60 firmware update for the PS3. The big thrust of the update is a new Photo Gallery app, which can sort by various EXIF data, but also the actual content of the image itself, including colors used, number of people in the photo, how old they are, and facial expressions they used when you pulled out your powdered-blue Kodak to take a few historical snapshots. Naturally you can build slideshows with music and the like. Sony's also adding with this update guest access to the PlayStation Store and DivX 3.11 support. If that's not enough magic to get you riled up, Sony's also pushing out a PSP update, firmware 5.03 that addresses "security vulnerabilities" (we wonder what that could be?) and some stability issues. There's a video walkthrough of the PS3 update after the break. Read - PS3 v2.60 Read - PSP v5.03 Continue reading Sony ushers in change, hope with upcoming PS3 2.60 firmware update PermalinkEmail this98 CommentsLG overtakes Motorola for third place in global handset shipments by Darren Murph, posted Jan 20th 2009 at 12:57PM Half a year ago, Motorola was still clinging tight to the number three spot in terms of worldwide handset shipments, but boy -- what a difference six months makes. According to numbers compiled by DigiTimes, LG Electronics managed to ship just over 100 million mobile phones in 2008, while Moto checked in with "just" 99.9 million shipped. That makes LG the third largest handset maker in terms of shipments, barely beating out Moto and Sony Ericsson who placed fourth and fifth, respectively. As expected, Nokia and Samsung are still holding down the top two spots, but it's the continued slippage of Motorola that's most significant here. You know what they say about being on rock bottom, right? We bet Motorola's wondering if that mantra applies here. [Via phonescoop] Read PermalinkEmail this29 CommentsHP Mini 2140 "business" netbook now available by Laura June, posted Jan 20th 2009 at 12:15PM HP's very recently announced Mini 2140 is available now for you to get one of your very own if you so please. The handsome fella's just been unleashed on the world, and if you don't remember his stats, well, that's what we're here for. The business-aimed netbook features a 1.6GHz Atom CPU, with options for either an 80GB or 160GB hard drive, up to 2GB of RAM, and resolution options of 1366 x 768 and 1024 x 567 for the 10-inch screen, and of course the ExpressCard / 54 slot. Though a Linux OS has been announced, so far all we've seen are options for XP and Vista materialize, but we'll keep our eyes peeled. Prices start at $499 for the base model, but run up to $799 for the tricked out Vista version. Now get back to work, slacker. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] Continue reading HP Mini 2140 "business" netbook now available Read PermalinkEmail this47 CommentsLG gets official with 50PQ60D and 42PQ60D Xcanvas plasmas in Korea by Darren Murph, posted Jan 20th 2009 at 11:33AM Don't bet the farm on it just yet, but given the FCC filing that outed these sets at the tail end of December, we'd say it's safe to assume that the panel you see above (and after the break) will be headed to America in short order. Made official today in South Korea, LG's Xcanvas 50PQ60D and 42PQ60D plasmas sport a sleeker, more fully integrated design that conceals the speakers within the border. The TV itself also detects ambient light and automatically adjusts brightness in order to conserve energy, and the built-in USB port enables portable media to be loaded on for all to see. Few other details about the pair are being released, but you can expect 'em on sale halfway across the world in around three weeks for $1,460 / $1,022, respectively. [Via Slashgear] Continue reading LG gets official with 50PQ60D and 42PQ60D Xcanvas plasmas in Korea Read PermalinkEmail this28 CommentsOlder Posts → Previous Windows 7 install roundup Engadget's Netflix HD streaming shootout Palm Pre: everything you ever wanted to know Dell Adamo hands-on! Jimmy Fallon and Engadget: raw and uncut Sony VAIO P hands-on Video: LG Watch Phone hands-on Engadget Podcast 129 - 01.16.2009 Windows 7 install roundup Engadget's Netflix HD streaming shootout Palm Pre: everything you ever wanted to know Dell Adamo hands-on! 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Post by HighProtein on Sept 29, 2009 19:27:22 GMT -5
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Post by HighProtein on Sept 29, 2009 19:27:54 GMT -5
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Sept 29, 2009 19:38:00 GMT -5
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Sept 29, 2009 19:39:54 GMT -5
Has anyone else noticed that in lost dvd box set whenever people from the Dharma or claim to be Dharma refer to the purge, it is always 11-12 years ago. However in reality we know that it was much longer ago than that becasue they were taken out in the early 70's or 80's I believe.
When Locke has a dream and he meets horace, he says "Sometimes you need a break from the DI ya know?" Locke replys "no" and horace says "Thats probably because I"ve been dead for 12 years". And when Kate and Locke and Roussue go to one of the old dharma stations they meet one of the others staging themselves as a present day dharma worker, he says that I think 11 years ago during the purge the hostiles let him live there as long as he never violated a truce.
'the Sept. 24 premiere of "Grey's Anatomy" will answer the following riddle: What does Doc Wyatt order Cristina and Owen to stop doing? What should Dr. Wyatt order Mere and Dere to stop doing because, man, this is getting really embarrassing?
Meanwhile, George is still dead.
(But Izzie is not, maybe, or at least not yet - until her contract runs out or the actress who plays her keeps saying demeaning things about the "Grey’s Anatomy dvd box set" staff in which case she might be out sooner than she thinks.)
And meanwhile again, as reported in E! last week, much of this season will be devoted to the merger between Seattle Grace and a crosstown rival; that way, show'll be able to handle major absences including Ellen Pompeo's (off for maternity leave) and Kat Heigl.
I had expected The Mentalist DVD episode to be pretty good, but it actually EXCEEDED my expectations.
I loved the Lisbon/Jane & especially the major Rigsb/VanPelt. I wanted them to kiss! But I loved the almost-kiss too. They're sweet on The Mentalist DVD.
But Rigsby was taken by surprise while his back The Mentalist DVD was turned. I mean who would have expected that that guy would have just randomly attacked him?
Ally McBeal DVD, in 2009. Yup, our sources are telling us that 20th Century Fox is prepping the quirky David E. Kelly series starring Calista Flockhart, Greg Germann, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol, and many others. We're told the first season of the five season series Ally McBeal DVD (112 episodes) will be released later this year (the date, and maybe even the month aren't set in stone). But wait, that's not all...
Fox is also prepping the complete series to be released on the same day as the Ally McBeal season 1 DVD set. So, if all goes according to plan (or the rumors), then serious collectors will be able to pick up the complete series, while casual fans, or people not wanting to fork out for the big set, will be able to pick up season 1. Ally McBeal Seasons 2-5 DVD
For a few minutes I was with the rest of the Battlestar Galactica DVD fans in asking ‘What the hell is with the Dylan tune?’ Now, I think I can safely say I have come up with what is the most reasonable explanation for it, maybe. It’s kind of a crazy theory, but crazy times call for crazy thinking, and Battlestar Galactica DVD fans could use some sort of an explanation. Right?
So my idea goes a little like this: remember the probe that was found that emitted some sort of radiation harmful only to Battlestar Galactica Seasons? Whose probe was that? The Cylons would have recognized it, no? So this was significant since they also were careful not to give any indication that the probe had come from Earth, which would have been too much information for sure.
The finale of Desperate Housewives DVD has certainly reset the series several years into the future to make room for more dramatic twists and suspenseful plots. To that end, viewers got a glimpse of the big changes in store for the residents of Wisteria Lane. While the biggest shock was Susan in the arms of a man (Gale Harold) who was not her husband Mike Delfino (James Denton), the most devastating for cast member Teri Hatcher was seeing Andrea Bowen, who has played her Desperate Housewives DVD daughter Julie Mayer since the premiere, depart the ABC dramedy.
Hatcher, who plays klutzy Susan, reportedly slammed the producers of Desperate Housewives DVD for axing Bowen, whose character on the series was sent off to college. But her distress was even more aggravated when she realized that no going away party had been organized for the 18-year-old actress.
Hey my brother just asked me this question and, god forbid, Scrubs DVD did end, what do u think would be an awesome finale? Do you think they should just end normally like at the end of Scrubs season 4 DVD, or be all dramatic and have someone killed? My bro thought they should have JD in a car accident or something, whereas I thought it would be more dramatic if Scrubs DVD was responsible for looking after Turk or Carla or Elliot (like they were for him when he had appendicitis) and they died.
What do u guys reckon?
While promoting her film, Post Grad, Alexis Bledel (Rory Gilmore on Gilmore Girls dvd sets) talked with MTV about the possibility of a Gilmore Girls dvd sets movie. Like in other interviews, Alexis shares that she hasn’t heard anything about a movie, nor read a script. If a script were to happen, she shares an almost identical answer to that she gave here about liking the end to Rory’s story. However, when pressed about a script actually coming her way and, assuming she wants to pursue it, how does Alexis see Rory? ‘I imagine her working in a newspaper room somewhere just going after a story.”
Songs you wish could be ending songs (mainly non-mainstream since Cold Case DVD box set music isn't really mainstream):
How Many Times by Zack Hexum (2004)-maybe for a 2005/2006 case
Streets of London by Ralph McTell (single in 1974)-maybe for a 1978 case (I wrote an episode-not posted on FanFiction yet, though-for a 1978 case cause it fit well into the episode)
are good examples (and good songs, at least I think so)
by the way I hope I'm not annoying anyone creating so many new topics, especially you, L112
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Post by HighProtein on Sept 29, 2009 19:49:51 GMT -5
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Sept 29, 2009 19:58:54 GMT -5
The Simpsons DVD writers decided to make an entire season one, continuing story arc and have the season's final episode be the episode that resolves almost all the conflicts.
Just to get the ball rolling, here's the list of intertwining conflicts / plots that could run for 22 episodes of The Simpsons DVD:
Bart tries to get Skinner to move out; Lisa tries to be the caretaker of a wild, 'black stallion' horse, Homer and Marge allow a "Nanny-esque" reality The Simpsons DVD be filmed at their home, Ned and Racheal meet up again, Dr. Hibbert gets sued and is on the verge of loosing his medical licence, Maggie gets a hairline fracture on her leg and has to deal with a The Simpsons DVD, Lisa helps Bart overcome a certain level of shyness with girls...and so on.
Ok, I've just finished The Wire Season 5 DVD and I have three questions:
1) What happens to Marlo? He wasn't in the montage on The Wire Seasons 1-5 DVD Boxset.
2) When Sydnor was talking to the Judge, what was that all about?
And
3) The song at the 'pretend' wake of McNulty, (yes I know it was in an earlier The Wire Seasons 1-5 DVD Boxset too), was it definitely The Pogues? I know it was a Pogues record but was it them who sang that version?
Cheers
Carlo Rota took what you could call a circuitous route into the world of acting. The son of a world-famous Italian Chef, Carlo began his adult days in the culinary industry, working under his father. One day, Carlo decided to be an 24 Hours 1-7 actor. That was sixteen years ago. Since then, Carlo has worked on screen and stage in diverse and interesting projects. He is probably best known for his current role on 24 hours DVD as Morris O'Brian who, if you've been watching this season, has had a rough go of it. Carlo stopped by recently to discuss his history, his experience on 24 Hours 1-7 DVD, and a very interesting upcoming project.
One of my favorite Bones DVD characters is Caroline Julian, the prosecutor. I think the atmosphere she brings is fantastic for example the lecture she gives in the Bones season 2 DVD episode "The man in the mansion".
I want her to get more air time she is a fabulous point about Bones DVD.
What do you think??
nip tuck dvd box set season 4 compared to others was more sexy and bizzare at the same time. Hands down, it was very captivating to watch each episode to see what was going to happen as a result of the previous episodes. Also, the Christmas episode in this season, I thought, was more touching and enjoyable than some of the later ones..
Battlestar Galactica DVD executive producer Ronald D. Moore wants fans of the show to support the writers' strike, and he's offering some very enticing incentives for those who do. Over at Pencils2MediaMoguls.com, you can spend one dollar to send a box of pencils to one of the six media moguls who run the corporate conglomerates that the Battlestar Galactica DVD writers are striking against. If you mention that the show you're supporting is Battlestar Galactica Seasons, you'll automatically be entered into a raffle where you could win some very interesting prizes.
There is not a man on earth that kills bad guys in a more entertaining manner than Jack Bauer. Sure, he may be fictional, but his precision and creativity is 24 DVD unrivaled. He is the killing equivalent of Steve Nash, Mozart, and the Dalai Lama combined. Jack is so good at terminating nameless evil minions that he seems to challenge himself at times, making kills at a 24 DVD higher degree of difficulty than necessary. Such is the majesty of Jack Bauer.
With the two-hour 24 DVD finale, it seemed like a good time to go back and sift through Jack's day six wreckage in order to find his five best kills of the season (and we have video of each, to boot).
Billy's death was sad during the Ally McBeal DVD episode, but he came back so many times as a ghost it lost a bit of it's impact. So I'd have to say the Ally McBeal DVD finale. It didn't really hit me till they were all out on the street and she was saying goodbye, and the last shot with them all standing there looking after her and that music playing.....very sad.
Hi folks! Sorry I've been gone so long, been kind of busy. I saw this the other day and thought y'all might be interested in it. The first lost clip was shown during comic con. The release schedule for the clips is as follows:
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Mark Berman, jazz piano star notable for his hot montuno piano playing on the “Sex and the City dvd box set” theme song, brings his jazz trio to the 67th Floor Weather Room at the Top of the Rock, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, this coming Wednesday evening September 23, from 6PM – 8PM.
The Mark Berman Trio kicks off the Starlight Music Series, the first ever music series at the “venue with a view." Come after work, before the show, or before dinner to relax and enjoy great live jazz, a glass of wine, and spectacular views at sunset. Berman's trio will feature his world renowned piano playing as well as his lustrous voice (reminiscent of Chet Baker) on standards as well as on his stellar original tunes.
Want a sneak preview of Berman's upcoming album, a counterpoint and a follow-up to his 2007 debut release, The Genesis Project? Come to the Top of the Rock
Certainly the top new drama hit offered by network television last year, this CBS show brought charismatic Simon Baker the major success he's earned over past series of The Mentalist dvd box set and movie work.
Here, he plays Patrick Jane, an observational expert who was exposed for faking alleged psychic abilities in the past. Now working with a California investigation unit and a highly skeptical supervisor (Robin Tunney), he's haunted by a serial killer to whom he has a tragic personal connection.
Owain Yeoman and Amanda Righetti also are in the regular cast. DVD extras: three "making-of" documentaries; outtakes.
Ausiello rocks. He’s bee live tweeting the CW upfronts today, and has delivered us some Gilmore Girls movie gems. Ausiello says:
Just cornered Peter Roth head of Warner Bros. TV and asked him about a Gilmore movie! He said he likes the idea of a Gilmore FEATURE film as opposed to TV movie
So, is there still hope for a Gilmore Girls movie? Of course! If network execs (Peter Roth is the chief executive of Warner Brothers Television) get behind the idea, magic could happen!
Though sadly CW show Privileged (which had Gilmore Girls writer Rita Mimoun) was not renewed for Fall, Ausiello is comparing new pilot Parental Guidance Advised to Gilmore Girls
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Post by HighProtein on Oct 14, 2009 19:30:26 GMT -5
Log-in| Sign Up Cheats Forums User Movies GT Mature Top Media Reviews PreviewsHomePCPS3Xbox 360WiiPSPDSMobile Specs Ops Modern Warfare 2's new co-op mode revealed! Flash SD HD Quicktime SD HD Windows Media SD HD Download Continuous PlayDownload Links:Quicktime (82.2MB) WMV (85.2MB) MP4 for iPod (64.4MB) Right click & Save As... ScrewAttack Angry Video Game Nerd: Castlevania Part I Platforms: N/A Posted: October 8, 2009 @ 12:00 AM What could possibly be wrong with this masterpiece? Tags: part game attack castlevania video screw angry nerd 1 screwattackavgn Views: 595,716 Comments: 1,727 Game Rank: 4 of 8,118 URL: Embed: E-mail this Video Favorite this Video Blog this Video Share This Track this Game To: (Separate each email address by space) Message: CancelSend Show all 1727 Comments « Prev 1 2 ... of 173 Next » Wrongness [0] Posted 10-14-2009 1:55pm
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Post by bobcat on Oct 14, 2009 19:48:11 GMT -5
whats this all about?? its chinese to me! wow haah
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Post by HighProtein on Oct 14, 2009 20:02:03 GMT -5
ITS A THREAD TO SPAM MISC WORDS AND PHRASES TO THEN ACQUIRE MORE TRAFFIC TO THE WEBSITE. IT DOES A DAMN GOOD JOB!
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Oct 14, 2009 20:08:57 GMT -5
Gonna do it up, anthro-style! Hell, I'll get all yiffy it brings traffic!
Boink space Furotica Furvert IIMYI Insert Matting Muzzlefuck Plushophile gray Plushophile yellow Plushophilia Pokable Rule 34 Rule 88 SPA SPH Sizeplay Slubber Spooge Yiff
Okay... that's enough of that
AFR ASCII CF FC FIAWOL F cont. FIJAGH FXC MOO MPI MU* MUCK MUD MUF MUSH SOAP TF TLKIAWOL Facepaw Floof Fluff Fuzzle Glomp H Hug Lick Nip Nuzzle Pounce Ruffle Bark Brux Chuff Churr Dook Growf Murr Purr Purrip Yelp Yiff Yip Bull Carnivore Herbivore Mammal Omnivore Predator Prey Sparkledog Todd Vixen Air Sacs Anatomy Beak Biped Breasts Claw Digitigrade Ears Exoskeleton Fur Genitalia Groaties Hair Hexaped Hoof Horn Humanoid Morphic Multifurry Musk Muzzle Non-anthro Octoped Paw Pede Pentaped Plantigrade Pouch Quadruped Tail Tailhole Twin Tumors Unguligrade Whiskers Wing Art exchange Art jam Art piracy Art trade Cartoon Chibi Commission Do Not Post Fan art Funny animal artist Furry artist Furry writer Gift art
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Oct 14, 2009 20:17:17 GMT -5
Oekaki Photomorph Print Sketchbook Toon 6-2-1 rule Adam's Mark Armchair conchair Art auction Art show Artists Alley Auction Bachelor herd Charity Closing ceremonies Con Crud Con Funk Con Ops Con book Con suite Conbadge Conference Convention Convention chairman Convention committee Convention shirt Convention sponsorship Dealers Den Dorsai Irregulars Fench First Aid Freebie table Furmeet Fursuit games Ghost Gofur Guest Relations Lead Guest Relations Second Guest of Honor Headless lounge Hotel Lead House party Howl Ice Cream Social Internet room Iron Author Media Liaison Message board Mini-meet Opening ceremonies Pet auction Photoshoot Pornferance Post-con depression Programming Publications department Registration Department RelaxaCon SIG SMOFF Silent auction Standards of Conduct The Zoo BAWWWWW! Dramafur Fan-boy Fanboy Stew Fantard Furfag Furgot Furrydumb Furvert Hy00man JoRosity Lusus Naturae Plushie Plunger Scorchies Skunkfucker Vecal Vile-ar Zooden Anthroid Balloonie Exotic sentient Fem Popping Free paws Furgonomics Furgot Furiend Furotica Furpile Furr Fursona Furvert Furvey Gentlefurs Greymuzzle MILFurs Macro Mate Mel Merf Micro Nonfur Popping Postfurry Prickvixen Pseudofur Ruiner Scalesona Scalie Shiny Squick Whelpday Wikifurry Yerfday Yerfer
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Oct 14, 2009 20:25:35 GMT -5
Action Adult Male Lion Age-locked Alt Building quota Character description Doot Feature Character Feep FuzzBall MUCK GlowMUCK Guest Helpstaff In Character Leash program Log MOO MPI MU MUCK MUCK page MUCK pose MUCK say MUD MUF MUSH Mav Out Of Character Penny Pinfo Player ProtoMUCK Puppet Rhal's Furry MU's Page Sweep Teleport pattern Temporary Random Morph TinyMUCK TinyPlot TinySex Toading Typefuck Vixen Vending Machine Whatis Wixxx Wizard Wolf roleplay forums Wolfspeak Yiffscript Boobsuit Fursuit Fursuit wrangler Headless lounge Living plushie Mascot Quadsuit Taursuit Zoot Beanbag Extinct plush Fiber fill Finger paint Hang Tag Hug Meekometer Pawpet Plush Code Plush plunging Plush toy Plushgasm Furry family Hermfriend Mate Open relationship Pawfasting. Pet Polyamory Sexual orientation ASCII Albino Alien Alstonitis Amateur press association Androgynous Animais Antropomórficos Animal Animali Antropomorfi Animalogy Anime Anime fur Anthrofiction Anthropomorphic Anthropomorphobia Artificial Permanent Pigmentation Atavism Atrocity tourism Avatar (computing) Blog Bursting Cartoonist Character Character sheet Chimera (modern hybrid) Chimerazation Comic book Conjoinment Costume Couch Tour Creatures (DMFA) Crypto Furry Cub Darkfurr Do Not Post Drama Estrus FIAWOL FIJAGH Fanfiction Fantasy Feathery Female Fen Filk Flame Flamewar Fleshy Forum Funny animal Furbay Furdar Furries Furry Furry Appearance Score Furry Bavargroupes Furry Hams Furry Hitler Furry McCarthyism Furry Renaissance Furry Spirit Score Furry Survey Furry apologist Furry breeder Furry fan Furry fandom Furry fiction Furry lifestyler Fursecution Furspiracy Fursuit bowling Gender Genetic engineering Gertrude McFuzz Syndrome Gijinka Golden Age of Furry Fandom Gothfur Herp Hiroshima Cluehammer Horror Humans in fursuits Hybrid Hypertrophilia Inanimorph Inflation Kawaii Kemono Kemonomimi Kigurumi Leave The Fandom Male Meme Monolithic antifurry conspiracy Monster Moreau Mundane Musclefur Neko Otaku Otakukin Otherkin Pack Phenotype Physical transformation Player Polymorph Pong Puppet Rabbits in waistcoats Radiofur Real life Recom Reverse-Furries Role-playing Sapient Humaniform Saturday morning cartoon Shapeshifter Shapeshifting Skins Species TF TLKIAWOL Tail high! Talking animal Therian Therianthropy Totem Toyfur Transformation Transgender Troll User:GrayscaleRain/Inflation and Expansion draft Webcomic Were Wurf Zaftig Zoo Zoomorphic
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Oct 14, 2009 20:32:29 GMT -5
Furs Against Furs Improved Anthropomorphics Baked Furs SKORCH Ladder Trick Burned Furs Squee Rat Eric Blumrich BEING THAT: Anthropomorphics fandom is being overrun by sexually dysfunctional, socially stunted and creatively bankrupt hacks and pervs.
AND BEING THAT: 1) Over the past few years, anthropomorphic fandom has come to have numerous 'alternative lifestyle' groups associated with it, many of whom have little interest in the appreciation, promotion and production of anthropomorphic art, stories, costumes, etc. 2) These groups engage in behavior and activities that would be considered by non-members of anthropomorphic fandom (and indeed, many members of anthropomorphic fandom) as socially embarrasing, having dubious moral and legal status. 3) The presence of these groups has caused a number of anthropomorphic artists to produce material to cater to their tastes, giving the entire genre an unfortunate reputation as yet another form of pornography. 4) Any call to these groups to alter their behavior to something more socially acceptable in a public forum have been repeatedly shouted down, being buried under such labels as 'elitist', 'fascist' and 'hatemonger'. 5) Anthropomorphics enthusiasts that do not fit under those categories are becoming increasingly disenfranchised and are singled out as pariahs when they point out the fandom's problems.
AND ALSO BEING THAT: 1) The above events have given the fans and producers of anthropomorphic art an image that is socially embarrasing at best and career-destroying at worst. 2) The hopes and dreams of success, even in modest independent fields, that many anthro artists and writers hold are in jeopardy because of the numerous problems with the fandom.
IT IS PROPOSED THAT:
1) WE SHALL institute ourselves as a monkey wrench in the gears of mainstream fandom not to destroy it but to improve it. If all else fails, and improving the fandom seems impossible or a waste of time, then we shall institute ourselves as an alternative to mainstream fandom. Names for a movement such as this are currently under debate.
2) WE STRONGLY DISCOURAGE the support of acts such as bestiality, plushophilia, fursuit sex and other things seen as "wrong" by non-fandom individuals (known by fans as "mundanes"). It will be easier for non-fans to sympathize and identify with anthro art if these elements are, if not eliminated, then pushed to the far outer fringes and rendered irrelevant to the fandom at large.
3) WE LEAVE the concept of "furry lifestylers" up to debate. It is generally stated that this facet of mainstream fandom is not a part of this 'counterfandom', but the aspects of the "lifestyler" contingent are, while often laughable, not as problematical as the acts mentioned in point two.
4) WE ENCOURAGE aesthetic, cultural and philosophical diversity. While this may lead to potential inter-group conflict, it will also inspire much-needed debates and exchanges of ideas.
About Fursex Attraction Disorder (F.A.D.) Fursex Attraction Disorder, a sexual orientation which is in fact a psychological illness brought about by exposure to Satan-influenced anti-Christian media, afflicts 20,000 new "furry lifestylers" every year in America. If nothing is done to stop this growing anti-Christian menace, soon every young man in the country will be cavorting, practicing homosexuality in "Jar Jar Binks" fursuits, and canning his own applesauce. We here at PISOC are firmly against applesause; we're against furry fandom and furriesim too, in fact we run a conversion ministry — I assure you there is no applesauce at that ministry. We are firmly against furry fandom and firmly dead set against applesauce. You can make some good old Godly American apple-pie, if you want to be mashing up apples so bad. What's wrong with you anyway? Fursex Attraction Disorder threatens our very soul as a nation, PISOC is here to adminster Christ's wise Psychological help.
Our Treatments work We have a confirmed 10-year recidivism rate of less than 10% — much more sucessfull than most sexual-orientation based ministries. Indeed, studies suggest that over 90% of those merely exposed to our ministry give up the furry fandom psychological sin-pathology after age 45. Our mere presence makes a difference, Praise His Name!
You too can help Jesus' work We are accepting donations.
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Oct 14, 2009 20:32:52 GMT -5
PISOC is open to all males willing to come to Christ So, my son, you want to know more about me. Yes, I called you "my son". That was on purpose. See, any proper Christian lady wouldn't be on the Internet; let's be honest ladies, all feminazism aside, you know that proper women would faint at the spam email on the Internet alone. Now, it is perfectly proper for ladies to have webpages, especially ones that cover Christian news or have lovely poetry and midis, but we all know that only harlots and barren spinsters deal with big, complicated computers without the aid of a man to do the messy technical work for them. Also, anyone who reads scripture knows that it doesn't much apply if you are female, Testosterous 4:69 "And lo, each woman shall be ignorant of all manner of things technical, and the comission of all matters of business for men shall be reserved to men." As such, and as I am a Christian Pastor (praise Jesus), I will not write anything fit for women — women are not fit to read, especially not on the Internet. If you are a good and true Christian woman, please have your husband or male romantic interest (or father) read this site so he can tell you what it means. Don't bother trying to "bookmark" or get the site "URL" — just leave the computer as you found it and have your man come and help you to learn more from the Internet. Good girl.
Furry whores of Babylon are ruining good American men across this country! Now, if you are here because you are a woman jezebel whore who is a furry, then I command you demon-bitch to leave this website in the name of Jesus Christ Son of God! Revelation 4:20 reads "And yea, lo, so forth, there was the Whore of Babylon, and she knew the Furry Beast of Satan and drew the mark of the beast on paper and lo, behold, yea the beast was the malefactor for the Whore. Yea, in the endtimes, the Whore and the Furry Beast of Satan are one" THIS SITE AND MINISTRY WAS NOT CREATED TO SAVE FEMALE FURRIES — THEY HAVE NO POSSIBILITY OF SALVATION. Only men, preferably very young and very old men, should come to this site. So you see, my son, that is why I keep calling you "my son" when I write this about page. I think it helps to remind you of your place and of my place together on this website.
My Own Gripping Struggle W/ Furry Sin As you may have guessed from my notice to female furries, I have dealt with furry sin in my own life. Indeed, once I was weak and had been dating one of them. You see, the vixen-whore was tempting me like the pagan witch of Circe. Exactly like that. "Now," you might protest, "Pastor Roose, you're getting pretty thick with the metaphors there." But you see, it is not metaphor — but literal sin. Yes, brothers and sisters in Christ, I would watch this wretched, Hell-bound Jezebell dress up in a fox outfit, while I would literally dress up like a pig. She would call me "mamma's little piggy" and I would squeal and make other pig noises. She was a caramel colored fox, she was the color of caramel itself and she smelt like caramel probably because she sometimes, in her sinsuit mind you, would bathe in caramel and would have me, in my pig sinsuit, lick it off of her. I would lick her felt vixen-fox costume breast, her costume felt mouth, and even her — ladies please do not finish this sentence — costume-felt essence, drenched in extra sweet caramel. Then we would go bathe more in caramel, naked together. Sometimes ice cream would be involved; other times I would roll her in a light granola crunch. Now that I am a tasteful, Christian, man of the cloth I can no longer recount what we did with fudge. That bitch-whore!
I Find The Love Of Christ; I'll Share It With The World! So how did I come to Christ? Well, my son, if you ask any alcoholic they will tell you about "hitting bottom". Well, my son, one Sunday (when God and Jesus know I should have been in church praising Him) it came to me in the afternoon — there in the backyard naked slogging through the mud eating maggoty turnips mixed in a slop in my trough — there I "hit bottom". I realized I could no longer spend my life living as a pig. I had been eating sour food all day — it had been lying in the trough in the hot sun and eating it made me feel light headed. I also was carrying around a giant concrete statue of Mickey Mouse with an erection on my back. I don't remember why I had the statue on anymore, but I remember it was very heavy and wearing it made me short of breath. Oh, I remember. My girlfriend liked to pretend the statue was about to rape me. She would have me spend entire afternoons in the mud with that damned thing tied over my back. So there I was eating a mixture of leftovers and old tampons, when all of a sudden without warning I felt weak and dizzy and sick. I passed out when a giant pink field burst before my eyes and revealed to me that I was not a pig, yea I was not a pig but a lamb like Him. When I awoke from passing out I came inside, cleaned up, got dressed, beat my girlfriend within an inch of her life, and left to get my MA in Theology. Here I am today, ready to save thousands upon thousands of young men ensnared by furry perversion. As it says in Regulations 13:13 "Lo, spead the word that ye shall be in Christ and Christ is above the beasts of the lamb; it is better to do anything necessary to stop furry relations than to do nothing."
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Oct 14, 2009 20:36:47 GMT -5
Meet 'Jason' — a man's man, and a former furry Now, you see, I used to be what you call a 'furry'. I was sexually attracted to dragons. Not in some faggy goth way, neither. No. I was attracted to dragons kinda like a cowboy is attracted to horses. In fact, sometimes, I used to go riding in the middle of the night, buck nekked on my horse, and as I closed my eyes and felt the scratchin fire in my ballsack I would imagine I was really ridin nekked on a dragon. That was when I was 10. Of course, I don't do that no more, what because of Jesus and all. But ever' now and then when I close my eyes and put on Johnny Cash and flop a leather saddle over the ottoman, I get that same chill. And I tell you what, Jesus or not, there's nothing wrong with that pure feelin of leather and Johnny Cash and Burbon and my 2 boys, free on shoreleave. Of course Jesus is there too. I realize that now. It's perhaps the most important realization of my life.
'Jason' Remebers Life W/Out Christ You see, my life had been empty before now. Oh sure, I had lead what some might call an 'exciting' life. I owned my own ranch, not far from Ronald Regan's (God Bless USA). I had a 'sports car' and lots of 'women' and 'money' and 'cocaine'. But see, I was just like our Great President Bush used to be -- I was fillin up all that emptyness. Of having money and power and women and good dental hygene. I didn't have Jesus, and so I really didn't have nothin'. In fact, some days I thank Jesus for 'furry fandom' because it was getting into the 'fandom that made me realize how empty my life truely was. I had never thought about emptyness before, in my youthfull, naive state of mind I didn't care about it and didn't think about it. But when I realized I had it -- the emptyness, mind you -- I knew instinctively, without a second thought, that I had to fill it with Jesus.
Satan's Little Shovel Now maybe you asked yourself 'yeah but what does emptyness have to do with being furry?' I would reply to you 'everything and the noonday sun to boot!' You see, no one, not even my own dear sweet wife, can know what it is like to be in my head riding that dragon. No one, except Jesus. And my wife can know Jesus too, and so together we can know each other by reading the Bible every day and visiting with our seperate mens' and womens' groups at church. Even though we spend most of each day apart, I know we get closer and closer through Jesus. I can honestly say I'm ashamed of when I made my wife wear nothing but fishnet stockings, leopardskin tights, a leather trenchcoat, and cheapmakeup. She asked me 'why are you a'makin me get up like this' and I said 'because honey it's a . . . a "furry" thing.' It got to the point where I could not make love to her without the leopard print. Soon, I was committing the gravest sin of all -- I was making love to others than my wife. I was seeing female escorts, it was the leopard print stockings that made me to do it. They were satan's little shovel in the garden of my fertile young Southern mind.
A Clean, Human Relationship I have to thank Pastor Roose with my very life; he brought me back to a clean, monagymous, human relationship with my wife. It has been 3 years since I made love because of the leopardskin; it has been 11 months since I was caught shoplifting pairs in department stores. I am no longer ashamed to be human; instead I am ashamed of my furry past and all that it represents. I have turned my back on the decadent, expressive, and metaphorical -- instead I yearn for God, religion, and the Bible. And Christ has treated me well. I have a beautiful, beautiful wife; I have an ocean-view from my terrace (a townhouse ajoining Ted Nuggent's Summer Home -- God Bless Nuge!); I pick up a new vintage wine selection each week for my collection in my BMW sportster. Indeed, those who follow Jesus, in his name, are blessed. Amen. In closing I'll leave you with a quote from a little song I wrote: "I keep a close watch on this fur of mine. I keep my paws wide open all the time. I keep the yiff out for the tie that binds. Because you're a fursuiter, I walk the line."
"My story starts out simple enough..." My story starts out simple enough; after all, what harm could possibly come from picking out Halloween suits for your children? If only I had realized then what a horrible, sinful mess I was in store for; if only I had realized then that Halloween is little more than a tool for Satan to work his way into our hearts, minds, and souls. But I'm getting ahead of my story. Anyway. There I was one day, shopping for Halloween costumes for my kids. "Hey", I thought, "My wife would think I'm adorable if I buy a matching costume to wear when I take the kids Trick-Or-Treating". And so my life of sin began.
As they always do when Satan gets involved, things got worse. I cannot describe the rush, the chill that went through me that Halloween when I first put on my lion's suit. I had a hard time hiding my erection the whole time I was trick-or-treating with my kids. I felt ashamed, yet somehow overwhelmed by all these new feelings. Then one day soon after, as I was secretly checking on the Internet to buy more fursuits, I came across a page of "furry fandom" art. It was then that my soul had become completely lost. I started slowly at first, innocently asking my wife to wear Halloween costumes like a nurse or maid outfit to bed. Then I slyly convinced her to wear a whale fursuit. I could feel the fursuiting breaking up our marriage.
"I had reached total depravity . . . I forced the kids to use the lawn as a bathroom" In less than six months, I had reached total depravity. I was dressing up the cat in a dog fursuit. When we made love, my wife kept forgetting my name, often moaning "Oh Pikachu" in the passion of the moment. I was forcing the children to wear their fursuits everyday, even to school; I made them run around on all fours and use the backyard for a bathroom. True, we had some of the most lush, verdant grass in the neighborhood; child welfare services had been notified, however, and it was becoming clear to both my wife and me that I would need some help to change my ways before we lost everything to furry fandom. It was then that Christ decided I was ready to be found by the Godly minister-counselors at PISOC.
"Thank you PISOC, Thank you for my giving me my soul back" Thanks to Pastor Willy Roose and the power of Christ, I don't have to face each day with the shame of knowing I was making my kids get teased at school by forcing them to wear bunny and goldfish suits to school everyday. They still get teased some because I make them dress up like Old Testament times every day, but at least now I know they are ridiculed and harassed for a Godly cause. I am on a heavy Valium-Prozac combo prescribed by my counselors, and thanks to the drugs and Christ I no longer have furry urges. I just want to bear witness to the power of healing and purity available to pathological sinners through PISOC. Praise Jesus for PISOC, they saved my kids, they saved my marriage, they saved my eternal soul. Amen!
At A Very Early Age Dan Discovers His Psychological Illness: He is a sinner I guess you could say that I knew in the locker room in Junior High that I wasn't doing everything I could to fullfill the plan for my life that others had so carefully lain out for me. I should maybe have tried harder then to not let myself become something so against the plans of God and my Pastor. What can I say. Even though I was 12, old enough to be a man in ancient religions, I was still selfish. I still began to lust after other males. Really, even though it took a fur conversion ministry and electroshock therapy to eventually cure me, now I realize that the furry fandom was just something to try and help me mask the sin that was my soul. I was worthless. I wasn't doing or turning out how anyone wanted. It was hopeless.
"I realized I don't have to be gay." Then, at 20, I realized that I don't have to be gay. I heard Pastor Roose's sermon. Suddenly, I was hearing from someone who had a plan for my life again. I knew where I was going. I knew who I was going to be. I knew what I was going to do for society. I was going to stop being gay. Pastor Roose explained how I owed my sperm to my future wife, even though I had not met her yet. He also explained how this gave me right to make sure she gets the sperm, no matter what she says or something, well anyway I wasn't too clear on that part. But I definately understood the part about how I owe my sperm to someone I've never met. It was just plain selfish of me to have sex with men — that sperm was made by God for some woman I didn't yet know who would make children so those kids too could live like me, under God. I'm writing this letter to you, as a testimonial of the powers of PISOC ministries, because I want you to realize that you don't have to be gay. You can live a life according to how you're supposed to live it: for Jesus as dictated by your Pastor.
Hetrosexuality is a daily struggle for Jason, even with Christ Yes, I still have some problems. The Pastor has allowed me an extra allotment of drinks per day, and I drink regularly as a kind of medication to help me cope with being so much more Godly and without sin. The drinks really help though; as per the 'spiritual perscription' from my pastor, I force myself to look at non-furry hetrosexual pornography on the Internet for at least an hour a day. I'm supposed to secretly masterbate, hiding it from my wife, too — but my heart's just not in it. At least I have the burbon to hide, maybe Jesus will forgive me because of that. I am in fact trying harder to follow Jesus. I hope I don't fail.
"Actually, therapy really helps" Actually the electroshock therapy really helps. They don't normally administer this therapy directly to humans, but the pastor said my case was a special exception. II almost quit it once, but Pastor Roose helped me with what is, according to him, a common trick. Between each shock I would say 'Thank you Jesus, please cleanse my id and my ego and my super-ego, amen.' It didn't really make the shocks hurt any less. In fact it made them kind of hurt more, in a weird way. I guess that helped the shocks to do their trick — now every time I see a man I kind of cringe a little. So see, I don't have to be gay. Also, I have learned how to have normal sexual relations with my wife — just like a hetrosexual man should. Well, my pastor taught me a little trick. In between each thrust, with my wife I mean, remind myself 'I don't have to be gay through Jesus' — it kind of creeped my wife out at first but we talked and agreed that a Christian woman would put up with whatever is necessary to help me live in Christ.
10 Quick Facts About The Sinfull "Furry Fandom" — A handy guide for the Christian: how to refute those who claim furry fandom is "harmless" with cold, hard Christian Fact "Furry Fandom" was started as a military project in Hitler's Germany, as part of a Nazi experiment to create a race of cat-like "super-people". Furries hate non-furries; believing themselves to be spiritual "animals", furries brand all non-furries as "hyoomans" — a term nearly as derogatory as "nigger". There is a crusade in "Furry Fandom" to convert as many children as possible. This is the primary subversive motivation behind The Disney Corporation. Many furries ritualisticly mutilate themselves, up to and including castration, as part of their convention ceremonies. Often, unconscenting drugged "hyoomans" are mutilated on a stage while masses of drunk, cheering be-fursuited "furries" cheer on. As they get deeper into "the lifestyle", furries use their fursuits to smuggle drugs, anthrax, or other contraband. Indeed, since no respectable employer would ever hire a furry, most are forced to find work either as drug dealers or terrorist mules. Many popular video games with anthrophomorphic-animal themes are really furry propaganda. The corrupting influence of Jar Jar Binks is well-documented; there are many resources that demonstrate how these movies sexualize children. The furry term "yiff" comes from what furries believe to be the sound that a furry's blade makes disemboweling a "hyooman". Accordingly, the term "yiffy" referrs to anything which can be used to torture, mutilate, sodomize, and slaughter "hyoomans". Many have the terms "yiffy" and "yiff" with sex -- they are only so related as VIOLENT sex. Any sexualized "yiffy" picture is in fact depicting a creature about to kill a "hyooman" as part of the sex act. A splinter group of furries, "vorephiles", openly and directly advocates canibalism. Many "vorphile" websites have F.A.Q.s, and other resources, for preparing and devouring human flesh. Many "vorephiles" dress in fursuit garb and dine on "hyoomans" as part of their sexual lifestyle. Seeking an alternative to canibalism, "Griffan" and "Otherkin" furries commonly practice vampirism on their unwilling victims; they use "roleplaying" in various online forums to coach each other on how to obtain victims, dispose of evidence, etc. In their secret headquarters in San Francisco, furry scientists are working with international terrorists to develop a biological agent which will convert humanity into a race of "semi-furries".
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Oct 14, 2009 20:45:33 GMT -5
Dropout Bear The Fauna Project Filk Furry Music Café Furry Music Foundation Pikku Orava Symposium for Furry Music 1 120 kph A Accidentally in Love The Animal Song The Bad Touch Beautiful Bein' Furry Blind (Industrial Frost song) Checking Out My Wigwam Da Funk Ding Dragon Fire Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me Fresh & Dope The Furry Song Gone Daddy Gone Happy Weasel I'm Not A Freak In the MUCK Industrial Prey Leavin' the Con Move Your Dead Bones Nature Anthem Nobody's Watching Me Opposites Attract The Raccoon Song Repent Räven (Hedningarna) Stripes Thriller To Your Mind We Know Something You Don't Know We're Working Anthrocon Weasel's Return Welcome (Furry Forest Theme) What's A Girl To Do Who Says You Can't Go Home Winged Angels The Wolf In You Beginnings
August 1990: BlueMage, Neil M, a student at North Carolina State University started a Muck on one of the servers. The theme was to mimic the university's campus which has unusual areas like underground steam tunnels. There were steam tunnels, a bandstand, and other initial objects. BlueMage, invited Gypsy, Melissa Whitfield, to help out with building the Muck. She was made a wizard (object #2). Melissa saw that the project would be a large endeavor and invited her boyfriend Drew Maxell to help with the building. The NCState theme didn't seem to catch on. A new theme was discussed and Drew brought in the idea of FurryMUCK (hatched from discussions between him and his housemates). Drew then invited his housemates Ashtoreth, Shaterri, Centaur, and Erych, Abigail (Claire Benedikt), Ryuuko - Revar, lynx and Tugrik arrive shortly after the launch Growth
Spring 1991: FurryMUCK outgrows the resources and good graces of the administrators at NC State. It moves to the University of California at Irvine. Siegfried became a wizard, as did Lionman, Carelia, and Tugrik; Erych left soon after. Archteryx was made a wizard for a few days by Drew without approval and was dewizzed shortly after. April 1991: The original taxi, the Cafe Rose, and Lynx's truffel program are installed; 10,000 objects reached. Drew and Gypsy were no longer dating and personal conflicts led to Gypsy being dewizzed and resigning FurryMUCK. Gypsy occasionally visits FurryMuck to watch its incredible growth. October 1991: 20,000 objects reached November 1991: FurryMUCK is forced to move to Carnegie-Mellon University (Shaterri's workplace) by the actions of a user called Bruce 1992: Helpstaff formed; lynx, Revar, Mishael, Kimi and Riss are made wizards, while Ashtoreth, Carelia, Lionman, and Siegfried resign - Revar resigns later in the year August 1992: 50,000 objects reached September 1992: FurryMUCK is deleted, but mostly restored from Revar's backups; relaunched at the University of Toronto with Chris Siebemann administering New Year's Day 1993: The Quicksilver virus written by Targhan infects the MUCK, diverting all conversation to Yozduk, who posts the log on rec.games.mud.tiny Spring 1993: The Demons vs Angels role-play takes place April 1993: 75,000 objects reached Summer 1993: A PG-13 rating is enforced in the Park October 1993: S'A'Alis begins hosting FurryMUCK, becoming a wizard shortly afterwards March 1994: Wired publishes Johnny Manhattan Meets the Furry Muckers, and FurryMUCK gets a deluge of sex-seekers July 1994: 100,000 objects reached Mid-1994: Triggur is elected as Mayor of FurryMUCK 1995: Data corruption on the move to a new server causes FurryMUCK to finally implement proper backup procedures; Kimi retires from the wizcorp, Nightwind replaced her, and K'has, O'Nara and Slipstream joined too, while AJWolf "acquires" the mayoralty July 1995: 125,000 objects reached Late 1995: Lumpy the Squirrel, the primary source of urine in the FurryMUCK park pond, is finally toaded once and for all; the pool is thoroughly cleaned afterwards February 1996: The passing of the CDA causes FurryMUCK to implement age restrictions on certain areas for people below 18 years of age March 1996: Vulpine, one of several who has falsely declared his age to pass the restrictions files an affidavit with the ACLU - the result was his permanent banning, after much discussion on alt.fan.furry.muck and elsewhere November 1996: Chip Unicorn and Points join as wizards at ConFurence 7 in 1996, while Frang takes over as Mayor 1997: Mishael retires as wizard July 1997: 175,000 objects reached October 1997: Toast is elected as Mayor 9 February 1998: FurryMUCK records 500 simultaneous users June-August 1998: Debate over the use of the wixxx flag pedophile causes it to be pulled and replaced with WhatIsz (retaining the same global 'wixxx' command) and the broader term ageplay August 1998: Inari is elected as Mayor 31 October 1998: FurryMUCK temporarily becomes FurryMORGUE, the last 99 & 44/100% gangrenous Furry TinyMu* February 1999: Points and Slipstream retire from wizarding April 1999: Brenda added to wizcorp as coder, while Riss is dewizzed due to lack of time, leaving amicably 11 April 1999: Tugrik takes over site administration duties. FurryMUCK moves to a dedicated server, hosted in a colocation facility in San Jose, California. June 1999: Silent Red resigns as a wizard July 1999: Aragh becomes a PR wizard October 1999: Mwerevu is elected as Mayor 2000s
June 2000: Rosa de Stitches is elected Mayor, only to step down a few months later amidst controversy October 2000: @shout is removed over age concerns and abuse. A private version called "Scream", written by Sarusa, fills the void left by @shout. Being outside of wizard control, it is not censored and becomes a community of its own. March 2001: Dwight Dutton started an eBay auction on the domain names furrymuck.com/net/org. The wizards were not pleased (see this post to a.f.f. by Shaterri), and shut the auction down, but not before it reached $500. Darrel Exline, the high bidder, bought the names for $550, and later let the domain registrations lapse. Triggur bought them and donated them back to FurryMUCK. The domains are now managed by lynx. One result was an increased highlighting of the use of the term "FurryMUCK" as a service mark. 13 July 2005: The server experienced a massive hardware failure. After discussion with the other wizards, Tugrik and Revar ran a donation drive to fund a new server. Within five days enough had been collected to purchase a new enterprise-class machine, which the Muck currently still runs on.
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Comics were the driving force in the early days, largely thanks to the wellspring of anthro-based comics that erupted on the American scene with the success of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the mid-'80s. Literally dozens of titles came and went, many of which simply attempted to copy the TMNT formula in order to make a fast buck. These ranged from the execrable (ala Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters, Geriatric Ju-Jitsu Gerbils) to genuinely readworthy (as with Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung-Fu Kangaroos). Of more interest were the burgeoning ranks of anthro comics which didn't seek to follow in TMNT's tracks. Some even pre-dated TMNT, as with StarReach's Quack!, which not only parodied the short-lived "Duck Craze" of the late '70s (remember "Disco Duck"? Right.), but also showcased then-new talents like Dave Sim (The Beavers) and Michael T. Gilbert (The Wraith). Independents and a wide divergence of topics abounded: Steve Gallacci (Albedo) wrote of animals warring amid the stars under the strict laws of Einsteinian physics, while Vicky Wyman (Xanadu) produced exquisitely-drawn fantasy romances starring unicorn empresses and gryphon wizards. Meanwhile, Jim Groat's GraphXPress came out with parodies of Conan and Red Sonja in the form of Equine the Uncivilized and Red Shetland. Independent comic-book greats such as Donna Barr (Stinz) and Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo) built their first readerships amongst the ranks of furries. Even the mainstream publishers tried to get in on the act, with much less success --- Marvel's Power Pachyderms isn't known to have any fans even amongst diehard furries. DC's Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew took a more "Hanna Barbara" approach and won some support, but not enough to keep from going under as well. Fantagraphics then published the funny-animal anthology Critters for fifty issues, after which point it appeared that anthro comics were running out of steam. The TMNT craze had created massive speculation in the comics market, which inevitably resulted in an equally massive backlash when investors attempted to sell their bootleg copies of poorly-drawn books and found that no one wanted to buy them. Whole publishing companies went under almost overnight, taking a number of exceptional anthro comics with them (such as Nervous Rex, a splendid book of surrealist comedy which happened to be published by Blackthorne, which itself became almost universally recognized --- after the fact --- as a fly-by-night ripoff operation).1990s
By 1991, only a few anthro comics continued to maintain any kind of pretense at a publication schedule. Enter Ben Dunn's Antarctic Press. Mr. Dunn had previously created his own anthro title (Of Mice and Men) and had built a small independent publishing company on the strength of imported manga titles and a flagship manga-industry comic called Mangaphile. Furrlough was the first genuinely non-manga comic produced by Antarctic, and was shortly swamped with submissions by creators who had teethed during the "TMNT Boom/Bust". Eventually, Genus was created to allow for the publication of NC17/X-rated material. The success of Furrlough and, later, Genus, catapulted Antarctic Press into serious competition with long-standing industry independents. Able to expand even further now, Ben Dunn created Warrior Nun Areala, which was non-anthro but whose overnight success greatly overshadowed the anthro line. To free up resources necessary to further promote Warrior Nun Areala and its related merchandise, AP cut loose the entirety of its anthro line (Gold Digger not being counted, as AP did not consider it to be a "furry" title). Radio Comix was quickly formed by then-AP-editor Elin Winkler and a number of pro-anthro stalwarts to keep Furrlough and Genus alive. Small but steady sales combined with a lean and smart business plan have allowed Radio to slowly prosper to the point where it has been able to expand to carry other lines as well as publish the occasional one-shot or miniseries. Other existing anthro comic publishers include MU Press, GraphXPress, Shanda Fantasy Arts, Backbreaker Studios and Dream Weaver Press. In terms of "fannish cred", being published as a comic artist was second only to being a animator at Disney. The top comic artists in furry were the real stars of Furrydom since they were the direct producers of what was readily available. More recently, due to online archives and forums catering to artists on the Internet, as well as sales of prints and art collection CDs, the fandom's focus has slowly moved away from sequential art and more into the realm of "classic", or single-frame, works. At the same time, the number of webcomics produced by anthro artists has escalated into the hundreds, some of which are exceptionally good. This shift is readily explainable: producing a comic book is an expensive and time-consuming affair. Even a small run of a few thousand issues of an average-sized book can cost thousands of dollars to print, and then it must be distributed and fight for shelf space in tightly-packed comic stores. Once it gets there, it may simply be ignored amid the hundreds of brightly-colored titles of the competition. Internet publication avoids all of these problems, offering the artist the likelihood of potential return with virtually no investment. Another important point is that, as with Science Fiction, Fantasy and Comic Fandoms, fanzines became an important part of Furry Fandom. Amateur Press Associations (APAs) produced "APAzines" like Vootie and Rowrbrazzle. These provided a place for artists and writers of the Funny Animal genre to showcase their work and critique each other in the days before online archives and forums were quite so commonplace. APAs are generally exclusive groups, with limited memberships, and the zines produced were usually for members only, although some notable exceptions existed. Later, shared universe and collection magazines were published. Furry fans could subscribe to these magazines, or purchase them at convention dealer’s rooms. The first furry collection magazine, FurVersion, published by Karl Maurer, was born at a furry party at Baycon in San Jose, Ca, in 1987. Yarf!, published by Jeff Ferris, became the longest running collection magazine, with over 40 issues. Rowrbrazzle, the fandom's flagship and longest-running APAzine, is published on a quarterly basis with over 85 issues to its credit. Amateur press association
The American Journal of Anthropomorphics Clean Sheets Comic book Comics Buyer's Guide Comics F/X Con book Encyclopaedia of Unusual Sex Practices FANG (publication) Go Big
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Oct 14, 2009 20:53:17 GMT -5
mproved Anthropomorphics is a group that believes that the "private, personal interests" of certain members of the furry fandom provide an inaccurate public representation of the fandom as a whole, and that this prevents the fandom from "reaching its full artistic and cultural potential"
Improved Anthropomorphics asserts that the fandom's public image is important, and that it is damaged by association with groups which, in their eyes, are not a valid representation of furry fandom. Thus, they particularly disapprove of subgroups of the furry community such as Nazi Furs and babyfurs when such groups manage - intentionally or otherwise - to associate their paraphilias with the fandom as a whole. They hope to steer media attention away from such representatives, and encourage members of these subgroups to be discrete about their interests and activities. The group's members have similar views and goals to a prior group known as the Burned Furs, though they claim different methods. Where the Burned Furs decided to "institute ourselves as a monkey wrench in the gears of mainstream fandom" and "strongly discourage the support of acts such as bestiality, plushophilia, fursuit sex and other things seen as 'wrong' by non-fandom individuals", Improved Anthropomorphics claims to "[inspire] change from within by setting a good example". Their motto is "Furry Fans Standing Up for A Better Fandom". History
"The Reverend" Ash Maurice Cairo launched the group on November 22, 2005, under the name Burned Furs II. While it adopted the general philosophy of the former group, the only direct association between them was the adoption of the same name and identifying icon. The choice of name and logo was controversial, resulting in resistance to the group from fandom members with bad memories of the former Burned Furs. In January 2007, Leam proposed the group should change its name to "Improved Anthropomorphics". In late May, the group announced that this name would be adopted "to avoid further confusion and drama". Other names considered included "Better Fandom" and "Anthropomorphics Unlimited".
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2 the Ranting Gryphon (left) and Uncle Kage at Furry Weekend Atlanta 2007 Matthew Wayne Davis, also known as 2, The Ranting Gryphon, is a professional comedian who performs mainly at sci-fi and furry conventions. 2 also performs and records audio 'rants', and hosted an Internet radio show called 2 Sense which ran for 87 mostly-weekly episodes, up to two hours in length, before being discontinued due to time and work constraints on July 2nd, 2005, at the peak of its popularity. 2 Sense 2.0 debuted on November 12, 2006. Born in August 1972, 2 has been a performer for most of his life. He began as a rock guitarist in the 1980's. He then ventured into the sci-fi and fantasy fields, doing comedy events at conventions during the 1990's. A member of the furry fandom, he has a gryphon fursona. His name allegedly came to him in a dream about the creature. He regularly attends furry conventions and often performs stand up there. He has been the guest of honor at Califur 0, Oklacon 2004, Rocket City FurMeet 2005, Feral! 2006 and RBW 2007. He is also currently on staff at Furry Weekend Atlanta, Rocket City Furmeet and is co-chair of Furry Connection North. 2 formerly resided in Arkansas, USA, in a social collective of fellow furry fans/artists ("furs"), known as the North Arkansas Regional Furry Association (NARFA). He now lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Contents [hide] 1 The rants and music 2 LSD files 3 Dear 2 4 DVDs 5 Trivia 6 References 7 External links The rants and music
2's fursona, as drawn by Jessie T. Wolf 2 ranted about many things during the early stages of his website. His rants were between 3-6 minutes long and normally focused on three areas. These areas are religions (rants about holy wars, prayer, and Christmas), political issues (delving into such issues as gay pride, hunting, guns, abortion, and the U. S. military), and the furry fandom itself. Rants on the latter are geared specifically to that community, and thus less accessible to those outside the fandom, and have dealt with Further Confusion, Anthrocon, fur artists and "Muck Talk". The rants were originally scripted and were released on average once every two months. Their main purpose was for 2 to spread his opinions. His latest rants have dealt with intelligent design, the news media and justice. He has also released his second outtake reel, and has moved on to producing his rants in video format, which he started posting to YouTube in March 2007.There are over 50+ Rant topics in total. Before the rants however, 2 created a lot of music. Some of the more popular songs include "Salvation" and "Jaunt". In the 1980s, 2 had originally hoped to become a rock artist, and still aspires to make music professionally. 2's rants were once featured on the Portal of Evil. He responded by posting a rant about atrocity tourism, which was subsequently subjected to a techno remixing by Nick C, a member of Portal of Evil. In September 2007, the online edition of the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung featured one of 2's video rants and an excerpt of his live performance at Eurofurence 12 in their Internet Video of the Week column, comparing his style of comedy with Woody Allen and David Byrne. 2 also appeared in a parody of the Beastie Boys video Sabotage. The video was shot at Anthrocon 2004. Sabotage Tribute (video) LSD files
2 has been making poetic audio files known as the Lucid Sonic Delusions. At present he has released two of them on his official website, with plans to release a whole new series as time goes on. It is thought that the files were named LSD Files because they give the same euphoric feel as the drug of the same name (though they have nothing to do with drugs). The files are in fact named Lucid Sonic Delusions; this may have been on purpose so that the initials would be LSD, but this has not been confirmed. The two LSD files released so far are: The Hole The Box Dear 2
2 Gryphon is doing a short show (if it can indeed be considered a show) approximately 10 minutes long in which he answers letters sent in by (presumably) past 2 Sense listeners and fans of his website. The show is identical to the Dear 2 segment from 2 Sense with the exception of there being no co-host. This show has no actual release date and is released based on the amount of mail received and time restraints on 2 himself. Dear 2 is expected to end when 2 Sense 2.0 starts. This new show can be downloaded as an MP3 file from Official Website DVDs
DVD Cover for the second DVD "The Truth" 2 the Ranting Gryphon has released four DVDs and a CD since 2002. These are available to buy from 2's official website. The first DVD, "Rolling A One", is a one hour long comedy show recorded live at Anthrocon in 2002. The second DVD, "The Truth", is a one hour long comedy show recorded live at Anthrocon in 2003. It includes commentary from 2 and Lord Skandranon on one track, and a separate track consisting of 2, Lord Skandranon, Skates, and Krahnos. The DVD also includes the infamous "chocolate bunny death" video. The third DVD, "The Gods Hate Me", is a one hour long comedy show recorded live at Anthrocon in 2004. Among the DVD's special features are a full length MST3K style commentary from 2, the DVD's creator Lord Skandranon and their friend Gir Tygrin (who in the video refers to himself as random other guy), some random bonus footage, and an explanation of the "beer shot" joke. Plans for a fourth DVD, "Place Gryphon Here", were scrapped due to technical problems while recording the shows at Anthrocon 2005 and Midwest FurFest 2005. Instead, an audio CD was released that contains audio from both. It replaces an earlier audio CD that has gone out of print. A fourth DVD was eventually released, called "Live In Germany". This DVD is a one hour long comedy show recorded live at Eurofurence 12 in 2006. Trivia
2 is referred to in a Jack comic short, in which a "ranting talent agent" whose species is a gryphon has a small '#2' written in over his head. 2 is also referenced twice in the online comic Loserz by Erik Schoenek. Second Life's POG Racing Team has paid tribute to 2 with a race car painted bright pink and featuring 2's catch phrase "NEON-DA PINK-A BITCH SLAP!"
Jack is a webcomic created by David Hopkins which debuted on March 1st, 2001. It has an overall storyline based around Hell, sin, and redemption, woven into individual story arcs, each concerning a subset of the characters in the comic.
Jack hovering over Tet and Trixi Plot and theme
Jack's initial arc involved a child named Fnar, who was little more than an unborn fetus whose life was ended in its first few months. This arc also introduced the primary character for which the comic was named: Jack. This character is portrayed as a rather ragged green rabbit in rags, wielding a scythe much akin to the various incarnations of the Grim Reaper. The comic centers around decidedly mature themes in one form or another, most notably in the visual artistic form. It also prominently features Hell, as demonstrated by the third strip in the debut arc which allowed Fnar to meet his mother, restrained to a cave wall with the rock actually encompassing her right leg and holding her arms as if it were eating her. The mature themes of the comic are made quite plain at that time, as the woman bore a stab wound under her left ribs near the stomach and also had her throat slashed. The blood from these wounds is still dripping in the scenes, and Fnar himself looked grisly as he was "aged" by Jack in stages to the age of a preteen boy. Jack's plot bounces around quite often, but it remains true to the Hell theme for the most part. On occasion, strips are published which pertain to real world events, like the Angry Brian story arc which depicted events similar to those of the horrific Columbine High School Massacre. Other features of the comic include the appearance of real places like the former World Trade Center that was destroyed in the infamous and very tragically devastating terrorist attacks of 9/11. It should be noted that the Angry Brian story arc sparked heavy feedback from the readers and was what earned the comic a large reader base. Similarly, Jack features Heaven (as you might expect) as well as angels. These two forces do not fight each other much in the comic; in fact, for the most part they appear to work together without any major problems, although this may be due to the focus on Jack, the most amenable of Sins. Some arcs do take place in the mortal world, in which both sides occasionally find themselves, usually revolving around Jack's job as Grim Reaper. In all, the comic can be morbid, but it has its tender moments and optimistic highlights. Not all the characters of the comic are doomed to Hell for eternity. They all have a chance to eventually live on Earth again in new forms as a test to see if they have "learned" from their previous life's mistakes. If so, they are admitted to heaven. If not, they are condemned once more to the bowels of Hell. Did you know? Mab of Mab's Land and DMFA has drawn a series of chibified versions of the characters of Jack. These are displayed in Mab's Chibi Hell. Cameos
There have been many cameos on Jack, including appearances from Pink, Skye Bluedeer, SueDeer, Mab, Gene Catlow & Cotton, Vinci & Arty, Silverblue and Trixi & Tet. The comic recently featured what may have been a cameo appearance of Uncle Kage in the Joann and Jeremy arc. Depicted as he has usually described the meaning of the name, a roach, he features in the arc as a guest speaker at a wedding in his labcoat delivering a speech about God and love while taking one or two breaks during the speech to sip wine out of a martini glass. He later wanders in the crowd, being approached and called by name by the groom and thanked for the speech, to which Kage said "Why thank you m'boy. By the way, I certainly hope you remembered what I said, because I sure don't." This could be due to being drunk when he gave the speech, though. In the same strip, the characters Vinci & Arty can be seen dancing together in the first panel. 2, the Ranting Gryphon is referred to in a Jack comic short, in which a "ranting talent agent" whose species is a gryphon has a small '#2' written in over his head. The Funday Pawpet Show is referred to in Those That Run. Jack appeared on A Doemain of Our Own as one of the potential explanations for the disappearance of Eric from the plotline
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Mystery Science Theater 3000, often abbreviated MST3K, is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc. that ran from 1988 to 1999. The series features a man and his robot sidekicks who are trapped on a satellite in space by an evil scientist and forced to watch a selection of bad movies, initially (but not especially limited to) science fiction B-movies. To keep sane, the man and his robots provide a running commentary on each film, making fun of its flaws and wisecracking (or "riffing") their way through each reel in the style of a movie-theater peanut gallery. Each film is presented with a superimposition of the man and robots' silhouettes along the bottom of the screen. Series creator Hodgson originally played the stranded man, Joel Robinson, for five-and-a-half seasons. When Hodgson left in 1993, series head writer Michael J. Nelson replaced him as new B-movie victim Mike Nelson, and continued in the role for the rest of the show's run. During its eleven years, 198 episodes and one feature film, MST3K attained critical acclaim. The series won a Peabody Award in 1993, and was nominated for writing Emmys in 1994 and 1995. Contents [hide] 1 Premise 2 Background and history 2.1 Inspirations and Influences 2.2 KTMA era 2.3 Comedy Channel/Comedy Central era 2.4 Sci Fi Channel era 2.5 Cancellation 3 Characters 4 Video releases and episode trading 5 Episodes 6 Other adaptations 6.1 Syndication 6.2 Feature film 6.3 Flash series 6.4 Other appearances 7 Reactions 7.1 Awards 8 Characteristic elements 8.1 Theater silhouette 8.2 Door sequence 8.3 Hexfield Viewscreen (HVS) 8.4 Rocket Number Nine 8.5 Light/button signs 8.6 Invention exchange 8.7 Stinger 8.8 The button 8.9 Low budget 8.10 Midwestern references 8.11 Riff density and callbacks 8.12 Letter readings and Info Club 8.13 Musical numbers 8.14 Guest characters 9 Post-Mystery Science Theater 3000 projects 10 Cast reunion 11 See also 12 Notes 13 References 14 External links [edit]Premise
The show's loosely-defined plot serves chiefly as a pretext for the movie commentary and the comic sketches, known as "host segments," which appear throughout each episode. Two mad scientists, Dr. Clayton Forrester (named after the main character in The War of the Worlds), played by Trace Beaulieu, and his sidekick Dr. Laurence Erhardt, played by Josh Weinstein, launch Joel Robinson (Hodgson), a janitor working for the Gizmonic Institute, into space and force him to watch truly horrible B-movies. They do this in order to measure how much bad-movie-watching it takes to drive a person crazy, and to pinpoint the perfect B-movie to use as a weapon in Dr. Forrester's scheme of world domination. Forrester's scheme was that when he found a movie so bad that it broke Joel's spirit, he would unleash it on an unsuspecting populace and turn everyone into mindless zombie slaves. The sycophantic TV's Frank, played by Frank Conniff, replaced Dr. Erhardt in the second season premiere on the Comedy Channel (third season overall), following Weinstein's departure from the series. Trapped on board the Satellite of Love (S.O.L.) — a reference to the Lou Reed song — Joel builds four sentient robots that populate the ship (ostensibly because he is lonely, and as an homage to the 1972 film Silent Running). The robots are Tom Servo (voiced first by Weinstein, then by Kevin Murphy beginning in Season 2 on Comedy Channel, Season 3 overall), and Crow T. Robot (voiced first by Beaulieu, then by Bill Corbett beginning in Season 8 [first year on the Sci-Fi Channel, ninth overall year of the show]), who accompany Joel in the screening room; Gypsy (voiced first by Weinstein, inhaling as he spoke, then by Jim Mallon and later by Patrick Brantseg, both using a falsetto voice), who does not appear in every episode but handles the "higher functions" of the S.O.L. (such as steering the ship); and Cambot, the recorder of the experiments who is visible only in a mirror during the opening credits and occasionally interacts with the others (for example, when Cambot is asked a yes-or-no question, the onscreen image will shift up and down or left and right, as if Cambot were nodding or shaking itself in a "yes" or "no" gesture). Also making intermittent "appearances" in the show's early years is Magic Voice, a disembodied female voice whose primary role is to announce the start of the first commercial break in each episode. Joel has no control over when the movies start, because—as the original theme song stated -- "he used those special parts to make his robot friends." (Those "robot friends" being Cambot, Gypsy, Crow, and Tom Servo. The opening theme-song lyrics were changed in later seasons, when Mike Nelson replaced Joel Robinson.) He must enter the theater when "Movie Sign" flashes, because Dr. Clayton Forrester (and in later seasons, his evil would-be tyrant mother Pearl) has numerous ways to punish Joel/Mike for non-compliance, including shutting off the oxygen supply to the rest of the ship, and electric shocks. As the movies play, the silhouettes of Joel/Mike, Tom, and Crow are visible at the bottom of the screen, wisecracking and mocking the movie (a practice they often referred to as "riffing") in order to prevent themselves from being driven mad. Several times during each movie (about every half-hour when shown with commercials), Joel (and later Mike) and the bots perform skits, songs, or other short sketch pieces (called "host segments") that are usually related to the movie they are watching. These segments sometimes even feature "visits" by prominent characters from a shown movie, such as Torgo from Manos: The Hands of Fate, "Jan in the Pan" from The Brain That Wouldn't Die, Ortega from The Incredibly Strange Creatures who Stopped Living and Became Mixed up Zombies, and Mothra from Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster. Many episodes without movies long enough to fill the show's run time also include screenings of unintentionally hilarious short films or "shorts," including educational films from the 1940s through the 1960s, a training film for Chevrolet sales managers, and films intended to teach children about posture or personal hygiene. On one occasion a Gumby cartoon was used as a short, and on three other occasions, segments from 1960s episodes of the soap opera General Hospital were used. These are less frequent in later episodes. They are nonexistent in season 8 (the first Sci-Fi Channel season), because during that season the Sci-Fi Channel's executives required that every film be a science-fiction, fantasy, or horror movie. The restriction was lifted for the final two seasons, with season 9 featuring two shorts (including the aforementioned Gumby film) and season 10, one short (in the penultimate episode). [edit]Background and history
[edit]Inspirations and Influences Hodgson credits Silent Running, a 1972 sci-fi film directed by Douglas Trumbull, as being perhaps the biggest direct influence on the show's concept. The film is set in the future and centers on a human, Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern), who is the last crew member of a spaceship containing Earth's last surviving forests. His remaining companions consist only of three robot drones (the third robot was destroyed in the beginning of the movie), though they are not able to converse with him. MST3K and the Joel Robinson character also occasionally reflected Lowell's "hippie"-like nature.[1] Although MST3K was arguably the most successful television series to satirize the B movie genre, it was not the first. Prior to MST3K's 1988 debut, the nationally syndicated TV series, Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection and The Canned Film Festival, featured many of the same movies but each lasted for only a single season in 1985 and 1986 respectively. Hodgson cites Beany and Cecil as having likely been a subconscious childhood influence. The 1960s Bob Clampett cartoon series centered on a boy and his sea serpent friend. In an interview, Hodgson made loose retrospective comparisons to elements between the two shows, such as the ship (the Leakin' Lena, to the S.O.L.), and the characters of Beany (to Joel), Cecil (to Gypsy), Huffenpuff (to Tom Servo), Crowy (to Crow), and Dishonest John (to Dr. Forrester).[1] Another childhood influence was the CBS Children's Film Festival, a 1970s live-action program which starred Kukla, Fran and Ollie, Burr Tillstrom's puppet troupe which was made famous during television's early days in the '40s and '50s. The characters consisted of a human (played by Fran Allison) and her two puppet friends (both performed by Tillstrom). Each episode of Film Festival featured an international children's film, with Kukla, Fran and Ollie serving as hosts. Fran would lead discussions of the film as the episode went on, in similar fashion to MST3K's host segments.[1] The signature silhouetted movie seats were partially inspired by several Looney Tunes shorts in which an on-screen character would interact with a "theater audience member" who could only be seen in silhouette. The name of the Joel Robinson character is a reference to the 1960s television series Lost in Space, which followed the adventures of the shipwrecked Robinsons, a family of astronauts (which itself traces the theme of castaway Robinsons through The Swiss Family Robinson [1812] back to Robinson Crusoe [1719]). In the pilot and first season on KTMA-TV, Hodgson used his real last name. [edit]KTMA era Hodgson initially came up with the concept for the "Mystery Science Theater".[2] The "3000" suffix was added later to sound like a version number (as in "HAL 9000"). Drawing partly on his own comedy act (which he was performing in the area at the time), the show's format was to showcase Hodgson. These initial episodes were filmed at the now defunct Paragon Cable studios and customer service center in Hopkins, Minnesota. In September 1988, Hodgson enlisted Twin Cities-area comedians Trace Beaulieu and Josh Weinstein, and producer Jim Mallon, to help him shoot a pilot for the show. The robots and the set, in their crudest format, were built overnight by Hodgson. The next morning, shooting commenced, and a 30-minute pilot was produced, in which selections from the 1969 science-fiction film, The Green Slime, were the test subject film. Joel watched the movie by himself, and was aided during the host segments by his robots, Crow (Beaulieu), Beeper, and Gypsy (Weinstein). Camera work was by Kevin Murphy, who worked at television station KTMA and also created the first "doorway sequence" and theater seat design. Mallon met with KTMA station manager Donald O'Conner the next month and managed to get signed up for thirteen consecutive episodes. The show had some slight alterations — the set was lit differently, the robots (now Crow, Servo and Gypsy) joined Joel in the theater, and a new doorway countdown sequence between the host segments and the theater segments was shot. The back story was also altered from the pilot; In the pilot episode it is explained that Joel Hodgson (not yet using his character name of Robinson) had built the Satellite of Love and launched himself into space (according to an interview with Hodgson on StarWars.com, it was set in a post-apocalyptic future).[3] Once the series was picked up this was changed, with Joel now having been a janitor at a "satellite loading bay", who was launched into space against his will by his evil "mad scientist" bosses. Joel's captors (played by Beaulieu and Weinstein) did not actually appear outside of the opening theme until several episodes later. Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered at 6:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1988 with its first episode, "Invaders from the Deep", followed by a second episode, "Revenge of the Mysterians" at 8:00 p.m. Initially, the show's response was unknown, until Mallon set up a phone line for viewers to call in. Response was so great that the initial run of 13 episodes was extended to 21, with the show running to May 1989. During this time a fan club was set up and the show held its first live show at Scott Hansen's Comedy Gallery in Minneapolis, to a crowd of over 600. Despite the success, the station's overall declining fortunes forced it to cancel MST3K. [edit]Comedy Channel/Comedy Central era Just as its run at KTMA was ending, the creators of MST3K used a short "best-of" reel to pitch the concept to executives at the Comedy Channel, a relatively new national cable channel. MST3K became one of the first two shows picked up. New sets were built, the robots were retooled, and a new doorway sequence was shot. Another major change was the show's writing format: instead of ad-lib riffs in the theater, each show was carefully scripted ahead of time, with Mike Nelson serving as head writer ("Head Writer" meaning he gathered and organized all the riffs from the various members, not, as mistakenly believed, that he wrote most of the riffs). Writer and performer Weinstein left the show during the transition period. Murphy replaced Weinstein as the voice of Tom Servo and Mallon took over as Gypsy. The Dr. Erhardt character was replaced by Conniff's "TV's Frank" (who showed Joel and the bots a milk carton with Erhardt on it to explain he was "missing"). Despite being a lackey and not a "mad scientist", Forrester and Frank would still be collectively referred to as "The Mads". After the second season, The Comedy Channel and rival comedy cable network HA! merged to become Comedy Central. During this period, MST3K became the cable channel's signature series, expanding from 13 to 24 episodes a year, a rate which would continue until its seventh national season, as the show gradually fell out of favor with the network's new management at the time. To take advantage of the show's status, Comedy Central ran a 30-hour marathon of previous MST3K episodes during Thanksgiving, 1991, including special promos and a "making of" show (This Is MST3K, hosted by Penn Jillette) that featured a behind the scenes look at episode scripting, filming, voicing, and puppet construction. Show creator Hodgson decided to leave the series in 1993, halfway through season five. He chose to quit the show due to his dislike of being on-camera, as well as his disagreements with producer Jim Mallon for creative control of the program.[4][5] Hodgson later told an interviewer: "If I had the presence of mind to try and work it out, I would rather have stayed. 'Cause I didn't want to go, it just seemed like I needed to."[6] In his final episode, Joel was forced to sit through the Joe Don Baker movie Mitchell; he escaped the S.O.L. and returned to Earth with the help of Gypsy and Mike Nelson (a temp worker, played by head writer Nelson, hired by Forrester to help prepare for an audit from the Fraternal Order of Mad Science), after the two discovered an escape pod (named the Deus ex Machina) in a box marked "Hamdingers". To replace Joel, Dr. Forrester sent Mike up in his place, where he remained as the show's host until the end of its run. Conniff left the show after season six, with Frank being taken to "Second Banana Heaven". Season seven saw the addition of Forrester's mother, Pearl (played by writer Mary Jo Pehl). The seventh season saw the last episode, Laserblast, having the S.O.L. crew transforming into points of light after Dr. Forrester detached the S.O.L. from Deep 13. The show's run coincided with the growth of the Internet, and numerous fans (MSTies) devoted websites to the series. There were two official fan conventions in Minneapolis, run by the series' production company itself (called "ConventioCon ExpoFest-A-Rama" (1994) and "ConventioCon ExpoFest-A-Rama 2: Electric Bugaloo" (1996), the second being a dual reference to the movie Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo and the children's TV series The Bugaloos). [edit]Sci Fi Channel era When Comedy Central dropped the show after a seventh season of only six episodes, MST3K's Internet fan-base staged a write-in campaign to keep the show alive. One notable contributor to the campaign was TV personality and Biography host Jack Perkins, whom Nelson had impersonated on the series several times. This effort led the Sci Fi Channel to pick up the series, where it resumed with some cast changes and ran for three more seasons. Trace Beaulieu, who had played Dr. Forrester and Crow, had already departed the series at the end of its Comedy Central run (with Forrester ultimately becoming a star child in a parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey). Mary Jo Pehl thus took over the lead "Mad" role as Forrester's mother, Pearl, who had been featured as a regular in season 7. Her sidekicks were the idiotic, Planet of the Apes-inspired Professor Bobo (played by Murphy) and the highly evolved, supposedly omniscient, yet equally idiotic Observer (AKA "Brain Guy"), played by writer Bill Corbett. In addition, Corbett took over Crow's voice and puppetry; with this replacement, the series' entire central cast had changed from the original KTMA / Comedy Central cast. In the middle of the first season on the Sci Fi Channel (the eighth national season overall), Mallon handed over the voice and puppetry work for Gypsy to BBI staffer Patrick Brantseg.
Mike and the bots watch The Crawling Eye (in their apartment on Earth) at the end of the series finale At first, Sci-Fi Channel officials mandated that every movie featured on the revived series had to fit within the channel's broad definition of science-fiction (which included horror and fantasy), instead of the varied genres present in past shows. By the final season, this restriction appears to have been loosened, allowing movies such as Girl in Gold Boots, Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark (an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet starring Maximillian Schell), and the Joe Don Baker film Final Justice. [edit]Cancellation The series finale, "Danger: Diabolik", premiered on August 8, 1999, although a "lost" episode produced earlier in the season, "Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders", was the last new episode of MST3K broadcast on September 12, 1999. Reruns continued on the Sci Fi Channel until January 31, 2004. Including the feature film, the MST3K cast and crew produced 198 full episodes of the show. As with the run on the Comedy Channel, the Sci Fi Channel run ended due to a change in management. As a two-hour show involving long negotiations for the use of third-party films, MST3K was a tough sell for networks, despite the fan base and ratings[citation needed]. Another campaign to save the show was mounted. This included taking contributions from MST3K fans for a full-page ad in the television trade publication Daily Variety magazine. The campaign was not successful. However, many former members of Best Brains insist to this day that they would have loved to continue the show indefinitely, as evidenced by similar new projects such as Cinematic Titanic, RiffTrax, and The Film Crew. In early 2008, some of the original MST3K cast reunited to shoot a brief sketch to be included on the web-exclusive DVD release of The Giant Gila Monster.[7] The new disc is meant to be added to Volume 10 of the "MST3K Collection" DVD boxed set series, replacing the Godzilla vs. Megalon disc which can no longer be sold due to copyright conflicts. The new package will now be sold under the name "Volume 10.2." The three-and-a-half-minute video is presented as a seminar to instruct consumers on how to "upgrade" their DVD set, which merely consists of "disposing" the old disc and inserting the new one. Hodgson (as Joel), Beaulieu (as Crow and Dr. Forrester), and Conniff (as Frank) all reprise their roles, with Conniff also providing the voice of Servo. [edit]Characters
Main article: List of Mystery Science Theater 3000 characters Cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Character KTMA "Season 0" (1988-89) Comedy Channel / Comedy Central seasons (1989-1995) The Movie (1996) SCI FI seasons (1996-99) Flash series (2007-2008) Giant Gila Monster sketch (2008) [7] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Joel Robinson "Joel Hodgson" during season 0 Joel Hodgson Joel Hodgson1 Joel Hodgson Mike Nelson Michael J. Nelson Crow T. Robot Trace Beaulieu Bill Corbett Paul Chaplin Trace Beaulieu Tom Servo Josh Weinstein Kevin Murphy James Moore Frank Conniff Gypsy Josh Weinstein Jim Mallon Patrick Brantseg Jim Mallon Cambot Kevin Murphy2 Magic Voice various, usually Jann Johnson or Alexandra Carr Mary Jo Pehl Beth "Beez" McKeever Dr. Clayton Forrester Trace Beaulieu Trace Beaulieu Dr. Laurence "Larry" Erhardt Josh Weinstein TV's Frank simply "Frank" pre-season 4 Frank Conniff Frank Conniff1 Frank Conniff Pearl Forrester Mary Jo Pehl1 Mary Jo Pehl Mary Jo Pehl Professor Bobo Kevin Murphy Observer ("Brain Guy") Bill Corbett Notes 1. Guest/cameo appearance only. 2. One episode only. [edit]Video releases and episode trading
Main article: Mystery Science Theater 3000 video releases [edit]Episodes
Main article: List of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes The first three KTMA episodes are considered to be the "missing MST3K episodes". No fan copy is known to exist.[8] (Jim Mallon had once mentioned that Best Brains' master copies are stored in a vault.)[9] The long lost episodes are K01 ("Invaders from the Deep"), K02 ("Revenge of the Mysterons"), and K03 ("Star Force: Fugitive Alien II"), with K03 being redone in season 3. "Episode" K00, "The Green Slime", is often counted among those missing shows, but is actually only a never-broadcast, half-hour sample from the film used to sell the MST3K concept to KTMA.[8] Several of the movies used in the MST3K series have consistently made the Internet Movie Database list of the Bottom 100 movies over time, including Hobgoblins (1987) (episode 907), Monster A Go-Go (1965) (episode 421), Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) (episode 424), Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (1995) (episode 1003), The Incredible Melting Man (1977) (episode 704), and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) (episode 321).[10] [edit]Other adaptations
[edit]Syndication Among the many troubles the Best Brains staff had with Comedy Central was the latter's desire to cut the show down to a 60-minute time slot. As part of this effort, in the summer of 1993, the MST3K staff selected 30 episodes to split into 60 one-hour segments, hosted by Mike Nelson in his "Jack Perkins" persona. The resulting repackaged series was titled The Mystery Science Theater Hour, and its first-run airings of these half-shows ran from November 1993 to July 1994. Reruns continued through December 1994, and it was syndicated to local stations from September 1995 to September 1996.[11][12][13] [edit]Feature film Main article: Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie A feature film, in which Mike and the bots worked over This Island Earth, was released in 1996 during the gap in the show's run between seasons 6 and 7. Unfortunately, Universal Studios invested few resources into the resultant Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie. Distributor Gramercy Pictures had a limited advertising budget and devoted its funds instead to the marketing of the Pamela Anderson film Barb Wire.[14] The film was never given wide release, instead playing for a limited time in different cities and then moving to another city. The result was that many fans did not even know it had been released.[citation needed] The movie was released on DVD in the United States by Image Entertainment, but that release has since gone out of print. Universal Pictures re-released the film on DVD on May 6, 2008. The re-release features a new anamorphic widescreen transfer, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound mix, and the film's original trailer.[15] The movie is also available on DVD in Germany as of October 2007. The film ran for 74 minutes, making it shorter than any episode of the actual series, and shorter than the original film, This Island Earth, itself. [edit]Flash series Main article: Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Flash series) On October 29, 2007, Jim Mallon announced through the Official MST3K Web Site that Best Brains, Inc. was being reborn. To spearhead the production company's return to activity, a new online animated web series referred to as "The Bots Are Back!" is being produced. The series planned to feature weekly adventure based solely around Crow, Tom Servo and Gypsy, with Mallon reprising his role as Gypsy and Paul Chaplin as Crow. However, only a handful of episodes have to date been released, and the series may have been abandoned. The internet response to the webisodes was largely negative.[16] [edit]Other appearances The videogame magazine PlayStation Underground (Volume 2, Number 1) included a Best Brains-produced MST3K short on one of their promotional discs. The video opened with a host segment of Mike and the Bots playing some PlayStation games, only to go into the theater to riff on some videos from the magazine's past. The feature is about seven minutes long. An Easter egg on the disc has some behind-the-scenes footage of Best Brains filming the sequences.[17] During promotion for Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie Mike and the bots were interviewed in-character on MTV, and seen in silhouettes heckling footage from MTV News. A 1997 episode of E! network's Talk Soup show featured guest appearances from Mike, Crow, and Servo. The only appearance to date of the cast in character since the final episode was an episode of ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats, where they briefly appeared in a cameo to make fun of the hosts' own skits. The show, which featured two brothers "riffing" in an MST3k-like manner at clips of old sporting events, aired from 2004 to 2006. Mike Nelson and Tom Servo were interviewed in character for the show Space Ghost: Coast To Coast, but the segment was never completed. [edit]Reactions
In the May 30-June 5, 2004 issue of TV Guide, a feature article listed Mystery Science Theater 3000 among the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!": "11 - Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1989-1999) A space traveler and his smart-ass robots watch and crack-wise about bombs like The Brain That Wouldn't Die and The Killer Shrews. Cult-ability: Mike Nelson, writer and star (replacing creator Joel Hodgson), recently addressed a college audience: "There was nobody over the age of 25. I had to ask, 'Where are you seeing this show?' I guess we have some sort of timeless quality."[18] In June 2007, TV Guide rewrote the list to include new cult hits and removed those that "have not stood the test of time." MST3K was bumped back two spaces to number thirteen. [19] In the book The Amazing Colossal Episode Guide (written by the season 6 MST3K cast members), Kevin Murphy related two tales about celebrity reactions he encountered. In one, the cast went to a taping of Dennis Miller's eponymous show; when they were brought backstage to meet Miller, the comedian proceeded to criticize the MST3K cast for their choice of movie to mock in the then-recent episode "Space Travelers" (a re-branded version of the Oscar-winning film Marooned).[20] In the other, Murphy discussed how he met Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., one of his literary heroes. When he had mentioned the show and its premise to Vonnegut, the author suggested that even people who work hard on bad films deserve some respect. Murphy then invited Vonnegut to dine with his group, which Vonnegut declined, claiming that he had other plans. When Murphy and friends ate later that night, he saw Vonnegut dining alone in the same restaurant, and remarked that he had been "faced... but nicely faced" by one of his literary heroes.[21] The show also enjoyed a number of celebrity fans, including Frank Zappa, whose long-standing enjoyment of substandard B-movies had been documented in songs such as "Cheepnis" (as heard on Roxy & Elsewhere); Zappa went so far as to telephone Best Brains and became a friend of the show, and following his death episode 523 was dedicated to him. The reactions of those parodied by MST3K has been mixed. Sandy Frank, who held the rights to several Gamera films parodied on the show, was "intensely displeased" by the mockery directed at him. (The crew once sang the "Sandy Frank Song", which said that Frank was "the source of all our pain" and implied that he was too lazy to make his own films.) Because of this, Frank reportedly refused to allow the shows to be rebroadcast once MST3K's rights ran out.[22] However, this may in fact be a rumor, as other rumors indicate that the Gamera films distribution rights prices were increased beyond what BBI could afford as a result of the show's success.[23] Kevin Murphy had said that Joe Don Baker wanted to beat up the writers of the show for attacking him during "Mitchell".[24][25] Murphy later said Baker likely meant it in a joking manner, although Nelson said he deliberately avoided Baker while the two were staying at the same hotel.[26] Rick Sloane was shocked at his treatment at the conclusion of Hobgoblins.[27] In a recent interview, however, Sloane clarified his comments, saying that "I laughed through the entire MST3K episode, until the very end. I wasn't expecting the humor to suddenly be at my own expense. I was mortified when they dragged out the cardboard cutout and pretended to do an interview with me. I was caught off guard. I had never seen them rip apart any other director before on the show." He also credits the success of the MST3K episode with inspiring him to make a sequel to Hobgoblins, released in 2009.[28] Jeff Lieberman, director of Squirm, was also quite angry at the MST3K treatment of his film.[29] Others have been more positive: Robert Fiveson and Myrl Schriebman, producers of Parts: The Clonus Horror, said they were "flattered" to see the film appear on MST3K.[30] Miles O'Keeffe, the star of the film Cave Dwellers, called Best Brains and personally requested a copy of the MST3K treatment of the film,[26] saying he enjoyed their skewing of what he had considered to be a surreal experience (the film was shot in Italy). In the form of an essay and E.E. Cummings-esque poem, Mike Nelson paid tribute to Miles with a humorous mix of adulation and fear.[31] Adam West, star of the 1960s Batman TV series, co-starred in Zombie Nightmare, another film MST3K mocked. West apparently held no grudges, as he hosted several MST3K marathons on Comedy Central, including the "Turkey Day" marathon in which the episode featuring Zombie Nightmare had its broadcast premiere. Mamie van Doren (who appeared in episode 112, Untamed Youth, and episode 601, Girls Town), Robert Vaughn (star of episode 315, Teenage Caveman, which he called the worst movie ever made) and Beverly Garland (who'd appeared in many MST3K-featured Roger Corman films) also hosted. Rex Reason, star of This Island Earth, has also appeared at several MST3K events and credits MST3K with introducing the film to a new generation. The crew of Time Chasers held a party the night the MST3K treatment of their film aired. Reactions were mixed, but director David Giancola said, "Most of us were fans and knew what to expect and we roared with laughter and drank way too much. I had a blast, never laughed so hard in my life."[32] [edit]Awards MST3K won a Peabody Award in 1993, for "producing an ingenious eclectic series": "With references to everything from Proust to 'Gilligan's Island,' 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' fuses superb, clever writing with wonderfully terrible B-grade movies".[33] In 1994 and 1995, Mystery Science Theater 3000 was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Variety or Music Program, but lost both times to Dennis Miller Live. MST3K was also nominated for CableACE Awards each year from 1992 through 1997, the last year of the awards. Its DVD releases have been nominated for Saturn Awards in 2004, 2006 and 2007. [edit]Characteristic elements
Several unusual elements of Mystery Science Theater 3000 provide a unique feel to the show, and were featured in many (if not all) episodes. [edit]Theater silhouette The theater silhouette, trademarked as "Shadowrama" (sometimes "Shadowramma") — a row of chair tops with Tom Servo, Joel or Mike, and Crow sitting at the right side — is a simple row of rounded shapes cut from black painted foamcore board. Joel/Mike and the robot operators sit down in front of these, facing a white wall. When shot from the back it gives the illusion of sitting in a movie theater. A photograph of this appears in the book The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide, depicting Mike Nelson with a script on his lap and puppeteers Trace Beaulieu and Kevin Murphy working their respective robot puppets in front of the theater seat cutout.[34] Its characteristic appearance has been used in several works, often as an homage to the show. In some cases, Joel or Mike would use their silhouette to "interact" with the movie as if helping the actors with a prop or the like as part of a joke; in at least one movie, the silhouettes have been used to censor a nude scene. The silhouette "interactions" are used more predominately in Cinematic Titanic. In the initial DVD releases, a polyvinyl silhouette was included, which could be affixed to a TV screen via static electricity to allow viewers to create their own MST3K experience with any feature at home. [edit]Door sequence Featured in most transitions between the theater segments and "host" segments is a camera tracking through a tunnel, leading from the bridge of the Satellite of Love into the theater, or (as the segue to commercial banks or at the end of each film) vice versa. Access to the tunnel from the bridge is through a hexagonal doorway, originally decorated with a large, gear-like "G" (for Gizmonic Institute, the original lair of the Mads). In the middle of season 5, upon Joel's departure, the main bridge door's Gizmonic "G" logo was altered to a full pinion gear wheel/hub design for the Mike Nelson episodes (season 5 to 7). This change was made per Joel Hodgson's request that all references and logos to Gizmonic be removed upon his leaving the show. In the Sci-Fi Channel era, the main bridge door was redecorated again, with a profile shape of the Satellite Of Love locking hinge-and-planet design. This replaced the "gear wheel" design.[3] As the camera (implicitly Cambot) moved through the opening doorway, a countdown of hatches, decorated with unusual artifacts and numbered "6" through "2" (in the style of a film leader countdown), moves out of its way, finally opening on the theater and the film. The doorway sequence was changed three times during the series duration. The first one was used for the KTMA season, and a more colorful and elaborate one was built and filmed for season 1 on Comedy Central which would remain in place until Joel left in episode 512. Beginning with episode 513, a newer, more sophisticated doorway-sequence was built and filmed, keeping up with the show's art direction at the time, which now included more dark-grey colors, more props and a more proportionally shaped hexagonal tunnel. This doorway sequence would remain for the duration of the series. The season 1-5.5 door sequence is known amongst fans as the "Joel Doors" and the season 5.5-10 sequence is known as the "Mike Doors." In Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, Best Brains acquired props to use an actual door sequence instead of recording one.[35] The film's renditions of the doors also featured a plaster casting of the face of TV's Frank from the Joel-era seasons on Door #2, as an homage to the former cast member. [edit]Hexfield Viewscreen (HVS) The HVS was, as its name implies, a hexagonally shaped opening on the SOL's bridge that served as a kind of monitor, through which the inhabitants of the SOL could interact with a wide and diverse range of visitors, often characters taken directly from whatever movie they were watching at the moment (Gamera, Jan-in-the-Pan, etc), and sometimes not (Yakov Smirnoff, rowdy redneck neighbors, etc). While an ostensible viewscreen, it was actually a small stage area, covered with a dark fabric screen with an "iris" mechanical door in front of it; and was often "deactivated" by simply turning off its lighting at the end of a transmission, as the door moves rather slowly. The HVS was used more frequently during the Comedy Central years. During the SciFi Channel era, it was used on a few occasions, such as during the season 8 send up of "The Mole People" and during season 10 in episodes "Soultaker", "Final Justice", & "Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders". The Hexfield Viewscreen premiered in episode 201 ("Rocketship X-M") and was originally manually operated with a hardware store bought window shade before episode 205 when the more familiar iris mechanism and frame backlight were installed. The HVS frame had different backlight colors through the years. It had a blue light from mid season 2-early season 3, white lighting in mid season 3, then yellow lighting in late season 3 and finally blue again from season 4 through 10. [edit]Rocket Number Nine Sometimes Joel/Mike and the Bots would become aware of something happening outside the ship, and would instruct Cambot to "give [them] Rocket Number Nine". Once they did this, they were provided with an external view of the ship and whatever was nearby. This is an oblique reference to the Sun Ra composition Rocket Number Nine, featured on the 1973 album Space is the Place.[36] This became a running gag; every external shot of the ship, no matter what angle or element of the ship was shown, was from "Rocket Number Nine." [edit]Light/button signs During the host segments, a set of three colored light-up buttons was located on the table's left side (mid season 1 through 10) (to the viewer) and above the door to the theater (Season 2-10). The leftmost light was red and would light to indicate that the Mads were calling; Mike discovered in episode 517 (Beginning of the End) that the button could be pressed to contact Deep 13, but commented after seeing the Mads in an uncomfortable domestic scene, "So, I guess we can call the Mads... You know what, I don't think we should do that again."[37] The rightmost was yellow - "commercial sign" - and would light to indicate that the show had to cut to a commercial break. The middle light was green (season 2 and 3) and purple/blue (season 4 through 7) and would light to indicate a visitor in the Hexfield Viewscreen (this occurred only during the Comedy Central episodes). While one of the characters would usually touch the flashing light to "execute" it, there were never any consequences for failing to do so. When all three lights flashed, it indicated "movie sign". When this happened the camera would shake, a buzzer would sound, and everyone currently on the bridge would scatter while yelling "We've got movie sign!" or some variant thereof. The lights were absent from the early episodes of the series, and did not appear until halfway through the first season of the Comedy Central era. Before the lights appeared Joel would simply slap the table due to the lack of buttons. During Season 1, the color order of the light buttons were different than from later seasons. The green and red buttons were reversed. Green was used for commercial sign and yellow was for the Mads. Red was only used with the others during "movie sign". The rotating strobe lights above the doors did not appear until the set was revamped for season 2. Beginning with season 4, the center green light and green desk button was now a purple-esque/blue colored light and button. This was due to the blue chroma key used for the door sequence having been replaced with a green chroma key and the green lights did not show up well on camera with green chroma key and vice versa. When the S.O.L set was again revamped for the Sci-Fi channel era in season 8, the rotating strobe lights were replaced with solid square block lights (similar to the lights used in the feature film) and the color order above the doors was changed. The blue light was on the left, yellow in the middle and red on the right. However, the desk lights retained the same color order from the Comedy Central era. [edit]Invention exchange The Hodgson era of the show (as well as the first five episodes of the Nelson era) featured the "invention exchange". This was always in the host segment which followed the first commercial break. Joel and the bots would present their latest idea for a new invention to the Mads (often ending with the line "Whaddaya think, sirs?") and vice versa. Hodgson's premise behind the segment was that as fellow Gizmonic Institute employees, the invention exchange served as a sort of company greeting. In reality, the segment was essentially a carryover from Hodgson's earlier prop comedy performances. The inventions ranged from a karaoke machine that only played public domain music (to avoid royalties) to a machine that converted fun gifts into mundane, practical gifts. The final invention exchange occurred in episode 519, "Outlaw" (the seventh show featuring Nelson as the host), wherein the Mads presented "the first really real time machine" opposite Mike and the bots' "instant Fabio kit". The invention exchanges were ultimately discontinued because, according to Murphy in The Amazing Colossal Episode Guide, "Joel was the gizmocrat, the one who brought that invention exchange spirit on board," adding that "Mike is many things, but he is not a tinkerer". Despite this, Dr. Forrester and Frank continued to present new inventions and experiments throughout Seasons 5 and 6, usually sending them to Mike and the bots to test them out. [edit]Stinger A brief (generally, three to five seconds) clip from that episode's movie (or occasionally the accompanying short) which played following the end credits of the show. The clip generally highlighted a moment or line of dialogue that the show's writers found to be particularly amusing. The tradition started with the second-season episode featuring Rocket Attack U.S.A., with a shot of a blind man walking down the street, then suddenly stopping to exclaim "Help me!" The stinger was replaced for three episodes of season eight with images of the Observers, and for a fourth with a shot of Bobo after a disastrous fall. Best Brains' copyright notice was shown during the stinger. [edit]The button At the end of each episode during the "Frank" years (seasons 2-6), Dr. Forrester would instruct Frank to push "the button", which was located on a computer keyboard. When this was done, the image would shrink and leave a black screen to make way for the end credit roll. "Push the button, Frank" has since become one of the show's more recognizable lines among fans. (Some believe that the line is a reference to a running gag of "Push the button, Max!" in the film The Great Race). Occasionally there were variations of this custom, as in Daddy-O where "the button" malfunctioned and would repeatedly interrupt the credit roll to switch the show back to the Mads in Deep 13. [edit]Low budget As with the films that they riff on, MST3K was economical. Everything, right down to the sets, props and robots are made from household items found at thrift shops. Part of this started during the KTMA years, as there was little to no budget supplied to the crew for the set, so such items had to be made out of various "found junk". Despite an increasing budget, Best Brains never forgot their roots as a "cowtown puppet show" and subsequently kept the bric-a-brac motif of the show. [edit]Midwestern references Many of the riffs and cultural references made by the humans and bots in the show are specific to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, reflecting the origin of the show (filmed throughout its eleven seasons in this area) and the Best Brains staff's Midwestern roots.[38] For example, in episode 422 (featuring The Day the Earth Froze), Crow T. Robot remarks how Scandinavia resembles southern Wisconsin with the crack: "It's the Swedish Dells!" He then says in a heavy Swedish accent: "The Dooks! Ride the dooks!" (that is, the 'Ducks', an amphibious tour vehicle). There is also an episode where they reference former U.S. Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis. In the fan-favorite episode 424, Manos: The Hands of Fate, one scene is accompanied by the exclamation "filmed on location in Spooner, WI." The character of Mike Nelson is also from Wisconsin and in episode 810, "The Giant Spider Invasion", which is set in Wisconsin, the crew accordingly mocks riotous mobs by shouting variations of "Packers won the Super Bowl!!" (The show's cast and crew are ardent fans of the arch-rival Minnesota Vikings, even having Vikings running back Robert Smith in a dialogue-less cameo in one episode.) Furthermore, in episode 905 "Deadly Bees," Tom Servo remarks that one of the characters' outfits looks similar to a waitress at Perkins, a diner found throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota. References to the Twin Cities suburbs such as Maplewood and Edina are also common, e.g., "Featuring Music normally heard at the Days Inn lounge in Columbia Heights". Mary Jo Pehl's home town of Circle Pines, Minnesota is also mentioned in a number of episodes. Actual directions off of the Beltline in Madison, WI, have also been given on the show. Other Midwestern areas referenced at various times in the series include Chicago (writer/performer Kevin Murphy is from Illinois, and the film from episode 517, "Beginning of the End" is set in Illinois), Iowa (in "Outlaw of Gor," a wideshot showing a large grassy expanse causes Crow to exclaim: "Wha-It's Iowa!"), and Michigan (at one point in episode 512, "Mitchell", Joel uses the name of a henchman to reference Benton Harbor, Michigan). [edit]Riff density and callbacks Once the Best Brains staff gained some experience from the earlier KTMA shows, they gradually increased the amount of riffing until they estimated they were doing about 700 jokes per 90-minute episode.[3] Many of those riffs are "callbacks", or references to earlier episodes and running jokes. [edit]Letter readings and Info Club A common feature on the show was the reading of fan mail during the closing segment of the show. Usually, only one letter was read per episode, although up to four letters have been read in some episodes. During the beginning of each letter, Cambot has the note up on "still store" so that the audience can see the text (or fan art, if any). This began during the KTMA season of the show, though early episodes had Joel only playing phone messages from fans — the tradition didn't evolve to letter-reading until about halfway through the inaugural season. One piece of fan art, featured in episode 402, "The Giant Gila Monster," showed Joel and the Bots, but inexplicably labeled Crow as "Art." Joel and the Bots were clearly puzzled by this, and it lead to a running joke of characters on the show occasionally addressing Crow as Art. MST3K also boasted an "Info Club", a system where you could write in to the specified address (the same one used to collect fan mail) and receive newsletters about events and information related to the show. The address would appear in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen twice during the theater segments, and again in conjunction with the letter readings. The letter reading ended mid-season 7, with the last episode to feature letter readings being episode 705, "Escape 2000". [edit]Musical numbers The host segments of many episodes (almost every episode in the Joel era, less often in the Mike era) feature a musical number written by Michael J. Nelson. The songs usually mock the movie that's being watched (the "Sidehacking" song from "Sidehackers") or one of the people involved with production ("The Sandy Frank Song" from "Time of the Apes"). Several of these songs make up the majority of the archive material on MST3K.com. Interestingly, the number of musical numbers featured on the show went into decline once Nelson's tenure as host began, despite the fact that he wrote almost all of the musical numbers. [edit]Guest characters The MST3K cast was occasionally augmented by "guest stars" from the films — characters so memorable that they made interesting visitors to the Mads' lairs or the Satellite of Love. These film characters were always portrayed by Best Brains staffers, giving some screen time to behind-the-camera workers. Other "Thirsty Flies" were real-life people portrayed by MST3K cast and crew. MST3K has only had two non-staffers make guest appearances on the show: the aforementioned Smith cameo appeared in a season 8 episode, with Smith as "Howard", a "gift" to Pearl from her ape worshipers,[39] and film critic Leonard Maltin, who had been mercilessly mocked for some of his ratings of MSTied films, appeared as himself in episode 909, "Gorgo".[40][41][42] [edit]Post-Mystery Science Theater 3000 projects
Mystery Science Theater 3000s Mike Nelson (left) and Kevin Murphy, at "Exoticon 1" convention panel in Metairie, Louisiana, November 1998 Shortly after the cancellation of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Patrick Brantseg, Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, Michael J. Nelson and Paul Chaplin created The Adventures of Edward the Less, a 2001 animated fantasy/comedy for SciFi.com, the Sci Fi Channel website. Edward the Less was a parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and the fantasy genre in general. MST3K veterans Mary Jo Pehl and Mike Dodge also provided vocals.[43] Since 2006, writer/performers Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett have applied the format to major studio films by selling riffing-only audio tracks, called RiffTrax, on the web. Nelson occasionally performs solo on the tracks, or accompanied by guest commentators such as "Weird Al" Yankovic and Neil Patrick Harris. Under the "RiffTrax" banner, Nelson, Murphy and Corbett make occasional live appearances. In July 2008, they riffed to Plan 9 from Outer Space in San Diego. They also provided commentary to Michael Bay's Transformers, Jurassic Park and other movies during a summer series at the Stone Brewing Company in nearby Escondido, California. Nelson, Murphy and Corbett appeared in four episodes of The Film Crew, riffing on old movies in a different setting. The four-title run includes "Hollywood After Dark", "Killers from Space", "Wild Women of Wongo", and "The Giant of Marathon". No additional episodes have been made, the website and sets have been discontinued, and cast-member Kevin Murphy has indicated that the project will probably not continue. The four existing titles are all available on DVD. Joel Hodgson has created a similar project, called Cinematic Titanic, with original cast members Trace Beaulieu and Josh Weinstein, as well as former cast members Frank Conniff and Mary Jo Pehl. Hodgson and company have stuck a bit closer to the MST3K format than their RiffTrax counterparts, staying with little-known b-films and the shadowrama effect. Their first DVD was released in December 2007, with new releases becoming available both on DVD and on the internet for download. Conniff has been part of "Cartoon Dump", a series of classically bad cartoons from the collection of Jerry Beck. In addition to web appearances, live shows are being performed in Los Angeles and New York City and Hodgson will make guest appearances. Conniff plays Moodsy Owl while Hodgson is Dumpster Diver Dan. Corbett, along with fellow writer Rob Greenberg, wrote the screenplay for the 2008 family comedy Meet Dave, about a tiny Star Trek-like crew operating a spaceship that looks like a man. The captain of the crew and the spaceship were both played by Eddie Murphy. Corbett originally conceived the story as a series called Starship Dave for SciFi.com, but it was dropped in favor of Edward the Less. The script (along with the title) were changed drastically by studio executives and other writers, although Corbett and Greenberg received sole screenwriter credit. Corbett said he and Greenberg had very little creative control during filming.[44] [edit]Cast reunion
To commemorate 20 years since MST's first episode, the cast and crew from all eras of the show reunited together for a panel at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con, which was hosted by actor-comedian Patton Oswalt. The event was filmed and included as a bonus feature on the 20th Anniversary DVD release via Shout! Factory.
RiffTrax From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia RiffTrax are downloadable audio commentaries featuring comedian Michael J. Nelson heckling (or riffing) films in the style of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a TV show in which Nelson was the head writer, and later the host. The RiffTrax are sold online and delivered by digital download. The site was launched by Nelson and Legend Films in 2006, and is based in San Diego. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Use 2.1 RiffTrax Player 2.2 RiffTrax On Demand 3 Featured catalog 4 References 5 External links [edit]History
The movies chosen for Mystery Science Theater 3000 were predominantly low-budget B-movies because the show itself was low-budget and producers could only afford films with expired copyright or had otherwise cheap licenses.[1] The idea of RiffTrax came about after Mystery Science Theater 3000 was canceled and Nelson had researched and consulted a lawyer about the possibility of directly releasing DVDs of films with the commentaries included. But Nelson realized this initial idea was not feasible since he would be "sued out of existence."[2] Instead, the best way to distribute the commentaries would be to sell them independently of the films, to avoid having to obtain the rights to distribute the movies themselves.[3] There would be no legal or monetary restrictions to prevent Nelson from producing them,[4] though viewers would have to provide the movies themselves. The early RiffTrax were almost all solo efforts on Mike's part, but it soon became apparent that there was a strong demand for them, and Nelson was quickly able to recruit more riffers for the project. Most official RiffTrax (not counting fan-made iRiffs and the spin-off RiffTrax Presents series) have a stable cast of Mike and former Mystery Science Theater 3000 co-stars Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett, a line-up that happens to be identical to that of The Film Crew and the last three seasons of MST3K. That said, the guest slots vary often; other MST3K alumni have been featured, such as Mary Jo Pehl and Bridget Nelson, in addition to Internet personalities Richard Kyanka (of Something Awful fame), Josh Fruhlinger (writer of The Comics Curmudgeon) and Chad Vader, as well as actors Neil Patrick Harris and Fred Willard, and satirist "Weird Al" Yankovic. Nelson has said that he would like to bring in other Thirsty Flies.[5] The enthusiasm of guest riffers for the project led to the establishment of RiffTrax Presents, a series of tracks exclusively hosted by guest riffers and sanctioned by Nelson.[6] The success of the guest format is such that "Three Riffer Editions" of some films previously solo riffed by Mike have been produced for the VOD service, which feature new riffs by Mike in conjunction with Murphy and Corbett, and Mike has ceased producing solo riffs since 2007 (although Matthew J. Elliott has produced some solo tracks for RiffTrax Presents).
User feedback section of the 1/28/09 live RiffTrax. As part of SF Sketchfest in San Francisco, California, Nelson, Murphy and Corbett have appeared several times performing live riffs alongside a screening of a film. As of 2008, they have appeared three times, having riffed Daredevil and Over the Top in 2007 and Plan 9 from Outer Space in 2008, the last being shown in the historic Castro Theater.[7][8] Recently the RiffTrax crew have done live internet broadcasts on Ustream.tv, riffing public domain movies and taking viewer questions. In 2008, RiffTrax launched iRiffs, which allows fans to upload commentaries to be sold on the website. iRiffs users are paid 50% of the net revenue generated by their products. iRiffs differentiates from normal RiffTrax in that both serious and humorous commentaries can be uploaded.[9] In February 2009, a contest was held by RiffTrax, in which a winning iRiffs user would be given $1,000 and a chance to develop a RiffTrax Presents title, receiving instruction and critique from Nelson, Murphy and Corbett.[10] The winners of the contest were Doug and Rob Walker and Brian Heinz of That Guy with the Glasses, who contributed an iRiff of The Lion King.[11] The Rifftrack they produced was for Batman Forever. [12] [edit]Use
RiffTrax commentaries must be synchronized at the start of the movie using a cue.[13] To reassure consumers that the MP3 file is synchronized with the film, a fictional character named DisembAudio occasionally speaks a line in exact synchronization with the movie.[14][15] DisembAudio has also occasionally been known to join in on the riffing. "RiffTrax Presents" commentaries feature a female synchronization voice, Debbie.[16] Though RiffTrax are suggested to be played on an MP3 player or with computer software, they are sold as unrestricted MP3s, allowing users to choose the viewing method that suits them the best. A Rifftrax Player is also offered as a free download.[17] The movies chosen for RiffTrax are based on two criteria: whether the movie lends itself towards a funny riffing, and whether the film is widely available on DVD.[13][15] These criteria have resulted in a wide variety of genre and era of movies chosen to be riffed. The first audio commentary made available through the web site in July 2006 was for the 1989 film Road House, long cited by Nelson as the cheesiest movie ever made.[18] [edit]RiffTrax Player The RiffTrax Player is a program which automatically synchronizes the commentary playback to the DVD playback. The RiffTrax Player makes use of a hybrid file (.riff) containing the MP3 of the original commentary as well as synchronization information. The crew at RiffTrax has said that future commentaries will be released in both MP3 and RIFF formats, and older commentaries will also see RIFF-format releases in the future. As of this writing, the RiffTrax Player currently only supports NTSC DVDs. [edit]RiffTrax On Demand RiffTrax On Demand features downloadable DRM-Free video files of films with RiffTrax commentaries embedded. RiffTrax On Demand has released many short, public domain, educational films, similar to the ones that MST3K would sometimes mock before a full-length movie began.[19] Featured catalog
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