Doing A Pixar Exercise For Star Trek The Motion Picture
Exercise: take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How d’you rearrange them into what you DO like? I wouldn't say I dislike ST:TMP exactly. The movie came out when…
Damnit, Rifftrax, We Wanted To Do That One
It looks like Rifftrax beat us to Rock N’ Roll Nightmare, which I wanted to do after we did the Omen series. Rats. Still, I’ll watch it, because even without…
Dr. Kritzinger Sails Into History
Today, we wrapped Dr. Kritzinger's 12 O'Clock. I just got back from strike. It's never fun to say goodbye to people after a show, but that's life in the theatre. These…
Into the Home Stretch On Omen Riffs
You know what? I’m happy. Source: MMIP Riffs
What Dr. Kritzinger Is All About
After each performance of Dr. Kritzinger's 12 O'Clock, I come out on stage (still in costume) and take audience questions. A question that came up during Sunday matinee, which I'll paraphrase, was…
Pats Fans, Spare Us
Deadspin, home of some of the funniest takes on the New England Patriots, predicted that whatever the punishment was for Tom Brady and his team would give Patriots fans a…
Our Tom Brady Deflategate Sketch
At the beginning of our Yor the Hunter From the Future riff track, we had a bit of fun at Tom Brady’s expense. That cheating, lying creep Tom Brady. That…
Stretchy Nerves Help Explain A Baleen Whale’s Prodigious Gulp
From CBC: Scientists at UBC have discovered — by accident — a rorqual whale can take a gulp of water that's bigger than its massive body, then bounce back to its…
Denialism and My Comments Policy
On the first day of my college freshman physics class, my professor brought out a boxful of letters from cranks. He read one of them out. It was from a man…
Steve Shives’s Five Stupid Things About Holocaust Denial
I dedicate this post to someone who's recently taken to trip-trapping on my bridge uninvited. Take it away, Mr. Shives: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrxxZunGwtM] What he said.