Reviving an old thread to point out MST news!

Volume twenty (!!) was released by Shout! last week. It features four Joel eps, and for my money the big attraction is both "Master Ninja" episodes, featuring "movies" cobbled together from the gawdawful old tv series THE MASTER, starring Lee Van Cleef as a ninja (I kid you not) and Timothy Van Patton as his van-driving, hamster-owning apprentice. Must be seen to be believed. MASTER NINJA THEME SONG!!!! bap-ba-bappa bappa...

Also, now available for preorder is "In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater" ( http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4532-5 ), a collection of academic essays about the series...which I'm plugging, I confess, because chapter 22 is by litttle ol' me. I hope anybody who reads my piece won’t find it to be too excessively navel-gazing in nature; it’s basically a discussion of how collecting the series has changed over time, with some speculation about the meaning of all-digital “collections.” I’m looking forward to reading the other pieces.