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Our tribute to Mystery Science Theater 3000 goes out with a bang as Lint delves into the mysteries of satire, pop culture, and that time Tom Servo sang to his pet turtle, Tibby, for a full five minutes. Meanwhile, Susan is having a baby — tomorrow! Yikes! That makes baby number four! Yikes! The current three already drive us crazy! Yikes! We shall have to change and become more stern and paternal and “draw the line” and no longer “put up with that crap” in our tiny (very tiny) maison - just to create some kind of groundwork for peace and quiet and mutual respect and less screaming! Yikes! Susan has suffered from post-partum complications in the past, but the meds are ready to go! Yikes! We are just a couple of crazy Catholics who actually paid serious attention to Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s big time letter about contraception linked here! Yikes! Which makes us crazy even among Catholics! Yikes! But if we had dissented because of Susan’s post-partum problems we wouldn’t have Sarah and Holly now! Yikes and double yikes! Please pray for us in our odd combination of seriousness and silliness! And blessings to all the members of Best Brains, Inc.

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Welcome to part two of our tribute to Mystery Science Theater 3000 in happy acknowledgement of the show’s 20th anniversary (sorry for this week’s delay). The great debate continues between those who feel the show is cynical and those who feel the show is perhaps only slightly cynical and those who believe the show is just plain fun and those who… well, you get the idea. As a very distant girlfriend once said to me, “You LIKE to think, don’t you?” Boy, she had me pegged, didn’t she? So join me, your loyal servant and ever lovin’ pop-culture maven, as I LIKE to think about MST3K.

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Do you feel driven to “make something of yourself”? To BE somebody? To leave your mark on the world? Why? And why does that involve absolutely NEEDING to write our generation’s version of the Narnia books? Hmmm? Well, that’s Lint’s ambition anyhow. He knows it’s crazy, but it sticks with him nevertheless. In this episode, Lint Hatcher shares these and other ambitions. Then he reads a letter from a friend (a fellow member of Inklings Anonymous) that explains why those ambitions don’t make sense. (The image is a mural in Belfast.)

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