The Barbarella and other Sci-Fi Cocktails

Here's a fun episode we taped at MARS 2112, with special guests St. John Frizell and Miss Saturn.

I discovered a ton of science-fiction inspired cocktails. I hope to one day publish them as a book (ironic for a guy who doesn't drink.)

Surprisingly, no one's invented a BUCKAROO BANZAI cocktail. It seems like the perfect name for a powerful drink. The gauntlet has been thrown down -- I urge all you amateur mixologists to leave a recipe in the comments section.

BIGFOOT Night! A Look Back...

BIGFOOT Night! was really awesome, thanks for everyone who came out or supported in other ways. M. Sweeney Lawless programmed a great evening with videos, drawings, eyewitness accounts and some laugh-out-loud TV and movie clips, including The Legend of Boggy Creek, Bigfoot & Wildboy and The Six Million Dollar Man.

And get this -- the show was reviwed by
Scientific American(!)

We didn’t get much footage from the show, but here’s the part of the show where I encouraged the audience to take out their camera-phones to get photographic evidence of a Bigfoot.

Lucky for you, the always-awesome Jonny Fido had his video camera.

Watch this clip.

Five More Hungry Actors

Play along with this video quiz.

BIGFOOT Night!

The next Sci Fi Screening Room, it's gonna be Big. It's gonna be BIGFOOT NIGHT.

M. Sweeney Lawless and Kevin Maher (me!) bring you clips from infamous movies, questionable documentaries and scientific proof that Bigfoot definitely exists. (Maybe).

Featuring clips from The Legend of Boggy Creek, Sid & Marty Krofft's Bigfoot & Wildboy, rare footage from the one-woman show "Betty the Yeti" and a special presentation of the award winning short film SKUNK APE!?

Special guests like Australian journalist Dan Ziffer (who exposes the truth about the Bunyip)
and Doug Skinner (who will reveal the Mozart-Bigfoot connection.) This is gonna be a good show, people.

MONDAY, November 17th
7 PM
UNDER St. Mark's
94 St. Mark’s Place, btw 1st Ave and Avenue A
The evening will include Bigfoot drinking games, haikus, trivia, prizes. The show is $7 for believers, $10 for non-believers.

Also, we're a pick in TIME OUT NEW YORK.

Post-Election Day Special

I guess I shoulda posted this sooner. It ran on AMC's website the day after the election. We taped an alternate intro and outro, if McCain had won. There were some good jokes, but I'm happy to sacrifice them.

Scary Sci Fi

This episode was supposed to tie-in to AMC's FearFest, but it became a fun experimental piece.

FRANKENSTEIN Night!

Get ready for a video cavalcade like no other -- this Monday is FRANKENSTEIN Night!

With Special Guests Monster Creature Feature, Tom Blunt, Will Carlough, Jay Stern, Tom Carrozza, Maura Madden, M. Sweeney Lawless and MORE!

There'll be cheap drinks, trivia prizes, music, poems, and Frankenberry Cereal.

Monday October 27th
7 PM
at UNDER St. Mark's. (94 St. Mark's Place, between 1st & A, NYC)

tickets at $7 ($5 if you come in a full costume -- not just a hat)


SEE clips from Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, Frankenstein Conquers the World, and Dracula Vs. Frankenstein.



AND the second feature of the night (included with admission) is the Quicksilver Radio Theatre's production of Mary Shelley's original story.

Toxic Avenger - the Musical

Lloyd Kaufman gives us the inside scoop about Toxic Avenger, part 5!

Reign of Fire

Always trying to do something different with man on the street. This episode was co-written by dragon-enthusiast Nick Nadel.

More than Super-Friends

Fly Fun Facts

Here's some fascinating facts about David Cronenberg's 1986 masterpiece, THE FLY. I watched it again and aside from Jeff Goldblum's GIGANTIC CORDLESS PHONE, the movie isn't dated at all. Today it would be all CGI, which would be less disturbing.

Also: Much the way The Fly was edited after test screenings, I had to cut a gross scene from my video. The deleted gag will appear on YouTube soon. (I promise)


2 facts that didn't make it into the "5 fun facts" -- Tim Burton almost directed the film. Michael Keaton almost starred (supposedly he didn't want to act under all the prosthetics.) Those two would eventually get to work with Geena Davis in Beetlejuice.

The Case For (and Against) Sci-Fi Comedies

We tackle one of the most controversial sub-genres.

5 Actors Who Needed The Money

5 Things You (Maybe) Didn't Know About Escape From New York

I was never a huge fan of the movie, but then I saw it at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, with a big noisy crowd. The scratched-up print was a hit with the rowdy audience. I loved it.

Attack of the Super Plants!

A lovely visit to my favorite garden -- the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

I didn't mention it in the video, but the Garden is where I proposed to Rebecca. I had wanted to get down on one knee and say "Engagment ring, do your thing!" -- a hilarious reference to the short-lived Thing cartoon, in which teenager Ben Grimm would touch his magic ring and say "Thing Ring Do Your Thing!" and turn into The Thing (from the Fantastic Four.) I chickened out. But she said yes anyway.

Monster Self-Defense

This is not self-defense for monsters, rather it is a guide to defending yourself against monsters. Sorry, monsters.


Related videos:


our interview with George Romero


and our look at Return of the Living Dead