The Mute Marine & MST3K?

On October 3rd, SAU was host to An Evening with Col. Oliver North--an event sponsored by Farmers Bank and Trust and the Southern Arkansas University Foundation ($100 to attend). A professional photographer was on hand at a private reception (another $100 to attend) held at Farmers Bank and Trust prior to the dinner to take pictures of attendants with Ol' Ollie.

In a weird turn of events the next speaker on campus (October 31st) will be Michael J. Nelson who has been selected as the 2006 Emerson-Thomas-Crone lecturer. You might know Mike as Joel's replacement on Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (MST3K). Actually, Mike was head writer for the show since its early years and was then asked to also host halfway through the fifth season.

Nelson, along with his side-kick robots Tom Servo and Crow, were forced to endure some of cinema's most painfully bad "B" movies at the hands of mad scientists. His silhouetted head, and those of the robots, has become one of the most recognizable icons of cult filmdom.

The Mute Marine followed by MST3K?

I can't help but think it would have been more entertaining if SAU had asked them to come together....Mike sitting in the front row making sarcastic jokes about the speech that Col. North was giving.