{"id":167,"date":"2007-02-01T18:54:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T23:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2007-12-13T12:27:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T16:27:44","slug":"comedy-sf-mashup-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Comedy SF Mashup Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playing off his suggestion for <I>A Canticle for Lebowski<\/I> (Jeff Bridges as an immortal Dude wanders post-apocalyptic America searching for an intact bowling alley), Campbell Award-winning author Jay Lake is asking his blog readers to come up with similar science fiction\/comedy mashups.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><I>Me, Myself, and I Robot<\/I>. A man discovers he has two personalities, one being a robot he was bonded with in an emergency operation in his youth. Chaos ensues.<\/p>\n<p><I>A Boy and His Dogma<\/I>: A young archangel rescues the mother of God from a gang of roving ex-angels and attempts to conform to her human expectations. Rated R for the grisly ending where Alanis Morissette and Alan Rickman&#8230; well, I won&#8217;t give it away.<\/p>\n<p><I>A Series of Unfortunate Event Horizons<\/I>: A trio of orphaned kids must investigate the starship where their parents disappeared years ago into a black hole. But things in the ship are not as they seem and the search for truth hazards dangerous accidents and reveals ghastly visions. Jim Carrey plays the monster.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>:::cackle:::<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/jaylake.livejournal.com\/923339.html\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing off his suggestion for A Canticle for Lebowski (Jeff Bridges as an immortal Dude wanders post-apocalyptic America searching for an intact bowling alley), Campbell Award-winning author Jay Lake is asking his blog readers to come up with similar science fiction\/comedy mashups. Me, Myself, and I Robot. A man discovers he has two personalities, one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}