{"id":757,"date":"2008-06-06T08:05:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T12:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=757"},"modified":"2008-06-04T19:47:17","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T23:47:17","slug":"the-classic-science-fiction-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"The Classic Science Fiction Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <A HREF=\"http:\/\/crotchetyoldfan.wordpress.com\/\">Crotchety Old Fan<\/A> really loves science fiction, and really <EM>really<\/EM> hates what the Sci Fi Channel calls science fiction.*  So he&#8217;s scoured the Web for classic science fiction shows and has created a wonderful <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rimworlds.com\/classic%20science%20fiction%20channel.htm\">repository of links<\/A> to old movies and TV episodes.  There are hundreds of hours of programming to choose from, and he&#8217;s adding more all the time.<\/p>\n<p>(I like his <A HREF=\"http:\/\/crotchetyoldfan.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/02\/geeky-young-guys\/\">T-shirt design<\/A>, too.)<\/p>\n<p><I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/A>)<\/I><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n*No, I mean he <EM>really<\/EM> hates it.  His site contains an explanation of why he decided to put together the repository, and it&#8217;s titled:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE SCREED<br \/>\nor<br \/>\nWhy Redefining Science Fiction as &#8216;What If?&#8217; is the most idiotic, moronic, lame-brained, ill-considered, ignorant, wrong-headed, &#8216;congratulations, you&#8217;ve just won a Darwin Award, please go kill yourself now&#8217;, stupidest idea ever conceived of by man<br \/>\nor<br \/>\nHow To Destroy Your Audience by Insulting Them To Their Faces<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He isn&#8217;t amused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crotchety Old Fan really loves science fiction, and really really hates what the Sci Fi Channel calls science fiction.* So he&#8217;s scoured the Web for classic science fiction shows and has created a wonderful repository of links to old movies and TV episodes. There are hundreds of hours of programming to choose from, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757"}],"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=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}