{"id":926,"date":"2009-08-04T17:06:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T21:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=926"},"modified":"2009-08-04T17:06:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T21:06:34","slug":"phoning-it-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"Phoning It In"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you\u2019re a professional writer, such as myself (it\u2019s sarcasm people!), you sometimes use a literary device known in the trade as \u201cphoning it in\u201d. This is when what the writer does sends out the message of not caring about the result or of applying a minimal effort. Sure, it may seems as if I \u201cphoned\u201d this one in, but what was I to do when two highly entertaining videos fall into my lap?<\/p>\n

\u201c10 Minute Zombie Survival Lesson\u201d<\/strong>
\nIn school most of us had to do a public speaking project where you instruct the class on how to do something. Me? I taught my class how to make characters for the roleplaying game \u201cVampire: The Masquerade\u201d. In the case of Julia Casey, she picked an even more bad ass topic; how to survive the inevitable zombie attack. Yes, this is a lesson in zombie survival, presented as part of an Instructional Skills course in Library Science at the University of British Columbia.<\/p>\n

My favorite part is when the class breaks up into groups and the camera pans around the room showing students seriously discussing how to survive a zombie attack. I call this video a slow burn, it\u2019s not insanely laugh out loud funny, instead the perfectly matter of fact presentation makes it more amusing the longer the lesson is given.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGhost Busters (1954) Trailer\u201d<\/strong>
\nThe other one is from the time my husband spends on the \u201cHero Boards<\/a>\u201d. Someone posted this video on there. I fell in love with it at first sight. Whoiseyevan asks, \u201cWhat if Ghostbusters, the movie, was shot in 1954 instead of 1984?\u201d<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t plan on making it a habit of just sharing some videos and calling it an \u201carticle\u201d, but these two came to my attention at the same time and I just couldn\u2019t resist sharing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you’re a professional writer, such as myself (it’s sarcasm people!), you sometimes use a literary device known in the trade as “phoning it in”. This is when what the writer does sends out the message of not caring about the result or of applying a minimal effort. Sure, it may seems as if I “phoned” this one in, but what was I to do when two highly entertaining videos fall into my lap?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}