{"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> 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
\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