{"id":1338,"date":"2009-08-04T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/08\/04\/phoning-it-in\/"},"modified":"2009-08-04T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T17:06:00","slug":"phoning-it-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/08\/04\/phoning-it-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoning It In"},"content":{"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 phonedthis one in, but what was I to do when two highly entertaining videos fall into my lap?<\/p>\n

10 Minute Zombie Survival Lesson<\/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 Vampire: The Masquerade. 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’s 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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Ghost Busters (1954) Trailer<\/strong>
\nThe other one is from the time my husband spends on the Hero Boards<\/a>. Someone posted this video on there. I fell in love with it at first sight. Whoiseyevan asks, What if Ghostbusters, the movie, was shot in 1954 instead of 1984?<\/p>\n

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I don’t plan on making it a habit of just sharing some videos and calling it an article, but these two came to my attention at the same time and I just couldn’t 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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}