{"id":205,"date":"2008-12-26T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=205"},"modified":"2008-12-26T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T17:32:00","slug":"squiddance-08-big-green-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Squiddance &#8217;08: Big Green, Big Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/squiddance-765492.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 264px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/squiddance-765488.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Just for the next little while I&#8217;m commandeering the &#8216;crawl for social event planning, since not everyone is on facebook and I don&#8217;t have the time to set up an actual forum.  I assure you this will not become a habit.  Local real estate values will be restored shortly.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, though, this is how the next few days are looking:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Dec 27, noon through whenever:<\/span>  &#8220;Cowboy Bebop&#8221; (brought to you from Squeak &amp; Death Ray&#8217;s personal collection), which has to be the worst title since &#8220;Battlestar  Galactica&#8221; but which is widely regarded to be one of the best anim\u00e9 series ever, and one which Joss Whedon is rumored to have ripped off when he made &#8220;Firefly&#8221;.  We&#8217;re talking 26 episodes and a movie, so this is going to take all the 27th and a chunk of the 28th.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Dec 28, probably noon unless anyone is still sprawled across furniture from the night before, in which case we might just pick up earlier:<\/span>  the Conclusion of Bebop, followed by a variety of one-offs whose order depends on local interest:  &#8220;Perfect Blue&#8221;, &#8220;Jin Rah&#8221;, and episodes of &#8220;The Venture Brothers&#8221; are all in contention.  Robot Chicken&#8217;s Star Wars specials may also make an appearance.  If I dislike all these I may just commandeer the set and force everyone to watch Eraserhead.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Dec 29th:<\/span> Must be seen to be believed.  The first half of Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica, rendered in glorious hi-def, would be cause enough to make the trip.  But we have an added bonus for you.  For those who were a) too young, or b) have suppressed the memory, a series called &#8220;The Starlost&#8221; was made <i>right here in Toronto<\/i> back in the early seventies. It was created by Harlan Ellison, engaged the talents of Ben Bova as science adviser and Douglas Trumbull (<i>2001<\/i>, <i>Silent Running<\/i>) on special effects. Acting talent ran the gamut from Sterling Hayden to John Colicos.  The premise was nothing short of brilliant, and it is widely and justly regarded as the <i>worst science fiction series ever made<\/i>.  And now, courtesy  of the private (and soon-to-be-banned) collection of horror writer David Nickle, we present <i>the entire 16-episode run<\/i> of this atrocity interspersed among episodes of BSG.  Think of the day as a kind of parfait, layers of gold and shit interlaced  for as long as we can withstand the psychological whiplash.  I have no idea how long this experiment will last.  Perhaps we&#8217;ll get all the way through both sequences, or perhaps we&#8217;ll run screaming for our pitchforks after five minutes of Rachel and Devon.  We won&#8217;t know until we try.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Dec. 30:<\/span> no showings.  I must be in Oakville to help dispose of the last possessions of my decrepit mother, in the wake of her relocation to the dumpster behind the Denny&#8217;s on South Service Road<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Dec 31:<\/span>  still wide open.  Maybe we&#8217;ll all be sated by then.  Maybe we&#8217;ll watch the Lord of the Rings, extended edition.  Maybe we&#8217;ll just spin the disks and watch Wall-e or Brazil or 2001: A Space Odyssey for the hundredth time.  Or Dark Star if it downloads in time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that&#8217;s the closest thing we have to an actual schedule.  Everything is liable to change without notice.  We may even deke hard right and do some gaming:  at least <i>Portal<\/i> and <i>Half-Life: The Lost Coast<\/i> can be completed in a few hours, and they look pretty good on a 47&#8243; screen.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(204, 204, 204);\">Logo credit: Madeline &#8220;Squeak&#8221; Ashby.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just for the next little while I&#8217;m commandeering the &#8216;crawl for social event planning, since not everyone is on facebook and I don&#8217;t have the time to set up an actual forum. I assure you this will not become a habit. Local real estate values will be restored shortly. 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