{"id":33,"date":"2007-06-27T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=33"},"modified":"2007-06-27T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T02:24:00","slug":"and-now-for-something-completely-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"And Now for Something Completely Different&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are pictures from the bottom of the earth. (Click on &#8217;em for higher res.) Who needs alien planets?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/FogAurora1.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/20070524-SB-Fog-Aurora-1-775700.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/20070524-Antz-Aurora.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/20070524-Antz-Aurora-700779.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is part of a transmission from the bottom of the earth, recently received from a very cool chick I met at Readercon last year, who works with satellites and builds raccoon-scaring robots as a hobby and to whom I owe an e-mail:<span style=\"\">    <\/span>    <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I ended up getting drafted into hosting a small movie party that involved lots of martinis and half the guys wearing skirts (I&#8217;d never made out with a guy in a skirt before;<span style=\"\">  <\/span>there <i>are<\/i> advantages).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> Life really is very strange down here!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> Now I can&#8217;t get the image of Kurt Russell in a grass skirt out of my head.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>If I was a horror writer I&#8217;d probably be able to put that image to constructive use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> The photos were taken by Anthony &#8220;Antz&#8221; Powell and are used with permission.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>I do not know what he looks like in a dress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p><\/o:p>Any shapeshifting alien they dig up down there?<span style=\"\">  <\/span>Gonna be in therapy for fucking <i><i>years<\/i><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are pictures from the bottom of the earth. (Click on &#8217;em for higher res.) Who needs alien planets? This is part of a transmission from the bottom of the earth, recently received from a very cool chick I met at Readercon last year, who works with satellites and builds raccoon-scaring robots as a hobby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}