{"id":14356,"date":"2013-01-18T19:27:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T00:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2013\/01\/18\/14356.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:05:00","slug":"scifimusicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2013\/01\/18\/scifimusicals\/","title":{"rendered":"#scifimusicals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I like the idea of hashtag games. I keep thinking I should, you know, actually engage in them. Only&#8212;\n<P>The other day, Adam Beechen, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/07\/25\/2149.html\">Hench<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/03\/26\/10476.html\">What I did on my Hypergalactic Interstellar Summer Vacation<\/a> and childhood friend of Your Humble Blogger, tweeted this:\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>In the spirit of \"Les Miserobots,\" here&#8217;s another sci-fi musical: \"Miss Saiborg.\" <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23scifimusicals\">#scifimusicals<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Adam Beechen (@sonnova) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sonnova\/status\/291382182197485568\">January 16, 2013<\/a><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I came up with two right away: <cite>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Fifth Dimension<\/cite> and <cite>Hello, Dhalgren!<\/cite>. Then I sent out this one:\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Stop the World I Want to Get Off <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23scifimusicals\">#scifimusicals<\/a> oh wait--<\/p>&mdash; Vardibidian (@Vardibidian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vardibidian\/status\/291585644801687552\">January 16, 2013<\/a><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Oh, I was proud of that one. Then I spend quite some time trying to decide where to put the skiffy into <cite>The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas<\/cite>. The obvious thing is to set it on Titan, but I decided, in the end, after an extended debate in my mind utilizing three separate levels of analysis, that <cite>The Best Little Wormhole in Texas<\/cite> is funnier.\n<p>I don&#8217;t know whether the game had quietly died whilst I argued out the humor with myself. If it didn&#8217;t, that one killed it.\n<P>See, I could happily do these all day.\n<p><ul><li><cite>A Most Happy Phalanx<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>Pump Blobs and Dinettes<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>City of Weeping Angels<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>The Full Na&#8217;vi<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>Thoroughly Modern Mad Max<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>The Wookiee Singer<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>The Psychlo Pimpernel<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>Five Clones Named Moe<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>Fuzzy Girl<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>Dirty Rotten Sandworms<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>Bye Bye Body Snatcher!<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>A My Name is Alien<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>Galactic Overtures<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>Sunday in the Park with GELF<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>The Kree Nobody Knows<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>My Fair Lensman<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>On the Thirtieth Century<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>Microscopic Me<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>Ben Franklin on Pluto<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>Vogon Babies<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>Irma la Droid<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>The Music Mantis<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>451 in the Shade<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>How to Succeed in Business Without Really Flying<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>Side By Side By Stargate<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>Ferengi Girl<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>Legally Borg<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>The Kzin King<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>Gallifrey Gardens<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>The Klaatu Will Rock<\/cite><\/li><li><cite>A Day on Trantor, A Night in the Foundation<\/cite><\/li><\/ul>\n<p>Really, the only hard part is stopping.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger keeps going long after everyone else has stopped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-specfic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16732,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356\/revisions\/16732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}