{"id":16494,"date":"2024-10-02T15:38:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T19:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16494"},"modified":"2024-10-02T15:39:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T19:39:40","slug":"halloween-countdown-day-2-slash-and-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16494","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Countdown: Day 2 \u2013 Slash and learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve wondered what I&#8217;ve been up to during my long hiatus from this site, the answer is &#8220;trying to enjoy and reconnect with things without feeling like I have to mine them for content.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>What kinds of things?<\/p>\n<p>A lot of shit from first three decades on earth, where imperfect memories and rosy nostalgia needed a reality check. Videogames, comics, books, music, and midden pickings such as <em>Deadly Lessons<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/img\/241002\/1002.jpg\" width=\"587\" height=\"590\" title=\"You know you're in for some fun times when they couldn't even spring for Erik Estrada.\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;a 1983 ABC made-for-TV movie with an incredible cast and some dubious decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Donna Reed! Ally Sheedy! Larry Wilcox! Diane Franklin! Bill Paxton! Rick Rossovich! It&#8217;s as if the Love Boat crashed into a Hemdale movie production!<\/p>\n<p>Mostly though, it&#8217;s an odd artifact of what happened when the made-for-TV movie hunger to bite some cultural trend &#8212; in this case the &#8220;slasher at an all-girls school&#8221; horror thriller &#8212; grappled with the need to square things with the wholesome-ish standnards of prime time network TV.<\/p>\n<p>No gore. No titty flashing. No cuss words or anything within the same galactic sector of a R-rating. Just a whole lot of familiar faces going through the bowdlerized motions as genre cliches demand.<\/p>\n<p>In short, it&#8217;s a fucking hoot and a half.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended listening:<\/strong> Welcome to the house of fun.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CsZ4XIOEKLY?si=LcpHGSZl9rS2fBLW\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve wondered what I&#8217;ve been up to during my long hiatus from this site, the answer is &#8220;trying to enjoy and reconnect with things without feeling like I have to mine them for content.&#8221; What kinds of things? A lot of shit from first three decades on earth, where imperfect memories and rosy nostalgia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[668,15],"tags":[625,147,1880,74],"class_list":["post-16494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-countdown","category-music","tag-625","tag-movies","tag-trash","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16497,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16494\/revisions\/16497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}