{"id":90,"date":"2003-11-08T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-09T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=90"},"modified":"2005-12-04T11:22:06","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T16:22:06","slug":"what-i-like-about-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-i-like-about-the-internet","title":{"rendered":"What I Like About the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among other things, there’s the ability to find just about any mangled quote that’s half-stuck in my head. Watching the lunar eclipse tonight, I kept trying to recall that great moment from The Invisible Man<\/em><\/a>, when Claude Rains busts it one night in the countryside. A little Googling got me the exact quotation, which I’ve always liked:<\/p>\n

“Even the moon is scared of me! Scared to death!”<\/p>\n

Of course, that also gets me thinking about Ed Begley, Jr.’s parody of Rains in Amazon Women on the Moon<\/em><\/a>, which is probably another way the Internet and I seem to parallel each other…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among other things, there’s the ability to find just about any mangled quote that’s half-stuck in my head. Watching the lunar eclipse tonight, I kept trying to recall that great moment from The Invisible Man, when Claude Rains busts it one night in the countryside. A little Googling got me the exact quotation, which I’ve … <\/p>\n

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