{"id":219,"date":"2008-10-02T13:15:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T21:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=219"},"modified":"2008-10-02T14:31:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T22:31:09","slug":"this-fool-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"This Fool On Film!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q&amp;A time again &#8211; in a new and <strong>sinister<\/strong> way! This one goes out to <strong>Andrew<\/strong> from Essex, who wrote in to the <strong>Tim <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/books.dreambook.com\/sament\/tim1.html\">Guestbook<\/a> last week. Please excuse my stumbling steps with this new gadget: Guillermo del Toro I most certainly ain&#8217;t! ;p<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mF1x632WkbI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mF1x632WkbI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The music that&#8217;s adding some much-needed class to my, um, somewhat ad hoc title sequence(!) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Future+Prophecies\/_\/Dreadlock\">Dreadlock, by Future Prophecies<\/a>. Got another question for me? Now you know what to do! ;p<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in other news, I&#8217;m ECSTATIC to announce that we have a brand new winner in the <strong>Black Tat<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblacktattoo.com\/competition.html\">No Monsters Were Harmed In The Making Of This Website Competition<\/a>! Yes! Step forward and take a bow <strong>Jamie<\/strong> with his awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblacktattoo.com\/competition_winner_r7.html\"><strong>Nectarine Slices<\/strong><\/a>!  Isn&#8217;t that beautiful? It looks just like something from <strong>the Dragon<\/strong>&#8216;s insides, or the end of the universe. Or, as readers of <strong>Black Tat<\/strong> will know, both &#8211; HEE HEE HEE! \ud83d\ude42 The competition continues. Fancy your chances? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblacktattoo.com\/competition.html\">Give it a wallop!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing this in some haste, partly because of all the hours I&#8217;ve ended up spending fiddling with this film. It&#8217;s harder than it looks! -Or, heh, it was for me, anyhow! \ud83d\ude09 But it was a worthy experiment, I hope you&#8217;ll agree, and one that I may repeat from time to time in the future. However, now I need to get away from the screen and get some shut-eye, because I have an amazing week of events in front of me!  Tomorrow I&#8217;m doing my stuff at <strong>Burford School<\/strong>, in Oxfordshire. On Monday I&#8217;m off to <strong>The City of London School For Boys<\/strong> for four short talks there. Then on Tuesday (get this!) I&#8217;m travelling to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isle_of_Wight\">The Isle of Wight<\/a><\/strong> for a three-day tour of schools there! By the sounds of it I&#8217;m going to be speaking to some of my biggest audiences yet. I&#8217;m very excited! \ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q&amp;A time again &#8211; in a new and sinister way! This one goes out to Andrew from Essex, who wrote in to the Tim Guestbook last week. Please excuse my stumbling steps with this new gadget: Guillermo del Toro I most certainly ain&#8217;t! ;p The music that&#8217;s adding some much-needed class to my, um, somewhat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3,8,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}