{"id":1285,"date":"1993-12-05T22:51:07","date_gmt":"1993-12-06T03:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2011-03-01T23:27:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T04:27:38","slug":"sci-fi-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/1993\/12\/05\/sci-fi-buzz\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking up Science Fiction Age on a 1993 episode of SCI FI Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oIbMaTK6dbk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Back in 1993, long before I started working for the Syfy Channel, I was on the SCI FI Channel.<\/p>\n<p><em>SCI FI Buzz<\/em>, which was then the Channel&#8217;s equivalent of <em>60 Minutes<\/em>, did a short feature highlighting me on the occasion of the first anniversary of <<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/editing\/science-fiction-age\/\">em>Science Fiction Age<\/em><\/a> magazine. It was taped at ConFrancisco, the 1993 World Science Fiction Convention in San Francisco, and ran in December of that year.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how you&#8217;ll feel about watching this, but I wince a little, not just because there&#8217;s a little bit more of me, but also because there&#8217;s a little bit less.<\/p>\n<p>More, because I was heavier then. Less, because I was trying so hard to present myself as a calm talking head and not bounce around in my chair or talk with my hands that I seem more subdued than my usual bouncy self. I was trying to be too cool about it all. I appear too coy and sedate, and with the quiet manner of speech on display here, I remind myself of Jason Alexander playing George Costanza. <\/p>\n<p>You might feel differently. In fact, I hope you feel differently. But however you feel, the clip is too good a piece of history not to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1993, long before I started working for the Syfy Channel, I was on the SCI FI Channel. SCI FI Buzz, which was then the Channel&#8217;s equivalent of 60 Minutes, did a short feature highlighting me on the occasion of the first anniversary of Science Fiction Age magazine. It was taped at ConFrancisco, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17,10],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos","tag-science-fiction-age","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}