{"id":1537,"date":"2005-06-09T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/06\/09\/gone-in-180-seconds\/"},"modified":"2005-06-09T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T19:38:00","slug":"gone-in-180-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/06\/09\/gone-in-180-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"gone in 180 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 9:49 AM today, one of my faithful perl scripts emailed me to say that a movietickets.com page had changed&#8211; specifically, that a new link had appeared for a 10:00 PM show of &#8220;Special Advance Preview&#8221; (the not-so-secret code name for <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0379786\/\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Serenity<\/span><\/a>) on Thursday, June 23rd.<\/p>\n<p>I bought ten adult tickets immediately (the most that movietickets.com will allow in a single purchase).<\/p>\n<p>I sent email to several friends telling them that tickets were available.<\/p>\n<p>I went back to movietickets.com at 9:52 AM to buy more tickets&#8230; and it was already sold out.  In less than three minutes.  Gone.<\/p>\n<p>I called the automated phone system, too, just in case they&#8217;d reserved distinct blocks of tickets for sale through different channels&#8211; no dice.<\/p>\n<p>Crazy.  What else can you say about <a href=\"http:\/\/browncoats.serenitymovie.com\/serenity\/?u=sparckl\">Browncoats<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some people might question these fans&#8217; devotion to a series that ran a total of 13 episodes (of which only 11 aired). Some people have never been in <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2005\/06\/08\/DDGQJD4D2O1.DTL&amp;type=printable\">love<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ObNitpick: if you count the pilot movie as 2 episodes, there was actually a total of 15, of which 12 aired on FOX.  Starting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/schedulebot\/index.php3?date=22-JUL-2005\">July 22nd<\/a>, Sci Fi Channel will air the entire series in production order.  Or you could just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000AQS0F\/curtiscchensfree?creative=327641&amp;camp=14573&amp;link_code=as1\">buy the DVDs now<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 9:49 AM today, one of my faithful perl scripts emailed me to say that a movietickets.com page had changed&#8211; specifically, that a new link had appeared for a 10:00 PM show of &#8220;Special Advance Preview&#8221; (the not-so-secret code name&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}