Sunday, August 25, 2013

Our World Will Never Be The Same



Watch this video at michaelcasher.com

This video is NOT blurry, In fact, it's crystal clear. If it appears blurry to you there are several reasons for that, including the state of the current YouTube feed, the way your particular browser processes Shockwave Flash data, your browser's Internet settings, the current state of the Google servers and, last but not least, the ongoing and deliberate tampering of my cyber spaces and intellectual property by dastardly forces determined to maintain this planet's "darkness rules" status quo. Thank you for your patience.

Monday, August 5, 2013

Friday, July 5, 2013

Science Fiction for Thinkers Channel


Author's Note 2-1-14: In June 2013 I redesigned the center portion of this page with a main channel image, a default video of my choosing and then I added playlists over the next several months. This is as much of me as I can put into the Science Fiction for Thinkers Channel at YouTube, using the "One Channel Design" template. Thanks for visiting.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Friday, April 5, 2013

Cyber Spaces Never Last


The other day I made a screenshot of the current SciFiForThinkers Channel at YouTube to add to the sad scrapbook of cool-looking sites I put up like jars of cyber pickles all over the Web since 2004. I made them for people to feast on for free whenever the mood struck them. The above screenshot shows the third design for the SciFiForThinkers Channel and it too will soon become a memory. Every time I find my niche at YouTube, they pull the rug out from under me. But I'm not alone. They do it to everyone.

One day soon, behind my back, this personalized channel will suddenly look like an ad-cluttered generic copy of everybody's YouTube Channel. That's Google's big-ass secret agenda. To make us all look the same while they make a killing from dozens of distracting ads that have nothing whatsoever to do with our channels. So, get 'em while they last. If you're as fed up as I am with Google's ad-crazy crap, you can watch all 41 of my promotional videos at Michael Casher Tube, instead, without all those ads and junk.

I think this is the last "jar of pickles" I'm putting up on the Web. Even "putting up a blog post" at Blogger has become more of a chore than a pleasure because half the time nothing works at Blogger anymore, thanks to Google the Destroyer. Google is systematically destroying the Internet and robbing Internet users of their individuality. Just to make a lousy buck. So don't be surprised when all ten of my blogs stop updating one day and stay the same. It's not my idea but, hell, I'd rather go fishing in the pouring rain.

Author's Note 5-26-13: When I signed into my YouTube account today, May 26th 2013, I was informed by YouTube that I had only ten days left to "Upgrade" to the new "One Channel Design" or YouTube will change the above page to the "One Channel Design" against my will. Upgrade, your ass. Up yours, YouTube. You are now on my "shit list" of websites to avoid. When my "neat" (Baby Boomer adjective) SciFiForThinkers Channel changes from the above look (my design) to an ad-infested, sleazy-ass clone of every other YouTube User's Channel on or about June 5th it, too, will become a dinosaur, by default. YouTube is already a sleazy, ad-infested dinosaur and it's the fault of Google the Destroyer, not me, and the fault of web surfers everywhere who go totally apeshit over ads and the same old video content. Needless to say, I'm done creating videos for YouTube.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

The Same Ol' Same Ol', But Quicker


I'm always organizing and re-organizing. Maybe it's because I'm an old poop who's just about blogged out and who keeps tripping over those boxes on the floor in my writing room that are filled with science fiction novels and literary novellas that nobody wants and that gets old so I go do something else. Only I don't like cleaning out closets to make the day go faster. So, yeah, I'm tired of skinning my elbows on the copier table whenever I try to grab onto it to break my fall. I stove up like an old man now, not like a young warrior.

But that's neither here nor there, which is an inane phrase like more or less. More or less. So, I put up another website last week that links from the menu on my official website. There are also technical reasons why I built this new site. My Webnode sites are extensions of my official website because Webnode is so much easier to work with than Webs. Webs has become a real thorn in my side and they won't let me embed any more videos from YouTube. So, the hell with Webs.

Additionally, my videos look best on a black background. So they do. This new mini-site has only ten videos on it, a little "sampler" of what represents me, my writing and my official website. In a nutshell, if you will (thank you, Mike the Obscure). And, no, this new website isn't a mirror site. I hate that term. A mirror site is a duplicate of another site. If I were to mirror my official website it would take me two years or more to build the mirror site. So, that's on that.

Science Fiction for Thinkers videos is a free nickelodean, if you will, for people who want to watch moving pictures about books and people before they engage the real thing. And, no, this mini-video site is not a mirror site of "Michael Casher Tube". Michael Casher Tube gives you all the videos (41) about us but without all the distracting crap that YouTube and YouTuber's toss your way until you want to pull your hair out and run screaming from the house.

So, yeah, and that's why the menu link at Science Fiction for Thinkers.com is called Kwick Videos. You don't have to hunt and peck or search or open a new tab or wade through ads to find out what we're all about here. So you don't. Who says an old guy can't "think young". Hey, whatever happened to Polly Bergen, anyway?

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Fred Fortune Memorial


Back in the good old days (2002-2012), when I was full of piss and vinegar as a writer and a blogger, the Fred Fortune blog was one of my favorite blogs to write. This is my special memorial to ol' Fred Fortune. And, no, it's never been proven that Fred Fortune was just another one of my many personalities. So it hasn't.

Monday, March 4, 2013

Invisible Empires Never Last


Who says science fiction can't read like literary fiction?

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

The Magic of February

"Snow Laden Spruce" Photo ©2006 by Michael Casher

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Snow Wars

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Death on the Nile

I'm confused. Whenever I read a news story about the soccer riots in Egypt I get the impression that Egyptian soccer fans think they have a right to riot during and after a soccer game and that they aren't doing anything wrong, even if people are killed in the process. Is that it? I'm not really sure, but that's what I'm getting out of all this hoopla.

French Soccer Fans Confused Me A Long Time Ago


I also get the impression that Egyptian authorities think they have every right to arrest rioters who caused the stampede deaths of other soccer fans and that Egyptian courts think they have the right to condemn these criminals to death. I do, too. But now, after death sentences are finally handed down, they're rioting again and — my apologies if I'm wrong here — they're rioting again because Egyptian soccer fans (at least most of them, at any rate) think they're above the law? Is that it? Because, if that's it, I wouldn't go to Egypt to take a goddamn shit.