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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?

Michael Casher Tube

Michael Casher Tube

At the end of February I spent way too much time building a new website just to organize my 32 promotional videos for you. I also put up this new website because On March 7th YouTube will be automatically replacing my customized SciFiForThinkers Channel with another generic-looking page that I'll have to "spruce up" as much as I can. I guess most web users want constant change, even if it means giving up something really cool for something that's not so hot. Just as long as it's the latest thing. Wow, what crap. Hey, if it's not broken, don't fix it.

You bet, I'm tired of people just "up and changing" what I work so hard to create. I'm reminded of my old "Science Fiction for Thinkers at Lulu" page that's now a generic-looking "Author Spotlight" at Lulu.com. Oh well, they own those websites, not me. But I do own the copyrights to all 70 of my videos, including the 32 professional videos I uploaded to YouTube this past year.

So, if you want to see my YouTube videos on a website that has more of "me" in it than the new SciFiForThinkers Channel at YouTube, visit Michael Casher Tube. And, yep, I'm 99.9% sure that this latest "upgrade" of my internet presence, without my permission, has pretty much cured me of my addiction to Windows Movie Maker. I've got better things to do than to keep beating a dead horse that was going nowhere in the first place.

So, basically, I took the SciFiForThinkers Channel on the road again. Only this time I'm running the show. Why shouldn't I? This is my stuff.

Spacecasts

This week I had a notion to spotlight four of my Junk TV videos by adding them to the SciFiForThinkers Channel at YouTube. Then I had a hankering to put up a new page at Science Fiction for Thinkers.com to showcase them there as embedded videos. The results made me all excited so I got the bright idea of doing a special screenshot of that page and then linking it in a blog post to my website.

All right, then. I've done that already. Now I'll call it a day. So I will.

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