Good afternoon club members and friends! This is the first of five related posts which together make up our May 9, 2020 DIY, Virtual MonSFFA Meeting.

1) Opening Coronavirus Song Parody

Right off the top, we share this important reminder to wash our hands, courtesy the “Founders Sing” YouTube channel (YouTube.com/FoundersSing). Like Lady Penelope’s car, it’s FAB!:

 

2) Introduction and Afternoon’s Agenda

The club’s Executive hopes this post finds you all in good health and managing well through the current quarantine. Again, to those of you who might be deemed “essential workers,” please undertake every safety protocol to keep yourselves as protected from infection as possible!

This is our second virtual MonSFFA meeting. It will unfold right here on the club’s Web site over the course of the afternoon, beginning with this first post, followed by subsequent posts at 2:00PM, 3:00PM, and 3:15PM, closing at 4:00PM with a concluding post. All content will also be available concurrently on MonSFFA’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/MonSFFA).

We cannot yet meet face-to-face as we usually do, of course, and so this May virtual meeting has been prepared especially for you, MonSFFA’s membership. Sit back, check out each of the afternoon’s posts, scroll down leisurely through the proffered content, and enjoy!

IN THIS AFTERNOON’S VIRTUAL MEETING:

1:00PM, Post 1 of 5

1)            Opening Coronavirus Song Parody

2)            Introduction and Afternoon’s Agenda

3)            A Second Song Parody

4)            Signs of the Times

5)            Another Song Parody

6)            Sci-Fi Cinema Audio Quiz

7)            An Additional Song Parody

2:00PM, Post 2 of 5

8)            SF&F Plagues and Diseases, Part 2—Sickness on Screen!

3:00PM, Post 3 of 5 (Mid-Meeting Break)

9)            Warp 107 is Now Online!

10)          Raffle!

11)          Display Table

3:15PM, Post 4 of 5

12)          Cathy’s Crafts: SF in the Workshop

4:00PM, Post 5 of 5

13)          Yet Another Coronavirus Song Parody

14)          Answers to Sci-Fi Cinema Audio Quiz

15)          A Sixth Song Parody

16)          More Signs of the Times

17)          Thank-You!

18)          Closing Song Parody

3) A Second Song Parody

One of local-girl-makes-good Celine Dion’s biggest hits provided the basis for this amusing coronavirus filksong by Five Times August (fivetimesaugust@fivetimesaugust.com):

 

4) Signs of the Times

The quarantine affords us all plenty of time to surf the Net, randomly roaming from one topic to the next just to pass the time.

In the course of our online ambling, we are likely, these days, to come across many COVID-related items, from the latest medical information or news updates and cheery messages of hope from celebrities, to pseudo-scientific quackery touting “cures” and alarming misinformation stemming from wacky conspiracy theories about the origins of the virus.

Alas, such is the nature of the Internet.

But of anxiety-relieving value amid all this online COVID-content are the witty coronavirus parody songs, some of which we highlighted in our April virtual meeting, and a few more of which we’ve scattered about these postings, today. Enjoy! Humour always helps get us through trying times. Kudos to the talented creators of these comical gems; whenever given, we’ve credited by name these creators.

Another welcome diversion in that same humorous vein are the photos folks are posting of canny and amusing signage related to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, like the cleverly modified Burger King slogan shown above. Here are a few more examples:

From the neighbourhood parish is bestowed sage advice leavened with blessed humour!

Though shuttered, movie theatres are still offering marquee entertainment!Unadulterated humour from a gentleman’s club (above), and further chuckles (below) gift us all with welcome comic relief!  

5) Another Song Parody

 And now, we present Zach David (www.ZachDavid.com), here to tell us about the many ways by which one might contract this coronavirus:

6) Sci-Fi Cinema Audio Quiz

Most sci-fi fans, we think it fair to say, relish the various promotional trailers that movie theatres run before the feature presentation. We all look forward to, in particular, those trailers that trumpet upcoming genre films! One day soon, we trust, all of us will be able to return to our neighbourhood movie houses to take in the latest big-screen sci-fi offerings from Hollywood and elsewhere! But until that day, MonSFFA tenders as distraction a fun little game we’ve put together to help tide you over!

We’ve prepared for you an audio quiz to test your knowledge of SF/F film and the marketing of same! The sound engineers at MonSFFilms, the club’s fan-film production studio, have pulled audio excerpts from an assortment of mostly vintage sci-fi movie trailers and mixed them together into sets of three.

In the correct sequence presented, can you identify all three films represented in each of our mixes from just the few seconds of promotional narration, couple lines of dialogue, or the sound effects and musical cues unique to a given film? A written clue prefaces each track, for your benefit.

Just click the “play” button on each clip, listen, play it again, if need be, and write down your best guesses; we’ll supply the answers at the end of today’s DIY virtual meeting; look for them in our 4:00PM meeting-closing post.

Clip 01: These opening three are classic space-faring adventures from the 1950s!

 

Clip 02: This is blockbuster sci-fi from the late-1970s!

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Clip 03: These movies are based on stories penned by the celebrated “grandfathers” of science fiction!

 

Clip 04: From the vaults of early cinematic horror come these universally beloved masterworks!

 

Clip 05: These selections feature large wildlife; monstrously large wildlife!

 

Clip 06: These cosmic visitors came to an early-1950s Earth!

 

Clip 07: Life, but not as we know it!

 

Clip 08: Epic fantasy adventures of legend crafted by an admired Olympian of special effects!

 

Clip 09: Diabolus ex machina!

 

Clip 10: Films set in post-apocalyptic wastelands!

 

Clip 11: The creatures in these features are quite animated!

 

Clip 12: One might say that the directors of these three films had a great pal as producer!

 

Clip 13: These films may well have inspired John Hammond!

 

Clip 14: The game is afoot!

 

Clip 15: Early-70s sci-fi with a dystopian vibe!

 

Clip 16: A devastating plague isn’t the only way to end the world!

 

Clip 17: More movies based on the works of the grandfathers of SF! Often rather loosely based!

 

Clip 18: U.K. SF!

 

Clip 19: Timely prescience!

 

7) An Additional Song Parody

 All the way from South Africa, now, comes The Kiffness (www.thekiffness.com) with these comically despairing verses about the need, during lockdown, to just get out of the house for a while (“Kiff,” in case you were wondering, is an Afrikanerism for “cool.”):