{"id":40441,"date":"2023-04-16T08:21:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T12:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=40441"},"modified":"2023-04-16T16:45:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T20:45:47","slug":"in-space-no-one-can-hear-geeks-scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/04\/16\/in-space-no-one-can-hear-geeks-scream\/","title":{"rendered":"In Space No One Can Hear Geeks Scream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"In Space No One Can Hear Geeks Scream\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/52819404536\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52819404536_780f65ee9c_z.jpg?resize=640%2C474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"In Space No One Can Hear Geeks Scream\" width=\"640\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Pictured above is a <em>Nostromo<\/em> patch that was attached to a hat similar to what <i>Harry Dean Stanton<\/i> wore in <i>Alien <\/i>(1979). If you&#8217;ve never seen <em>Alien<\/em> which is hard to believe, the movie is about a crew of seven working class slobs manning a vessel that is tugging a huge refinery through space. They have to divert the trip when they receive a distress signal and during that diversion they have a close encounter with the particularly nasty alien of the title. The vessel was <em>the Nostromo<\/em>. I saw the movie the weekend it opened with my brothers and have always loved it. I bought the cap with the patch at a comic convention back in the 1980s. The cap was cheap and it disintegrated despite my not wearing it all that much, but I rescued the patch as well as the <i>scrambled eggs<\/i> (not pictured) on the brim.<\/p>\n<p><em>Plywood<\/em> is portraying <em>Mr. Jones<\/em> in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured above is a Nostromo patch that was attached to a hat similar to what Harry Dean Stanton wore in Alien (1979). If you&#8217;ve never seen Alien which is hard to believe, the movie is about a crew of seven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/04\/16\/in-space-no-one-can-hear-geeks-scream\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2714,120],"tags":[199,918,1736,259,76,5611,23,214,5610],"class_list":["post-40441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting-2","category-curious-clutter","tag-199","tag-alien","tag-embroidery","tag-geek-cred","tag-horror","tag-insignia","tag-monster","tag-patch","tag-starship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-awh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46018,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/10\/02\/great-movie-terrible-soundtrack-in-space-no-one-can-hear-this-record\/","url_meta":{"origin":40441,"position":0},"title":"Great Movie, Terrible Soundtrack &#8212; In Space No One Can Hear This Record","author":"Joe","date":"October 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a switcheroo from my usual post where I highlight terrible movies that have great soundtracks or musical scores. 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