…and this is a 
Thursday at the Bell
Category: Personal
Posted on: February 14, 2007 4:37 PM, by PZ Myers
Since somebody asked, I will confirm that I will be at the showing of Flock of Dodos tomorrow. That's going to be at 7:00pm in the Bell Museum auditorium ($7 admission). Randy Olson won't be there (rumor has it he's busy flitting from showing to showing, but Minneapolis just isn't good enough for him…too far from the ocean or something), but Steven Miller, the executive producer of the movie, will be—so really, you'll be able to ask in-depth questions about what went into making the movie. It's a great opportunity. Argue with him, too! A movie and a discussion about how to communicate science; how can you pass it up?
I'm also not doing my usual zip in, zip out routine this time—I'm spending the night in the Big City. That means that if anyone wants to collar me afterwards and force me to listen to your objections to my evil stridency, you can do so! If you buy me a beer, at least.
Comments
A movie about science and a beer with PZ sound mighty fine! Argh, looks like I finally found a downside to living near the ocean.
Posted by: Aaron Kinney | February 14, 2007 4:56 PM
Flock of Dodos is good! I just saw it at the New York State Museum in Albany, NY.
It's funny, interesting, and well worth the time. (You'll love the ending.)
Posted by: Hank Fox | February 14, 2007 5:09 PM
Darn it, I was in Minneapolis last week.
Oh, well.
Posted by: afterthought | February 14, 2007 5:10 PM
Lynn and I plan to be there. I'll gladly buy you a beer, but I generally like the evil stridency. I've even learned a lot from it. So maybe it can be more of a tip than a bribe.
Posted by: Greg Peterson | February 14, 2007 5:13 PM
Randy, will, in fact, be at our showing at the Avalon in Washington, DC -- 5612 Connecticut NW at 8 pm.
Posted by: Jonathan Badger | February 14, 2007 5:15 PM
Saw it this past Saturday at the Raleigh Museum of Natural Sciences. Had a good crowd, although on my way out I brushed by the folks handing out ID literature (still?!), encouraging me to "have an open mind" about their defeated and bankrupt philosophy. And yes, I thought the ending was quite cute.
Posted by: Will E. | February 14, 2007 5:22 PM
PZ: OK, I will buy you a beer this time, I promise.
Posted by: Greg Laden | February 14, 2007 6:31 PM
Posted by: llewelly | February 14, 2007 6:39 PM
Argh! I want to see it, he has to offer it for DVD sometime!
Posted by: Geral | February 14, 2007 8:58 PM
We'll be there!
I'm really looking forward to this one.
Posted by: Kristine | February 14, 2007 9:57 PM
Kristine, were you there last night? I was trying to spot you but everybody looked like you yet no one looked like you (mainly because I don't really know what you look like)....
Posted by: Greg Laden | February 14, 2007 11:06 PM
Llewelly:
There is an author of a paper I read some time in the last 48 hours or so who's last name is Binladen. I thought I had it bad getting on airplanes...
Posted by: Greg Laden | February 14, 2007 11:07 PM
Even making the assumption that you're getting the same snow, my folks in Michigan, are getting - I wish I could be there. Nothing says fun like a good beer and chastising someone with a far more refined education than myself.
Actually, I would just thank you for the great evolution reading list. It is becoming much easier to keep up with the increasing complexity, of the questions the five year old is coming up with. Although, when he is acting too wild, he will now argue that he is just pretending to be afarensis (we recently watched BBC's Walking With Cavemen).
I definately would love to buy you a beer, for the reading list alone. That, and the fact that while watching a cartoon with his mother the other day, that included several "kraken," the boy came running into the my room shouting about all the "cephel-pods" on the tee-vee.
Posted by: DuWayne | February 14, 2007 11:34 PM
Funny coincidence: a creationist friend of mine is named Steven Miller.
Posted by: Kadin | February 15, 2007 2:46 AM
(sigh) If only I lived in Minnesota. I would dearly love the event, and cherish the potent potables afterward---and yes, I would buy. I know some have mocked me for offering to front them a round, but I like beer, and I enjoy stimulating conversation. Living in Fresno, mmm, not so much. Maybe some day....SH
Posted by: Scott Hatfield | February 15, 2007 2:48 AM
I saw this film last week at University College London and highly recommend it to you and your readers.
Posted by: RickD | February 15, 2007 7:59 AM
DuWayne:
The average snow cover over 80 percent of Minnesota is about 3 inches right now, total, for what is on the ground from all winter. It is pitiful. I think the southern part of the state (not where PZ lives, not the Twin Cities) got some snow over the last day or so, but before that they didn't have much either.
Sell you corn futures!
Posted by: Greg Laden | February 15, 2007 8:29 AM
I'm always off by a day (or week). Last year I just missed running into PZ when he was the 'honorary geek' (or some such title) at a party at the MN Science Museum. And now this year, I just missed by a day as I as was in Minneapolis taking my daughter to the dir en gray concert.
One of these years PZ, I'll get to buy you a beer. And Scott, if your there I'll buy you one too.
Posted by: rmp | February 15, 2007 11:54 AM
I was planning on being there ever since the last post, but I've come down with a terrible cold and just want to go home and take a nap with my dog...
I'm so very dissapointed in my immune system.
Posted by: PoliSi | February 15, 2007 2:05 PM
Jonathan Badger:
Yup. I was there, and seeing Randy Olson and Barbara Forrest was an unexpected treat.
Posted by: arensb | February 16, 2007 5:02 PM
Geral:
He said yesterday that it should be out on Aug. 28.
Posted by: arensb | February 16, 2007 5:07 PM