This particular comic that purports to illustrate me starts off poorly — the first couple of frames look nothing like me — but by the third panel he captures me perfectly.
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Hey, the cop's just doing his job, taking action to defend the powers of FAITH from the assault of REASON. What the heck! That makes him complicit too. What a sucker!
Richard Harris is posting on your blog, PZ? Not only are you part-cephalapod, you have a call that extends beyond the grave...
Bwa-hahaha....
PZ, it makes you look more like Gerry Adams... not a good look, sweetie! :-)
It's the best story in ages. Next thing the DI will come up with, undoubtedly, will be the "Protocols of the Elders of Darwinism." Or maybe "Excreted" is indeed that.
BWAHAHAHA!!!
*gasp* *gasp*
BWAHAHAHA!!!
You are right. I've never seen your tie that straight. But I have seen your tentacle that ... tentacly...
Well now we know how you hang on to your trophy wife.
The pocket on your shirt changes sides.
Continuity error!
PZ, you're easy to sketch-
It's Ben Stein that's hard to caricature:
http://adamant.typepad.com/seitz/2008/03/the-bayeaux-tra.html
And the cop is ambidextrous. I did find this comic funny though when I read it through Greg Laden's links.
This will get you on the cover of Maxim next month.
You've become am even bigger celebrity than ever... You shold get turned down to be a audience member more often.
I saw this last night and laughed almost as hard as when I saw your original post. Scared the cat both times.
Great cartoon and spot on in it's absurdity in the face of fundamentalist absurdity.
If only the muttonchops had been drawn bushier than the rest of the beard
he would have nailed PZ in all three frames.
I can't remember, which tentacle was the evil one, the Purple Tentacle or the Green Tentacle?
Off-topic:
Hedges speweth.
The Dangerous Atheism of Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris
"These New Atheists and Christian radicals have built squalid little belief systems that are in the service of themselves and their own power. They urge us forward into a nonreality-based world, one where force and violence, where self-exaltation and blind nationalism are an unquestioned good. They seek to make us afraid of what we do not know or understand. They use this fear to justify cruelty and war. They ask us to kneel before little idols that look and act like them, telling us that one day, if we trust enough in God or reason, we will have everything we desire."
Sorry, link to Hedges:
http://alternet.org/rights/80449/
Fear the cephalopods, fear them!
(And cheers to the MST3K cameo, heehee)
holy moses, is that a single point mutation of your most vital organ?? impressive.
She, no? :)
Frankly, PZ, I always imagined you to be more of a multi-tentacled overlord, Chtulhu-style.
But perhaps your other tentacles are just out of frame, holding your popcorn?
Do you squirt ink too?
@15, The purple ofcourse. Green became good after the first movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Tentacle
I think it's classic that not only is PZ in the film, thanked by the film, he's also the number one promoter of the film. Honestly, how many people would have cared or heard about this if not for PZ. The science blogosphere is about 1000 times the size of the non-science blogosphere. Some have noted this with web statistics and the like but frankly I don't think I would have heard about this movie at all if not for PZ, I've heard of it from several places all of whom heard about it from him.
replace /movie/game/
The secret of how PZ takes care of his skin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOILokbSwAQ
"its" not "it's"
Damn, I hate it when that happens.
Groucho Marx said;
"Humph, I've been thrown out of better places than this!"
(OK, not his actual words, but it has his flavor.)
This 60 something, 5 foot 2 inch female was thrown out of an art museum because I put my hand on a guard's shoulder. He told his supervisor I had assaulted him. Guard was a 6 foot, 40 something pudgy guy. When the supervisor saw me, I'm sure he was surprised, but he still asked me to leave and offered to refund my admission fee, which I declined because I love museums. My girlfriend who was with me that day and I have dined on this story for several years now.
Always and forever, PZ RULES.
yeah, i know it's a satire....but it still gives me the creeps!
Is that a tentacle in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
Sorry, I intended that comment for the "Subtle Assest" post. Carry on, please.
Is anyone else still laughing? 'Cause I'm still laughing.
as i said, i'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
So that's what's under the beard...
Oh, he's just trying to unite everyone under The Big Tentacle of science and rationality.
Ok, I get the last panel of the strip, but what's up with the robot, chicken and koala bear standing in shadow in the first? I think I'm missing something. Hopefully not that PZ's better half is a fuzzy Australian.
It's a guy with a beard. Close enough.
(I like it, by the way.)
Sorry to be slightly OT, but...
... When I was a 9-year-old kid in 1955, I'd just seen the Disney film, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." I recall telling my family that I felt the very best part was when "the giant squid grabbed the Nautilus with its testicles."
Another flaw in continuity.In frame one you're, ummmm, 'dressing to the left". In the next frame you're, umm, "drifting to the starboard".
...unless of course you actually do adjust the junk every couple of seconds in real life.
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Looks more like Wesley Elsberry to me (though admittedly, he would have turned into a mighty eagle in the third frame).
Um, Bride, I think the little tentacle moves from side to side the same way his shirt pocket changes sides. It is done with mirrors.
Rey, I think it was the purple one. And you win teh internets for making the reference.
I don't understand why PZ didn't use one of his disguises to remain unnoticed. For example, see the following. "David Gallo: Underwater Astonishments"
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/206
So, you're Centauri?
Has there ever been an accurate picture of Pee Zed? We know (this is all from memory):
* He's got tentacles (but I'm not sure anyone's lived long enough to count them, so we don't know how many?).
* He has horns (apparently hairy ones, since he can shave them).
* He has a retractable(?) forked(?) tail. (Not sure if the colour is known?)
* He can disguise himself as a mild-manner Mad Professor of Evilutionary Atheism, complete with hairy face.
And the concensus seems to be he looks something like a squid, albeit which squid species he most resembles, and the size, are not clear.
That's quite a range of attributes--and I'm sure I'm forgetting some--so perhaps he can physically morph. Is Pee Zed a shapeshifter?
Penon @#35 asked:
I took the figures in silhouette to be an homage to Mystery Science Theatre 3000, commonly referred to as MST3K. Check out the first image and you'll see why.
βPer
The Purple Tentacle was evil, the Green Tentacle was a musician.
Not only is the cop ambidextrous, but his shirt pocket and sleeve patches manage to migrate to whichever side he is using for writing at the moment . . .
Why draw the cop twice when you can simply flip the image?
I can't wait to see the Cinematic Titanic version of this!
-aka-the New mst3k.