I'll be speaking tonight at 7 in the Student Union of Sacramento City College.
Holy crap, they're charging admission. Maybe no one will show up now…unless I add extra value to my performance. Strip tease? Singing the Narwhal song? My imitations of celebrity creationists (warning: they all involve drooling)? Oh, man, where can I get a puppet, some KY, and a rabid wolverine at such short notice?
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Narwhals, Narwhals swimming in the ocean, causing a commotion, 'cause they are so awesome!
Yeah, I'd pay to see you do that.
Hell, I'll pay you to stop.
Let's see, cells are complex, so Jesus made them.
Is there anything more to how creationists "use complexity"?
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p
And I'll pay for you to continue it, because I'm heartless.
If you do strip tease I think you should add up an extra. Such as a DVD of your performance to all payers.
Any update on the Thursday 'performance'? I can't find info on where and when.
Yeah, after a couple of rousing choruses, though!
Then it would get sort of old.
(BTW, my nephew, who's two, sings 'narwhals, narwhals' - his father and I are terrible influences on that child).
PZ, for some of us, perhaps even a lot of us, $5 would be a bargain.
Well, someone has to pay for the hall. This is only about half the price of a movie will probably be a lot more fun.
$5? Maybe if you sang Get on My Horse instead. ;P
I like how they put "Humanist of the Year" in scare quotes.
...What?
"Oh, man, where can I get a puppet, some KY, and a rabid wolverine at such short notice?"
Short answer: the Indiana Legislature.
Bacon man! How could you leave out the bacon?!!
I woke up to someone telling me on Facebook that Neanderthal man DID live with dinosaurs, and how could I be so stupid, and then read this. So nice to go from rabid anger to laughter. Good luck! If you're going ahead with your Creationist impression don't forget the knuckle dragging. It will make it more ironic.
For those of us who won't be able to make the gig, howsabout just a short transmission, via website, that your loved ones back in Minnesota fared the storm alright and are on their way home?
Still learning,
Robert
If I've gained nothing else from this site, I at least have a 5 yr old and a 3 yr old who know almost all of the Narwhal song.
Now onto the advanced course at zombo.com.
I have also just learned that I am wholly incapable of using html tags. Apologies all around.
We're only charging for the NON students and faculty. The $5 is designed to make all the rapid creationists in this town pay for the right to see PZ (and fund the club!).
In my experience, I've typically found that they are quite slow.
I, a nonstudent, will be there, happily paying admission!
OT:
More Catholic outrage and Phil Donohue screeching.
From the article:
"Instead of standing on principle and telling those generating the 'negative feedback' that no one is forced to go to Mass, and that tolerance demands respect for religious freedom, officials at Celebrity Cruises decided to yield to the bigots," the Catholic League's Bill Donohue says in a statement. "The Catholic League advises all Catholics to shop around the next time they plan to take a cruise, but not to waste their time checking out Celebrity Cruises."
I'm looking forward to it PZ. See you tonight.
And I'm more than glad to fork over a few bucks to help out the freethinkers. I remember college club finances...they always need a bit of help!
don't malign droolers by conflating them with creationists!
I'm glad you mentioned it was at the Student Union, since the flier makes it sound like Sac City is a one-room college. I'm looking forward to the talk.
PZ, I have an extra alf puppet, there are lots of Rite Aids, and there actually was a wolverine spotted not far from where you're at, up in the foothills.
lose_the_woo
That's Bill Donohue, not Phil.
Thursday's appearance at Sierra College in Rocklin is scheduled from 7:00 to 9:00 in the evening in Room W-110, which I presume is a lecture hall. My contacts at Sierra did not fill in that detail.
Fuck, now I have a mouth full of crabs. Ptoo ptoo
*facepalm*
lose_the_woo - Good article though.
Why does the word "apoplectic" come to mind when I think of Bill Donohue?
And I'll loansharkfund the bidders. Plus I'll have a supply of earplugs, disposable cameras, and rats-on-a-stick. Also some fluffy narwhals, sing-a-long lyrics, plus, acquired at great expense from the distant monks in the far mountains, some woodengenuine narwhal tusks, perfect for skewering creationists, babies, Cthulhu, and the arsehat next to you singing at the top of his voice.
Well, I'll be there, anyway. See you tonight PZ!
Sing NARWALS AND PUT IT ON YOUTUBE!!!
Acronym Jim,
Have you considered they might be just quotes, rather than "scare" quotes? :)
Without them, it'd be stating not that he had been awarded that epithet, but that it was a veridical claim.
When you visit Sierra College make sure to fit in time to visit their natural history museum. It's tiny, just situated in the Sewell Hall/science building, but it's a wonderful place. There's a full-grown Gray Whale suspended from the ceiling, quite a few fossils collected by the students, including a gomphothere, and even a dry tar seep full of all sorts of bones. It really is a spectacular museum, especially for a community college.
You Americans!
This museum is "tiny", but has a full-grown Gray Whale (skeleton, I presume) suspended from the ceiling?
I'd pay to hear you speak (so would/are your students, technically). Any chance you'll come to Kansas ever?
Unfortunately, my childcare arrangements evaporated at the last minute, so I had to sit this one out :(
Whoops! Sorry! Yes, a Gray Whale skeleton. There's a picture of it here: http://www.sierracollege.edu/EventsAthletics/NatHistMus/exhibitsIn/whal… Everything is situated in the hallways between the classrooms, so while the building is large, I don't consider the exhibit area very big.