If it’s Tuesday, it must be Sacramento City College


I’ll be speaking tonight at 7 in the Student Union of Sacramento City College.

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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?

Comments

  1. MaxH says

    Narwhals, Narwhals swimming in the ocean, causing a commotion, ’cause they are so awesome!

    Yeah, I’d pay to see you do that.

  2. Gyeong Hwa Pak, the Pikachu of Anthropology says

    Yeah, I’d pay to see you do that.

    Hell, I’ll pay you to stop.

    And I’ll pay for you to continue it, because I’m heartless.

  3. Michelle R says

    If you do strip tease I think you should add up an extra. Such as a DVD of your performance to all payers.

  4. https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawknp6g-_AMR4VqJyE249yPUUEAzpXQYyXs says

    Any update on the Thursday ‘performance’? I can’t find info on where and when.

  5. MaxH says

    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).

  6. Ray Moscow says

    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.

  7. cehegarty says

    “Oh, man, where can I get a puppet, some KY, and a rabid wolverine at such short notice?”

    Short answer: the Indiana Legislature.

  8. epicureanparadox says

    Oh, man, where can I get a puppet, some KY, and a rabid wolverine at such short notice?

    Bacon man! How could you leave out the bacon?!!

  9. Nineveh says

    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.

  10. Desert Son, OM says

    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

  11. spicersh says

    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.

  12. spicersh says

    I have also just learned that I am wholly incapable of using html tags. Apologies all around.

  13. donbutton says

    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!).

  14. lose_the_woo says

    The $5 is designed to make all the rapid creationists…

    In my experience, I’ve typically found that they are quite slow.

  15. lose_the_woo says

    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.”

  16. Dan says

    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!

  17. Sengkelat says

    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.

  18. caseyhov says

    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.

  19. Zeno says

    Any update on the Thursday ‘performance’? I can’t find info on where and when.

    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.

  20. https://me.yahoo.com/a/65L6hp58sJR27IqJ9Gqb4.TnnNo-#cf793 says

    Fuck, now I have a mouth full of crabs. Ptoo ptoo

  21. Qwerty says

    lose_the_woo – Good article though.

    Why does the word “apoplectic” come to mind when I think of Bill Donohue?

  22. blf says

    Yeah, I’d pay to see you do that.

    Hell, I’ll pay you to stop.

    And I’ll pay for you to continue it, because I’m heartless.

    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.

  23. Leon says

    Holy crap, they’re charging admission. Maybe no one will show up now…

    Well, I’ll be there, anyway. See you tonight PZ!

  24. John Morales says

    Acronym Jim,

    I like how they put “Humanist of the Year” in scare quotes.

    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.

  25. AlishaV says

    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.

  26. John Morales says

    You Americans!

    This museum is “tiny”, but has a full-grown Gray Whale (skeleton, I presume) suspended from the ceiling?

  27. hinakuu says

    I’d pay to hear you speak (so would/are your students, technically). Any chance you’ll come to Kansas ever?

  28. Azkyroth says

    Unfortunately, my childcare arrangements evaporated at the last minute, so I had to sit this one out :(