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Anyone wanting to attend the Reason Rally in Washington DC on March 24th, there will be a bus leaving from Springfield, Missouri. The bus will cost $130 per person. You can buy tickets to the bus here: http://reasonrally.dcrallybus.com/Travel/From/SpringfieldMO
There’s no question that Skepticon 4 was worth attending. As with Skepticon 3, we had the pleasure of hearing talks by Dan Barker, Greta Christina, PZ Myers, Sam Singleton, Joe Nickell, David Fitzgerald, and others. My two favorites this year were Dan Barker and Greta Christina. Christina’s talk on why atheists are so angry was so good that it would make for an excellent video night presentation for the group. I, for one, would love to see it again. It’s one of those speeches with so much packed into it that you can’t remember half of it, but you know it was all good. Of course, any of the other talks would be suitable for a group viewing as well, but in my humble opinion, Greta’s was top-notch.
Singleton, I feel, is also worthy of honorable mention. His sermon on “Giving Thanks” was both timely as Thanksgiving was fast approaching, and right. As he pointed out in his message, any gratitude on the part of Jesus is sorely lacking in the Gospels. I must confess, I had not noticed that before. Despite being an atheist evangelist who is primarily a comedian, he delivered a genuine message in his sermon.
Those who know me, and who attended this year, will not be surprised to learn that I could not disagree more with David Silverman, whom I consider to be very dogmatic and unenlightened. In his talk,
Join us on August 17 while we take in a comedy show at the Northstar 14 theater and then head to dinner. It will be a blast!
Buy your tickets here: Tickets
Here is the description for the show:
The stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 are coming to movie theaters nationwide to take on the cheesy 1962 fantasy epic Jack the Giant Killer. Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett of RiffTrax invite you to join them on Wednesday, August 17th for hilarious riffing on a not-so-classic movie bursting with Vikings, giant rubber monsters and a leprechaun in a jar! This one night event will be your only chance to see the guys fire their wisecracking commentary at the Jack the Giant Killer on the big screen.
The event will be broadcast live to movie theaters nationwide on Wednesday, August 17 at 8:00pm ET / 7:00pm CT / 6:00pm MT / and 8:00pm PT (tape delay). Audiences will be treated to a brand new short from the guys, as well as two original animated shorts from Rich “Lowtax” Kyanka of Something Awful.
Movie theater audiences will receive FREE digital goodies after the event including a downloadable short, avatars and a digital photo of the guys. A URL will be revealed on-screen at which you can receive your free digital goodies after the live event.
Attention JFT members (and the general public as well):
Some of us will be heading out to Pittsburg this Saturday to take in a show. The show will be Hairspray and will be put on by Pittsburg Community Theater and Midwest Regional Ballet. If you want to join us, all you have to do is show up for the 7:30 pm show and buy a ticket (or sneak in). We’ll probably go out for pizza afterwards if enough of us show up.
Here is the website for Pittsburg Memorial Hall:
http://www.memorialauditorium.org
Here is the Wikipedia entry for Hairspray:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairspray_%28musical%29
Be there or be a square!
(crossposted at Kajed Heat)
The Creation Museum of the Ozarks
You remember how Branson is Las Vegas for Ned Flanders? Well, not yet. It’s missing a crucial component– a multi-million-dollar salmon-colored temple of lies. Enter Rod Butterworth:
This is really God’s vision, not mine. In the summer of 2007 I visited several dinosaur museums in different states (including one in Branson, Missouri) that were totally evolutionary in philosophy. One day in September 2007 I was literally meditating about this while resting and it suddenly came to me like a vision from heaven—Branson needs a creation museum.
And thus, the seed for the Creation Museum of the Ozarks was planted.
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