Yet Another Creation Museum Update
Posted on October 2, 2007 Posted by John Scalzi 30 Comments
For everyone who is wondering: Yes, I’m still going to go to the Creation Museum. However, it probably won’t be until November, due to a travel-intensive October (I had a trip to Chicago, and have two other trips this month, to California and to France, respectively). My goal now is to get there before Thanksgiving. Then I can say “Thank God! I am done with the Creation Museum!”
Honestly, however, despite my earlier dread, I am now looking forward to it. And there are some advantages to the delay, namely that as I understand it all the exhibits are finally in. So I’ll have a total religious experience. And that’s what you want, when you go for that sort of thing.
Again, however, apologies for the delay. I didn’t expect trying to get there to take on such epic proportions in itself.
I just fear they’ll go bankrupt by the time you get there. But, you know, we can always pray they keep their doors open through November.
As a fairly conservative religious person, I must add that I doubt the museum will go bankrupt any time soon. I must also add that the museum insults my intelligence on so many levels, and I wish it would go bankrupt…
I wouldn’t be surprised to see MORE of the museums sprouting up, much to my disgust.
> However, it probably won’t be until November…
That’s November of this year, right? :-)
By the time you get there they will have had advance warning and made a diorama with a T-rex eating a suspiciously Scalzi-head looking coconut.
By the way, thanks for scaring the cripptiy crap out of me with that frigging coconut crab. That mother was huge! I was convinced one had crawled up out of the ocean and was gonna eat my brains. I’m sure there
are ones out there in Maine. You seen some of the lobsters they pulled out of there?
Wait long enough, John, and the Rapture will occur and there won’t be any tour guides and you’ll have to figure out whether the man in front of the T. Rex is being chased by the T. Rex or is vainly attempting to lead the T. Rex to safety aboard the ark. Which could be confusing and would make you sad.
It occurs to me that perhaps Scalzi is continually postponing the visit to the Creation Museum because… one of them doesn’t really exist. But which one? I’ve met a person who appears like Scalzi’s description (and who talked like Scalzi writes), but that could have easily been faked. Meanwhile, the Creation Museum itself could be an elaborate ruse concocted clandestinely by Scalzi’s subconscious with the specific purpose of getting even with Scalzi’s conscious mind.
Or maybe they’re both illusory! It’s all a misdirection created by Karl Rove to keep us occupied while the Theocratic Hordes are prepared to overwhelm North America.
“Insha Nynee-Levin! Nynee-Levin U Ackbar!”
No, no, no . . . it’s obviously E-vile Forces at work, keeping you away from the museum, because They know that once you visit your Eyes Will Be Opened to the Truth, you will reject all that rational sciency-stuff, and become a Virtuous Warrior in the Army of the Lord. You probably won’t make as good a living writing religous tracts, but at least your soul will be all shiny.
Hey, it works for Jack Chick!
Chang: “I was convinced one had crawled up out of the ocean and was gonna eat my brains.”
What do you mean, “was”?
On your trips to California and France, aren’t you going to be flying out of CVG (Cincinnati)? The Creation Museum is right near the airport.
In both cases, I fly out of Dayton.
In both cases, I fly out of Dayton.
That figures. Weasel. ;-)
You could just, you know, lie about having gone. Then produce some made up “evidence” to support your claim (something like a vegan velociraptor key chain or some such). Then if anybody calls you on it, ask them why they continue to persecute christians.
I mean, it would be in keeping with the spirit of the “museum.”
Sorry, Jim. Scalzi may be a weasel, but he’s at least an honest weasel. :)
but he’s at least an honest weasel
Well, he’ll never be successful at it like that.
John, if I had known you were going to be in Schaumburg this month, the town where I live, I could have given you pointers on where to eat and such, what to do. Dude, you need to give out your itinerary to us a little more quickly. How else can we plan your life for you?
I know, I know. Although I did eat at Shaw’s, which was nice.
If you hold out until after Thanksgiving, maybe the museum will have its Christmas decorations up. I should like to know if there are dinosaurs poised around the creche or gazing reverently at the big star in the sky, or if Adam and Eve wear Santa hats.
Seeing that my cow-orkers put up signs for an “Answers In Genesis” Creation seminar near-bye, I don’t think those rascaly young-earthers are going anywhere soon.
An Eric, I’m willing to bet come the Rapture, plenty of these people will still be around. I expect the Left-Behind Authors will be leading overpriced bus-tours of the Aftermath.
“Loosing” faith? Dude, you better your faith on a freaking leash. If you let it wander through my yard, we’re going to be having a talk about how your “loosing faith” led to your “loss of faith”, via my Acme Faith Trap ™. I live in North Pole, noted home of fundy nutjobs*, and have to defend my property on a weekly basis.
*they’re nice enough neighbors, but having them come and earnestly tell me I’m going to hell has become old.
KEEP your faith on a leash. Yikes. This is what happens when I work late. I leave out words, and Jim Wright uses the wrong one.
Oh, I get it. John’s afraid of the Creation Museum. Pussy.
Two words on the Creation Museum: don’t go.
All men of accomplishment need to have one monumental, unfinished project to add a touch of humanity to their greatness. Einstein had the Unified Field Theory, Harlan Ellison has the last volume of Dangerous Visions, and George W. Bush has, well, just about everything he’s ever tried to do in his life. Let the Creation Museum be yours.
One day, if you’re diligent enough in avoiding the place, the phrase “When Scalzi visits the Creation Museum” will replace “When pigs fly.” And that’s something we could all be proud of.
No, no. My great unfinished work is my Wagnerian-like opera based on the 70s TV show Manimal.
That’s what you’re not going to finish? Aw, man. You’re breaking my inner six-year-old’s heart.
So, seeing as I live in France, may I enquire where in this country you are going? and when? and whether I can buy you lunch/drink/get a book or 3 signed/act like a fanboi etc.?
“No, no. My great unfinished work is my Wagnerian-like opera based on the 70s TV show Manimal.”
Does this mean you *will* finish the “Rigoletto”-esque opera based on “Three’s Company”?
Alas, because of the spin-off, I can’t get the rights to put in the Ropers. And there’s no point if you can’t have the Ropers. Furley’s just not going to cut it.
Oh come on, the Manimal opera ought to write itself: in the first act, there’s a big song about turning into a hawk and in the second act there’s a lengthy song about turning into a panther.
In the third act, you just repeat the songs from the first two acts.
How hard can that be?
Now, if you were working on an opera based on Automan, that would be different. That little cursor could draw anything. Well… mostly a car and a helicopter. Still….
I wouldn’t go. Geez, they might follow me home ;)