We’re back from Vegas!

Hi everyone!

After my nearly week and a half-long blog hiatus, I am seriously behind! I had absolutely no free time to write during my trip to Vegas for TAM7 – I might have had time if I were able to write in the car, but doing to makes me carsick.

TAM7 was fun – I got to meet a lot of new and interesting people. I didn’t feel particularly enlightened by the speakers and panels, but that’s okay – I am rather entrenched in the skeptical movement, so I am not surprised that there was nothing particularly new to hear about. We’ve got a few entertaining stories from the after-party, such as Saint Gasoline being constantly reminded of his knife-fucking ways, me tying people up with some bondage rope and running into an internet friend in passing. We also have a few entertaining stories from the road – staying in the worst motel ever and passing by the “Jesus Christ is Lord… Not a swear word” truck stop.

I quite enjoyed a performance of the “Nigerian Spam Scam Scam” in which Dean Cameron receives a Nigerian 411 scam email and corresponds with the scammer for over a year. The performance is a reading of the correspondences.

Michael Shermer had some interesting things to say about politics which Flimsy will cover in more detail – politics are his thing more than they are mine. We will also return to our regular deconstructing of Mere Christianity and silly journal articles.