If you and your significant other consider this “your song”…
…then here’s a great idea for a Valentine’s Day gift! Katie Hartman and other Skepticon volunteers are selling handmade skepticism-themed Valentine’s cards to raise money for Skepticon 4. There are a bunch of choices, ranging from nerdy to blasphemous:
I’m kind of hoping The Trophy Wife gives PZ the one that says “You’ll do until PZ Myers is single” for irony’s sake. Or PZ could get that for his wife, and… yeah, I have no idea what that would even mean. Maybe not the best idea.
(Via JT’s blog)
First time I’d heard that particular song. It amused me greatly. So greatly that I suspect I shan’t feel the need to engage in either philosophical introspection or attempts at world conquest for at least the next 15 minutes or so.Now that my fifteen minutes are up, I’m editing this comment to mention that the song rather reminds me of Laura Kipnis’ _Against Love: A Polemic_. Which just makes me like the song all the more.
It’s sort of like the flip side of Russell’s paradox: the barber who will only shave people who shave themselves. (Completely not paradoxical, and thus nobody talks about him.)
True or not saying that sort of stuff to your loved ones is like a threat.EDIT: I change my mind, just a little.True desire comes from self-expression (like his little dance) and not out of need.He might be pressing those buttons too/instead.EDIT: By denying any need he allows the woman to stay by her own free will.What was that hospitality phrase those hippies used: “Stay if you will; go if you must”. The song still seems manipulative but might have pretty good parts…
Shoehorning in one’s atheism for a v-day card seems a bit obsessive and pathetic.
The video in the post is for a shorter version of the song and is missin ga verse.Try this one:
I will be seeing him live in 73 days, but who’s counting!
Tim Minchin rules.
Those cards are definitely amusing; if I had somebody to send them to, I might consider buying them…
Jeez I love Tim Minchin’s music! I hope he’s able to do a broader US Tour sometime soon.
If PZ Myers gave his wife the self-referencing card, everyone on the internet would have to send him a printout of every xkcd strip that references making out with one’s self. As a… set of ideas. They’re right up his alley, too – one of them has a dark ritual with candles and pentagrams, and one involves a rip in reality!
For the slightly more academically-minded anti-romantic, I recommendMarazziti, D. et al. 1999. Alteration of the platelet serotonin transporter in romantic love. Psychological Medicine 29: 741-745.It demonstrates that there are physiological changes to neurochemistry which associate with romantic attraction. I got in some trouble a few years after it came out, when discussing it with a friend. Since paper suggests it would be possible to confirm love by a blood test, my friend remarked that if such a test were made, she would not want to take it. I, with all the tact of a baboon at a square dance, casually asked if there were other parts of her life where she preferred to live in ignorance. (She’s still a good friend.)
Haha, I love the graph part of the valentine.