My haiku at TAM

July 17, 2013 • 10:11 am

Each speaker at TAM was introduced by the emcee, musician/atheist George Hrab, with a personalized haiku. (Last year he wrote a song.) Hrab is amazingly fast at these things. He talked to me about two minutes before I went on and immediately scribbled my introductory haiku on an index card:

Science? Religion?
Incompatibility?
Ask Galileo.

Here’s Hrab imitating Randi during the closing remarks:

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17 thoughts on “My haiku at TAM”

  3. Brilliant Haiku

    Says in five words what others

    need whole reams and reams.

    (My poor attempt)

      1. I thought so too but then I checked at this count the syllables website and it said there were only 2. Well at least then the structure is correct even if the haiku is no good!

  5. George is an extremely bright fella (also a total sweetheart). And, as Jerry said, he writes his intros (haiku this year, songs last year) only a few minutes before each speaker/panel goes on stage. Seriously impressive.

    All of the TAM haiku can be found on his Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/georgehrab (scroll back to Sunday’s tweets and then go in reverse chronological order to see them all). They also all have the hashtag #TAMHaiku, if you prefer to search Twitter that way.

  6. Sounds like an excellent T-shirt slogan to me.

    With a picture of Galileo, hands and feet in restraints, and his telescope broken at his feet, what could be more descriptive?

  7. Too bad there wasn’t Twitter in Galileo’s day. He could’ve knocked years off his time in purgatory!:P

    1. No worries! I’m sure some Moron has retroactively re-Baptised him and he’s been happily partying it up on Kolob with his harem since 1642.

      b&

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