Well, dang, guys. I cannot thank you enough for the first week of Rev. Matt’s Monster Science! All the people who’ve gotten the word out! All the kind words! 90 Facebook ‘likes’! (There’s a Facebook page for this, see.) Thank you so, so much.
For our second video here, we go to the first Rev. Matt’s Monster Science ever, in the Minneapolis Encyclopedia Show from July of 2012. (See “About” for more on said Show.) The theme was mythical creatures, which somehow led to quite a lot of talk about copulating with horses; the hosts were Allison Broeren and Mike Fotis. I had to operate my own slides, on a computer a few feet from me, which explains the silences behind some of the images here – which displayed above me, which explains some of my gestures. Probably there are some more things about this that would make more sense were I to give you context, but you’re clever sorts. You’ll figure it out. Suffice it to say it was all an extraordinary time and I am thrilled to have been a part of it.
Welcome! Welcome to Reverend Matt’s Monster Science. I’ll leave it to the ‘About’ page to explain just what in heaven’s name is going on around here, and say only that this is the beginning, and I hope you like it, and that I look forward to hearing your feedback! This is very much a project that will improve with time – screen resolution being the first thing to which I must draw my attention. (If only because this resolution does violence to Dr. Amy Bambi Wendt’s extraordinary title screen; Dr. Wendt, I apologize!)