Re: free sat?

[Donovan Rittenbach <http://www.webappguru.net/~donovan>]

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Wow dale makes it all sound so sexy. : )

here's the more formal invitation:

Saturday December 3 is going to be a great day. I have 2 outstanding 
events lined up.

Did you know the world's largest living organism is a fungus that 
covers 1,665 football fields and may be 7,000 years old?  Did you 
know that fungus can grow over a kilometer a day?

This was among the many things I learned last year when I attended 
the 35th Annual Fungus Fair and was blown away by this unprecedented 
display of mushrooms.  It was spectacular. There were 3,000 
mycophiles there, and I was like a kid lost in an amazing wizard's 
shop.

Not only did they have tasty mushroom soup served in loaves of fresh 
bread, but there were tons of freshly picked culinary and medicinal 
mushrooms to see.  Of course there were a lot of poisonous ones too, 
like the beautiful Amanita Muscara. That's the red mushroom with 
white dots.  You know it, you have seen it.  It is also why Santa 
Claus wears a red and white outfit. That ties into one of my favorite 
mushroom trivia questions.  Why do Hindus consider the cow to be 
sacred?

Explore the mysteries of the mushroom at the 36th Annual Fungus Fair, 
presented by the Oakland Museum of Ca and the Mycological 
Society of San Francisco (MSSF), Saturday and Sunday, December 3 - 4. 
Fair hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on Saturday and 12-5 p.m. on Sunday.

http://www.museumca.org/events/fungus_fair.html

If you are game, they are doing mushroom forays out at Point Reyes, 
Salt Point and others on December 2nd.  The mushrooms that are picked 
will be on display at the museum.

http://www.mssf.org

Shaman's Apprentice Screening

Also for those who are interested, we are doing a screening of The 
Shaman's Apprentice that evening at 8pm (time to be confirmed).  It 
is a mind-bending documentary about ethnobotanist, Mark Plotkin's 
work to save the shaman's of the South American Rainforest.  It is an 
incredible documentary I recently saw at an exhibit at the San 
Francisco Plant Conservatory's "Medicines of the Rainforest" show, 
and I loved it.

Anyhow, Mark is an amazing and foreward thinking scientist who has 
setup a program to preserve previous shaman's knowledge before it is 
lost.  These so called "primitive" people can cure things that 
Western medicine can't, like diabetes, or alcoholism. Unfortunately 
their knowledge is threatened by encroaching civilization. (What 
isn't?) 

It would be a crime against humanity if we were to lose the 
incredible pharmaceutical knowledge of the shamans.  We must protect 
this undiscovered pharmacopia, and shaman's are the keys to showing 
us how we can all benefit if we do.

The best part of this award winning documentary is, in my opinion, 
when the shamans tell you how they got that knowledge in the first 
place. They claim the plants told them.  What do they mean by that? 
Could it possibly be true? 

Oh yes my friend. Truth is stranger than fiction, and it wouldn't be 
the first time an existing paradigm was proven wrong.

Space is limited for this event.  First come, first serve.

Donovan

At 12:38 PM -0800 12/2/05, http://www.outformations.com/~dek wrote:
>I'm doing some fun stuff on Saturday afternoon/early evening if you guys
>are interested in joining.  There is a fungus fair in Oakland and a shaman
>movie at a friends house early that night.  Drop me a line if you are
>interested OK?
>
>http://www.museumca.org/events/fungus_fair.html
>
>Cheers,
>Dale
>415 699-0421