Can you picture it? It could be amazing, if we do it right. I’ve mentioned it before and had mixed responses. Here are my thoughts:
It can’t be negative. As an example, I was not a fan of the You Know It’s A Myth banners put up by the American Atheists.
I am in favor of the AA’s substantive causes but I found this billboard campaign smug and petty (I feel the same about campaigns to remove Christmas trees from public venues).
The high road. If we put up a billboard, it must be a positive message – it must promote us and our ideals, not attack another group. Satire and nonsense are great, attacking Christianity is boring and counter-productive. I have no problem slamming Cthulhu and/or the IPU (She is in my drawing, also btw).
Send me your ideas/drawings. I’ll post them here. What would make a good billboard? A pirate ship “full of beer and strippers”? That might be interesting. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a drawing of the Beer Volcano. Send your submissions to me and we can decide what would look best. We’ll worry about paying for the billboard space next.
Submissions (so far):
#1. See the World, by Doug.
#1(b). Have you been touched, by Doug.
#2. Try Pasta, by Jo (Cardinal Fang)
#3. Touching, by Dan.
#4. Teaching our children the truth, by Wayne.
#5. Try FSM, by Kelly.
#6. Main course for the soul, by Younger.
#7. Two designs, by Doug.
#8. I’d really rather you didn’t, by Jeffrey.
A marketing strategy suggestion for the 30 day guarantee. In addition to the assurance that ” you can return to your old one” you could sweeten the pot with a money back guarantee and pay the shipping and handling.
My bud Mark Smith–JCnot4me.com–and I have been spoofing religion since the 70′s. I’m a Buddhist priest and hence an atheist, and Mark is just a good old atheist without any added Dhrama…er, Dharma. Buddhist stuff.
I’m having a crisis of faith. i’d forgotten about my former allegiance to the Church of Cthulhu (i’a) and am now torn due to the first picture. i have seen the truth of the FSM but also know the horrors that await us when the dark lord returns. i don’t know how this will all play out and fear for my soul :( someone. please, help me to see the way.
Cthulhu is just Lovecraft’s mistaken image of the FSM. Lovecraft spent his entire adult life being paranoid. Let’s face it, anyone who hangs up curtains and keeps peering around them waiting to be kidnapped by squirrels is pushing rocks uphill to see His/ Her Noodliness as He/ She really is.
Has this happened yet? There have been a number of other bill boards up recently, most of them of the mean and petty variety, but #1 and #1b is really pretty, and positive, and funny, and serious. Please put one up on I-80 between Sacto and SF.
ALL HAIL THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER!