Posts Tagged ‘California Academy of Sciences’
San Francisco Chronicle Features Science Comedian
January 9th, 2009
The San Francisco Chronicle ran a feature story on me today (the print version actually appears in the Datebook section, Sunday, January 11, 2009):
Making Science Funny: Brian Malow
It’s written by Nick Thomas, who we love! Last year, Nick did a Q&A with me for Nature:
In addition to being a prolific freelance writer, Nick is Associate Professor of Chemistry at Auburn University in Montgomery, Alabama.
The article comes out in time to promote my upcoming Bay Area shows – Tuesday at the San Francisco Punch Line, and Wednesday in Sunnyvale at Rooster T. Feathers. Also, a week later at the Sacramento Punch Line on January 22.
P.S. The book I’m holding is Cosm by Gregory Benford, one of my favorite reads of 2008.
SF Chronicle Best of 2008 Portraits
January 9th, 2009
This weekend, the San Francisco Chronicle should be running a story about me in conjunction with next week’s shows at the SF Punch Line Comedy Club (Tues, Jan.13) and Rooster T. Feathers (Wed, Jan.14), in Sunnyvale. See Upcoming Shows for details.
A Chronicle photographer, Paul Chinn, met me over at the new California Academy of Sciences several weeks ago for a photo shoot.
Apparently, even though the story hasn’t run yet, they’ve included a picture of me in their “Best of 2008 Portraits.”
They spelled my name “Brain” (I’m used to it) and called the show “Irrational Comedy for an Irrational Planet” (which is close – the planet is, indeed, irrational but the comedy is rational)… but it’s still pretty cool.
[In the comments, Jim Hardy brought it to my attention that they also misspelled "science-themd." Three mistakes in two sentences!]
The feature is dated 12/29/08. Nobody even told me it was online. I had to do a vanity search on the Chronicle site. Interestingly, it only works if you search on “Malow” or “Brain Malow.” A search on “Brian Malow” returns no relevant results.
Anyway, nice pic…
