June 28, 2008 San Geron­imo Val­ley Com­mu­nity Cen­ter, San Geron­imo, CA
Moon­al­ice poster by Chris Shaw

Accord­ing to Moon­al­ice leg­end, June 28 is the Per­fect High Holy Day in the Moon­al­ice cal­en­dar. This date is the only date each year where both the month and day are dif­fer­ent per­fect num­bers. For those of you who for­get your math — and we cer­tainly had before we looked it up — a per­fect num­ber defined as a pos­i­tive inte­ger which is the sum of its pos­i­tive divi­sors exclud­ing the num­ber itself. Equiv­a­lently, a per­fect num­ber is a num­ber that is half the sum of all of its pos­i­tive divi­sors (includ­ing itself), or _(n) = 2 n. Still with us? Here’s the money quote from Wikipedia:

“The first per­fect num­ber is 6, because 1, 2, and 3 are its proper pos­i­tive divi­sors and 1 + 2 + 3 = 6. Equiv­a­lently, the num­ber 6 is equal to half the sum of all its pos­i­tive divi­sors:
(1 + 2 + 3 + 6 ) / 2 = 6.” It turns out that 28 is the sec­ond per­fect num­ber: (1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28).” How cool is that?

As a result, June 28 is Per­fect Party Day in the tribe. It put a ton of pres­sure on the crowd in San Geron­imo, but they were up to it. Accord­ing to a dif­fer­ent part of Moon­al­ice leg­end, San Geron­imo was the patron saint of sky divers. His­tory books (and Wikipedia) tell a dif­fer­ent tale, describ­ing San Geron­imo as an Arab boy who refused to renounce Chris­tian­ity and was given the first Jimmy Hoffa bur­ial in his­tory, in the foun­da­tion of the Fort of the 24 Hours in Algiers.

San Geron­iMo Moon­al­ice fared much bet­ter. He never had to worry about mar­tyr­dom. Or sky­div­ing. Along with his broth­ers San Geroni­Larry and San Geron­i­Curly, San Geron­iMo per­formed on the tribal vaude­ville cir­cuit. He was a mas­ter of the dou­ble eye poke, but his broth­ers always seemed to come out okay. N’yuck, n’yuck.

We were try­ing to fig­ure out which San Geron­imo was hon­ored in the nam­ing of a lovely lit­tle town in Marin County. The San Geron­imo who was buried in cement? Or the one who per­formed to Three Blind Mice? The answer seems obvi­ous to us.

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