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THE QUOTE
“Acadame, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.” — Ambrose Bierce
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SANDUSKY’S CO-CONSPIRATORS
“The most saddening finding by the Special Investigative Counsel is the total and consistent disregard by the most senior leaders at Penn State for the safety and welfare of Sandusky’s child victims.”
So there you have it. The official damnation of Penn State University by former FBI chief Louis Freeh’s gumshoes.
The Freeh report was released this morning.
And, no, this is no outside slam job. Freeh et al were hired by Penn State to dig into the sludge that threatens to drown the institution.
This is more satisfying even than the guilty verdict Jerry Sandusky earned after years of sodomizing 10-year-old boys. He’s a sick man. But his superiors at Penn State gave him license to fuck and blow children and to force them to blow him.
Now, riot over that one, Penn State faithful.
PSU Erected A Statue Of The Unindicted And Thankfully Dead Joe Paterno
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DUMB TIMES
Have you caught Jimmie Walker’s latest act yet.
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The “actor” who played JJ on the 70’s CBS-TV sitcom “Good Times” is doing the grand tour promoting his memoir. It’s called “Dyn-o-MITE: Good Times, Bad Times, Our Times,” the catchword, of course, being his great contribution to American culture.
Walker doesn’t like Barack Obama.
“Sometimes even a brother, you have to let him go,” Walker told Bill O’Reilly yesterday.
Walker, you may recall, won precisely zero Emmy Awards for his portrayal of a jiving, shucking Negro on the show. Walker’s JJ made Stepin Fetchit and Little Black Sambo look like George Washington Carver.
Now he’s talking politics. On Fox News, no less.
Oh, just a little irony here. Walker was the beneficiary of a Great Society program when he attended a federally-funded writing class for unemployed youth after he graduated from high school.
We taxpayers want our money back.
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WE’RE NUMBER…, UM…, WHERE ARE WE?
Bummer!
Bloomington did not make the list of coolest college towns on Ranker.com.
Here they are, in order:
- Boulder, Colorado
- Austin, Texas
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Berkeley, California
- Madison, Wisconsin
- Burlington, Vermont
- Charlottesville, Virginia
- Washington, DC
Georgetown Students Can See Mitch McConnell On The Streets On Any Given Day
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- Santa Cruz, California
- Oxford, Mississippi
- Eugene, Oregon
- Amherst, Massachusetts
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Iowa City, Iowa
- Athens, Georgia
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama
The Tuscaloosa Motel 6
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- Richmond, Virginia
- Gainesville, Florida
- Los Angeles
- Durham, North Carolina
- Clemson, South Carolina
- Knoxville, Tennessee
- Atlanta
Honestly? Washington, DC?
Tuscaloosa?
Jeez, you’d think Leo Cook’s weekly Bloomington’s Got Talent! show at the Bluebird alone would earn us a spot on the list. Go figure.
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Electron Pencil event listings: Music, art, movies, lectures, parties, receptions, games, benefits, plays, meetings, fairs, conspiracies, rituals, etc.
◗ IU Simon Music Library — Guest lecturer Professor David Castilo speaks about 18th Century Brazilian music; 5pm
◗ Bear’s Place — Janiece Jaffe; 5:30pm
Janiece Jaffe
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◗ Third Street Park — Outdoor concert series, Bloomington Community Band; 6:30pm
◗ IU Ford Hall — Latin American Music Center Guest Series: Recordist David Castilo plays Brazilian music; 7PM
◗ Muddy Boots Cafe, Nashville — Homebrew; 6-8:30pm
◗ Panache Dance — Local First July mixer, wine, cheese, and Samba dancing; 7-8:30pm
◗ IU Wells-Metz Theatre — Musical, “You Can’t Take It With You”; 7:30pm
◗ Monroe County History Center — Architectural history researcher Bill Coulter speaks about how to trace the history of your building; 7pm
◗ The Player’s Pub — Two for the Show; 8pm
◗ IU Auer Hall — Summer Music Series: Recital participants in the IU Summer Percussion Academy; 8pm
◗ The Comedy Attic — Chelsea Peretti; 8pm
Chelsea Peretti
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◗ Serendipity Martini Bar — Team trivia; 8:30pm
◗ The Bluebird — New Old Cavalry; 9pm
◗ Uncle Elizabeth’s — Karaoke; 9pm
Ongoing:
◗ Ivy Tech Waldron Center — Exhibits:
- John D. Shearer, “I’m Too Young For This @#!%”; through July 30th
- Claire Swallow, ‘Memoir”; through July 28th
- Dale Gardner, “Time Machine”; through July 28th
- Sarah Wain, “That Takes the Cake”; through July 28th
- Jessica Lucas & Alex Straiker, “Life Under the Lens — The Art of Microscopy”; through July 28th
◗ IU Art Museum — Exhibits:
- Qiao Xiaoguang, “Urban Landscape: A Selection of Papercuts” ; through August 12th
- “A Tribute to William Zimmerman,” wildlife artist; through September 9th
- Willi Baumeister, “Baumeister in Print”; through September 9th
- Annibale and Agostino Carracci, “The Bolognese School”; through September 16th
- “Contemporary Explorations: Paintings by Contemporary Native American Artists”; through October 14th
- David Hockney, “New Acquisitions”; through October 21st
- Utagawa Kuniyoshi, “Paragons of Filial Piety”; through fall semester 2012
- Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Weston, & Harry Callahan, “Intimate Models: Photographs of Husbands, Wives, and Lovers”; through December 31st
- “French Printmaking in the Seventeenth Century”; through December 31st
◗ IU SoFA Grunwald Gallery — Exhibits:
- Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show; through July 21st
- Bloomington Photography Club Annual Exhibition; July 27th through August 3rd
◗ IU Kinsey Institute Gallery — “Ephemeral Ink: Selections of Tattoo Art from the Kinsey Institute Collection”; through September 21st
◗ IU Lilly Library — Exhibit, “Translating the Canon: Building Special Collections in the 21st Century”; through September 1st
◗ IU Mathers Museum of World Cultures — Closed for semester break
◗ Monroe County History Center — Exhibits:
- “What Is Your Quilting Story?”; through July 31st
- Photo exhibit, “Bloomington: Then and Now” by Bloomington Fading; through October 27th
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