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THE QUOTE
“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is just opinion.” — Democritus.
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THE BIG 10’S BIG STORY
Herald Times sportswriter Andy Graham stopped in to the Book Corner earlier this week to pick up a Big 10 football preview magazine.
It was his last stop in town before setting off for Chicago, where he’s covering this week’s Big 10 Media Days dog and pony show.
You think anybody’ll be talking about anything other than Penn State?
A Prison Of His Own Design
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Check out Graham’s piece on the scandal that ran in Friday’s edition.
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… AND LO-OVE WILL STEER THE STARS…
It’ll be a great night for a meteor shower.
The Delta Aquarids shoot through the eastern sky late tonight. Seemingly emanating from the Aquarius constellation, they’ll be a teaser for the year’s biggest shooting star show, the Perseids, in fifteen days.
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Tonight’s display will be special, though, because the moon won’t interfere with it. The moon is waxing gibbous in the west in the early evenings these days.
Best viewing hours for the Aquarids are midnight through dawn.
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NEWLY ATTRACTIVE PREDATORS
Liza Pavelich of Bloomington says she was on the receiving end of a Facebook ad for something called Yummy Mommy Makeover.
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The ad features a testimonial from a now-scrumptious mother. It reads, according to LP: “It’s great. Now I get hit on by teenaged boys all the time!”
Which Liza characterizes, rightly, as “gross.”
She also points out that her memory of teenaged boys was such that any sane human being would shun their advances, considering how virtually sub-human they are.
Then again, it’s hard to imagine that anyone who spends the $300 to become a “yummy mommy” is actually, you know, sane.
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Here’s how I waste my time. How about you? Share your fave sites with us via the comments section. Just type in the name of the site, not the url; we’ll find them. If we like them, we’ll include them — if not, we’ll ignore them.
❏ I Love Charts — Life as seen through charts.
I Love Charts: Interactive History Of States & Territories
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❏ XKCD — “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.”
❏ Skepchick — Women scientists look at the world and the universe.
❏ Indexed — All the answers in graph form, on index cards.
❏ I Fucking Love Science — A Facebook community of science geeks.
❏ Present and Correct — (New Listing) Fun, compelling, gorgeous and/or scary graphic designs and visual creations throughout the years and from all over the world.
❏ Flip Flop Fly Ball — Baseball as seen through infographics, haikus, song lyrics, and other odd communications devices.
❏ Mental Floss — Facts.
❏ Caps Off Please — Comics & fun.
❏ Sodaplay — Create your own models or play with other people’s models.
❏ Eat Sleep Draw — An endless stream of artwork submitted by an endless stream of people.
❏ Big Think — Tapping the brains of notable intellectuals for their opinions, predictions, and diagnoses.
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❏ The Daily Puppy — So shoot me.
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Electron Pencil event listings: Music, art, movies, lectures, parties, receptions, games, benefits, plays, meetings, fairs, conspiracies, rituals, etc.
◗ City Hall, Showers Plaza — Farmers Market; 8am-1pm
◗ Brown County Playhouse, Nashville — Indiana State Fingerstyle Competition; 11am-3pm
◗ Monroe County Fairgrounds — Opening day, 2012 Monroe County Fair, Queen’s Day, Grand Opening ceremony at 10am, Truck & Tractor Pull at 7pm, Queen contest at 7:30pm, (no carnival until Monday at 4:00pm); Noon to 11pm
◗ IU Wells-Metz Theater — “The Taming of the Shrew”; 2pm
◗ Brown County Playhouse, Nashville — Indiana State Fingerstyle Competition evening concert; 6-7:30pm
◗ IU Fine Arts Theater — Ryder Film Series: “Kumaré: The True Story of a False Prophet”; 7pm
◗ Muddy Boots Cafe, Nashville — Finger Picking Competition; 7-9pm
◗ IU Wells-Metz Theater — “The Taming of the Shrew”; 7:30pm
◗ The Player’s Pub — Joe & Jan Edwards; 8pm
◗ IU Woodburn Hall — Ryder Film Series: “Gerhard Richter Painting”; 8pm
◗ IU Memorial Union, Whittenberg Auditorium — UB Films: “Sixteen Candles”; 8pm
◗ Cafe Django — Post Modern Jazz Quartet; 8pm
◗ The Comedy Attic — Baron Vaughn; 8 & 10:30pm
◗ IU Fine Arts Theater — Ryder Film Series:”Oslo: August 31st”; 8:30pm
◗ The Bishop — Eleni Mandel, Henry Wolfe; 8:30pm
◗ The Bluebird — Led Zeppelin 2; 9pm
◗ Max’s Place — Kayle Truman; 9pm
◗ The Root Cellar at Farm Bloomington — Depeche Mode dance party; 9pm
◗ Muddy Boots Cafe, Nashville — Brett Holcombe; 9:30-11:30pm
◗ Max’s Place — Odkoga; 10pm
◗ Max’s Place — The Gentle Shades; 11pm
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: Bloomington Photography Club Annual Exhibition; 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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