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THE QUOTE
“I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.” — Orson Welles
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ANOTHER SCHOOL SHOOTING — HO HUM
Gotta wonder why the Indiana State University shooting Friday in Terre Haute didn’t make a bigger splash.
Can it be that we’re becoming jaded about school and campus gunplay?
Let’s See — I’ve Got My Hall Pass, My Civics Book & My Pistol
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Apparently, a couple of guys got into a beef with each other at a campus tavern. Next thing anybody knew, one of them pulled out the old equalizer and filled his opponent as well as a couple of bystanders with holes. One man died.
A 21-year-old ISU student is being held in the Vigo County jail on murder charges.
Is this kind of lunacy only newsworthy when a dozen or more poor souls are shot to death per incident?
Adding to the ridiculousness of the whole thing was the Indy Star’s four-graf story yesterday about ISU officials suspending the alleged shooter. Sheesh, I was suspended any number of times when I was a schoolboy for transgressions including ditching class to go to the Cubs game and spitting on the playground (or was it on another kid — I forget which.)
Anyway, blasting a guy into the next world seems to call for something more unpleasant than suspension.
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MAD AS HELL
Martin Amis turned 63 Saturday. The author of the 1984 novel, “Money,” and many others, Amis has a well-earned rep as the most curmudgeonly — if not the angriest — man in the world.
Martin Amis
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Comic Lewis Black bills himself as the angriest man in the world. But Black’s is an act. Amis really is a bastard. Amis has raised hackles by, for instance, calling for draconian measures to be taken against people who appear to be Muslims until the Islamic world polices itself and clears its ranks of radical extremists.
Amis, on the other hand, has long been a loud voice against nuclear weaponry.
So, like the rest of us, Amis is a puzzling, contradictory being.
Anyway, Flavorwire on the Brit’s birthday ran a list of “10 Things Martin Amis Loves to Hate.” Here are a few of them:
- Growing old
- Television and the media
- Religion
I don’t know about you but so far he seems perfectly reasonable.
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PRIVATE PARTY
How can you not love the one-in-a-million Hondo Thompson?
He posted this howler this morning:
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IN THE YEAR 2525
This was the Number 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.
It displaced “Love Them from Romeo and Juliet” by Henry Mancini in the top spot. Just goes to show how diverse pop radio was long, long ago. Now, of course, we can’t have such genre mixing. It isn’t “profitable.”
As a 13-year-old kid, I had to listen to a lot of horrifying crap before I could hear my fave songs like “Crystal Blue Persuasion.” Listening to Henry Mancini at that age was tantamount to hearing to a death knell. But at least I knew Henry Mancini existed.
And I knew my tastes weren’t the only ones that counted.
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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.
❏ 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.
From I Fucking Love Science
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❏ Present/&/Correct — 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.
❏ 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.
❏ The Daily Puppy — So shoot me.
The Daily Puppy: Liv, The Border Collie Mix
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Electron Pencil event listings: Music, art, movies, lectures, parties, receptions, games, benefits, plays, meetings, fairs, conspiracies, rituals, etc.
Monday, August 27, 2012
◗ Muddy Boots Cafe, Nashville — Music: Rich Groner; 6-8:30pm
◗ Western Skateland — Bleeding Heartland Rollergirls Roller Derby Skills Camp, audition for Bloomington’s WFTDA teams; 6:30pm
◗ City Hall, City Council chambers — State Superintendent of Public Instruction Candidates Forum; 7-9pm
◗ IU Cinema — Film: “Inglorious Basterds”; 7pm
◗ The Player’s Pub — Music: Songwriter Showcase; 8pm
◗ IU Memorial Union, Georgian Room — Free lessons, IU Swing Dance Club; 8pm
◗ The Bishop — Music: Sundress, Living Well; 9pm
◗ The Bluebird — Dave Walters karaoke; 9pm
ONGOING
◗ Ivy Tech Waldron Center — Exhibits:
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“40 Years of Artists from Pygmalion’s”; through September 1st
◗ IU Art Museum — Exhibits:
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“A Tribute to William Zimmerman,” wildlife artist; through September 9th
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Willi Baumeister, “Baumeister in Print”; through September 9th
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Annibale and Agostino Carracci, “The Bolognese School”; through September 16th
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“Contemporary Explorations: Paintings by Contemporary Native American Artists”; through October 14th
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David Hockney, “New Acquisitions”; through October 21st
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi, “Paragons of Filial Piety”; through fall semester 2012
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Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Weston, & Harry Callahan, “Intimate Models: Photographs of Husbands, Wives, and Lovers”; through December 31st
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“French Printmaking in the Seventeenth Century”; through December 31st
◗ IU SoFA Grunwald Gallery — Exhibits:
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“Media Life,” drawings and animation by Miek von Dongen; through September 15th
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“Axe of Vengeance: Ghanaian Film Posters and Film Viewing Culture”; through September 15th