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THE QUOTE
“I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.” — Miriam Makeba
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THE COLOR OF FEAR
NPR’s Linda Wertheimer this morning on Weekend Edition Sunday pointed out that this year’s presidential election will be the first in our history in which no one on the major parties’ tickets is a WASP.
Perhaps that explains why so many people are freaked out — still — about Barack Obama.
See? See? That’s The Nazi Salute!
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The world that every American once knew and too many are terrified to leave, is gone.
And speaking of terrifying, yet another music star has blown verbal chunks about the Prez. Hank Williams, Jr., who last year compared Barack Obama to Hitler (natch, they were both half-black men who studied at Harvard Law), now ups the ante. Yesterday, the man who once asked Are you ready for some football?, declared the President of the United States to be a Muslim who not only hates the military but the rest of the nation, for good measure.
Proof!
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Williams, Jr. sings something called “Take Back Our Country.” He needn’t add, …From all those scary brown people.
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LET’S GO TO INDIANA!
Lauren Spierer’s disappearance last year raised a puzzler.
Why do so many Indiana University students come from suburban New York City?
IU’s Prep School Attendance Boundaries
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With a record 7590 freshmen expected to attend IU this semester, many of them will come from the tri-state area including New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. The Spierer family hails from Edgemont, north of the big city.
Edgemont is a part of the town of Greenville in Westchester County, a tony enclave that through the years has been home to the likes of Linda McCartney, Bugsy Seigel, Walter Winchell, and Billy Collins, the former US poet laureate.
It’s funny how certain campuses become desirable destinations for specific matriculate populations. For instance, it was well-known in my old Chicago area that the University of Wisconsin in Madison drew a disproportionate number of northwest suburban Jewish kids.
I suppose the Madison thing makes sense because it falls into that Goldilocks zone for college students: far enough away from mom and dad to not worry that they can drop in at a moment’s notice but near enough to dash back home for a laundry run and a good warm meal, PRN.
Bloomington, Indiana seems an odd choice for Eastern Seaboard kids and their megalopolis classmates who might want to run back home in a six-hour or less drive.
Any ideas?
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GLEE
Indulge me for a moment. Today is the 43rd anniversary of the most exciting moment I’ve ever experienced as a rabid Chicago Cubs fan.
On the afternoon of Tuesday, August 19th, 1969, my fave Cubs pitcher, Kenny Holtzman, tossed a no-hitter against the mighty Atlanta Braves.
Bliss
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The Braves that afternoon were led by one Henry Louis Aaron, who’d go on to become baseball’s all-time home run king.
The sun was bright, a pleasant lake wind blew in from the northeast, and the Cubs were in first place, on their way to their first World Series since World War II and — fingers crossed — their first championship since the Peloponnesian War.
In a summer during which two human beings had stepped on the moon and nearly half a million people jammed Max Yasgur’s farm just to be able to brag to their grandchildren that they’d attended Woodstock, the Cubs racing for a World Series was the most jaw-dropping miracle yet.
And the high point of the season was Kenny’s gem.
Basking In The Glory
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I watched that game from a bleacher seat under the centerfield scoreboard at Wrigley Field.
I was 13 years old.
Even now, nearly half a century later, I still believe had I died that afternoon, I’d have gone happy.
Have pity on this aching soul: don’t ask me to recount the ensuing weeks. Nor, for that matter, the ensuing decades.
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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.
❏ Present & Correct — Fun, compelling, gorgeous and/or scary graphic designs and visual creations throughout the years and from all over the world.
Click Image For Full Article:
Present/&/Correct: 44 Old Typewriter Instruction Manuals
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❏ Flip Flop Fly Ball — Baseball as seen through infographics, haikus, song lyrics, and other odd communications devices.
❏ Mental Floss — Facts.
❏ The Universe — A Facebook community of astrophysics and astronomy geeks.
❏ 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.
Eat Sleep Draw: Illustration by Rachel Sanson
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❏ Big Think — Tapping the brains of notable intellectuals for their opinions, predictions, and diagnoses.
❏ 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.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
◗ Oliver Winery — Creekbend Vineyard tour; Noon-2pm
◗ Monroe County Public Library — Basic Literacy Tutor Training, session 2 of 4; 1:30-5pm
◗ IU Wells-Metz Theatre — Drama, “Solana”; 2pm
◗ IU Bill Armstrong Stadium — Hoosier women’s soccer vs. Ohio; 2pm
◗ Bryan Park — Outdoor concert: O2R Blues Band; 6:30pm
◗ Bear’s Place — Ryder Film Series: “The Well Digger’s Daughter”; 7pm
◗ IU Cinema — Film: “Beasts of the Southern Wild”; 7pm
◗ The Bluebird — BoDeans; 8pm
◗ The Bishop — Jamaican Queens, Fly Painted Feathers; 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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Coming — Media Life; August 24th through September 15th
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Coming — Axe of Vengeance: Ghanaian Film Posters and Film Viewing Culture; August 24th through September 15th