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We didn't take many pictures from our reading in Champaign yesterday, so we'll just quickly recap it by saying it's very nice when professors at your old journalism school make their students come to your readings. It thickens the crowd, brings more fascinating questions and, you know, actually assures a female or two will come. So that helps. We had a grand time, though those college students get younger every year.
Now that we're done recapping that, let's get into some brief Big Ten news. First, as you might have heard, Indiana basketball is about to be smacked with some serious recruiting allegations. We'd take more glee in that if we didn't have a pretty solid feeling that the same thing's gonna happen to our Illini football team in a couple of years.
But more to the point ... we learned that they don't have the Big Ten Network ... on campus! Do you realize how insane that is? Actual real, live students were unable to watch the Illini's win over Minnesota last night ... unless they went to a bar. Which, of course, is exactly what your institute of higher learning should be encouraging you to do. They're even fed up with it at Indiana.
We cannot overstate how idiotic that is. We are still shaking our head. Amazing.
Anyway, thanks, Champaign. Next stop: St. Louis!
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The best part about college girls? I get older, they stay the same age...
You know, initially, I was on the Big Ten Network's side because I hated Comcast. Now I just kind of hate both of them. So, well done BTN, you've put yourself even with a group so reviled, they actually finished behind the IRS in a J.D. Power survey of organizational favorability. Consider that, Comcast finished 75th, the IRS 74th.
No, Probably, possibly a baby.
Pay no attention to Indiana, Clemens is testifying.
/swings watch back and forth
@kataroo_kangaroo: Will is way less creepy than McConaughey.
"You see what you did there? You split infinitives. This isn't high school, so either step it up or GET THE HELL OUT OF MY CLASS!"
So how long until the inevitable firing of Kelvin Sampson and the re-hiring of Bobby Knight to ride off into the sunset at IU?
And I for one am SHOCKED and APPALLED that a Big Ten team would commit massive recruiting violations and possibly set its basketball program a decade or so [snickers]
/michigan alum
But did the professors themselves actually come?
I'd say no.
Didja tap dat?
Will, if it makes you feel better, I don't think ZOOOOOKKK had any NCAA sanctions against him at Florida unlike Samson had prior to coming to Indiana.
Sweet...It only took like five stops but finally there is a girl at one of these things.
No Obama shirt is a plus.
I have Big Ten Network in Champaign, oh except for the fact that my cable company hasn't been able to fix my digital cable for four months.
I never thought I'd see an American suit actually make someone shoulders look slim. Who's your tailor?
@Yostal: Come on- those commercials with the large-lunged brunette dont sway your opinion of Comcast?
Me neither- I have DirecTV
@Chuckie Hacks 2 and 0: Hey, there were at least four women at the Seattle stop. Granted, three of them were behind the bar...
Nice to see Joan Jett at the book signing
BG students actually get older, thanks to the seven year plan.
We cannot overstate how idiotic that is. We are still shaking our head. Amazing.
If I've learned a thing or two around here it's that outrage is not fully expressed unless JESUS CHRIST is prominently involved.
If the Zooker was put in charge of recruiting for the reading there wouldve been 1,000,000 people there.
@strong like bull smart like tractor: I'm sure those four women were spank-bank material for numerous deadspinners.
I'm thinking about going to the Matoon stop...Will it be worth the 4 and a half hour drive? Is anybody else going? Will it be a crazy party? Will there be more women there than my girlfriend?
Does Will resemble Tucker Max in that "serious thoughts" picture, or is it just me? Is there a chapter in your book in which you completely fabricate encounters with women?
@Matt_T: All promised a first row seat.
I can't speak for Journalism professors but the library faculty came! (GSTF has not yet been processed into our holdings.. but it will be soon! On the bright side, we have a copy of Catch...)
...It thickens the crowd, brings more fascinating questions and, you know, actually assures a female or two will come.
Yeah, I heard that alot of girls' first time experiencing that is in college. Didn't expect it would be in journalism class though.
the college students get younger every year, but Will stays the same age?
@Matt_T: How many of them could read though?
Zook tried to let you know he couldn't make it, Will. Didn't you get his 7,300 texts?
When I'm trying to assure a female or two will come, I usually stay as far away from GSTF book readings as possible...
Say, man, you got a copy of God Save the Fan? It'd be a lot cooler if you did.
It thickens the crowd, brings more fascinating questions and, you know, actually assures a female or two will come.
I'm sorry to do this, Will, but as a copy editor and someone in posession of a uterus I must point out that:
WOMAN = NOUN
FEMALE = ADJECTIVE
"See, You'll bend me over like so. And after the bleeding stops, this is the best route to the hospital..."
There's a Saint Louis now?
@Clare:
It has popular usage as a noun as well, and most dictionaries list it as both an adjective and a noun.
/English major
"It says here you are a roger me roundly to 6AM tomorrow morning. It's a standard Harper Collins courtesan contract."
@Clare: Do I have to return my copy of Webster's for the one you're using?
So what's it like to be homework, Will?
"Hello St. LOUIS!"
[leans in to whisper]
"uh this is Springfield Steve."
[confused look on face]
"Are you ready to ROCK!"
"There's a Saint Louis now?"
Well, I guess he was okay hosting Family Feud but I didn't think it was worth canonization.
@Tuffy: COPY EDITOR SMACK
Hey, everybody leave Clare and her female uterus alone!
By the way: Bill Walton reviews the book.
@Tuffy: @racistmascot_inc: @Rob Iracane: "Woman = noun, female = adjective" was the style at my college paper and I've used them that way ever since.
I recognize that it might be archaic not to use "female" and "woman" interchangeably, but to me, calling a woman "a female" gives me the ickies.
Man, Clare sure is getting female-slapped.
Can you female those reports for me by Friday?
@Clare: wait a second are you one of those "don't call me a chick" chicks?
@Crosstown Suss: They're sitting in my outbox right now.
@Tuffy:
Holy shit! He compared Will to Descartes.
Cogito, ergo sum indeed!
@Clare: calling a woman "a female" gives me the ickies.
That's funny, I got the ickies from a call girl that turned out to be a she-male.
If she's the best they could offer there, I shudder to think of what the women in Pabst Blue Ribbon, IL must look like.
@dismalScientist: You might have heard of him. His name is T. J. Maxx.
I thought "female" was a noun adjunct, but I may be the worst writer and grammarian on the planet.
@Tuffy: I didn't like the review it wasn't about me. What?
Great review and the pyramid was excellent. I wonder if Walton is on DU!AN with us? Let's invite him to the Pants Party. He knows how to have a good time.
/ganja
I think we should all agree that it's "womyn" and call the whole thing off.
@Lady Andrea: +1.
@Dany Heatley Speedwagon: I have to agree with Clare, here. I'm used to hearing "the male approaches the female" only on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
I'm partial to gal. I wonder why that is?
"The female" sounds like something in a police report or National Geographic channel narration.
@Storming the Floor: "... and you, too, can find the right words for your next unexpected copy editor attack if you've got Mutual of Omaha."
@Texas Gal: I'm partial to "skirt." As in, that skirt flashed her getaway sticks and he sang like a canary.
@Tuffy: I'm glad someone remembers that show. I was addicted to it when I was a kid.
Letich, obscured dude, yes.
Things we're sick of at Indiana:
1. The Big Ten Network
2. Illinois
3. Being arrested for public intox
4. All these damn rules