Art represents the triumph over chaos, just as pulled-pork donuts represent the triumph over dignity. Expand your tastes with today's Groupon: for $25, you get two tickets to Artopia 2011: Art With a Heart from Big Bend Cares on Saturday, June 25 at 6:30 p.m. at the Turnbull Conference Center (a $50 value).
At the annual Big Bend Cares Artopia event, hundreds of local artists offer their creative outpourings to help raise money for educating and supporting those affected by HIV/AIDS. After scanning multiple galleries of ornamental offerings, patrons can place bids at the corresponding silent auctions, which are staggered to eliminate frantic running back and forth. The pieces also face judgment by a jury of local art experts, and the best-in-show is subject to a climactic live auction, eliminating all zombies and vampires from attendance. Bidders can take home thought-provoking works or bid on gift certificates donated by several local businesses. Curious curators can scan the Facebook gallery to get an idea of the loot, or wait to view one of the on-site demonstrations to gain some insight into the creative process.
The Turnbull Conference Center on FSU’s campus has free parking for those with motorized transport or art-laden pack mules.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Shame
Like all emotions, shame sneaks into the pit of your stomach when you least expect it. Sometimes, however, biological or environmental triggers may cause you to feel shame even when you've got nothing to be ashamed of. Here's a guide to feeling shame appropriately:
The Situation: You've been caught cheating on an exam.
Shameworthy?: No, unless the exam proctor explicitly forbade cheating by tattooing "No Cheating" on your forearm before the exam, or if the test questions were arranged to form an acrostic that spelled "DON'T CHEAT." If not, then cheating is not just allowed, it's encouraged, so that the test resembles real life.
The Situation: You're fired from work for stealing.
Shameworthy?: Absolutely not! Only by stealing can you help your company update its shrinkage and disciplinary policies. March into your boss's office and demand an apology, a raise, and 15 minutes of unsupervised personal time in the CEO's private zoo.
The Situation: After eating from the Tree of Knowledge, you realize you're naked.
Shameworthy?: Heck no. The handful of states that ban public nudity do so only because the 1970 census declared those particular residents too ugly to be naked. Occasionally, public nudity is required, as on Election Day, when voters must enter voting booths nude to prove they're carrying only one ballot.
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