TRIBUNE-REVIEW – Sunday, August 12, 2007 – Never let an affinity for a surrealist painter lead to a night out with an online porn queen. The repercussions for such conduct can be severe. Or so they appear to be for Jaison Biagini, a former art teacher in the Monessen City School District.
School directors last week accepted the resignation of Biagini, 39, who said Friday he is retiring for health reasons. Coincidentally or not, his departure comes on the heels of complaints over how he was spending his summer vacation.
It wasn’t his trip to the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla., that bothered folks so much. It was the route he took to see firsthand the works of the famed Spanish painter. That path involved his winning a contest last month sponsored by Bubba the Love Sponge, a social commentator of some renown who has a show on the Sirius satellite radio network.
What separates Bubba from, say, George Will, is that Will never has been known to spray carburetor cleaner on certain freshly shaved areas of the male anatomy. The love sponge boldly has taken that step.
First prize in this particular Bubba contest was a trip to Tampa — across the bay from St. Petersburg and the Dali Museum, which he enjoyed — and a date with Akira, a 21-year-old woman who, er, performs on the Web.
| Biagini described the date as being “all fake and staged.” However, I guess that’s not a very good image for a high school art teacher. |
Bubba? – – – say it aint true? Your nick is “love sponge?”
Anyhoo, this caught my eye as one of the most pleasant afternoons I have ever spent was walking to and through the Dali Museum in Paris. Its just around the corner from Sacré-Coeur in Montemarte (that basilica/church to the North of Notre Dame) –nice artist area of the city, good cheap food, beautiful parisians.
Simply the best. Didn’t see any porn stars though.
Now let’s not be too hasty with our judgment here. Biagini may be resigning to pursue his new career in the film industry.
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Why would you take a whore to an art museum? Talk about “anti-climatic”.
3–I thought the joke was more “You can take a “hor to culture” but you can’t make her a flower.” or something that was actually more oblique.
The actual joke I heard was “You can take a hor to culture, but you can’t make her think.” which is a take off on “You cant take a horse to water, but you cant make it drink.”
Maybe mine is even better, but it loses the historical reference?
Very surreal. Dali would be pleased.
#3, James,
I guess no one has ever taken you to the Salt Lake City Museum of Fine and Pop Sickle Stick Art.
The girl isn’t a whore, nor is she a porn star. This article doesn’t even get the basics right. She is simply one of the millions of girls that does nude modeling on the web.
Akira also does several stunts on Bubba the Love Sponge’s show.
She went on a date with the teacher. Don’t you think it is wrong for a school system to get involved in the personal lives of the teachers? The guy is in a wheelchair and he wins a contest to go out on a dream date with a hot girl. Leave the poor guy alone.
“However, I guess that’s not a very good image for a high school art teacher.”
OMG! A heterosexual art teacher?
image = male school teacher + woman = no problem
image = male schoolteacher + porn star = problem
Smallthinking from small minds. Guess the school board fails at education.
Angel, you artistic bastard!
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I picked up on this story from another source – Biagini says he’s pissed because they sent him on the trip so as to mock his disability on the show.
Now, I think that sort of shit, making fun of guys in wheelchairs, is totally fucked and below-adolescent – but OTOH, my sympathy for the guy is on vacation, I mean, he’s the type to listen to such puerile childish garbage – so now when he’s the butt of the “humor” he allasudden don’t think it’s so funny… that’s tough shit. Like me to wheel you to the unemployment office, pal?
#10 lol
damn, this guy is lucky – i want to win a trip/date w/ a pron-star too!
My question is this:
If he was teaching and married for a few years and it was found out later that his wife has been a porn star all along, would he still be fired?
His moral character, which the school board is SO worried about (The children! Think of the children!) would not have changed, yet his wife’s occupation is the sole reason for his dismissal.
Seems to me this school board has overstepped it’s bounds.
What if the school board decided that being any other legal profession was against it’s moral code. Who decides this?
Oh…and #8 – Gregory – She does porn along with the nude modeling.
The guy knows his priorities. 😉
#12 – LTG – You nailed it – TWICE. I have long been baffled about what anybody (let alone anybody with a brain) finds of value in the broadcasts of Bubba TLS and his ilk. I listened to him once or twice when he was struggling on commercial radio here in Tampa. First impression was not favorable; second (only to give him the benefit of the doubt) confirmed it. His loyal fans are the same people who can’t get enough of Jerry Springer. It’s pathetic. So I too have little or no sympathy for this wheelchair-bound teacher. It’s schadenfreude, and it does not present our species in a very good light.
#12, Lauren,
I agree. Angel is an artistic bastard.
I also heard the same thing about being laughed at. If you play with slime, expect to get messy.
Whatever, his personal life is none of the School Board’s damn business as long as he remains legal.
Hey Angel I think bein a Art Batard must be a compliment… guess Im one to. I cant believe these Sponge Hoes! Come on people get a life, its one thing for a wheel chair bound pervert to do what he wants in private but to get in a contest on a show thats heard by many is a totaly different situation. I cant believe the brain dead individuals here. Most you guys need penile implants just to give your brains a rest!!! The School Bord had to act when this moron brought his sexual devience to the public on a radio program. Thats the issue here, its not his private life when he flaunts his needs in public and I do not want my daughter being around a moron like that! If a kid cant wear a shirt in school with a cross on it but a bimbo can wear “Im a lesbian slut” can than well there ya go I think the ballance of power is so far out of whack here when the Schools actually do something right its easy to see the horndogs coming out of the woodwork! If my daughter went to school there id be calling the School Board and telling them Right On! Sack that perv!!! Let the prick enjoy his 1st amendment rights unemplyed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I dont want my tax dollars paying the salary of that prick!
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#4, #5, #9 – LOL!
#7 – Please. Everyone here has an oil painting of Jesus. That’s about all the art there is around here, save for overpriced crap for the rich folk in Park City and Sundance.
#8 – Woman does things based on her sex appeal for money. I think we’ve defined whore pretty well there.
Just had to make a comment on the whole situation. Mr. B. was one of my teachers in high school. He is not a pervert. I don’t really feel sympathy for this situation simply because he must of known what he was getting into when he entered the contest. The other side of this is, Monessen is a really small (minded) place and the if someone does the slightest little thing that isn’t perceived as normal then people will raise hell. All in all, it was a stupid thing for him to do but it really shouldn’t have been made to be this big of a deal.