Tweets of the Week: Peter Wilt, Laverne Cox, Colts & More

It’s all fun and games until Sabrina the Teenage Witch posts about the Colts. Then the real bonanza begins.
Laverne Cox, the transgender star of Orange Is the New Black who spoke at Purdue University earlier this year, congratulated Hoosiers on what she considered progress:


The Indy Eleven won their first home game as a fledgling NASL soccer squad, and the team’s president was ecstatic:


The Indianapolis Star landed national writer Gregg Doyel to replace the departed Bob Kravitz:


Thursday night’s Colts vs. Texans game had a side contest: an old-fashioned beard-off between Andrew Luck and Ryan Fitzpatrick.


Plus, it was surreal to see TV’s Teenage Witch giving kudos to our Colts.
ESPN ranked Indiana University’s Assembly Hall the No. 1 college-basketball court design nationwide:


Yes, indeed: Macauley Culkin’s pizza-themed Velvet Underground tribute band, booed off stage earlier this year, will play Fountain Square’s Hi-Fi venue on October 30:
https://twitter.com/SalPane/status/520257020994125825
On Halloween Eve, that might be a fright. But Batman can save us:


It seems that Indy continues to be passed in traffic as mass-transit funding goes:
https://twitter.com/ebingaman/status/521393183859961858
Meanwhile, “breaking” news isn’t what it used to be:
https://twitter.com/adamwren/status/520370384705576962
And one of our favorite local tweeters delivered another classic:
https://twitter.com/PeteThePlanner/status/519092015469178881