There are cities named “Bloomington” all across this land. But today, I have a journal from Bloomington, Ind., home of Indiana University, that prominent football school and music school.

Football, not basketball? Yes. This season, the IU football team is 8-0 — for the first time since 1967.

In any event, my journal, replete with photos, is here.

A reader writes to say,

As an IU alum, I know that ours is the most beautiful college campus.

It is certainly in the running. What else is in the running? Send me your ideas, your opinions, at jnordlinger@nationalreview.com, if you like.

Sometimes, a college campus has an advantage by being in a beautiful setting in the first place. Pepperdine University is in Malibu. The University of Colorado is in Boulder.

But let me point something out: Santa Barbara is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. UC–Santa Barbara ought to be a show-stopper. But . . .

Yale, of course, is a show-stopper. But personally, I have always liked the Puritan austerity of Harvard.

Going abroad? Well, Heidelberg University is something. Then you have those modest little schools in Oxford and Cambridge . . .

Let’s have a sampling of mail, or more mail. In yesterday’s Impromptus, I quoted George Weigel, who said,

Pizza in the Eternal City tends to exemplify a proposition I have long defended: What crossed the Atlantic going west was usually improved in the process. I like Roman pizza, as I like Rome, but I like New York pizza, Chicago pizza, Detroit pizza, and just about every other variant of American pizza — Hawaiian excepted — more.

My observation:

I have had Greek food in Greece, lots of it. I have had Indian food in India, lots of it. I could go on, to other countries, other cuisines. And the restaurants in America — Greek, Indian, etc. — well, George Weigel makes a good point.

Readers tended to agree. Here’s one:

I returned from a trip to Greece to a neighborhood spot run by first-generation Greek Americans, and they couldn’t compete on the Greek salad, probably because of the freshness of the tomatoes and other vegetables. But on everything else, especially the lamb, better than the “original.”

Another reader writes,

One of my grandddaughters (17 years old) doesn’t believe pizza is pizza without pineapple. She will request the topping even in the absence of “Canadian bacon.”

(Is Canadian bacon Canadian? Is it bacon?)

Vive la différence. And thank you all.