I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers & Jeers".
OK, you've been warned - here is this week's tomfoolery material that I posted.
CHEERS to Bill and Michael in PWM, our Wyoming-based friend Irish Patti and ...... well, each of you at Cheers and Jeers. Have a fabulous weekend .... and week ahead.
ART NOTES — an exhibition of the later years of the Belgian surreal artist René Magritte will be at the San Francisco, California Museum of Modern Art through October 28th.
René Magritte (1898-1967)BOOK NOTES — sixty years after he first arrived on children’s bookshelves, the final adventure of Paddington Bear is being released with the publication of “Paddington at St Paul’s” — the manuscript for which his creator (Michael Bond) completed just three weeks before his death last year.
HAIL and FAREWELL to the veteran Chicago bluesman Eddy Clearwater— a Mississippi native who was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2016, and released a total of 17 albums in his musical career that spanned six decades — who has died at the age of 83.
THURSDAY's CHILD is named Arthur the Cat— one of the finalists for Britain’s ‘Most Caring Cat’ in a national charity competition, having helped a woman live an independent life following a three-and-a-half year stay at a mental health unit.
Arthur the Caring CatWHILE IT WAS NOT PART OF his (initially) being rejected as the interim prime minister by Italy’s president — the suspicion that his coalition’s finance ministerial choice would try to take Italy out of the Eurozone was the cause — the jurist Giuseppe Conte did have a faulty academic CV: listing 2008-2012 summers spent at New York University (which the school finds no records of) as well as ‘legal studies’ at Vienna’s Internationales Kulturinstitute (but which is solely a German language school). Nonetheless, after jettisoning the finance minister candidate: Conte today was sworn-in as the new interim Italian prime minister.
FRIDAY's CHILDREN are to take part in a cat yoga joint venture between a local Humane Society and a yoga studio.
Louisville, Kentucky kittehsYOUR WEEKEND READ is the short yet comprehensive essay by Jamelle Bouie about the pardon for Dinesh D’Souza… and what it means to the right wing.
BRAIN TEASER - try this Quiz of the Week's News from the BBC.
FATHER-SON? — TV star and film director Rob Reiner and former John McCain aide (and present-day TV commentator) Steve Schmidt.
Rob Reiner (born 1947) Steve Schmidt (born 1970)...... and finally, for a song of the week ...........................… a short week (and a hectic one at that). So there will be no profile, just a timely song from my favorite musician, the late bassist Jack Bruce. A song from his final recording (released seven months before his death in October, 2014), with lyrics by his long-time songwriting partner Pete Brown. Per the chorus of Fields of Forever: I hope for all of you (in the Northern Hemisphere) that .. “Your garden’s full of summer weather”.
I wrote myself a sad song ... a million years ago It took off down a road I couldn't predict With wild kicks and crazy kicks Spent a lot of miles building up my name Driving through the wind and the rain Working that circuit that has no end Looking out for danger round the twisted bends
I lived myself some lives ... a long time back Took me down some strange dark tracks Good times and troubles you wouldn't believe Fighting through a jungle full of pirates and thieves Used a lot of money running from the truth Didn't add up to nothing but the blues Didn't ever fall but I sometimes stumbled Always got up when I heard the wheels rumble
Now I'm back home for a while (with a smile) And my garden's full of summer weather I’m going to keep on with the work, though it sometimes hurts When you're looking at the fields of forever
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