Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)

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. And for those of you heading home from Netroots Nation … safe travels.

ART NOTES — a career retrospective of the works of the contemporary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama in an exhibition entitled Infinity Mirrors will be at the Cleveland Museum of Art through September 30th.

Now in Cleveland — thru September

PROGRAMMING NOTE — although I am not at Netroots Nation, I am on the move this weekend for vacation … so the output is abbreviated (and may be so a week from now, as well). Will return to normal at some point.

THURSDAY's CHILDREN are strange bedfellows: a cat and a hen who escaped the intense fires in northern California and are now recuperating at the SPCA. 

 Cat and hen in Redding, California

ALTHOUGH IT IS WEIGHTED towards more recent performers: Rolling Stone takes a stab at the 50 Greatest Stand-up Comics of All Time.

FRIDAY's CHILD is named Fatty the Cat— a thirty-five lb. kitteh adopted by an Indianapolis distillery, who likes sipping water from a running tap.

 Fatty the thirty-five lb. Cat

BRAIN TEASER - try this Quiz of the Week's News from the BBC.

CRIME NOTES — Crown jewels belonging to Sweden’s royal family have been stolen by a pair of thieves, who fled the scene by speedboat and are now on the lam. “It's 1-0 to them right now,” a police spokesperson said.

OLDER-YOUNGER BROTHERS? — musician Eric Clapton and blogger (founder of “The Smirking Chimp”)  Jeff Tiedrich.

   Eric Clapton (born 1945)

   Jeff Tiedrich (born 1957)

...... and finally, for a song of the week .......................… no time for a full profile … but last night at the Top Comments diary I profiled the concept of the “lost album” — with some later being found. Here is a link to the story… plus two songs featured from these recordings: a 1983 Doors album with a Van Morrison classic:

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… and a newly-found release rocking the jazz world: a 1963 recording of the saxophone colossus John Coltrane, re-visiting one of his classic tunes:

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