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 Laramie, 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 entitled Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars— with music, handwritten lyrics, correspondence, studio notes, album proofs, press, tour posters, personal book and record collections and a selection of guitars — opens at the NY Public Library’s Lincoln Center annex ... March 2nd.
YOUR WEEKEND READ is this essay from the American Prospect with the very descriptive title, “The Rampant Fraudulent Billing in Outsourced Veterans’ Health Care — with taxpayers on the hook for services never performed”.
THURSDAY's CHILD is named Marley the Cat— an English kitteh who went missing nine years ago …. reunited with her family due to her microchip.
CHEERS and then some to a soon-to-be medical student in Seattle named Nadia Popovici, who alerted the assistant equipment manager of the Vancouver Canucks visiting hockey team — by banging on the glass at the first home game of the new Seattle Kraken team — that "the mole on the back of your neck is cancer." It was indeed malignant, yet by being detected in time … was removed successfully.
FRIDAY's CHILD—
BRAIN TEASER— try this Quiz of the Week's News from the BBC ...… and the usually easier, less UK-centered New York Times quiz.
SEPARATED at BIRTH— NYC mayor Eric Adams and actor Roscoe Lee Browne.
...... and finally, for a song of the week ...........................… a hectic start to the New Year at work, so no time for a full musical profile or back-story, et al.
But … just enough time for this 2003 performance at Willie Nelson’s 70th birthday celebration in NYC by three giants. Ray Charles had just-over-a-year to live, so it was poignant.
This is one of Leon Russell’s best-loved ballads, though he was soon-to-enter a low point of his career. Elton John helped revive it in 2010 (with a duet album/tour) and helped him gain inauguration to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame the following year (at which Elton made the introduction himself) before Leon’s death in 2016.
I've been so many places in my life and time I've sung a lot of songs; I've made some bad rhyme I've acted out my life in stages With ten thousand people watching I know your image of me is what I hope to be, baby I've treated you unkindly, but girl can't you see There's no one more important to me So darling, can't you please see through me?You taught me precious secrets of the truth, withholding nothing You came out in front and I was hiding But now I'm so much better, so if my words don't come together Listen to the melody cause my love's in there hiding
I love you in a place where there's no space or time I love you for my life, 'cause you're a friend of mine And when my life is over, remember when we were together
But we're alone now ... and I'm singing this song for you