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 The Andy Warhol Screen Tests— twenty short films (and photographs) of some famous names (Salvador Dali, Dennis Hopper, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg), while others are part of Andy’s world — is at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire to July 3rd.
HAIL and FAREWELL to the late thoroughbred horse Zippy Chippy— obtained by his owner in a trade for a Ford truck, yet never won any of his 100 races (even banned from several racetracks for such antics as refusing to leave the starting gate) — who has died at the age of nearly thirty-one.
YOUR WEEKEND READ is the weekly column from The American Prospect essayist Eric Alterman— on how the new executive editor of the NY Times (Joseph Kahn) will inherit a successful enterprise .. yet will face a daunting task in ending the paper’s both-sideism that has fueled the rise of the right wing.
THURSDAY's CHILD is among a group rescued from a Milwaukee electrical fire.
FILM NOTES— an upcoming biography will tell the story of the first actor of South Asian origin to be nominated for an Oscar, Merle Oberon (1911-1979) — who starred in such films as The Dark Angel and Wuthering Heights— but who passed as an Englishwoman (her father was English, yet her mother was part-Sinhalese and part-Maori) and she even threatened to sue a nephew late in her life who wanted to publicize this.
FRIDAY's CHILD is named Snickers the Cat— a Cape Cod kitteh who has been at a Petsmart location too long in the estimation of one new area resident … who decided to pay the adoption fee for whomever wants to adopt her.
THE OTHER NIGHT yours truly hosted the Top Comments diary with a closer look at one of my Your Weekend Reads… which a reader felt was an award-winning story of how our criminal justice system failed to stop a predator, saying “He would become perhaps the most dangerous person to ever play college football" … yet with all of the sordid aspects: there was an act of heroism that didn’t involve a victim … instead, a teammate of the predator.
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— NFL star Mychal Kendricks (who says “too many people”) confuse him with Canadian rap star Drake.
...... and finally, for a song of the week ...........................… a busy week (along with the writing of last night’s Top Comments) left me no time for a full profile.
In 1989, Bonnie Raitt had been left-for-dead by the music business … and rolled-the-dice by recording with Don Was (of Was Not Was fame) to produce Nick of Time— with only two original songs, and a step away from her traditional blues-rock — yet which won Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. Cry on My Shoulder (written by songwriter Michael Ruff) is my favorite song on the album.