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 and ...... well, each of you at Cheers and Jeers. Have a fabulous weekend .... and week ahead.
ART NOTES— an exhibition entitled Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression— the first to examine more than 60 works on paper of Edvard Munch alongside Ernst Ludwig Kirchner — is at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut through June 23rd.
YOUR WEEKEND READ#1 is this Tom Nichols essay in The Atlantic, opining that the contempt for the military from 45 is not only due to disdain for any endeavor that is not self-serving, but also insecurity: realizing “That he is not even a shadow of the men and women who risk their lives in the armed forces”.
THURSDAY's CHILD is named Dewey the Library Cat— who serves the public library of Anniston, Alabama as a greeter, and is a contestant in the America’s Favorite Pet competition.
YOUR WEEKEND READ#2 is this essay by Masha Gessen— the Russian-American journalist, author, translator and activist — who (as Digby noted) sat through the whole Putin interview. Here are a few of her thoughts. She speaks Russian, of course, so this doesn’t rely on the Kremlin translators as Tucker’s show did.
FRIDAY's CHILD is named Concord Casimir the Cat— who serves as Cleveland, Ohio’s answer to Punxsutawney Phil in predicting springtime … and CC’s weather analysis is based on how quickly he devours his ... pierogis.
BRAIN TEASER— try this Quiz of the Week's News from the BBC ...… and the usually easier, less UK-centered New York Times quiz.
OLDER-YOUNGER SISTERS?— music star Sheryl Crow and Tish Cyrus (Billy Ray’s ex and Miley Cyrus’s mother).
...... and finally, for a song of the week ...........................… too many pots-on-the-stove for a full profile this wek … but following the Judge Engeron decision, this Carole King classic seems apropos.
Here, it is sung (in a jazz version) by the Dutch singer Mariska Veres (of Hungarian, French and Russian ancestry). She was best-known as the lead singer for the Dutch band Shocking Blue— who reached #1 in 1969 with the song Venus. (Seventeen years later, the British-Irish female vocal band Bananarama also reached #1 with Venus). In her later years Mariska Veres (1947-2006) formed her Shocking Jazz Quintet.
This line from Carole King is what MAGA World’s financiers must be feeling.
I feel the Earth move under my feet I feel the sky tumbling down, a-tumbling down