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 Patrick Martinez: Histories— featuring sculpture, dynamic installations, large-scale multi-media paintings and neon works — is at the Dallas, Texas Contemporary Museum to September 1st.
YOUR WEEKEND READ #1 is this essay by the nonpareil Heather Digby Parton on the cover that police unions are providing for the J-6 convicts.
THURSDAY's CHILD is, of course, named Willow the White House Cat - who will be the subject of an upcoming book by first lady Jill Biden.
YOUR WEEKEND READ #2 is this essay by Simon Kuper in the Financial Times, noting that billionaires backing Trump “conflate what’s good for business owners with what’s good for business, for the economy and for citizens — all of which are very different things”.
FRIDAY's CHILD is named T-Rex the Cat - a Michigan rescue kitteh found by a shelter (who had to have both front legs amputated). He now has a new wheeled prosthetic — which was fabricated and shipped in one week — paid for by an anonymous donor in California (with small donors giving towards his care).
BRAIN TEASER— try this Quiz of the Week's News from the BBC ...… and the usually easier, less UK-centered New York Times quiz.
LAST NIGHT yours truly hosted the Top Comments diary with a look at some trends in the hotel industry (and a closing ode to my inspirational high school principal who has died at the age of eighty-eight).
OLDER-YOUNGER BROTHERS?— film stars Paul Gleason (Breakfast Club) and Peter Riegert (Crossing Delancey).
...... and finally, for a song of the week ...........................… alas, just enough time for a video this week. Pat Metheny on guitar and the late bassist Charlie Haden (whose voice was damaged by bulbar polio in his youth) singing the traditional song Shenandoah— very apropos for someone born in Shenandoah, Iowa.
(Mercifully, that form of polio did not preclude him from a prolific career as a bassist — everything from avant-garde jazz to bluegrass).