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Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll) [1]

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Date: 2023-02-12  

Electric guitarists ... take heed

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 Coming Attractions: The John Waters Collection — a bequest by the filmmaker of 372 works by 125 artists to his hometown — are on display until April 16th at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Filmmaker John Waters (born 1946)

YOUR WEEKEND READ #1 & #2 are these essays by The American Prospect’s co-editor Robert Kuttner on the expected departure of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh (plus an evaluation on his tenure) and what the confirmation chances are for one of his staffers to succeed him in office.

THURSDAY's CHILD is named Gacek the Cat — a (rather heavy-set) kitteh who lives in a wooden cat house (with a nice cushion) and is known as the “King of Kaszubska Street” in Szczecin, Poland.

Gacek the Cat

YOUR WEEKEND READ #3 is this essay (also from The American Prospect) on how heat pumps can be an important part of energy efficiency and climate change … and how the state of Maine represents a blueprint for how to make them work policy-wise.

FRIDAY's CHILD is named Rosie the Cat — who had been in a Pennsylvania shelter for eleven years (even giving birth to three kittens who were adopted) … until a woman grieving the death of her own cat … decided that was who she would adopt next.

Rosie the finally adopted Cat

THE OTHER NIGHT yours truly hosted the Top Comments diary with a look at a fallen figure from forty years ago, First Jersey Securities founder Bob Brennan … whose saturation TV ads (showing him in his helicopter over the Erie Canal and Grand Coulee Dam) … were followed by two separate convictions of (first) defrauding investors and (second) deceiving bankruptcy officials.

BRAIN TEASER — try this Quiz of the Week's News from the BBC ...… and the usually easier, less UK-centered New York Times quiz.

DIRECT DESCENDANTS? — miserly Jacob Marley (of A Christmas Carol fame, as portrayed by actor Michael Hordern in the 1951 film) … and miserly Supreme Court justice Sam Alito.

‘Jacob Marley’ (1911-1995)

Sam Alito (born 1950)

...... and finally, for a song of the week ...........................… no time for a profile … and I think everyone has posted Burt Bacharach songs this week.

Instead, here is the classic song Turn, Turn Turn — with music by Pete Seeger and lyrics drawn largely from the Book of Ecclesiastes — that The Byrds brought to #1 in 1965.

This 2015 version is played by the Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh (at his now-closed) Terrapin Crossroads nightclub. The guest guitarist is one of my favorites, Bill Frisell — whom I think can sit-in with anyone (he accompanied Marianne Faithfull quite well in live concerts).

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