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

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Date: 2022-12-04

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 Harding Meyer: Eye to Eye — a contemporary Brazilian artist known for large-scale Realist portraiture with brushes and palette knife — will have a short run at the Odon Wagner Gallery in Toronto, Ontario from December 9th to the 24th.

work by Harding Meyer (born 1964)

CHEERS to a fabulous Thanksgiving weekend …. including meeting an old high school classmate who is the chef of a restaurant near our old favorite record store. We hadn’t seen Mike in 35+ years … and was glad to meet him for 5-10 minutes (in addition to a great meal with old friends).

YOUR WEEKEND READ is this essay by the author, essayist and native Floridian Diane Roberts — who used to be featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday — lamenting how Florida has changed from a New South state to an Old Dixie state in the 21st Century.

THURSDAY's CHILD is named Smells the Cat — discovered inside a piece of luggage at JFK Airport, being offered a Thanksgiving dinner.

Smells the Rescued Cat

YUK for today — in her essay on the wedding of Joe Biden’s granddaughter, the fashion writer Vanessa Friedman wrote that Naomi’s dress “had a bodice made of Chantilly lace” … and you probably don’t need two guesses as to which 1950’s pop singer’s booming voice fired-off in my mind (despite trying to squelch it).

MUSIC NOTES — for the first time in the one hundred eighty year-old history of the New York Philharmonic — whose Lincoln Center home (when built in 1962) had no women’s dressing rooms — it has a 45-44 female plurality in its ranks.

FRIDAY's CHILD is named Flossie the Cat — an English kitteh who — at the age of twenty-seven — has been declared by Guinness World Records to be the world’s oldest cat (one hundred twenty in human years).

Flossie: deaf w/failing vision

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

THE OTHER NIGHT yours truly hosted the Top Comments diary with a look at my favorite book that I’ve read this year — the NYC local cable news host Andrew Kirtzman’s Rudy: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America’s Mayor — and as Kirtzman had already wrote a 2000 bio on him … well, it’s mostly “The Fall”.

A NOTE on TODAY’S POLL — due to the Trump poll last week, this is a two-week catch-up. And there will be a Trump World poll for the month of December on the Christmas Day weekend … I expect it to be a full slate.

Reader Suggested FATHER-SON? — from Audri: TV star James Brolin and film star Christian Bale.

James Brolin (born 1940) and Christian Bale (born 1974)

..... and finally, for a song of the week ...........................… super busy this week, so two tributes to the late Christine McVie — first, an Etta James classic Chrisitine sang with the UK blues band Chicken Shack in the 60’s (pre-Fleetwood Mac).

And then in the period of Fleetwood Mac’s history after the departure of founder Peter Green (in 1970) and before the advent of Lindsay Buckingham-Stevie Nicks (1975) — “The Middle Mac” is under-appreciated in my mind — she joined the band and was an important contributor. This song is one she wrote from 1971.

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