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Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll) [1]
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Date: 2022-12-18
1971 - John Chancellor (NBC) Nancy Dickerson (Ind), Howard K. Smith (ABC), Eric Sevareid (CBS)
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. If you celebrate it: Merry Christmas. And to all: a great 2023.
ART NOTES — an exhibition entitled Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools: 300 Years of Flemish Masterworks — including works by Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck — will be at the Denver, Colorado Art Museum to January 22nd.
Jacob Jordaens, “Serenade”, circa 1645
YOUR WEEKEND READ is this essay by the nonpareil columnist for The Guardian, Jonathan Freedland — on how the Harry-and-Meghan saga is nothing new; simply holding-up a mirror to how The Firm (royal family) always chews-up its members.
LEGAL NOTES — reportedly, Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis is wrapping-up her special grand jury (four months before it is set to expire). It is unable to indict, yet is now at work on issuing a detailed report, which the DA could give to a new regular grand jury in January … which would have the power to indict.
THURSDAY's CHILD is Willow the Cat — who became the White House cat after months of “Where’s the cat?!?” badgering of the press secretaries — and she is looking at ……. at …. well, ... something.
Willow the White House Cat
PROGRAMMING NOTE — there will neither be a Cheers & Jeers Friday posting, nor a (normal weekend) Odds & Ends, as I will be travelling for the Yuletide. I will post a Who Lost the Month in Trump Land?? poll next weekend.
HAIL and FAREWELL to two musicians whose careers began in the 60’s: drummer Dino Danelli (of The Rascals) at age seventy-eight …. and guitarist Kim Simmonds, Welsh-born guitarist of the Savoy Brown blues-rock band at age seventy-five.
FRIDAY's CHILD is a Turkish kitteh with a broken foot who limped into an animal … err ..… human hospital ... where a nurse put his leg in a splint … and he has now been adopted by hospital staff.
Navigated the corridors, got help
BRAIN TEASER — try this Quiz of the Week's News from the BBC ...… looks like this week, the New York Times has a Faces of 2022 quiz instead.
THE OTHER NIGHT yours truly hosted the Top Comments diary with a look at various topics: the financial common-denominator to charitable ads you see on TV (whether it’s hunger, animal welfare, child welfare, or environmental), a tribute to the late journalist Grant Wahl and the musical career of the daughter of my favorite wine columnists (in fact, the only wine columnists I read).
SEPARATED at BIRTH —
x BREAKING NEWS: Piers Morgan denies being Home Alone 2 'pigeon lady' pic.twitter.com/NZ2EyPh4gA — jim rose circus (@jimrosecircus1) December 15, 2022
..... and finally, for a song of the week ...........................… my annual tribute to to a performer that one reviewer declared to be "the most listened-to jazz pianist of all time" and with the Yuletide season upon us: if that’s true, Vince Guaraldi achieved that status - in a quiet way - due to a certain comic strip of note. He may have only stood 5’6” tall, yet stands large in the field of piano trio music.
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