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Odds & Ends: News/Humor (without a poll, as it borked .. will try again) [1]

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Date: 2023-03-26

Use of shielded streetlights .... pedestrian safety (plus) more night sky to view

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 María Berrío: The Children’s Crusade — with works blending the history of the Children’s Crusade of 1212 with the contemporary mass movement of peoples across borders — is at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts through August 6th.

María Berrío (born 1982)

YOUR WEEKEND READ is from The American Prospect with the self-explanatory It’s Up to the Feds to Protect Trans Rights essay.

SMILE for TODAY — Prof. Robert Kelly, whose remote BBC interview from South Korea (on national politics) went viral … after his two children videobombed it …..

BBC interview about impeached president Park Geun-hye

… has posted some new photos six years later … and gosh, the kids have grown.

THURSDAY's CHILD is named Mr. Bridges the Cat — rescued from a busy highway overpass by agents with the San Antonio Animal Care Services, and is ready for adoption.

Mr. Bridges the Cat

BOOK NOTES — emerging from an extended period of silence, Sly Stone is set to release his memoirs this coming September.

HAIL and FAREWELL to Bobbi Kelly Ercoline — the woman in the cover photo of the landmark Woodstock soundtrack album — who later married her boyfriend (she became a school nurse, he a carpenter) and in retirement: both served as volunteer guides at the Bethel Woods music center, hosting (smaller scale) concerts on the grounds of the original 1969 Woodstock festival — who has died at the age of seventy-three after a bout of cancer.

She and her husband Nick were married fifty-two years

THE OTHER NIGHT yours truly hosted the Top Comments diary with a look at some of the stories noted above (in more detail) … as well as updates to previous stories.

FRIDAY's CHILD is named Nina the Hero Kitten — a five month-old kitten who awakened an Ohio family to a fire, with all six escaping …. except for Nina, who died going back in the house (possibly searching for a boy who already had fled).

Nina the Hero Kitten

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

A NOTE on TODAY’s POLL – yes, I had promised a Trump World poll for this week, fully expecting an indictment (and maybe more).

Alas, while others in Trump World had their setbacks: he wound-up (nearly) winning the week. His gaslighting all-of-us … resulted in the GOP uniting around him, a fundraising $ bonanza for him, a fawning audience last night … and his chief rival DeSantis had a horrible week (only in part of his own doing).

So, I’m including some members of Trump World today … but will defer a full poll for now … with any luck: next weekend.

OLDER-YOUNGER BROTHERS? — Prince Harry and NFL Super Bowl champion quarterback Carson Wentz.

Prince Harry (born 1984) and Carson Wentz (born 1992)

..... and finally, for a song of the week ...................… two days ago, The Who guitarist Pete Townshend released a new single … with proceeds to benefit the Teenage Cancer Trust in Great Britain.

He explains:

“The pandemic years were terrible for charities; the Teenage Cancer Trust was created in order to take the money from a series of concerts at the Royal Albert Hall every year and various other things and that had all dropped out. So, the idea of doing this, which is it’s something that has sprung out of Lockdown about mental illness, but also for this particular charity. If you’ve got a scenario in which somebody in your family or a teenager has got cancer, they’re being treated, Lockdown hits, and you’re not allowed to go and visit them. There’s a poignancy to the whole thing about the song.”

Can’t Outrun the Truth … is his first single release in nearly three decades.

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