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

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Date: 2023-11-05

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 Bonnard’s Worlds — a career retrospective of French painter Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), reuniting seventy of his best works — will open at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas to January 28th.

Dining Room in the Country, 1913

PROGRAMMING NOTE — I will be travelling next weekend: and thus do not plan on either a Friday post in Cheers & Jeers, nor a wrap-up Odds & Ends diary. Instead, I will post a “Who Lost the Month in MAGA World?” poll next weekend.

YOUR WEEKEND READ #1 is this essay by Tim Miller in The Bulwark — to understand how Brandon Presley has made next week’s Mississippi governor’s race surprisingly competitive (with an assist from Brett Favre).

THURSDAY's CHILD is named Mamoa the Cat — who escaped the wildfires in Maui (despite being covered in ash) and will be up for adoption.

Mamoa the Cat

YOUR WEEKEND READS #2 and #3 are these short essays in Salon by Amanda Marcotte — #2 is that the new Speaker of the House carries a torch for the incel movement … and #3 that the three congressional Ladies of MAGA are bumping-up against the limitations ... that the men of MAGA have placed in their way.

FRIDAY's CHILD is named Nala the Cat — an English kitteh who spends part of her day at a suburban London commuter rail station, becoming a favorite of commuters, staff and commercial tenants at the station.

Nala the Cat

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 the final Beatles song ever to be released (where many weighed-in with their opinions) and also noting the famous New Zealand film director whose technological (rather than pure artistic) skills helped make-it-happen.

FATHER-SON? — former University of Michigan and Columbia University president Lee Bollinger — and former British prime minister Boris Johnson.

Lee Bollinger (b 1946)

Boris Johnson (b 1964)

..... and finally, for a song of the week ........................ just time for two quick ones.

For those who haven’t heard it …...

… and this 1971 song by Mick Abrahams, the original guitarist in Jethro Tull, who left to form his own band (Blodwyn Pig) — who turned age eighty this year.

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