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

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Date: 2024-02-25  

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 and ...... well, each of you at Cheers and Jeers. Have a fabulous weekend .... and week ahead.

ART NOTES — an exhibition entitled Matisse and the Sea — the first exhibition to examine the significance of the sea across Modernist artist Henri Matisse’s career, which included artwork in coastal locations on the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Pacific — is at the St. Louis, Missouri Art Museum to May 12th.

“Interior at Nice”

YOUR WEEKEND READ is this essay (on dynastic wealth) by the former Labor Secretary Robert Reich — positing that should TFG regain the presidency, “He’ll owe his victory in no small part to one of the richest Americans alive — in 1920”.

THURSDAY's CHILD is named is named Leonard the Cat — a super-friendly Philadelphia shelter kitteh who was always passed by (due to benign mast-cell tumors on his face) and now after seven years ... has been adopted.

Leonard the Cat

THEN and NOW —

“Rocky IV” actors Dolph Lundgren and (the recently deceased) Carl Weathers

LAST NIGHT yours truly hosted the Top Comments diary with a biography of the (recently deceased) long-time National Public Radio morning host, Bob Edwards.

FRIDAY's CHILD is a reminder ( especially now) that not all stories from Russia are bad — in 2015, Masha the Hero Cat alerted a neighbor that she was keeping warm an infant boy left outside in a box in freezing temperatures (and the child's life was saved).

Masha the Hero 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.

SEPARATED at BIRTH — (Armstrong born 1930, Gagarin born 1934).

x constructing a conspiracy theory that neil armstrong and yuri gagarin were secretly brothers separated at birth cuz they honestly look similar enough for it to work pic.twitter.com/va89UTvvAq — manwhore boyfailure extraordinaire (@APOAPSlS) January 15, 2024

...... and finally, for a song of the week ...........................… though I have not seen this confirmed on any major news site (albeit numerous music blogs have reported it) — the British singer/guitarist Bobby Tench may have died this past week at the age of seventy-nine.

Though little-known by most North Americans, he got around: with stints (either as a vocalist or guitarist/vocalist) as a sideman for Freddie King, Eric Burdon, Ginger Baker and Van Morrison, plus as a member of bands such as Humble Pie. Yet it was his role as a vocalist (in the early 70’s) with the Jeff Beck Group that was his greatest fame world-wide.

Bobby Tench in his youth ..

….. and more recently

This was the lead-off song on the first of the two Jeff Beck Group albums … and right away, one hears the voice of Bobby Tench. If he is indeed no longer of-this-Earth … Hail and Farewell.

The day is right, my friends

Live life as full as you can

It would do you no harm

Do what you want yourself

There's a spark down inside

I would like to die Don’t let sadness collide

It's a future you don't want to hide

Put sadness straight out of your mind

Leave all your troubles behind

And I bring you the sweet

Right where we all want to be Ain't no good when you’re all alone

Life's a never-ending road

If you feel like running

You better slow down; what's your hurry?

We’ve got the feeling

Bobby Tench — lower left-hand photo.

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