Motley Moose – Archive

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.

ART NOTES – lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton are at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri through February 15th.

INTERESTING TO NOTE that several top members of Britain’s Labour Party are quite attuned to the US and the Democratic Party … unlike the Tories, who have no such affinity with the GOP.

THE OTHER NIGHT yours truly hosted the Top Comments diary with a visit to my 40th high school reunion – which I know was not a pleasant time for many of you reading this – but for me, it shaped my life: and helped me to overcome the difficulties I had in junior high.

BRAIN TEASER – try this Quiz of the Week’s News from the BBC.

THURSDAY’S CHILD is Cleo the Cat – the second of three finalists in next week’s Hero Cat Awards in Britain – who alerted a woman to her husband’s oncoming heart attack … and would not leave his side, either.

FOR THE FIRST TIME an American craft beer brewer will own and operate a brewery in Europe – and in Germany, no less – where it is hoped that he addition of new styles will help overcome falling sales levels (relative to wine).

HAIL and FAREWELL to Manny Roth – the owner of the Greenwich Village club Café Wha? that helped launch the careers of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Springsteen – who has died at the age of 95 ….. and the Welsh-born drummer Rod de’Ath – the drummer for the late Irish blues guitarist Rory Gallagher in the 1970’s – who has died at the age of 64.

FRIDAY’S CHILD is Slinky Malinki the Cat – the last of three finalists in next week’s Hero Cat Awards in Britain – who alerted neighbors (by tapping on their window) that her human friend had slipped-out of consciousness due to her medications … who summoned help thereupon.

CHEERS to the progress in reducing female genital mutilation and childhood marriage for girls worldwide …… and yet still more needs to be done.

MORE SUNDAY READING for today: one essay by Barney Frank suggests that corporate America may be having a re-think on supporting only the GOP ….. and a Top 10 ‘Secrets to Happiness’ list (given to an Argentine weekly) by Pope Francis … has almost nothing that a liberal could not embrace.

OLDER-YOUNGER SISTERS? – singers Alecia ‘Pink’ Moore and Kelly Osbourne – yes, Ozzie’s daughter.

   

…… and finally, for a song of the week ………………………… have been too busy to write a full profile this week. So I though I’d utilize another song from someone I did feature recently, the folksinger Christine Lavin … with her song The Moment Slipped Away. High school was a time of growth for me, yet I was too shy to tell people how much I appreciated some of their words and deeds. The Moment Slipped Away is all about making an effort to tell people kind things you want to say to them … and for which I have tried to rectify in my own life (most recently at my high school reunion).