Motley Moose – Archive

From the “Lessons Learned” file: don’t accept a news wire story as is …. which we will explore after the jump ….

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”. For example …..

YUK for today – after having moved just over a month ago, I needed to find a new gym: and with the local YMCA within a five-minute walk, it was a natural choice. And their membership application did indeed include a “How did you hear about us?” question …..  but it did not include the “Other” box on the Facebook meme below … which the two women at the registration desk had not seen, and laughingly asked if they could keep the copy I made (which I readily agreed to).

OK, you’ve been warned – here is this week’s tomfoolery material that I posted.

A look at a cabaret singer who had style, fluency in several languages and a large repertoire of songs ….. but who was hard-wired for depression and took her own life, after the jump ….

The 2006 film “Glory Road” told the story of a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement of the 1960’s … now, a look at its antecedents after the jump …

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”. For example …..

OLDER-YOUNGER SISTERS? – Academy Award-winning film star Marisa Tomei and Screen Actors Guild award-winning TV star Eva Longoria.

   

OK, you’ve been warned – here is this week’s tomfoolery material that I posted.

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”. For example …..

SEPARATED at BIRTH – two fictional characters: movie villain Hans Gruber (as portrayed by Alan Rickman) and Desmond Hume (as portrayed by Henry Ian Cusick) on the television show “Lost”.

   

OK, you’ve been warned – here is this week’s tomfoolery material that I posted.

While I have other songs that I like better: let’s have a look at the 1966 classic “Light My Fire”, after the jump …

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.

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”. For example …..

SEPARATED at BIRTH – San Jose Sharks hockey player Brent Burns and the Vonage advertisement Homeless Guy.

   

OK, you’ve been warned – here is this week’s tomfoolery material that I posted.

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”. For example …..

FATHER-SON? – rock musicians George Harrison and Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters).