Monday, April 22, 2024

Cab Calloway - Minnie the Moocher ( Remastered 720p )

Friday, April 19, 2024

Bleak House

I named the black stray dog Wednesday, because "Wednesday's child is full of woe." Oh, Wednesday is a very nice young female dog, not spayed. And, even though she recently had puppies, she's in the mood. Spot, the stray Great Pyrenees dog, is ecstatic, and madly in love.

Well, yippee. Now what am I going to do? Imagine a yard full of many litters of Great Pyrenees.

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Lipstein plays Brahms - Waltz No.15 in A-flat major

What is the Origin of the Names of the Days of the Week?

Wednesday Addams

https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/professions/education/viking-age-people/the-names-of-the-weekdays#:~:text=The%20Romans%20named%20the%20days,%2C%20Jupiter%2C%20Venus%20and%20Saturn.

I'll try to be brief. The Romans named the days of the week after the names of the planets, which either were named after their gods, or the planets were believed to be gods. I'm not certain. Then far away in the north of Europe, this concept was adapted to Norse mythology, substituting gods from Norse mythology for similar Roman gods. Let's just focus on Odin, since today is Wednesday.

How did Odin become Wednesday? Odin was also called Wodin. So there you have it. Some of the letters in the name of the week for Wednesday. Was Odin nice? He is the god of war and the dead, and rules over Valhalla - "the hall of the slain." He has handmaidens called valkyries who take the slain in battle to Valhalla.

My take? Odin seems a little eerie.

Richard Wagner - Ride of The Valkyries

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

What Child is This?

Monday's child is fair of face.

Tuesday's child is full of grace.

Wednesday's child is full of woe.

Thursday's child has far to go.

Friday's child is loving and giving.

Saturday's child works hard for a living.

And the child that is born on the Sabbath day, is bonny, and blithe and good and gay.

Going back to the abundance of evidence that Wednesday is a day of bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, witness this Mother Goose rhyme. "Wednesday's child is full of woe." Oh my! And that's why the little girl on the Addams Family was named Wednesday. BTW I am Monday's child, "Monday's child is fair of face."