Scottish actor Sean Connery, born Thomas Connery in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, began as a milkman and a bodybuilder before getting work in the theatre.  This eventually led to small television parts and a major role in Another Time, Another Place.  Soon after, Connery was cast in his most popular role, as the superspy James Bond, which he played for six films.  He later had success with In the Name of the Rose, Highlander and The Untouchables, which gained him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.  He also played the titular character's father in the Indiana Jones series and was ultimately knighted for his services to acting.  In 2006 he retired from acting, though continued to give voice performances.  Connery's baritone was called upon in several films, though never as major parts of the performances.  Firstly in the children's film Darby O'Gill and the Little People, which got him spotted by Dana Broccoli, who encouraged his casting in Dr. No, leading him to superstardom.  In the film The Man Who Would Be King, Connery played co-lead Daniel Dravot and sang "The Son of God Goes Forth to War" to the tune of "The Minstrel Boy".  https://goldenthroats.fandom.com/wiki/Sean_Connery   

An embarrassment of riches is an idiom that means an overabundance of something, or too much of a good thing, that originated in 1738 as John Ozell's translation of a French play, L'Embarras des richesses (1726), by Léonor Jean Christine Soulas d'Allainval.  The idiom has inspired other works and been included in their titles.  This includes:  The Embarrassment of Riches (1906), a play by Louis K. Anspacher, and a 1918 drama film of the same name based on the Anspacher play; a 2006 music album of this name by Elephant Micah; the history book The Embarrassment of Riches:  An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama; and An Embarrassment of Riches, a 2000 novel written by Filipino author Charlson Ong.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassment_of_riches 

https://bookstr.com/article/21-hilarious-limericks-for-national-limerick-day/  May 12 is National Limerick Day

A limerick is a humorous poem consisting of five lines.  The first, second, and fifth lines must have seven to ten syllables while rhyming and having the same verbal rhythm.  The third and fourth lines should only have five to seven syllables; they too must rhyme with each other and have the same rhythm.  https://examples.yourdictionary.com/limerick-examples.html 

Louis Kaufmann Anspacher (1878-1947) was an American poet, playwright and script writer.  He was the author of Challenge of the Unknown:  Exploring the Psychic World, with an introduction by Waldemar Kaempffert, which was published by Allen and Unwin, in the USA in 1947 by Current Books, and in Great Britain in 1952 by Henderson and Spalding.  Anspacher's poem "Ocean Ode" served as the basis of a tone poem, The Ocean, by Henry Kimball Hadley, composed between 1920 and 1921. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_K._Anspacher 

Larry Bell is an American sculptor who currently lives and works in Taos, New Mexico.  He also maintains a secondary studio location in Venice, CA.  Larry Bell was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1939.  He attended Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of the Arts) in Los Angeles.  Receiving acclaim at an early phase of his career, by 1961 Bell became known as one of the War Babies, a group of four Los Angeles artists that included, along with Bell, Ron Miyashiro, Ed Bereal, and Joe Goode.  He had his first solo exhibition only three years out of art school; four decades later, his work continues to be included in innumerable exhibitions and is in private and public collections throughout the world.  https://www.groundsforsculpture.org/artists/larry-bell/ 

The Museum of Everyday Life (a self-service museum, open 8 a.m.-8 p.m. daily, turn on the lights when you enter, and don’t forget to turn off the lights when you depart!  Donations are accepted at the door, and the space is not heated, so wear a coat if it is cold!)  The museum is an ongoing revolutionary experiment based in Glover, Vermont.  Its mission is a heroic, slow-motion cataloguing of the quotidian--a detailed, theatrical expression of gratitude and love for the miniscule and unglamorous experience of daily life in all its forms.  We celebrate mundanity, and the mysterious delight embedded in the banal but beloved objects we touch every day.  In addition to a robust and ever-expanding permanent collection, our special featured exhibits have explored ordinary objects such as the pencil, the safety pin, the mirror, the toothbrush, the match, locks and keys, scissors, and dust.  These exhibits look at the objects in-depth, tracing their origins, and additionally examining their life throughout history in relation to all kinds of human experience.  The creation of these special featured exhibits involves the input of many people, from neighbors to college students, from fanatical collectors to local artists and performers, all of whom donate their time helping to construct exhibits, maintain and improve the buildings and grounds, give guided tours, and perform at openings and events.  The Museum has three components:  1) The Museum of Everyday Life Philosophy Department, involving the production and publication of theoretical writing about people and their relationship to objects, curatorial methodologies, and encylcopedism, 2) The Museum of Everyday Life Performance Company, which creates puppet shows and performances in an ongoing effort to examine and everyday life via the life of objects, and lastly, but most important 3) The Museum of Everyday Life Exhibitions and Collections, comprised of actual exhibits which make the theoretical work tangible and concrete.  The Museum of Everyday Life is also a collaborative partner in the BANNERS & CRANKS festival, an itinerant, yearly festival of cantastoria and cranky performance.  https://museumofeverydaylife.org/sample-page/about-us

Cantastoria is an Italian word for the ancient performance form of picture-story recitation, which involves sung narration accompanied by reference to painted banners, scrolls, or placards. https://museumofeverydaylife.org/performance-department/cantastoria   

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2526  April 27, 2022