Animals
Dusky grouse fight. (Grouse are considered a chickenlike bird; like chickens, the males fight for status, showing off their moves and bodies to any females who may or may not be watching, occasionally making physical contact, seldom doing each other any harm.)
Sea otters.
Business
It's a novel idea, but could it only ever work in Japan? Shiro Oguni visited a memory care home where patients were encouraged to exercise their brains by doing jobs around the place. He ordered a meal in the cafeteria. He was served a different meal than he'd ordered. And he thought that the surprise factor, having a restaurant where ordering tuna might get you tuna or Vegans' Delight, might launch a restaurant. He employs people with early-stage memory loss. All the food is cooked by competent adults but it's served by people who may or may not remember who ordered what. The elderly servers say that they feel better about life, having jobs.
I couldn't eat there. Could you?
(Bonus feature: below the main story linked is the video clip from another weird news story about a French tennis star who decided to "cool off" his temper by pulling down his white shorts. Although he was wearing shorter black shorts underneath and didn't expose any forbidden skin, he was fined anyway. While playing tennis people are supposed to pretend they are gentlemen.)
Communication
When the boss demands that you carry a phone in your car and doesn't want to spring for a proper no-hands phone mount...
Found on Messy Mimi's blog. Lens traces it to a social media account called Vietnamemes.
Music
JC very kindly shared:
Jesse Butterworth attempts "What a Feeling." I suppose it takes courage to release a recording where your voice breaks the way his does.
Elvis Presley--relatively modest, because this is a patriotic medley, not his usual lame-brained song of Young Hormone Surges. Not that his idea of "modest"...well, you can see.
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