Friday Odds & Sods Will Never Try to Change You, Baby

Once again we are met, Dearest Friends, in that Friday rendezvous which I hope has brought you some pleasure on your pre-weekend afternoons.  Life, as the man remarked, is very short, and the fact that you have chosen to spend even a few seconds with my writing is enough to make me profoundly grateful.  But enough mawkishness!  Outside days are getting longer and skirts shorter, so let us get to the main events of this weeks Odds & Sods.

• An unearthed Baltic shipwreck allowed the sampling of some 170-year-old champagne. As soon as I find out where to get a sip, I will let the rest of you know
• Two stories about fame, and the curious afterlife of merchandising that deceased stars have, in the lives of Kurt Cobain and Johnny Cash.
• Additional Notes on the Way We Live Now: How a failed Kickstarter campaign never ends, either for backers or owners
• Finally, a musical selection from the often-imitated-but-never-duplicated bluesman, B.B. King