Bono and Mrs Slocombe

It's another of those days when we simply can't reconcile the seriousness of recent events (Baghdad in chaos, Israel attacks Syria) with the relatively relaxed mood of our news sources (preoccupied with whether someone with no actual policies whatsoever can get elected governor of California) So instead our eyes were caught by this story from the BBC -- Bono is doing some charity art work. It will raise money for a hospice in Dublin. Specifically:

The works by Bono and his two daughters Jordan, 14, and Eve, 12, on massive white canvasses with large black brush strokes, are designed to accompany a new interpretation of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf by another of Bono's chums, Gavin Friday.

The character of Peter in this children's favourite, is based on the young Bono while the singer's wife, Ali, an environmentalist who campaigns for children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, is caricatured as Pussy, an erotic cartoon cat.

Other than in rap lyrics, we'd gotten used to the idea of any wordplay on that feline word involving either Goldfinger or that staple of PBS Pledge Drives, Are You Being Served. Every so often we are reminded that Bono is a child of the 1970s.