Cartoons Friday!

Last weekend's political cartoon day was so popular we're back with another, plus an "isolated vocals" Beach Boys classic (new box coming) and trailer for Anthony Bourdain film.

Hot visual takes below but first here’s that brand new trailer for the much-anticipated Anthony Bourdain doc by Morgan Neville, coming July 16, titled Roadrunner—and, yes, with use of the classic Jonathan Richman song of that name. But did Tony ever drive past the Stop & Shop—with the radio on? Maybe not in Bangkok or Peru. As usual, share, comment, subscribe.

News & Politics

This from the great Barry Blitt of The New Yorker goes back awhile—but is, sadly, still relevant today:

And a nod to the classic Peanuts strip….

Song Pick of the Day

News emerged yesterday of an upcoming box set on the much-overlooked Beach Boys recordings (and 108 demos/alternates etc.) from late 1960s to early 1970s. Don’t miss below the isolated vocals on classic “Till I Die.”

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Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including the bestseller The Tunnels (on escapes under the Berlin Wall), the current The Beginning or the End (on MGM’s wild atomic bomb movie), and The Campaign of the Century (on Upton Sinclair’s left-wing race for governor of California), which was recently picked by the Wall St. Journal as one of five greatest books ever about an election. His new film, Atomic Cover-up, just had its world premiere and is drawing extraordinary acclaim. For nearly all of the 1970s he was the #2 editor at the legendary Crawdaddy. Later he served as longtime editor of Editor & Publisher magazine. He recently co-produced a film about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.