Cartoons Monday!

Plus music from Allison Russell (doing Dylan), new Amanda Shires and indie film by Eva Victor, and more.

Greg Mitchell’s new award-winning film, with a focus on nuclear dangers today, will start streaming via PBS, and screening, on PBS stations, on July 12. Last week the companion e-book with the same title was published: “The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero—and Nuclear Peril Today.” It includes previously unpublished images and provocative material from the film and much more. Read more here. Thanks.

In case you missed this yesterday, you could laugh if it was actually…funny. Is there something beyond “cray-cray”—maybe cray-cray-cray?

John Oliver responds to the Colbert firing below. Note that he is in the shirt of the minor league baseball team in Erie, PA, which agreed to let him re-name and re-brand them—the unveiling at their stadium just happened, with Oliver segment coming this Sunday….

In other news, we saw the new Eva Victor indie film “Sorry, Baby” (which could have been titled “Hello, Kitty”) yesterday, and can strongly recommend. Single woman tries to cope in the years after a sexual assault, but often funny. Trailer here:

My wife reminds me that Eva made or staqrred in that popular little video mocking Peloton bikes a few years back:

A few days ago, I posted a just-released recording of the Kronos Quartet doing Dylan’s “A Hard Rain” with guest singers ranging from Allison Russell to Iggy Pop to mark the 80th anniversary of the arrival of the atomic bomb. Now there is a video of Allison alone doing it with them on stage last week at the gathering of Nobel laureates in Chicago, some great instrumental passages in second half:

Also new: Amanda Shires in first release from upcoming album finally comments on aftermath of recent divorce from Jason Isbell:

From Tunes to Toons

Steve Brodner has updated his famous cartoon for Trump and Epstein today:

»»Note: My “Atomic Bowl” film started to stream via PBS this week (you can now watch here everywhere), and was published as a companion book, and see major piece at Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Much more to come as the film airs over many PBS stations through mid-August.