Greg Mitchell has authored 14 books and directed four PBS films since 2022. His latest, “The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero—and Nuclear Peril Today” has been airing over PBS stations and now streaming for free (key links to watch now and more here). A companion book is available, and you can read more or order here. The New Yorker magazine this week has a piece about the PBS film, which you can read here. And subscribing to this newsletter is still somehow FREE.
But then there was this report:
Federal Troops Arrive in Portland, Immediately Form Rock Bands
Vinyl re-releaase for 70th anniversary coming in November, great Sinatra album:
The Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa announced yesterday that U2 would be awarded its annual Guthrie award in October, and Bono and The Edge will arrive to accept it. Springsteen and others have won it in the past. Far as I know, U2 has only recorded one Guthrie song, for a TV special about him and Leadbelly, and here it is, the especially apt today, “Jesus Christ.”
Arlo’s version at the famous tribute concert for his dad in 1968:
When Jesus come to town, all the working folks around
Believed what he did say
But the bankers and the preachers, they nailed Him on the cross,
And they laid Jesus Christ in his grave
Just for variety, a gorgeous Velvet Underground song you’ve probably never heard, “Jesus.”
I’m encouraging more people to Comment so here you go:
From Tunes to Toons
I loved Velvet Underground and Nico. Somewhere, in some box in that album!
Cartoons are so on point and sad for us.