Cartoons Thursday!

Plus Jesse does Woody.

Yes, it’s still free to subscribe to this nearly daily newsletter! Greg Mitchell is the author of fourteen books and director of five films for PBS since 2022. In a previous life, he was a longtime editor at the legendary Crawdaddy.

Travel day for me today so just the basics: Jimmy, a little music, a few cartoons and the photo to finish.

Trump rant yesterday, referring to, what, the big surge in Communists winning office in USA? :

Communists always do well with the Voters or, as they would say, THE PEOPLE, in the Early Years! But, in the end, the Country, State, or City, GOES TO HELL! Great Violence proceeds at levels never seen before, and the entity dissolves into Poverty, Squalor, and Crime. Remember, breathtaking ‘Popularity’ first, and then, guaranteed DEATH AND DESTRUCTION! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

ABC News:

Music Picks

Just to note that after the furor over the often absurd NY Times critics list of greatest living American songwriters the outlet tallied “votes” from 20,000 readers which naturally is ten times more sane than the paper’s “experts.” Dylan easily #1 but I like seeing names in top 20 that I invoked in hitting the critics’ list—notably Jason Isbell, Randy Newman, Jeff Tweedy. Feel free to make your picks in Comments. Others in the new top 25: REM, Jackson Browne, Brandi Carlile, John Fogerty. Here’s an Isbell masterpiece, “Yvette.”

Jesse Welles was on CBS Mornings today with Anthony Mason talking about “This Land Is Your Land.” Here is brief clip. And singing it:

From Tunes to Toons

Anderson:

Goris:

Luckovich:

Boris:

Brodner:

Barry Blitt:

Brodner again:

Photo Finish

From my camera to you: Cemetery and remains of church bombed by US Army at Taos Pueblo, N.M.