Cartoons Thursday!

Plus: Counting Crows, Colbert, Larkin Poe, more Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, and more.

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We’ll open with Stephen’s monologue:

That may prepare you with this headline update:

Woman Who Called Kid N-Word Raises Over $700K in Just 5 Days

Now on to music: Counting Crows (never among my major favorites but maybe yours) are back with a new album and tour and a doc about them is premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival. Last night on the Fallon show:

Couple days back, I posted vid of Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings surprisingly performing “White Rabbit” as an encore and sure enough they did it again at Carnegie Hall last night. Here, from the night before on Colbert, a second bonus song not shown on that broadcast, their classic “Look at Miss Ohio.”

And a very fine bluesy Gillian Welch cover by fab Larkin Poe of “The Devil Had A Hold of Me.”

I have previously posted the two-minute trailer for my new documentary film, “The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero—and Nuclear Peril Today,” but if interested you can now watch the first five minutes of the film, as it is being prepared for screening via PBS starting in mid-July.

Had a funny finding today. A famous propaganda film for troops about to occupy Japan in 1945 made by the U.S. military, and called “Our Job in Japan,” was written by Theodore S. Geisel. If the name rings a bell, it’s probably because he later became known as….Dr. Seuss.

Thursday Cartoons

Steve Brodner with the great writer M. Gessen: