Greg Mitchell is the author of more than a dozen books and now writer/director of three award-winning films aired via PBS, including “Atomic Cover-up” and “Memorial Day Massacre.” Now watch trailer for acclaimed 2025 film “The Atomic Bowl” coming to PBS in July. Before all that, he was a longtime editor of the legendary Crawdaddy. You can still subscribe to this newsletter for FREE. Sustain this newsletter by ordering one of his books.
As I write, all but one of the GOP “holdouts” on the Big Bootyfull Bill in the House caved to Trump (as I predicted, despite media hype about a “rebellion”), and final passage looks to happen in a matter of minutes. So we face this:
Reminder: Companion e-book for my film “The Atomic Bowl” just published, more here. Film starts streaming via PBS on July 12.
Taking a break for some music, Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings did an NPR Tiny Desk concert yesterday with four choice songs.
“The Bear” seems to get worse with every episode and during the interminable “Wedding” offering, as a dozen songs rolled out on the soundtrack, I noted that they haven’t used a Springsteen cut since Jeremy got the role of The Boss in the upcoming bio-pic. So, of course, the episode closed with one of its longer musical excerpts ever, Emmylou from 35 years back doing Bruce’s great “Tougher Than the Rest.”
From Tunes to Toons for Today
Aida Amer:
I want the barbed wire flag. That is what we should be flying.
Leave it to the cartoonists to give a clear, concise, unvarnished critique. Only slightly alarming, but very insistent.