Yes, it’s still somehow free to subscribe to this nearly daily newsletter! Greg Mitchell is the author of fourteen books and director of four films for PBS since 2022. In a previous life, he was a longtime editor at the legendary Crawdaddy.
Stephen still at it (for five more weeks).
Alex Jones must hate this: The Onion announced a new plan to take over the operation of Infowars, the conspiracy-peddling website. A judge must approve the deal. Or this is just an Onion story?
The NY Times had fun calling this story “Blow fish”: Swedish researchers gave salmon cocaine.
If you missed this, Trump’s labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, is stepping down. She had been facing an internal inquiry into charges of “misconduct,” some sexual. Yet all the pathetic men around Trump remain.
Then there’s this, from the Times:
Man Charged in Lego Theft Scheme of Replacing Pieces With Pasta, Police Say
A California man was charged with grand theft after the police said he reaped about $34,000 in what an official called an “off the charts” pasta-and-switch scheme involving Lego kits.
As you know, we love the Marsh Family satirical songs here, and so enjoy their latest, just posted, re: Pete Hegseth, to the tune of Chuck Berry’s “You Never Can Tell” but now “He’s Very Unwell.”
Music Picks
Special choice, it was just posted today. As some know, longtime Sandy Denny fan here, and now her daughter (a Facebook friend) Georgia Rose Lucas has created a kind of homage—a video rendering of her mum’s “Fotheringay,” one of her earliest songs with Fairport which also became the name of her group when split off. Tells the story of Mary Queen of Scots. This is all A.I., of course, but will accept that in this case.
More punk than punk, new posting of classic from Mississippi Fred McDowell and Johnny Woods.
From Tunes to Toons
Wuerker:
Blitt:
Bramhall:
Telnaes:
Goris:
Anderson:
Bennett:
Ohman on Swalwell:
Photo Finish
From my camera to you: “Columbus Circle, NYC”
Kash, Pete, and Brett keeping Tanqueray, Jack Daniel’s, and Anheuser-Busch in business since the discovery of barley.
Really great music videos, especially the Marsh Family and Sandy Denny. Very good selection of cartoons.