Cartoons Tuesday--Plus, Dylan in My Hometown

And Annie Lennox donates lyrics of classic song for Gaza aid.

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I’ve had my issues with Jon Stewart since his (part-time) return to “The Daily Show,” but here’s his 20-minute monologue last night on Trump and the death of our democracy (plus Elon as a Cheesehead).

Other latenight folks focused on Trump’s hints about running again in 2028. They joked about him using a sharpie to create a new “Donstitution,” giving Greenland 300 electoral votes, and Schumer’s plan to find a way to stop him “by 2032.” See four of my cartoon picks down below.

Fortunately we at least have the likes of Annie Lennox, to donate the handwritten lyrics of her classic “Sweet Dreams” to an appeal of peace in Gaza along with medical aid for victims there. The song you’ll recall was a smash. Here, live:

In all my years I never came across this three minutes of footage below, although very “hometown” for me. It’s just part of tens of thousands of feet of footage shot during Dylan’s Rolling Thunder tour in 1975, and then seemed to disappear after inserted (I am now told) in his “Renaldo and Clara” flick which I never did manage to sit through back in the day. It shows Bob strolling around, like a folk minstrel, at a gathering of Native Americans on the Tuscarora Reservation just outside where I grew up in Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Back then the “Indians” were a big part of local life—I knew kids in school from “the rez” and local festivals featured members of the tribe. Bob’s visit occurred on November 16 during his appearance with band for two shows in one day at the cavernous Niagara Falls Convention Center. I drove up from NYC with my fellow Crawdaddy editor Peter Knobler for both shows, sleeping over at my father’s place nearby—my first visit home since driving there with Bruce Springsteen, or getting driven by him, for a smaller gathering at Niagara University in 1973 (but that’s another story).

We had seen the Rolling Thunder show at its debut back in Plymouth, Mass., but we were happily surprised to find that Joni Mitchell had joined the tour. We tried and failed to hang out with the band members at the local Hilton and perhaps if we had we might have heard about or even joined their little excursion to the Tuscarora Reservation.

Anyway, here’s the clip of Bob singing the classic “Ira Hayes,” the sad story of the Native American who helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima in the famous photograph and then was beset by alcoholism and other troubles thereafter. Bob’s old friend Peter Lafarge wrote it and another pal Johnny Cash had recorded it a decade earlier (Clint Eastwood’s movie would arrive many years later):

This just in: A new documentary, “Secret Mall Apartment,” recounts how eight artists managed to live in a shopping center from 2003 to 2007. And from The New Yorker this stunning, if laughable (but you can stream film on Apple), blast:

Why Do We Want to Believe That Jim Morrison Is Still Alive?

The singer died in 1971. A new documentary series posits that he faked his death to escape the burden of fame, and is living in hiding.

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