Fun for Friday: 'Spinal Tap,' Colbert, 'South Park,' Cartoons and More

Plus new music from Sheryl Crow.

Greg Mitchell’s new award-winning film, with a focus on nuclear dangers today, will start streaming via PBS, and screening, on PBS stations, on July 12. The companion e-book with the same title: “The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero—and Nuclear Peril Today.” It includes previously unpublished images and provocative material from the film and much more. Read more here. Thanks. You can still subscribe to this newsletter for FREE.

As often the case, we will start with Colbert, who could get axed for good any day now.

Speaking of which, if you missed the brouhaha over the return of “South Park”—also owned by Paramount—here is a good full wrap-up. Basically, the series returned this week, after a billion dollar deal (somehow there wasn’t enough dough to keep Colbert going), with full-length, savage, obscene mockery of Trump (with his allegedly tiny penis getting graphic play). You can find numerous clips online, not always funny but again you have to wonder how long they will be allowed to continue—and they just started (again)!

Before I go on, let me direct you to my “other” Substack, which grew out of the “Oppenheimer” movie and now charts the legacy of his bomb and nuclear dangers and culture today. I just posted a guest piece by two people, Bill geerhart and Tim Goldsmith, who helped make possible my new film “The Atomic Bowl” now streaming at PBS and on PBS stations with their vital research contributions. One thing they dug out, the shocking, untold story of two U.S. servicemen who went AWOL from their ship just hours after it arrived in Nagasaki harbor in the first wave of U.S. occupation forces six weeks after the atomic attack. On shore, apparently bent on revenge for fallen comrades, they murdered a Japanese man and raped his daughter. You can read the story here.

The full trailer for the “Spinal Tap II” re-boot just released. Is that Paul McCartney we now see?

Brand new Sheryl Crow single, again with a social conscience.

From Tunes to Toons

Steve Brodner:

Steve Brodner again:

On Trump’s deportations leading to shortage of nurses and home health aides: