Go, Canada...and Cartoons Monday!

Plus the big Grammy winner who got little coverage.

Feb 03, 2025

Greg Mitchell is the author of more than a dozen books (see link) and now writer/director of three award-winning films aired via PBS, including “Atomic Cover-up” and “Memorial Day Massacre” which are still up at PBS.org. Watch trailer for my acclaimed 2025 film “The Atomic Bowl.” Before all that, he was a longtime editor of the legendary Crawdaddy. At Blue Sky and Twitter: both as @gregmitch. You can still subscribe to this newsletter for FREE.

Back again, as warranted by the escalating Trump/Musk Crisis. As I write this the stock market is plunging and Trump says he will be talking to Trudeau again at 3 pm. My guess is that Trump will call off the trade war after that and claim some kind of victory (e.g. Trudeau agrees to increase border enforcement on drugs by a small amount). Stay tuned, but it’s a shame the tariff scandal is dominating media coverage so much that all of the other major outrages and illegalities get less attention—the “chaos” angle probably planned all along by Trumpers.

Before we get to today’s cartoons, I will note that the musical couple who I featured yesterday, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, did win a Grammy last night. Also, my friend Ricky Riccardi, the Satchmo scholar who I featured here a couple of weeks back, won his second Grammy for liner notes, this time for a King Oliver album.

But here a tip of the hat to a young artist who won FOUR Grammys yesterday but most barely noticed because they are in the Americana categories. Quite a life story for Sierra Ferrell which you can easily find online (West Virginia trailer park to homeless and busking on the streets, with severe drug addiction, and then recovery and now awards and stardom). Yes, she likes to dress funny. This recent NPR small desk concert perhaps captures her best, in my view: