Happy Valentine Daze: Cartoons Plus Sly Stone, Margo Price, Nate Bargatze

Lifting all love boats

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.

Loving the one I’m with, but still away from home, so briefly:

I covered that major Joan Baez tribute/benefit in San Fran last weekend but little video evidence surfaced. Now from that night, this swell “The Times They Are a Changin’” with the great Margo Price plus Jeremy Ivey.

Questlove now has a long-awaited Hulu doc on Sly Stone, have not seen many reviews, but here is the trailer. A full soundtrack album also out. More to come.

With the big and bigly hyped “SNL” 50th anniversary special coming, it reminds me that I never posted what has become, just since last autumn, one of its most viral segments ever, the Nate Bargatze “George Washington’s Dream.”

…and the follow-up….Why on Valentine’s Day? Nobody knows.

This is actually real: "Lee Greenwood has been named a new board member of the Kennedy Center."

How Do You Like Dems’ Apples?

Before getting to the cartoons, I posted the following elsewhere on Thursday and it drew quite a bit of attention: “Idea going around--Democratic leadership should ASAP name an ‘alternate’ HHS secretary to RFK Jr.--someone to provide valuable public updates and crucial health information. And as well: "shadow" leaders for other departments too, as in the UK, w/ press conferences, policy, budgets, speeches.”

Ann Telnaes on Trump takeover of Kennedy Center.

Barry Blitt:

Steve Brodner: