Sunday Funnies and Farewell to Flaco

The passing of a giant, the usual hot cartoons, and where to watch my film.

My award-winning film “The Atomic Bowl” started streaming on PBS.org and PBS apps last week week (you can easily watch it via links here), plus there is a companion e-book.

The great conjunto musician, who played with leading artists from Dylan to Los Lobos and hundreds of others, has passed away at age 86. Don’t have enough time to do him justice with more music clips, but here is an obit, and a couple of tunes below.

First, no one did more than Ry Cooder to bring him to national attention starting in the mid-1970s, on record and on tour. Here he steps forward with Ry in 1977 on Woody’s “Do-Re-Mi.”

He became a member of a kind of Tex-Mex “super group,” the Texas Tornados, and here he takes the lead on “Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio.”

As I have noted for a couple of weeks, my new film “The Atomic Bowl” is now streaming everywhere via PBS but starting on Sunday it will appear on over 100 stations, large and small, across the country all month, with many between now and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemorations (August 6 and August 9). Here is a list of just some of the cities covered this week, you can “check local listings” online (and a longer list here along with dates later in month):

Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Denver, Phoenix, Boston (via WENH and WEKW) Charlotte, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Tucson, San Bernardino, Salt Lake City, Charleston, Memphis, Milwaukee, Savannah, Burlington, Anchorage, throughout Alabama, and many more.

Sunday Funnies

Barry Blitt at The New Yorker:

Ann Telnaes: