The Grateful Cheese Heads, Plus Cory Gets Out His Pain

Music from Emmylou and Gram Parsons, hot cartoons and R.I.P. Val Kilmer.

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Liberal Wins Wisconsin Court Race, Despite Musk’s Millions

This came after Sen. Cory Booker’s record-setting 25 hour speech before Congress which drew attention and heartened everyone opposed to Trump. Booker revealed that he didn’t have to go to the restroom over 25 hours because he hadn’t eaten since Friday and stopped drinking water Sunday—intentionally dehydrating himself. Kids, don’t try this at home.

Lauren Boebert Mistakes Oliver Stone For Roger Stone At JFK Hearing

I have no graphic for that, which really happened (SHE was the April Fool), but Colbert had a particularly good monologue last night, with a strong, serious closing.

Val Kilmer died yesterday at 65, after quite a few years of health issues derailed his movie career. Of his dozens of roles, here we will remember him most as Oliver Stone’s Jim Morrison.

Let’s also mark the 78th birthday of one of my favorites going back to 1973, Ms. Emmylou Harris. Few know she got her start as a drama student in college, here at left.

And then rising to fame as partner of my man Gram Parsons—with almost zero video evidence today. This grainy footage was shot in Texas on their one tour in ‘73, which I managed to catch at Max’s in NYC:

Love this duet a few years after that with the great George Jones:

From Tunes to Toons

Steve Brodner: