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Song of the Day 10/15: The Doobie Brothers, “Listen to the Music”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on October 15, 2024 1 Comment

I don’t know who’s DJing Donald Trump’s rallies, but after seeing the partial playlist from yesterday’s question-and-answer session turned listening party, I think he needs some new material. “Ave Maria” and “YMCA” in the same set? Andrea Bocelli and James Brown? Apparently Trump likes to play DJ at Mar-a-Lago, and these are among his favorite […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024

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Trump cut short his Q&A session in Oaks, Pa., yesterday to – I’m not making this up – stand there and sway to the music. For, like, half an hour. “Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music,” he told the crowd. “Who the hell wants to hear questions?” It’s becoming clear […]

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Song of the Day 10/14: Captain Beyond, “Sufficiently Breathless”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on October 14, 2024 0 Comments

Supergroups have been a thing in rock since 1966, when Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker ditched their former bands to form Cream, named because each was the cream of the crop on his instrument. The trend picked up steam late in the decade after Crosby, Stills and Nash (and later Young) soared up […]

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DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 14, 2024

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Normally if you told me that thousands of people went to a concert in the California desert and then got stuck there for hours because the inept organizers didn’t have enough buses to get them back to civilization, I’d feel sorry for them. But not when they’re MAGAts, because a more gullible bunch of dumbfucks […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 13, 2024

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Yep, JD Vance’s Mom Owes Her Health Insurance To–Obamacare: In Vance’s telling, his family members’ experience reflects Trump’s stewardship of the nation’s health-care markets — a perspective shared by some conservatives, who say that Trump took steps to stabilize the Affordable Care Act after Republican repeal efforts collapsed in 2017. Even as the president publicly […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 12, 2024

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Trump Comes Out For Full-Fledged Fascism.  Not bothering to hide it: Donald Trump wants to immediately invoke a more than 200-year-old wartime law that grants the president unilateral authority to deploy federal law enforcement for rounding up and deporting immigrants as soon as he enters office. The former president, speaking from Aurora, Colorado on Friday, […]

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DL Open Thread Friday, Oct. 11, 2024

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Computer problems and scheduling problems today, so you folks are on your own today. The floor is truly yours. Play nice.

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Song of the Day 10/11: Renaissance, “Northern Lights”

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Thanks to an unusually strong solar flare, the aurora borealis made a rare appearance over Delaware last night. Fittingly, I suppose, “Northern Lights” was a rarity, too. It was the only track by British rock band Renaissance to reach the singles charts, and that was only in their native UK – a bit ironic, considering […]

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Song of the Day 10/10: Parliament, “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on October 10, 2024 1 Comment

Hurricane Milton didn’t do as much damage as it might have, but you’re probably seen the photos of St. Petersburg’s Tropicana Field. The storm did, indeed, tear the roof off the sucker. I can never keep straight which band name any particular George Clinton song was released under; this one was on 1975’s “Mothership Connection,” […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 10, 2024

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Yes, It’s Horrific.  Just don’t say ‘climate change’.  Or (coming soon), ‘I wonder if my insurance will cover this’.  Over 3 million customers w/o power as I post this.  Don’t think anyone anticipated the severity of the tornadoes, which resulted in multiple deaths. Delaware Tries To ‘Big-Time’ NCC On Behalf Of Port Expansion.  Aided and […]

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Song of the Day 10/9: Johnny Neel, “Talking About People”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment, Delaware by on October 9, 2024 1 Comment

Wilmington native Johnny Neel, who died this week at age 70, was legendary in Nashville. Best known to the broader public for his stint with the Allman Brothers Band, he made his mark in Music City as a songwriter, session musician, charismatic performer – and as the subject of countless stories of his carrying on […]

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DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024

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Hurricane Milton will dominate news coverage today. Too bad none of the precipitation will make it up north; all of Delaware is either “abnormally dry” or in “moderate drought,” and might not get significant rainfall until next month. A teenager in Gaza, Hassan Hamad, kept filming the destruction caused by the Israeli assault and posting […]

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Song of the Day 10/8: Climax Blues Band, “Couldn’t Get It Right”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on October 8, 2024 0 Comments

Like the presenter of this Top of the Pops video, I thought these guys were Americans, but it turns out they just wanted to sound like they were. They weren’t a one-hit wonder, but “Couldn’t Get It Right” was their only Top 10 single in the U.S., and it it took them nearly a decade […]

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