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DL Open Thread Monday, May 13, 2024

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A little wake-up call for anyone who thinks putting Republicans in power would help the Palestinians in Gaza: South Carolina lickspittle Lindsay Graham wants Israel to nuke Gaza. It won’t happen, of course, because if they did Jared Kushner would be deprived of all that waterfront real estate. I’m not saying everyone in MAGA World […]

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Song of the Day 5/12: Pixies, “Where Is My Mind?”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on May 12, 2024 0 Comments

This is a question two presidential candidates who aren’t Joe Biden should be asking themselves. They could use this tune as a soundtrack. Black Francis said the song was inspired by a scuba dive in the Caribbean, but movies have been using it for years to signal a character’s inability to recognize reality. It was […]

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Song of the Day 5/10: Redd Kross, “Candy Coloured Catastrophe”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on May 10, 2024 2 Comments

El Somnambulo left this one off his list of his favorite new tunes of April, maybe because he didn’t get a chance to hear it – it dropped April 29. Or maybe because he’s not a big fan of Redd Kross, formed as a punk band in Hawthorne, Calif., in the late ’70s by brothers […]

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Song of the Day 5/9: Harold Arlen, “Stormy Weather”

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

Contentious cross-examination of porn star Stormy Daniels made this an inevitable tabloid headline. I started humming this Harold Arlen standard, now 91 years old, as soon as I read it. Arlen composed a lot of tunes that made the Great American Songbook – “Let’s Fall in Love,” “That Old Black Magic,” “One for My Baby […]

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Song of the Day 7/8: Graham Parker and the Rumour, “Mercury Poisoning”

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

H/t El Somnambulo It must be something in the water, nanoplastics or something, because suddenly politicians are saying shit that nobody looking for votes should ever say. First it was the Dogslayer, now it’s RFK Jr. saying a worm ate part of his brain … and, oh yes, also, he had mercury poisoning. I say […]

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DL Open Thread Wednesday, May 8, 2024

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If you want to dominate the headlines, it helps to be the defendant in four legal proceedings simultaneously. Luckily for Trump, the one serious crime he’s accused of, stealing top-secret documents, is the one that was paused indefinitely by MAGA judge Aileen Cannon. Meanwhile, the judge in his New York falsifying-business-records case – that’s what […]

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Song of the Day 5/7: “Weird Al” Yankovic, “Fat”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on May 7, 2024 4 Comments

You can tell Donnie Two Scoops is on Ozempic (or Wegovy, they’re the same thing, just different doses) because he’s taken to mocking people for being fat. At a fundraiser in Texas for Rep. Ronny Jackson, the erstwhile White House doctor who lied about Trump’s weight, Trump said Tester “looks pregnant to me. … He […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday, May 7, 2024

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Hamas has agreed to a cease-fire proposal put together by Egypt and Qatar. Netanyahu, who faces jail time for corruption as soon as the fighting stops, rejected it. I wish Biden would stop insulting Trump and start insulting Bibi. Bernie Sanders announced he’s running for a fourth term in the Senate. Unlike the two guys […]

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Song of the Day 5/6: Talking Heads, “Psycho Killer”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on May 6, 2024 0 Comments

Kristi Noem’s dog murder-career suicide exposed her inhumanity, but as this writer pointed out, to really understand what a sicko she is, consider the poor billy goat who caught her attention on her way back from the Gravel Pit of Doom. He got offed, too, and not on the first shot. Though Noem justified the […]

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DL Open Thread Monday, May 6, 2024

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Whatever happened to “the home of the brave”? This country has an entire political party scared to confront the sociopath who leads it, and his lickspittles are vying for a role as his vice-president – as one wag put it, to see who’ll wear the noose the next time he orders his minions to kill […]

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Song of the Day 5/4: Bill Murray (as Nick Winters), “Star Wars”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on May 4, 2024 0 Comments

Nowadays, after nine feature-length films and spinoff series galore, it’s hard to remember what a big deal the original Star Wars was when it came out in 1977. That was so long ago in the Lucasverse that “Star Wars” was the film’s full name. “Saturday Night Live” was in its third season in 1978, and […]

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Song of the Day 5/3: David Bromberg, “Dehlia”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on May 3, 2024 1 Comment

David Bromberg, who’s called Wilmington home for the past 22 years, announced that he’s moving to New York City – for a quieter life. Bromberg relocated from Chicago to Wilmington in 2002, during a long hiatus in his recording career. He only learned about the city because his manager took a job running the Grand […]

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Song of the Day 5/2: Duane Eddy, “Rebel Rouser”

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Duane Eddy, whose deep, twangy guitar instrumentals helped lay the foundations of rock ‘n’ roll, died Tuesday at age 86. His string of hit singles produced by Lee Hazlewood, who discovered the teenage Eddy in Arizona, influenced countless rock guitarists – Dave Davies, George Harrison and John Fogerty, to name just a few. Eddy’s trademark […]

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