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DL Open Thread Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024

By Alby September 11, 202420 Comments

Whether you're talking about the presidential debate or the Delaware primaries, things went about as well as could be expected yesterday. The News Journal, as if to remind us it…

Presidential Debate Open Thread

By Alby September 10, 202416 Comments

I don't have cable TV, so I couldn't watch this debate even if I wanted to. So I'm counting on you readers to keep me apprised of developments.

Song of the Day 9/10: Electric Light Orchestra, “Showdown”

By Alby September 10, 20241 Comment

Tonight's televised face-off between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump can't possibly meet expectations, if only because they're so high for Harris and so low for Trump. I think those expecting…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024

By Alby September 10, 202419 Comments

Gonna be a busy day. Delaware's primary elections wind up today – polls close at 8 p.m. – and the debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump begins at 9…

Song of the Day 9/9: Weird Al Yankovic, “Bob”

By Alby September 9, 20242 Comments

It took me a minute to figure out what was going on here. Yes, of course it's a parody of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues," but what seem to be…

DL Open Thread Monday, Sept. 9, 2024

By Alby September 9, 20245 Comments

John Carney wasn't alone in trying to force people into Medicare Advantage. Among the horrors of Project 2025 is a scheme to make Medicare Advantage rather than traditional Medicare the…

Song of the Day 9/8: English Teacher, “The World’s Biggest Paving Slab”

By Alby September 8, 2024

The Mercury Prize, awarded for the best album by a British or Irish act, had an upset winner last week. English Teacher, a fledgling post-punk band from Leeds, took home…

Bethany Hall-Long Copies Trump, Slings Mud in Desperation

By Alby September 6, 202437 Comments

Today marks the fourth day in a row I've received a mailer from Ms. Creant and the sleazy unions backing her that compares Matt Meyer to Donald Trump. You'd think…

Song of the Day 6/6: unknown artist, “Walk on Back”

By Alby September 6, 20241 Comment

If you want to encounter soul music you've never heard before, the seven-CD set "Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos," released last summer, represents a treasure trove. Archivist…

Song of the Day 9/5: Ween, “Ocean Man”

By Alby September 5, 2024

One reason rock is fading away: Gen X bands just don't have the staying power of, say, the Rolling Stones. For example Ween, the oddball alternative duo from New Hope,…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024

By Alby September 4, 20242 Comments

"Trump has yet to find an attack on Harris that will stick." This is, no joke, how the media is treating his campaign's All Insults, All The Time strategy, along…

Song of the Day 9/3: James Darren (as Vic Fontaine), “Come Fly With Me”

By Alby September 3, 20242 Comments

To people of a certain age – say, 80 – James Darren, who died yesterday at age 88, will always be Moondoggie, the handsome male lead in "Gidget." That now-ignored…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024

By Alby September 3, 202419 Comments

Trump did and said some dumb shit yesterday, I don't even know what and I don't much care. He'll do and say some dumb shit today that they'll report tomorrow,…