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DL Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2023

By Alby November 8, 202311 Comments

Voters in Ohio added abortion rights to the state constitution Tuesday, and it wasn't particularly close – more than 56% voted "yes." Abortion wasn't on the ballot in Virginia but…

Song of the Day 11/7: Wayne County and the Electric Chairs, “Out of Control”

By Alby November 7, 2023

In honor of Trump's meltdown on the stand in his fraud trial yesterday. Wayne County, who became Jayne County more than 40 years ago, was involved with Andy Warhol in…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023

By Alby November 7, 20239 Comments

Trump took the stand in his New York civil trial for fraud yesterday and, as was widely predicted, he did not comport himself in a professional manner. Y'all can believe…

Song of the Day 11/6: The Sugarcubes, “Birthday (Ammæli)”

By Alby November 6, 2023

Here's one from my WXPN list of Greatest Songs by Women. The not-yet-mononomous Bjôrk Guðmundsdóttir fronted the Icelandic avant-rock sextet the Sugarcubes when she wrote the lyrics to the song…

DL Open Thread Monday, Nov. 6, 2023

By Alby November 6, 202315 Comments

Didja ever notice that the more fundamentalist religious people are, the more hung up they are about sex? Another day, another story about what a weird creepazoid new House speaker…

Song of the Day 11/5: The Beatles, “Now and Then”

By Alby November 5, 20233 Comments

Forty-six years ago John Lennon sat down at his piano, turned on his tape recorder and played a song he was working on that wasn't quite complete. Last week, after…

Song of the Day 11/3: Kate Bush, “Hounds of Love”

By Alby November 3, 2023

El Somnambulo posted yesterday about WXPN's year-end countdown being devoted to female artists this year. So is this year's class at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, being inducted…

Song of the Day 11/12: Eva Cassidy, “Autumn Leaves”

By Alby November 2, 2023

Who looks at fallen leaves and thinks of lost love instead of hours of raking and bagging? A guy without a lawn, that's who. Iconic lyricist Johnny Mercer spent most…

Song of the Day 11/1: The Jaynetts, “Sally Go ‘Round the Roses”

By Alby November 1, 20231 Comment

El Somnambulo's fave tunes for October includes a psychedelic cover of this 1963 girl-group nugget by the Jaynetts, who are considered a one-hit wonder but didn't really exist at all.…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023

By Alby November 1, 202314 Comments

Observing conservatives over the decades, I've noticed they usually fall into the same trap: They believe their own bullshit or, in the parlance of our times, they get high on…

Song of the Day 10/31: Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers, “Monster Mash”

By Alby October 31, 20234 Comments

Yes, you've heard it a million times. Everybody's heard it a million times, and lots of them know some of the lines, even if they're too young to know that…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023

By Alby October 31, 202322 Comments

Replacing soft-MAGA Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House with hard-MAGA Mike Johnson is somehow Bad News for Progressives among those who see everything as bad news for progressives, but…

Song of the Day 10/30: Reba McEntire, “Turn on the Radio”

By Alby October 30, 2023

This year saw an odd trend in the agritainment business: Reba McEntire-themed corn mazes. Corn mazes are a seasonal money-maker for small farmers who market the farm along with its…