Arts and Entertainment
Song of the Day 11/8: Workhouse Boys chorus, “Food, Glorious Food”
It takes a Dickensian villain to ask a court to cut off food aid before Thanksgiving, and Trump was up to the task. Maybe young Donald saw “Oliver!” at an impressionable age and rooted for the bad guys, so he thinks the show’s opening number is an uplifting number showing cheerful orphans glad to get […]
Song of the Day 11/7: Alice Cooper, “Billion Dollar Babies”
Elon Musk and his stockholders sure showed Delaware Chancery Court. You think $56 billion in CEO compensation is excessive? How about … one TRILLION dollars? That’s how much Tesla will pay Musk if he meets “certain performance targets” over the next decade. Sure, car sales are down, but Elon’s new pitch is robots, so why […]
Song of the Day 11/6: Michael Sembello, “Maniac”
The race for title of Craziest GOP Congresswoman is always hotly contested. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Bobert, and Anna Paulina Luna all have their moments, but nobody is as crazy as Nancy Mace, and running for governor of South Carolina has proved it. Her now-legendary meltdown in an airport confrontation with TSA personnel last week […]
Song of the Day 11/15: They Might Be Giants, “The Communists Have the Music”
A Democratic socialist – and a Muslim, no less! – is now the mayor-elect of New York City. Though Zohran Mamdani is a Democrat, he had to overcome the opposition of both major parties to win. And he managed to gather more than 50% of the vote against Republican Curtis Sliwa and defeated-in-the-primary Democrat Andrew […]
Song of the Day 11/4: Tom Lehrer, “So Long Mom (A Song for World War III)”
Is it mere coincidence that Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear thriller “House Full of Dynamite” on Netflix came out about the same time Donald Trump proclaimed nuclear testing is back? The movie’s premise, that a single nuclear missile is headed for Chicago and it’s unclear who launched it, requires a suspension of disbelief – it takes place […]
Song of the Day 11/3: Connie Francis, “Who’s Sorry Now”
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board is worried about the forces unleashed by Trump’s unbridled fascism. They’ve been whinging about tariffs for quite a while now, but they’re really riled up about the increasingly naked anti-Semitism on what they call the “new right.” Oh, now it’s gone too far. Plucking people off the street because […]
Song of the Day 11/2: The Police, “Walking on the Moon”
Kim Kardashian might become a lawyer soon, but that doesn’t mean she’s anything but stupid, and I’m not just referring to her decision to have multiple children with a mentally ill anti-Semite. I’m referring to her notion that the moon landings were faked, a belief so stupid that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, no Einstein himself,
Song of the Day 10/31: Oingo Boingo, “Dead Man’s Party”
Before Danny Elfman embarked on his prolific career scoring films, he led a band called Oingo Boingo. His older brother had started a street theater troupe in Los Angeles in the ’70s called the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, and Danny started writing music for them. They were just Oingo Boingo by 1979, but […]
Song of the Day 10/30: Beru Revue, “Hoods a Go-Go”
Not many DJs get obituaries in Rolling Stone, but Pierre Robert, the midday voice for WMMR in Philadelphia for four decades, did. The 70-year-old Deadhead went to sleep Tuesday night and never woke up, so he never got to say goodbye to his loyal listeners. Robert’s gentle voice and manner belied his knowledge, and he […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: October 2025
Other than the undeniable bangers by Brandi Carlile and Joshua Hedley, this is the most ‘El Somnambulo’ month of music this year. As in lots of stuff that’s kinda off the beaten track, but hits the musical pleasure center in my brain. Posted a little early b/c I’ve reached my self-imposed song limit for the […]
Song of the Day 10/29: Jerry Douglas, “Patrick Meets the Brickbats”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona I basically know only three things about this song called “Patrick Meets the Brickbats.” • It has a funny title. • It has something to do with trains. • It has Jerry Douglas playing the dobro. This last one is all you really need to know. Douglas is probably the […]
Song of the Day 10/28: Flamin’ Groovies, “First Plane Home”
The Flamin’ Groovies were always in the wrong place at the wrong time. They started out playing rock ‘n’ roll in the style of the ’50s and early ’60s – in San Francisco at the dawn of the psychedelic era. Their energetic live shows made them a popular bar band, but they completely whiffed on […]
Song of the Day 10/27: Seth MacFarlane, “I Never Felt This Way Before”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona I haven’t watched “Family Guy” since right after it went on the air in 1999. It looked to me like a juvenile and unfunny copy of “The Simpsons.” I might have been wrong, but If I wanted a clever animated show besides “The Simpsons” I looked to Mike Judge. But […]
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