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This is the theme song for my mandatory two-week quarantine. I play it for anyone who wants to visit, right after I explain to them that for some reason two-thirds…

There's quite a backstory to this live performance from 1987 in St. Louis, Chuck Berry's hometown, at the first of two concerts to celebrate his 60th birthday. "Back in the…

A song about social distancing?  Didn't think so. Tom Jones gave it the ol' white boy college try: Samantha Fish shows how it should be done:

As Alby is in transit, today's song is all about me.  Oh, sure, I might have been short-changed in the height department, and I might be one or two (or…

Dr. Anthony Fauci has gotten on Trump's nerves for weeks now, and even a reporter for the Associated Press noticed that it's making the Man-Baby Menace furious. Has Fauci noticed?…

Pollsters asked people whether they were more worried about public health or the economy. Among Democrats, public health was more important by a 72-16 margin. Republicans, the economy won out,…

Though a few states never shut down to deal with the coronavirus, Georgia was the first to ease its lockdown restrictions. Gov. Brian Kemp apparently thought he was doing it…

I can't even count how many internet wags have repurposed "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" to the Trump era by singing "The Liar Tweets Tonight." Roy Zimmerman released a different version…

Many critics consider this song, released in 1955, as the first rock 'n' roll record, and while Richard Penniman rarely got as much credit as Chuck Berry or Bill Haley,…

There's an apocryphal story about the Russian space program. The United States, according to the legend, spent millions of dollars trying to invent a ball-point pen that would work in…

Bob Dylan dropped another new song last night, this time with an announcement that it's a cut from a new album, "Rough and Rowdy Ways," set for release June 19.…

As both puck and El Somnambulo have noted, the Orange Offal in the Oval, in yet another fumbling attempt to change the subject from his staggering ineptitude, has decreed, apparently…

Donald Trump visited a factory that makes medical-grade face masks yesterday. He got lots of scolding for not wearing a mask during his tour, but I thought the more noteworthy…