Song of the Day 12/28: Van Halen, “Panama”
Sclerotic bully Donald Trump has been talking tough about Panama, which like, sure, Grandpa. I'm not the only one whose mind went to this 1984 Van Halen classic, which has…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 28, 2024
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Meet The New Audit, Same As The Old Audit: Delaware Unemployment Compensation Fund Still Unauditable: The State's Department of Labor was unable to provide sufficient appropriate audit evidence for the…
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2024: #’s 30-21
Now that I've demystified the process with yesterday's explanation, you have but to be mystified (or elated) by my choices: #30. Read her absolutely great takedown of Aussie music industry…
Song of the Day 12/27: The Four Seasons, “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)”
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I always found this song's opening line a bit strange. "Oh, what a night, late December, 1963." Considering that "late December" is already filled with several significant calendar items, like…
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 27, 2024
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How Cops Routinely Mistreat Our Most Vulnerable: The Biden administration launched the probes in the wake of the national outcry over the police killings in 2020 of George Floyd in…
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: #’s 40-31
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For the sake of pseudo-transparency, I don't really agonize whether, say, Song #37 is 'better' than Song #36. I find ten songs that I think roughly belong where they are…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 26, 2024
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Let's get this out of the way first: Wednesday NFL football is bad NFL football. At least Beyonce was there to save halftime. Israel: Fuck The Civilians. And you believed…
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2024: #’s 50-41
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OK, kids, here we go. Real happy with the songs I unearthed this year. I notice that the selection is perhaps a bit more roots-oriented than usual. Although it's technically…
Song of the Day 12/25: The Band, “Christmas Must Be Tonight”
H/t El Somnambulo, who suggested this for the Christmas playlist back in March. This Christmas song by Robbie Robertson went overlooked for years. Written and rejected for the Band's 1975's…
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, December 25, 2024
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Been a tough month for those born on December 25. Rickey Henderson. Justin Trudeau. December boys got it bad: Hey, it's December 25. Howzabout a double shot?: This is what…
Song of the Day 12/24: McCoy Tyner, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”
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If you like holiday music played by jazzmen, you've probably heard this on Columbia's 1981 Christmas sampler, "God Rest Ye Merry, Jazzmen," because there aren't all that many jazz Christmas…
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, December 24, 2024
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Just because we don't get nearly as many readers the next two days as normal, that's no excuse for me to just mail in the Open Thread. If you're gonna…
Song of the Day 12/23: The Carpenters, “Merry Christmas Darling”
As Nathan Arizona noted the other day, Karen Carpenter could make even a happy holiday song sound a little sad, so a song about missing her beau on Christmas Eve…