The Jazz Singer, Lucky Lindy and Mom
Author: DOuG pRATt
Mind-Blowing Music
Big Planet Noise on WFMU’s Give the Drummer stream (see the LINKS section) continues to fill my Monday evenings with the sounds of original Sixties singles and albums, accompanied by lively online chat. A recent fun-raising fund-raiser reward is this delight-filled compilation, culled from cheap-o supermarket records of long ago.
Every track by these anonymous performers who never made it onto a Nuggets1 or Pebbles2 album is a treat. Here’s but one example, by the NOW GENERATION, a dreamy sounding, non-existent group that’s been rescued from certain obscurity.
Here’s one from the never to appear again HAIRCUTS. Light up your black light poster, turn on that lava lamp and burn some incense!
Drain the Swamp Thing
From DC to DC, Swamp Thing makes a special guest appearance on Paul Krugman’s Substack, nudging me ever closer to becoming a paid subscriber.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/wake-up-and-smell-the-corruption
Anybody Surprised?
The inevitable breakup is here. The only surprise is it came after Elon had already split from the scene. I guess his gold key to the White House wash room won’t be working after all.
“The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Funny “Money”
I continue to sit on the fence about upgrading to a paid subscription for Paul Krugman’s presence on Substack. His recent essay on the undeniable risks of indulging crypto inclines me more on the side of sending $7/month to the Nobel Prize winning economist.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/digital-corruption-takes-over-dc
Stepping in Man Cave Guano
Let’s keep up with Colbert, as he expounds on the dinged male egos of American men today.
Thirty-five years ago, discussion of the “masculine identity crisis” for the “post-sensitive male” resided within the NPR/New Yorker set, as popularized by Robert Bly’s Iron John. I read the book and thought it was interesting, but not particularly compelling. By that point in my life, I considered myself relatively immune to such influences, after all of the “personal searching” I’d done during my college years. Which is the proper time for such musings, after all. Speaking of the various schools of thought I exposed myself to while a student, I highly recommend the HBO Max documentary, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief.
The buzz around Iron John inspired me to start working on this cartoon, with the intention of submitting it to The Comics Buyer’s Guide. I abandoned it after losing the inspiration due to interruptions for business travel.
