Wrecked Czech

Don't forget that ol' Uncle Walt was also a paid informant for the FBI in the '40's and '50's, ratting out "subversives" in Hollywood.

YouTube video by Patti Smith - Topic Real Good Time Together (live)

Cover Of The Day:

"We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together" (the Velvet Underground), recorded 11/12-12/3, 1969

Patti Smith, possibly recorded live at the Bottom Line, November 1976 (w/ Bruce Springsteen on piano)

YouTube video by ANTI- Records Booker T. Jones - "Everything Is Everything"

Today, in Musical History:

November 12th, 1944: Booker Taliaferro Jones, anchor of the Stax studio bands, b. Memphis, TN

"A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal, while it asserts that God prefers some of them." - Harry Blackmun, lawyer and 100th Associate Judge of the United States Supreme Court, b. 1906, Nashville, IL

Today in History, November 12th, 1946:

RKO Studios releases Walt Disney's incredibly racist "Song Of The South".

Good luck finding a copy of that ANYWHERE these days. Disney went to great lengths to erase that movie from existence; You have a better chance of seeing the original Epstein file.

Bad idea.

That would be allowing the GOP to determine the narrative; They'd just crank up the bullshit machine a few notches higher, and the Dems would run themselves ragged, chasing every wild goose the GOP poops out.

The Dems would look like easily-manipulated suckers.

YouTube video by Stuart Adamson - In A Big Country: Tribute Channel Big Country - Rockin' In The Free World

Cover Of The Day:

"Rockin' In The Free World", @2 Mainstream Rock, 11/11/1989 (Neil Young)

Cover by Big Country, a B side of their 1991 "Beautiful People" / "Alone" singles

YouTube video by PeterCameOut XTC - I Don't Want To Be Here

Today, in Musical History:

November 11th, 1853: Andrew John "Andy" Partridge, primary singer and songwriter of XTC, b. Mtarfa, Malta

"Men do not accept their prophets, and slay them - But they love their martyrs, and worship those whom they have tortured to death." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist ("Crime And Punishment", "The Brothers Karamazov", and others), b. 1821, Moscow, Russian Empire

Today in History:

November 11th, 1930: The U.S. Patent Office awards patent No. US1781541 to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd, for their invention of a refrigerator with no moving parts, and that required no electricity.

YouTube video by Little Richard - Topic Get Rhythm

Cover Of The Day:

"Get Rhythm"; Original version wasn't a single, but was the B of "I Walk The Line", #19 Pop, 11/10/1956 (Johnny Cash)

(The song was re-released with overdubbed "live performance" effects, and went to #12 on the C&W charts of November '69.)

YouTube video by The Carl Stalling Project Vol 2 - Topic There They Go Go Go (1956)

Today, in Musical History, November 10th, 1891:

Carl Stalling, musical director of the Warner Bros' "Merrie Melodies" and "Looney Tunes", b. Lexington, MO

Incredibly prolific, Stalling completed an entire score at least once a week for over 22 years.

"These Yankee politicians are the lowest race of thieves in existence." - John Sparrow Thompson, lawyer, judge, diplomat, and 4th Prime Minister of Canada, b. 1845, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Today in History:

November 10th, 1017: The new bolshevik government of the USSR, under Vladimir Lenin, suspends freedom of the press, and never really returns it.

Because it can't happen HERE, right ? Right.

Okay. Thanks.

...Then how do fractures from childhood show up on x-rays ?

YouTube video by Low - Topic Back Home Again

Cover Of The Day:

"Back Home Again", #5 Pop, 11/9/75 (John Denver)

Low's version sounds to me like something that ought to be used in a movie or TV show, where it plays as a local ne'er-do-well is lowered into his rainy, hometown grave, being shown a final respect he never earned or deserved...

YouTube video by Kill Rock Stars The Corin Tucker Band – Doubt (from 1,000 Years)

Today, in Musical History:

November 9th, 1972: Corin Lisa Tucker, b. Eugene, Oregon

"Those who live by the sword...get shot by those who don't." - Gary Hamel, American management consultant, b. 1954, St. Joseph, MI

Today in History:

November 9th, 1851: ICE is really nothing new in American history; Thanks to the Escaped Slave Act, Kentucky marshals crossed the Ohio River into Jeffersonville, IN, and abducted an abolitionist minister, Calvin Fairbank, who was convicted of violating the Act and got 15 years.

Mind you, they are sequestering THEMSELVES - Nobody is ORDERING them to do it.

Because, after all...an administration that endorses and encourages violence, doesn't want to be vulnerable when the violence that they promote whips around and bites THEM in the ass.

YouTube video by Fat Possum Records Iggy Pop - If You're Going To The City (Mose Allison Tribute)

Cover Of The Day:

"If You're Going To The City", recorded 11/8/62 (Mose Allison)

Iggy Pop's version comes from the 2019 various-artists album, "If You're Going To The City: A Tribute to Mose Allison"

YouTube video by tony713elo Roy Wood - When Gran'ma Plays The Banjo | AI Reconstruction

Today, in Music History:

November 8th, 1946: Roy Wood, the epitome of the British musical eccentric, who formed The Move, the Electric Light Orchestra, and Wizzard, the man who wrote "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day", b. Birmingham, England

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"Citizenship is a tough occupation, which obliges the citizen to make their own informed opinion and then stand by it." - Martha Gellhorn, novelist, journalist, and one of the first woman war correspondents, b. 1908, St. Louis, MO

(By that argument, MAGA will NEVER be "citizens".)

Today in History:

November 8th, 1923: The Beer Hall Putsch takes place, Hitler's failed attempt at a coup, which leads to Hitler being convicted of treason and spending five years in prison, where he writes "Mein Kampf".

Well, at least we'll never have to worry about Drumph ever writing a book.

YouTube video by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Topic Jaguar & Thunderbird (Live)

Cover Of The Day:

"Jaguar And Thunderbird", #109 Pop, 11/7/60 (Chuck Berry)

Cover by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, recorded live at The Record Plant, Sausalito, 4/22/77

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YouTube video by MatthewRyanVEVO Matthew Ryan - Guilty

Today, in Musical History:

November 7th, 1971: Ryan Webb, AKA Matthew Ryan, b. Chester, PA

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"The opposite of liberal is stingy. The opposite of radical is superficial. The opposite of conservative is destructive. So I declare myself to be a radical conservative liberal. Beware of men who use words to mean their opposite." - R.A. Lafferty, SF and fantasy author, b. 1914, Neola, IA

Old French Law Bans Women From Wearing Pants An antiquated French law preventing women from wearing pants has finally been removed from the books.

Today in History:

November 7th, 1800: It becomes illegal for French women to wear men's trousers in public without a police permit.

(Repealed 2013).

Which should serve to demonstrate the pernicious pettiness of misogynists, and how long it takes to undo the bullshit they like to introduce.

YouTube video by The Dream Syndicate - Topic Don't Fear the Reaper (Live at Soap Creek Saloon Austin TX 1983)

Cover Of The Day:

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"Don't Fear The Reaper", #12 Pop, 11/6/1976 (the Blue Oyster Cult)

The Dream Syndicate, recorded at the Soap Creek Saloon, Austin, TX, 2/6/1983, from the 2025 anniversary edition of "Medicine Show".