Steve Bannon Exits White House, Re-Enters Netherworld

After calling him “a good man” and “a friend,” President Trump booted Chief Strategist Steve Bannon out of the White House. Not personally; Mr. Trump doesn’t like to get his little hands dirty, so he had hatchet-man John Kelly give Bannon the axe. The Trump Administration isn’t out of trolls, though, since Sebastian Gorka and Stephen Miller still infest the corridors of power.

Minutes after his paws hit the Pennsylvania Avenue pavement, Mr. Bannon scuttled into the depths of Breitbart News, his old lair, to ready his revenge. Breitbart is now attacking Ivanka, Jared Kushner, H.R. McMaster, and Trump’s new flip-flopped Afghanistan policy. This is what it means to be outside the White House, pissing in.

More:

“Breitbart goes after Trump,” Jonathan Easley, The Hill

Related:

“Breitbart looks for a revival. It may come through war with White House advisers.” Paul Farhi, Washington Post

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Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans

“Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans/With Illicit Help From Your Friends,” a Sgt. Pepper/Star Wars mashup by Palette-Swap Ninja (Daniel Edward Amrich & Jude Aaron Kelley). you can download the entire album here. Don’t bother with downloads if YouTube has taken down the video above, since that will mean Sony and Lucasfilm don’t see “fan art” as “fair use” parody.

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D. L. Menard, 1932 – 2017

“La Porte En Arrière (The Back Door),” written and performed by D.L. Menard, who died late last month.

More:

“D.L. Menard, ‘the Cajun Hank Williams,’ Is Dead at 85,” Jon Pareles, New York Times

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The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore

“The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore,” written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio, recorded by The Walker Brothers in 1966. It was originally recorded by Frankie Valli the year before.

Music for Eclipse Day 2017.

Remastered stereo version here.

Related:

“Total Eclipse in the Music Division!” Cait Miller, In the Muse, Library of Congress blog

“What Folklore Tells Us About Eclipses,”  James Deutsch, Smithsonian

“When is the next total solar eclipse?” Brian Resnick, Vox

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Waltz No.2 from the Jazz Suite No.2

Waltz No.2 from the Jazz Suite No.2 by Dmitri Shostakovich, arranged and performed by the Cellostrada Quintet. Shostakovich composed this in Leningrad in 1938, commissioned by the USSR State Jazz Orchestra.

Cellostrada Quintet, Kraków, Poland: Cellists Radosław Bukała, Michał Dąbek, Miłosz Krcha, Marcin Kulig and Michał Świstak.

Cellostrada website

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What’cha Gonna Do About It

“What’cha Gonna Do About It,” by The Remo Four, on Bremen TV’s “Beat Club,” 1966.

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Woebegone

“Woebegone”, written by Shelby Lynne and performed by her in the studios of KINK.FM, Portland, OR, 2011.

Shelby Lynne website

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Woman in Me

“Woman in Me,” written by Carleen Anderson, performed by her on France’s “One Shot Not” in 2010.

Carleen Anderson website

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Jug Band Music

“Jug Band Music,” written by John Sebastian and recorded by him with his band, the Lovin’ Spoonful, in 1966.

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Superman and the The Mad Scientist

“The Mad Scientist,” a 1941 Superman cartoon by Fleischer Studios. released in Technicolor by Paramount Pictures Superman. Based on the characters created by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel; story by Seymour Kneitel, Izzy Sparber, and Jay Morton. Directed by Dave Fleischer. Animation: Frank Endres and Steve Muffati. Music by Winston Sharples and Sammy Timberg. Voice actors: Joan Alexander (Lois Lane), Jackson Beck (narrator), Bud Collyer (Superman/Clark Kent), Jack Mercer (Mad Scientist),Julian Noa (Perry White). The actors had worked on The Adventures of Superman radio show since 1940.

More:

“The Real Heroes of Superman, Part 3,” Nina Kincaid, Flixens

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