Two strange covers of Jimi Hendrix songs

I don’t have anything to add to these except note that I love Brave Combo.

Improving ventilation reduces the spread of COVID-19

It's time to pay attn to indoor air quality, much like we do for outdoor air, or water. We spend 90% of our time indoors, and clean air is essential for our health and wellbeing. With thanks to @linseymarr @j_g_allen @CorsIAQ @kprather88 and @WBahnfleth https://t.co/P3JQTSDTQU
— Tanya Lewis (@tanyalewis314) June 8, 2022

Don't stop washing your hands, but DEFINITELY take care of your ventilation and air out your rooms.

Today it's WARM, so maybe open your windows for a bit.
Get an air purifier.
Got a furnace? Change those filters! https://t.co/3yQ6RRbSZp
— B'more City Health (@BMore_Healthy) December 25, 2021

📌Airborne virus implications: 200+ experts now declare that the coronavirus can stay aloft for hours in tiny droplets in stagnant air, infecting people who inhale. This risk is highest in crowded indoor spaces with poor ventilation. What does this mean?🧵https://t.co/SNYPKnmXog
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) July 8, 2020

Italian study shows ventilation can cut school COVID cases by 82% | Reuters https://t.co/LQ8nX7Mvju
— Dr Satoshi Akima FRACP 『秋間聰』 (@ToshiAkima) June 3, 2022

New @CDCMMWR looks at what K-12 schools are doing to improve ventilation to help reduce the spread of #COVID19. Most reported low-cost improvements like moving activities outside. Learn more: https://t.co/0iiWSpBoVn. pic.twitter.com/1FoLSdZrg8
— CDC (@CDCgov) June 8, 2022

improving ventilation is one of the best strategies we have for reducing COVID-19 risk in schools, yet many are about to reopen with the same air systems they had in 2020.

for @TIME, I explored what schools should be doing and what's holding them back: https://t.co/YlCIKUe2Qa pic.twitter.com/Y3upFqML5M
— betsy ladyzhets 📊 (@betsyladyzhets) August 16, 2022

Covers: The Coo Coo Bird/The Cuckoo

The 1929 recording of “The Coo Coo Bird” also known as “The Cuckoo” by Clarence Ashley is on The Anthology of American Folk Music.

Murder rates are highest in some red states

Cities are actually safer. Republicans attack cities to distract from their own problems.

Did you know?

It’s states with loose gun laws where violence rates are the highest. pic.twitter.com/BMzocVm6ns
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) August 30, 2022

Fascinating:
"In 2020, per capita murder rates were 40% higher in states won by Donald Trump than those won by Joe Biden.
8 of the 10 states w/the highest murder rates in 2020 voted for the Republican presidential nominee in every election this century."https://t.co/ML5i3EqHas
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) August 17, 2022

Violent crime is "more of a red state problem than a blue state one, as 8 out of the 10 states with the highest murder rates voted for Trump in 2020. The murder rate in the 25 states that went for Trump is, on average, 40% higher than that of states that voted for Biden." #moleg https://t.co/Ctt775iW4G
— Kristin Bowen | Text ACT to 644-33 (@CoMo_Kristin) June 8, 2022

ANY time someone refers with terror of urban crime, hand them this. Your chances of being attacked in Missouri are much higher than your chances of being attacked in New York. Higher in TX than in California. And on and on. Suitable for lamination. pic.twitter.com/GeFr58XGqV
— Virginia Heffernan (@page88) October 5, 2022

What to conclude from crime data? Cities are safer than the countryside and New York is doing far better than most places. "The overall lesson seems to be that the more urban your surroundings, the less danger you face." – @foxjust https://t.co/UPdp4GXV9S
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) June 7, 2022

#GOP, what say you?#ElPasoStrong #UvaldeStrong #UvaldeMassacre
'A study found that murder rates are highest in Republican-controlled states.'https://t.co/JSzHymM1hy
— James Ball (@cato218) June 2, 2022

https://twitter.com/zepy32/status/1532588158038118401?s=20&t=_bWPHaopXCxXXLgvbrIIvw

Red States Have Higher Murder Rates Than Blue States, According to New Study | Inside Edition

There you have it. What are red state governors doing about it? More guns and increased crimes. https://t.co/GvuYqVIVFr
— Srinadh (@peace_srinadh) June 7, 2022

NEW: @AOC just shut down Republicans scapegoating big cities like NYC and Chicago that face gun violence: “Let’s talk facts. 70% of illegally trafficked guns in NYC come from [red states with loose gun laws]. We're losing children due to lawlessness unleashed by red states.”
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) June 8, 2022

Did not know:

Rural America, too, has seen a surge in violent crime. “I’ve never seen these numbers before,” said one South Carolina sheriff about homicides.

Homicide rates in 2020:

✔️rose 25% in rural America
✔️rose 30% in urban Americahttps://t.co/a48nYreGz9 via @WSJ
— Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS) June 10, 2022

When crime goes up in rural areas, for some reason we don't blame the (Republican) politicians who are in charge: https://t.co/Fpbw9DdaJf
— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) June 10, 2022

There is generally more murder in cities subjected to the Red America gun policy regime — Republicans haven't come up with some magic formula they're just good at taking advantage of the fact that the media is disproportionately focused on a handful of cities. https://t.co/EIIj2gZLnf
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 29, 2022

it’s funny that despite all the media coverage, New York City is still one of the safest places in the country, by a significant margin pic.twitter.com/x5wzHBXxe7
— sam (@sam_d_1995) July 17, 2022

NBC’s reporting team on gun violence went to Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia & Baltimore — all cities, 3 in the North. Yet the top 7 states for homicides per capita are almost all Southern & rural: MS, LA, AL, MO, AR, SC, TN.
It’s one way media distort the picture of violence.
— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) July 18, 2022

A growing mortality gap between Republican and Democratic areas may largely stem from policy choices. (@LydiaDenworth Scientific American) Details: https://t.co/mkd9KMxrFm pic.twitter.com/9q7HOd5iLi
— Opinion Today (@OpinionToday) July 18, 2022

"The biggest risks for homicides came in conservative counties with iron-fist sheriffs and district attorneys, places where progressives in power are nearly as common as monkeys riding unicorns." https://t.co/nsWYQI3X1d
— MattEllisDA (@MattEllisDA) August 28, 2022

CEO pay is outrageous

The chief executives of S&P 500 companies made 324 times more than the median-paid worker last year.

Though some executives said worker wages were partly to blame for rising prices, workers’ real wages fell 2.4% last year. https://t.co/onlOGPt2Fc
— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) July 21, 2022

Compared to the typical worker’s pay, CEOs were paid 399 times more in 2021, which is the highest ratio on record. In 1965, CEOs only made 20 times of what the average worker made.https://t.co/EdvEJZMc6Y
— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) October 5, 2022

A new report finds the gap between executive and worker pay is only wideninghttps://t.co/dpYKBMn7z1
— CNN (@CNN) June 7, 2022

Corporations wouldn't be earning record profits if they were just raising prices to pass along costs. Wall Street is price gouging families—and making off with its fattest profit margins in 70+ years. pic.twitter.com/sGPD1cF1Of
— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) June 6, 2022

The pay gap between male vs female early-stage CEOs:
2019: $5,000
2022: $20,000
After an early pandemic hit, the avg. female startup CEO salary hasn't returned to where it was in Q4 2019. Male salaries are up an average of $10k, per @KruzeConsulting datahttps://t.co/QAan5QkvLI pic.twitter.com/3XqpdnQ0Va
— Biz Carson (@bizcarson) June 5, 2022

Seven US corporations last year paid their chief execs over 2,000 times the pay of their most typical workers. In 1965, US CEOs averaged 21 times annual worker pay. https://t.co/tUhSPIw1OR
— Too Much (@Too_Much_Online) June 3, 2022

The CEO Salary Gap at Some of the Largest U.S. Companies Continues to Widen & Median Worker Pay Lags Behind Inflationon. A New Report Offers Some Solutions | Wage Gap Between CEOs and US Workers Jumped to 670-to-1 Last Year, Study Finds | The Guardian https://t.co/XR2zRwjMvu pic.twitter.com/aDIjKdQPDC
— Karen-Kay Harrison (@K4Kats) June 7, 2022

June is Accordion Awareness Month

June is Accordion Awareness Month. My parents’ generation loved Myron Floren who was on the Lawrence Welk show. Brave Combo plays rock polkas.

The great Clifton Chenier popularized Zydeco. Stanley Dural, better known as Buckwheat Zydeco, played with Chenier before he founded his own band. I saw Buckwheat in concert several times – he was great. He played a huge accordion. Amade Ardoin and others used the accordion in Creole music.

Garth Hudson of The Band played accordion on their records and Bob Dylan’s “On a Night Like This”.

Flaco Jimenez, the Tex Mex accordionist has also played on records by Ry Cooder and Dwight Yoakam. Europeans from Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic brought the accordion to Texas and Mexico. Los Lobos from Los Angeles also uses the accordion (played by David Hidalgo).

Those Darn Accordions emphasize humor.

Last night's hour-long episode of our weekly @coopradio Accordion Noir Radio broadcast is now up online and availble for your listeing enjoyment via https://t.co/Y3xrhXns4n

Happy Accordion Awareness Month! pic.twitter.com/IYr0nBPmXS
— Accordion Noir (@AccordionNoir) June 2, 2022

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My all-time favorite Gary Larson cartoon https://t.co/kknZ68QILb pic.twitter.com/H0kBMXOmlI
— Blake Leyh (@EarlOfEdgecombe) November 6, 2022

Edwige Fenech Twitter thread

Fenech starred in many giallo films in the 1970s.

After coming third in the Lady Europe competition as a competitor for France, Edwige Fenech was spotted by a talent scout and was promptly cast as the titular role in Guido Malatesta's 1968 adventure film – SAMOA, QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE. The role would propel her to Italian stardom! pic.twitter.com/uMc9Et6OYa
— Rachael Nisbet (@rachael_nisbet) May 30, 2022

Drive-In Movies

I have never been to a drive-in movie. There aren’t many left.

John Waters used the suburban Baltimore Bengies Drive-In for the film Cecil B. Demented. The Edmonson Drive-In was in his Polyester showing art-house films.

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I missed National Drive-in Day on June 6th because I always think of that date as D-Day.

Anyway, how about sharing a favorite drive-in experience? (Keep it PG-rated, though😀) pic.twitter.com/LI9flspFKi
— Classic Film TV Cafe (@classic_film) June 9, 2022

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Looking Back at the Original Drive-In Movie Theater

I recently watched At the Drive-In about the Mahoning, PA drive-in theater and the work of people to keep it alive. Recommended.

Covers: Prison Cell Blues

I am going to post some of the songs from Harry Smith’s Anthology of America Folk Music. (see prior post on Smith)

Blind Lemon Jefferson was one of the biggest blues stars of the 1920s. Prison Cell Blues is from 1928.

Covers: To Sir with Love

“To Sir with Love”, a 1967 movie theme was a big hit for Lulu in 1967. I thought of it when I heard the 1993 cover by 10,000 Maniacs with Michael Stipe on the radio today.