The theremin

The best known usage of the theremin is in “Good Vibrations” by the Beach Boys. It’s also used in the score for the film Ed Wood.

By the way, Dust to Digital issues great music.

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Jon Spencer Theremin Demo
1997 / What’s Up Matador
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Covers: The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)

“The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)” (1970) was the last song Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green recorded with the band. It hit #10 on the UK charts but was not successful in the US. It was on the remastered version of the album Then Play On. I thought of it because it was covered in the tribute to Peter Green organized by Mick Fleetwood which I just got in a Blu-ray/2 CD set. The original inspired a lot of hard rock covers.

Vaccine Polls update 6/30/21

Large-scale vaccine rejection has consequences beyond the individual: more sickness and death, more families and friends losing loved ones, more use of health care resources on preventable illness, more economic disruption. https://t.co/D2OdSuoS2c
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 6, 2021

43% of unvaccinated Americans say "just don't want to get the vaccine" is a major reason why they haven't gotten vaccinated via new @KFF poll.
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) June 30, 2021

Vaccinated groups via @KFF poll:

86% Democrats
85% over 65 years old
79% college grads
70% women
67% White
65% all Americans
63% Hispanic
61% men
60% Black
59% no college
58% White evangelicals
55% under 30 years old
52% Republicans
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) June 30, 2021

Half of Texas Republicans say they won’t get COVID-19 vaccine, new poll finds

Doing what I can to fix this, but for now it’s hard to imagine something more self-defeating, especially ahead of the delta variant train headed our way https://t.co/6ZFWokTikT
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) June 25, 2021

Likely never get vaccine via new Monmouth poll:

35% conservatives
26% Republicans
25% men
25% no college
22% non-white
21% all Americans
20% white
17% under 35 years old
17% women
14% college grads
11% over 65 years old
6% Democrats
6% liberals
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) June 23, 2021

One in five Americans, 21%, say they will likely never get the coronavirus vaccine via new Monmouth poll just out.
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) June 23, 2021

CBS News poll: Vaccinated or not, Americans venture out

The return of Hammerjacks

The original Hammerjacks was a bar on South Charles St. It looked great – lots of exposed brick. However, it played loud hard rock and heavy metal music which is not my type of music. Then it moved to a huge old industrial building. Again, it looked great. They had concerts but mostly nothing I was interested in. I saw three shows there – Buddy Guy, Los Lobos, and the Kinks. The building was one of the ones demolished to make room for the Ravens stadium that opened in 1998. Attempts to revive it have failed but a new effort is coming.

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Hammerjacks will return — finally — but not as a concert hall, beer garden or nightclub.

The reborn Hammerjacks will open as early as September as a multipurpose outdoor tailgating spot and private event space across the street from M&T Bank Stadium.https://t.co/mvk3GRVypx pic.twitter.com/5G6QMUDM3P
— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) June 23, 2021

Design for new Hammerjacks in Baltimore unveiled

PA Republicans and the big lie

There may be an audit there. Terrible news.

As Pa. House advances doomed election overhaul, Senate GOP charts different course to voter ID, other changes https://t.co/Kj9xA1XFAA
— The Philadelphia Inquirer (@PhillyInquirer) June 22, 2021

Trump is attacking Pennsylvania state senators by name for not doing enough to back a 2020 election audit there — and saying they will lose if they don't support his push.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 14, 2021

Pennsylvania GOP proposes creating election audit bureau https://t.co/FRRqlZ91qa pic.twitter.com/ywWvNW4eDQ
— The Hill (@thehill) June 28, 2021

Chairman of the Pennsylvania Senate’s election committee supports an Arizona-style “audit” of vote tallies – https://t.co/KFF4kglrs6
— Reid Wilson (@PoliticsReid) June 21, 2021

How do Republicans hold a majority of seats in PA’s state legislature when PA has more registered Ds than Rs? @harrisonjaime https://t.co/bOQprEN8Z3
— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) June 29, 2021

I love mascot races

We had a LOADED Chile Pepper Race tonight! The Salsa Jar and Tortilla came out of hibernation to compete!

But who was victorious…? pic.twitter.com/B8JCY276bq
— Albuquerque Isotopes (@ABQTopes) June 26, 2021

June 27, 1993: The first live Sausage race at a @Brewers game was at County Stadium. It was the first ever live racing event by mascots at a @MLB game. The race had been animated. The runners came out of the gate in left field and ran to home plate. The winner was the Bratwurst. pic.twitter.com/zat6UB5QYB
— Jack Eich (@jackeichsays) June 27, 2021

It's 4-3 Fisher Cats as we head to the 5th inning, and it begs the question – who do we think will win the mascot race today?

T-Bone Steak is the defending champion…
— New Hampshire Fisher Cats (@FisherCats) June 20, 2021

After much consult and toiling internally, we have made a difficult roster move that we believe is in the best interest of our organization.#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/eqz2RoMKK0
— Cleveland Guardians (@CleGuardians) August 8, 2022

Petition to have Willie Mae Mays compete in the Sausage Race every single time 🤩 https://t.co/qo9kcbtfOe
— Minor League Baseball (@MiLB) April 30, 2023

Clifton Chenier

Clifton Chenier, born on June 25, 1925, is the founder of modern zydeco music. He had a few records on Specialty and Chess in the 1950s but most are on independent labels like Arhoolie.

This Friday is Clifton Chenier Day in Louisiana! The day will be an annual celebration of the multiple-Grammy honoree through 2025. He was born June 25, 1925 near Opelousas. https://t.co/T0z5sWukmp
— The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation (@Jazznheritage) June 21, 2021

Remembering Clifton Chenier, born on this day in 1925 in Opelousas, Louisiana. Here he is performing the “Louisiana Two-Step” with The Red Hot Louisiana Band at the San Francisco Blues Festival in 1982. pic.twitter.com/6XsxX5y5si
— dusttoodigital (@dusttoodigital) June 25, 2021

Cutting unemployment is not making people find jobs

What? Punishing the unemployed doesn't create jobs? Next you'll tell me that cutting taxes for the rich doesn't create growth. https://t.co/Nz87Gmxbmr
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 23, 2021

The media’s ratings after Trump are down but the media still gives him too much attention

Here are tweets from Paul Farhi from the Washington Post and an email I sent him. (It’s similar to an email I sent to Ben White at Politico which I posted on the blog but was rejected by their email system.)

The media still gives Trump lots of coverage but ratings may be down because people have lost interest. Here’s a link to an article I linked to in the email.

Trump’s blog has staggeringly small audience – The Washington Post

–NYTimes: 78.8 million (-8.2/month, -37.3/year).
–WashPost: 75.0 million (-3.6/month, -25.0/year).
–BuzzFeed: 72.3 million (-2.0/month, -13.5/year).
–NBCNews: 71.4 million (-12.6/month, -29.3/year).
–CBSNews: 70.6 million (-3.2/month, -13.8/year). More…
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) June 23, 2021

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End or reform the Senate filibuster

Republicans are abusing it and will prevent Democrats from passing bills that are popular and necessary.

Great explainer on the filibuster and why it needs to go, by @ewarren https://t.co/uaw6OoNn3b
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) June 22, 2021

the folk civics around the filibuster is very similar to the folk civics around the electoral college in that both are very clearly after the fact justifications for rules that make no sense and have no logical basis https://t.co/cVfRH9Bald
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) June 3, 2021

Ending the Senate filibuster is not a step to take likely.

But it's a step we have to take, if we want to save American democracy.https://t.co/UAFwlwdvf1
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) April 10, 2021

Really interesting idea on filibuster reform from three excellent scholars: https://t.co/E5DZspQodq
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) April 7, 2021

This is a fascinating piece on the filibuster from one of the greatest congressional staffers of the past 60 years, John Stewart. He knows whereof he speaks! https://t.co/ox2hmpHB1O
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) April 5, 2021

There is absolutely zero doubt that the filibuster, in its modern form, is intimately tied to Jim Crow https://t.co/coq4OiSFqK
— Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp) March 25, 2021

I have no idea if Ds will blow up the filibuster. But the anti-filibuster crowd has the momentum now (breathe @AJentleson)

We've spent a lot of time over the last few days talking to sources — & each other — ab the filibuster. Here are 5 reasons to blow it up & 5 reason not to
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 25, 2021

We crunched the numbers to show the absurd escalation of the filibuster over the past century. This isn’t tradition or what the founders intended. It’s time for #FilibusterReform – from talking cure to protecting Voting Rights to a great idea from @NormOrnstein and @alfranken. https://t.co/BABgzpct2S
— John Avlon (@JohnAvlon) March 19, 2021