POTD: Ricky Jay
For the Picture Of The Day, let’s take 15 minutes to watch the late, great Ricky Jay show off his skill with cards and con games.
POTD: Super Bad Transmittable Contagious Awful Virus!
Picture Of The Day: I missed this song parody when it was posted in March — at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis — by a music educator from Pennsylvania. Sadly, 4 months later, it’s still just as relevant and clever.
POTD: Annie Ross, “Twisted”
I always thought Joni Mitchell had written this song for her “Court and Spark” album, until I read an obit today about Annie Ross, who not only wrote it, but recorded it 2 decades before Joni. Here she is performing it on a Hugh Hefner TV show.
POTD: “Feelin’ Alright”
For the Picture Of The Day, here are Dave Mason and fellow classic rockers (known collectively as the Quarantines) with an updated-from-home version of his 1968 hit, “Feelin’ Alright.”
POTD: Not My Child
This anti-Trump ad about the push to re-open schools in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the best I’ve seen — a serious gut-punch.
POTD: Iliza Shlesinger’s Cancel Corner
For the Picture Of The Day, here’s Shlesinger filling in for Jimmy Kimmel last night with a monologue about cancel culture and internet trolls.