So for possibly-obvious reasons I have felt an impulse to listen to Depression-era music lately, and this leads to one of those "songs that shouldn't really mash up but do in my head anyway": "Frankie and Johnny" has a rather unsettling habit of morphing into "The Boll Weevil" and back for no good reason.

The farmer took the boll weevil ( Read more... )

Because the universe clearly hates me, my cable was badly behaved enough that I missed all of the S&A season premiere except for the theme song, and ten minutes in the middle where Richard was trying to buy a car from two teenage girls and William Hutt's character was monologuing about King Lear to the strains of the Interpretive Breakthrough Harp ( Read more... )