Friday, September 13, 2024

I'm gonna say it again

Given the floor wiping Kamala Harris gave the Kleptocrat at Tuesday’s debate, I was going to give you “Cathy’s Clown” for today’s earworm. All you’d have to do is change Kathy to Kamala and the Everly Brothers classic would be, well, classic.

But then the Kleptocrat booked a venue for one of his rallies in Tucson, Ariz., that got some attention. Tucson is pop-country-rock-classical-big band jazz-new age-folk-mariachi goddess Linda Ronstadt’s hometown and the venue is the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall.

Ronstadt’s not having it. Viz: the statement she released yesterday, with a few words for Vance, as well.


Before she retired in 2011, with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease (later re-evaluated to progressive supranuclear palsy), Ronstadt build a stellar career in all the above-mentioned genres; she pretty well owned the last three decades of the 20th Century musically.

I’ve been a fan since her Stone Poneys days; she’s essentially sung every stage and incident of my life. I can remember walking along Colorado Boulevard (the main drag in Pasadena) with tears streaming down my face as I listened to “Long, Long Time” and wallowed in the pain of a (lost) first love. I’ve cycled through “Different Drum”, “Tracks of my Tears”, “Prisoner in Disguise”, “Desperado”, “Farther Along”, “Heat Wave”, "Just One Look" and dozens more.

She’s also been an activist all her life—advocating against the Iraq War and for the environment, LGBQT+ rights, immigration policies and support for the arts.

In short—the woman is a goddamn national treasure and you can see this in statement and the photo she chose to accompany it.

In less than 48 hours, Taylor Swift and Linda Ronstadt lined up against the Republican ticket, two cultural icons, two “childless” cat ladies, two superstars joining Kamala Harris. And I am here for it.

So today we’re having “You’re No Good”—and you know whom we mean.

Crank up the volume.

  

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