It’s been a wet and weird week in New Orleans. The Sewerage & Water Board is under fire again for malfunctioning pumps that caused street flooding. The Clownfish and Mayor Moreno exchanged barbs over his meddling in city business. Landry is a MAGA maggot, so he can’t help himself. I’m glad the mayor isn’t putting up with his shit.
Landry’s act is wearing thin but we’re likely to have a second term of his annoying nonsense, alas. I’d like to see him spend more time on his Greenland assignment. It’s time for him to further annoy the Danes by anointing himself the fake Viceroy of Greenland. He could ask Little Marco for tips on viceroying. Is that a word? Beats the hell outta me.
President Pennywise’s election denying rant has rattled many otherwise sane people. Taking his threats literally is a mug’s game. As for myself, I never watch his speeches in full. My blood pressure won’t stand for it. I’m counting the days until this mook leaves office.
Speaking of days, that’s the title of this week’s theme song. Ray Davies wrote Days for The Kinks’ classic 1968 Village Green Preservation Society album. Thank you for the days, Ray.
We have four versions of Days for your listening pleasure: The Kinks OG, Petula Clark, Kirsty MacColl, and Elvis Costello.
We begin our second act with a look at the UK’s incoming Labour Prime Minister, Andy Burnham.
Who Is Andy Burnham? If you think Americans have been in a bad mood for the last decade, the Brits are even crankier. They’ve had six Prime Ministers since the Brexit referendum in 2016. The seventh will be Andy Burnham who moves into Number 10 Downing Street on Monday.
Burnham’s accession is an argument for US Democrats to stop bitching about losing candidates running again. Burnham tried to become Labour leader twice before decamping to be mayor of the Greater Manchester region. He’s succeeded there and, fingers crossed, Labour’s king of the north will succeed at Westminster.
The Guardian has an epic two-part profile of Burnham by Daniel Boffey. Click here for part one and part two.
Count Binface: One of the most amusing aspects of British politics are the live announcements of election results. That has led to goofballs running for office and making election eve appearances in what the Brits call fancy dress and we call costumes. The picture below features the hottest new political goofball Count Binface, Andy Burnham, and someone dressed as a fox.
This Guardian heavy segment continues with links to a pair of articles about Count Binface and other nutty candidates:
Count Binface represents the Silly Sausage Britain I know and love by Sofie Jenkinson.
The immortal name Boaty McBoatface is dropped in the second article. It’s much funnier than Brexit.
The last word of our second act goes to The Kinks:
We begin our third act with our favorite stolen feature.
Separated At Birth Casting Quiz Edition: We’re staying in the UK. I took the who played what PM quiz and got 18 out of 20 for a 90% score. The average is 67%. I’m feeling smug right now.
I wonder how high Ian Anderson would score on the PM quiz: He’s a quiz kid with an extra Z, after all.
Your Basic Basie: Let’s shoot some pool with Count Basie.
Have I told you lately how much I love Count Basie?
The Best Of Monty Python: Here’s an election night special featuring the Silly Party.
How silly was that? We’ll let 10cc play us out of the segment.
Saturday GIF Horse: Dr. A and I are late to Doc Martin. If you haven’t seen it on your local PBS station it’s streaming on Acorn. Check it out for more cluelessness by Martin Clunes as Doc Martin DBA Dr. Ellingham.
Toon Time: I liked Paul Duginski’s Todd Blanche toon so much that I’m giving him an encore.
Trump uses the psychological mechanism called projection — accusing others of his own shortcomings. #Trump #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #ImpeachTrumpNow #TrumpCorruption
— Paul Duginski (@cartoonkahuna.bsky.social) 2026-07-15T03:30:45.257Z
Let’s close down this virtual honky tonk with some more music.
Saturday Closer: This time, the great Welsh singer and sex symbol Tom Jones live on Soundstage.
That’s all for this week. The last word goes to a younger Andy Burnham and then PM Gordon Brown:
Not to take anything away from Sir Ray, but I was kinda hoping you’d also post Tom Verlaine’s song of the same name from Television’s second album Adventure.