We had a crazy rainstorm the other day, not from a tropical system but it was heavy and annoying. Kitty Perry Mason hates thunderstorms. He doesn’t hide and cower, instead it makes him wrestle with Claire Trevor and zoom up and down the hallway. It’s exhausting just watching him. Oy, just oy.

Otherwise, it’s been a quiet week at Adrastos World HQ, so I’m moving on to this week’s theme songs. It’s a triple header dedicated to my fallen colleague Tommy T.

Our first theme song was written by Robbie Robertson for his eponymous 1987 debut album. It was dedicated to his band mate Richard Manuel who took his own life in 1986. Peter Gabriel contributes vocals to this sad song.

Our second theme song was written by Robert Fripp, John Wetton, and Richard Palmer-James for King Crimson’s 1974 album, Red.

Our final Fallen Angel comes from the Kris Kristofferson songbook:

Have I told you lately that Kris Kristofferson and I attended the same high school? Go, Bearcats.

The angels have spoken. Apparently, if I had red shoes, they’d want to wear them:

We begin our second act by going boldly where no one has gone before.

Star Trek At 60: The OG Star Trek debuted 60 years ago this month. What a long strange trip it’s been.

There’s a fabulous interview in The Guardian with William Shatner. The Captain who started it all speaks his mind about Star Trek’s longevity and some of its odder fans including Stephen Miller, who likes it despite its progressive tone.

Kris Kristofferson isn’t the only San Mateo High alum to get a shout out this week. Here’s Peter Thiel comparing Star Trek and Star Wars.

“I like Star Wars way better. I’m a capitalist. Star Wars is the capitalist show. Star Trek is the communist one. There is no money in Star Trek because you just have the transporter machine that can make anything you need. The whole plot of Star Wars starts with Han Solo having this debt that he owes and so the plot in Star Wars is driven by money.”

I’m thrilled to disagree with past malaka of the week, Peter Thiel. I like Star Trek way better.  I stopped watching Star Wars sequels because I forgot everything about them within a month or so. The force failed or some such shit.

I dig Star Trek: Brave New Worlds but it’s relying a bit too much on gimmickry this season. The Muppet gambit worked:

The last word of our second act goes to Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell:

We begin our third act with our favorite stolen feature.

Separated At Birth: I give you Jared Harris in Mad Men and the Democratic Senate nominee in Kansas, Adam Hamilton.

Hamilton is a pastor who suddenly has a chance in Kansas, especially after the big NYT story about his litigious opponent Dr. Senator Roger Marshall. The medical malakatude, it burns.

I’ll let the fine band with a dumb name play us out of this segment.

Your Basic Basie: Who among us doesn’t like nonsense songs? Here’s the Count’s take on one of the most nonsensical nonsense songs of all:

Have I told you lately how much I love Count Basie?

The Best Of Carson: I haven’t posted a video of Carson with critters in quite some time. Heeere’s Johnny with Poncho the parrot:

Who needs Poncho when Cisco is around?

Classic Movie Trailer: I don’t believe in angels, fallen or otherwise. I do, however, believe that Wim Wenders is a great director:

What’s not to love about a movie with Peter Falk? He was never Greek despite my dad’s insistence that he was.

Grading Time: I give Wings Of Desire 3 1/2 stars and an Adrastos grade of B+.

Saturday GIF Horse: Speaking of fallen angels, here’s a GIF from the swell TV series Lucifer:

That gave me an earworm. It’s a John Hiatt song in which the refrain is: “Somebody just stop calling you angel.”

Nobody ever called me angel.

Toon Time: Is Natalie Harp Trump’s babysitter or nanny? Discuss amongst yourselves.

Let’s close down this virtual honky tonk with some more music.

Saturday Closer:  It’s time to visit Storyville and hang out with Robbie Robertson in the woods or some such shit:

That’s all for this week. I have some friends with whom I play a wee game on Facebook. I post an image and let them guess who’s in it. Nobody ventured a guess on the image below. It’s a Hollywood liberal sandwich with Walter Reuther surrounded by Fredric March and Melvyn Douglas.