The anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20 1969 had me thinking again about Bob Dylan’s 1983 album Infidels and specifically about the song “License to Kill” expressing Dylan’s distaste towards space exploration. There’s also a line about the moon in “Union Sundown” — “they used to…

“I was blind­ed by the sun for a second. This big orange sun was coming up. I was driving straight into the sun, and I looked up into it even though I remember someone telling me a long ago when I was a kid never to look straight at the…

“I always loved Batman. The way I looked at it, you had to come from another planet to be Superman but I could be Batman. And you know I tried.” ~ Bob Dylan, Theme Time Radio Hour, October, 2008 — “Night” In June 1966…

Dylan began a 21-night tour of the Midwest and East Coast of the United States in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, his first concert after twenty-three months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Being a Compleat Transcript with Commentary of the premiere episode of Theme Time Radio Hour — First Broadcast Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006 [Rain and wind sound effects] Ellen Barkin: It’s night time in the Big City. Rain is falling. Fog rolls in from…

“I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.” ~ Groucho Marx, 1949 Bob Dylan has reacted to awards in varying ways, from unhappiness (the Tom Paine Award, the honorary Princeton degree), to delight (the Oscar for “Things have Changed”). …

There had been rumors of Bob Dylan dabbling with the idea of an album of Christmas music for years. In fact Dylan had run through two Christmas songs — Silent Night and The Twelve Days of Christmas — during one of his 1983 “Infidels” recording sessions. …

The Wise Old Owl and the Callow Youth of America return to discuss the meaning of “Shadow Kingdom” and Mr. D.’s upcoming streaming concert Callow Youth of America: Hey Woo! Long time no see. Wazzup! The Wise Old Owl: It’s pronounced “Who,” youngster, and unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ve heard about Bob Dylan’s streaming concert coming on July 18th. CYA: Clue me in, daddy-o. WOO: Here’s the June 16 Live…

Myth has it that in 1963 a drunk Bob Dylan ad-libbed a speech at the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (ECLC) “Bill of Rights” fund-raising dinner that didn’t mean much of anything except maybe as one of Dylan’s first steps in distancing himself from the progressive Left and finger-pointin’ songs. …