It Rhymes with Doom: Bob Dylan’s Problems with the Space Program

Black Light Series #10 Flag for the Moon: Die N*****r, 1969 Faith Ringgold. Although difficult to see, the title phrase is spelled out in the flag, with “Die” used in the stars, and the N-word spelled out with the stripes.

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 grow food in Kansas / Now they grow it on the moon and eat it raw” — but that one…