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  • On Jane Austen and “Emma”
  • The Beatles and MARK LEWISOHN

Be always rewriting.

Supercollider: Fountains of Wayne (been making videos)

We’re headed out of the blackness into the great big sky

Hackensack. Video. The one I won’t say a word about.

Yeah. This was the one.

I’m gonna get my shit together: Bright Future in Sales (YEAH YEAH) • been making videos

I’m gonna get my shit together ‘cause I can’t live like this forever

MEXICAN WINE • Fountains of Wayne (been making videos)

My once theme song… about tequila, of course. From Welcome Interstate Managers.

To everyone I know: hey, circumstances have changed

I’m just kidding. I haven’t figured out how to have sex from six feet away. Yet.

R.I.P. Adam Schlesinger, 52 yrs old, dead of COVID19 • Fountains of Wayne – DENISE • video

They say she used to be married
She listens to Puff Daddy
She works at Liberty Travel
She got a heart made of gravel

How the Virus Got Out: multimedia

How Coronavirus Spread: multimedia

This is the best and most simple social distancing graphic thus far. Don’t argue. It is. It just is.

From the ever-awesome New Zealand website The Spinoff

California Governor Issues Statewide Stay At Home Order (AP)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday ordered the state’s 40 million residents to stay at home, restricting non-essential movements to control the spread of the coronavirus that threatens to overwhelm the state’s medical system.

The Trump administration is asking state labor officials to delay releasing the number of unemployment claims they’re fielding

The Trump administration is asking state labor officials to delay releasing the precise number of unemployment claims they are fielding

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A BEATLE DIDN’T SAY THAT! Lewisohn’s lab-created quotes

*REPOST OF THE ORIGINAL TROUBLE-STARTER.* “My personal standard is that If someone represents, ‘A Beatle said this,’ it better damn well be something a Beatle said.”

Who told Lady Catherine??

Who sent Lady Catherine on her wild ride to Longbourn? I always say that Jane Austen never plants a question in our heads without giving us the answer, and she continues to prove me right.

“Is this,” thought Elizabeth, “meant for me?” – Rereading the Turning Point Conversation between Elizabeth Bennet and Colonel Fitzwilliam

Elizabeth’s blush when she says that distance isn’t a problem if money is no object. Even her feigned coolness when she tells Col Fitzwilliam that she’s surprised Darcy doesn’t marry for the convenience of a built-in travel buddy, all take on new shape.

Mrs Weston is pretty. Don’t add that into Frank’s lies (audio with rough transcript)

I’ve now read two people casting shade on what I will admit is Frank’s somewhat greasy way of saying “I didn’t expect to see a young pretty woman” about Mrs. Weston to Emma at first. But I get a little offended at that. I– She’s not that old, and I bet she is pretty. Like, are you telling me you don’t think Mrs. Weston’s pretty?

Emma: “she sends back the arrowroot” (audio with rough transcript)

“If Emma doesn’t know, then her flirting with Frank isn’t something to get that mad about, even with what she said to Miss Bates. Because by the time Emma starts, like, trying to be nice to her and invite her along in the carriage and just– I mean, she sends back the arrowroot. She sends it back. She’s sending a message. She could have just– she could have just been like, even– I mean, sending it back? It’s arrowroot.”

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  • The Beatles and MARK LEWISOHN
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