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

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‘The T.A.M.I. Show’: A Groundbreaking ’60s Concert • NPR (7:32) Milo Miles Knows His Shit

Starts about dad’s Electronovision. Wrong on stating dad lost the rights almost immediately. Or at least half wrong. He kept he audio rights. But really amazing review. Milo Miles knows his stuff. I’ll come back and embed the audio, but I don’t want to forget this so until then, follow the link. How do you…

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Internet Archive Received National Security Letter with FBI Misinformation about Challenging Gag Order – & a slide into a revere on the heroism of Aaron Swartz

Visitors to the site for the U.S. Sentencing Commission, for instance, found the home page replaced by a statement: “Two weeks ago today, Aaron Swartz was killed. Killed because he was forced into playing a game he could not win.”

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What I stand by.

“If you say that John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison or Ritchie Starkey said these words, they better damn well be words a Beatle said.”

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?

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