Something else today that has me waiting for an update.
The federal judge in Florida had ordered the government to give the filing to Trump immediately and set the deadline for a possible objection to 3 p.m. on Friday.
Trump must be playing his stable genius chess game, staying five moves ahead of everybody else. He had someone act as an informant to falsely claim there were top secret nuclear weapon documents at his Florida residence.
Trump knew that would force Attorney General Garland to seek a search warrant, setting up a new Witch Hunt victim card for him to play when he announces his presidential candidacy. The same sort of brilliant strategy that had him pleading the Fifth Amendment this week.
Did I know that Phil Spector covered a Beatles-written song in 1964? Don’t think so, to my chagrin.*
“Hold Me Tight” is an early example of the unusual quality the Beatles had. John and Paul’s potential as song writers was, after all, why they were signed by EMI, as I explained here.
This isn’t the first time Emma Thompson has shown her stuff on camera. Thompson is exceptionally attractive in Carrington, from 1995. The film includes one of the most intense scenes of passion to ever appear in mainstream cinema as distinct from “dirty movies.” It’s done, to borrow a term from the Leo Grande trailer, “doggy style.”
Questions about how love scenes in movies are filmed are as old as the medium, going back to Edison’s The Kiss in 1896. Legend — urban or otherwise — has it that, nearly 100 years ago, Greta Garbo and her leading man John Gilbert “did it” for real on a movie set. Their love affair is covered in Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film.
Early on, one of my goals for this blog was to post the entire 13-part Hollywood series, transferred from my LaserDisc box set. It took a lot of time and effort, but I did it, to my later regret. People started contacting me, offering to pay for copies of Hollywood on DVD. I had, and still have, the hardware to do that.
Panasonic DMR-ES15S Progressive Scan DVD Recorder
I quickly suspected that some of those requests were coming from those who were probably not only fans, but dealers wanting to sell bootleg copies. I declined those offers, but having the videos online made them available for downloading by those who were sufficiently tech savvy.*
Which made me wonder if I might be opening myself up to legal trouble. I found an interview with Kevin Brownlow, who produced the series with the late David Gill. Brownlow was asked about a DVD set, and he said some of the family estates were holding out for more money. So I decided to play it safe and took the page offline. It’s still here, but hidden.
Times have changed from the days when YouTube allowed video uploads of only 10-minutes. Someone braver than myself has taken the risk that I didn’t, so far without being deleted. This series has the absolute highest Dog Rat ***** rating. Consider it not just recommended viewing, but mandatory. Some of these transfers were definitely sourced from VHS.
The playlist is missing Part 4: “Hollywood Goes to War”. I’ll add it separately.
Part 10: “The Man With the Megaphone” wasn’t allowed by YouTube, but somebody else managed to post it.
Economics is the study of how people and society choose, with or without the use of money, to employ scarce productive resources which could have alternative uses, to produce various commodities over time and distribute them for consumption now and in the future among various persons and groups of society. — Paul Samuelson
In the tradition of John Maynard Keynes, Samuelson favored run-on sentences, but his is one of the more generally accepted definitions of Economics. In short, it’s about the use and distribution of resources. Supply and demand. The haves and have-nots. Keeping up with the Joneses (whether a neighbor or an international conglomerate).
Via RSS, I’ve followed the Econbrowser blog for years. I don’t read everything there, but since inflation kicked in I’ve been making more of a point to keep up.
It does seem that Biden’s nearly $2 trillion stimulus, coming during the supply chain crisis, was a significant inflation trigger. Money chased goods that were stuck on container ships. Looks like Lawrence Summers was right.
