Busy day …
Why: He was mentioned on The Simpsons as a rival of Alexander Graham Bell, and I vaguely remembered some story about Bell outracing someone to the patent office.
What I learned: Yep, that was him.
Why: Watching a lot of The Muppet Show.
What I learned: He was a Terp. And his death, though untimely, didn’t have any suspicious elements — at least, not as far as Wikipedia is concerned.
Why: I got curious about suspicious celebrity deaths, so naturally, I thought of him.
What I learned: Check out his FBI file. Part 2 is especially interesting if you want to see the FBI’s concerns on “hippies” (seriously, by name) and other questionable uses of U.S. investigative power. One page has eight redacted paragraphs … out of nine. The final paragraph: “(Redacted) advised that (redacted) who is once again running the Sultan Theater (redacted) in Seattle, are handling a memorial show for JIMMY HENDRIX in Seattle.” I want to see what was redacted just so I can see how that sentence is grammatically possible.
The memo on Woodstock is hysterical: After listing the bands, we get this: “But these were only the entertainers named on the program; the main entertainment (if that is the correct word) was provided by the bizarre people present …”
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