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If, when reading Ahmet Ertegun obituaries, you saw references to Atlantic Records as "the house that Brown built," and wondered why, here's why.

Over at Rifftides, Doug Ramsey has a lovely recollection of the Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter and her Bentley S1.

Here, wash out your ears with "The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."

As CES approaches, the e-mails and phone calls pour in. Though the temperature here in New York City remains in the mid-fifties, we're snowed under by invites to dinners, demos, and other assorted press events. We mark our calendars, make reservations, create itineraries. As it continues, I wish that all the talk and preparation would come to a sudden end. I wish we were there already, in Vegas, listening to music.