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Bette Graham, the inventor and founder of Liquid Paper (2019)

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Scroll down, there's more to Ms. Nesmith-Graham than "my kid was one of the Monkees; and, yeah, I invented Liquid Paper". She also did some ground-breaking stuff in the way she ran her business. Worth a skim, or perhaps even an in-depth read.

More importantly, Mike Nesmith is the producer of one of the great all time punk movies Repo Man. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/

As well as being the founder of what became MTV and one of the originators of the music video.

Considering that the Monkees TV show was mostly one big music video, that should have been no surprise.

Is his accomplishment more important than his mother’s business?

Wow, I love that movie.

Her kid turned out to be a total "Monkee" though. ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nesmith

That's one of those totally worthless pieces of trivia that you can never forget. It works much better if you learn it in the opposite order though - I used to watch the Monkees as a kid, and was fascinated when I learned Michael Nesmith's mother invented Liquid Paper. It also helps that I'm old enough to remember what Liquid Paper was.

I've known about Bette since I was a kid in the `60s. Can't say I know anymore than what was given in the Twitter thread but my mother and grandmother used to talk about her with their friends.

I didn't know Mike Nesmith is her son. That was a surprise.

Here is the same thread in a vastly more readable format:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1139536401094053889.html

Maybe this should be the type of link used for submissions to HN.

Thanks for this, it was really helpful, when looking at it this way it's clear to see how inspiring this story is!

I read this and it's kinda cool, but, good grief, this is NOT something that should be subject to Twitter character limits. It should be a blog post, a web page, or ANYTHING that is more document focused.

But, I guess people won't read anything else anymore.

More so subject to Twitter cropped image previews on mobile (maybe desktop, too?). Want to see the picture? Click the preview, like it’s 1998 or something. And this has a lot of pictures.

But I quibble: yes, it’s a horrible format for such a thing. But I guess the people have spoken:

https://mobile.twitter.com/nerdette/status/11406772597890457...

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