I’ve noticed that lawyers don’t have much to say. Or rather, they tend to say the same things over and over…the same things to the same people. For instance, on my receptionist desk sits a candy dish. It is filled, most predictably, with chocolates and mini peanut butter cups. Every lawyer that passes by the [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Lawyertalk
November 29, 2007
Cracks Me Up
November 16, 2007
Stalin Revered, Putin Immortalized?
November 14, 2007
The Economist reports that Mr. Putin is rewriting Russia’s history, but it isn’t really news. Talk of re-glorifying Stalin and painting him in a new light so as to soften Russia’s violent history appeared in American press about two years ago. Well now Putin is peddling a new textbook written for Russia’s history teachers. Personally, I’d love [...]
Had a Pixar Moment
November 12, 2007
Stepped out of Trader Joes and there’s a bug in my wallet where I keep my receipts (looked like a cricket, I can’t be sure). I get irked out (hate bugs), start waving the wallet around to get it off, but the bug won’t budge. So I take my receipt and scoop the bug off, [...]
The Tennis World is Getting Dirty
November 8, 2007
On Hingis and her recent cocaine scandal:
“Wonder how many of Hingis’s colleagues, or past ones, have any sympathy for her. Remember, she referred to the classy Amelie Mauresmo as a “half man” in 1999…”
All due respect to Mauresmo…but common. It’s just true.
ANDDDD…Sampras will be playing against Federer on November 22. O.O!
Wiener Factory
November 6, 2007
LA Times – Franchises sucking the local flavor out of Los Angeles
The article above looks more impressive in print, but there it is. It took me a minute to realize that the Wiener Factory in the picture is the same Wiener Factory my mom and I used to go to when we lived in Sherman [...]
Blood on the Walls
November 1, 2007
Written for my Music Writing class two years ago
Even bleach can’t get blood off a wall if it’s been there long enough and, by the looks of it, by the way the fresh red splotches dull into a lifeless brown on the acoustical tiling of Scott Asheton’s Fun House apartment, this blood set up permanent [...]
