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- RT @dsilverman: In 70s, KTRU's sale would've had Rice students marching on admin bldg. Now, it's online petitions & fake Twitter accounts. #
- had a great dinner with former moot court partner and director of advocacy for law school tonight; still adjusting to life as an alum #
- Texas Bar voluntarily turns over 63,000 member-lawyer e-mail addresses under threat of lawsuit, cites cost of litigation http://ow.ly/2sK8V #
- Some deferred associates discover appetite for public interest work, decide
I was suckered in by Greg Lambert’s post on the I Write Like website. He writes like Jonathan Swift. I love Jonathan Swift. I wish I wrote like Jonathan Swift. I however, do not write like Jonathan Swift. Instead, depending on the day apparently, I write like either Arthur C. Clarke or H.P. Lovecraft, in other words… science fiction… not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Now I feel foolish for having indulged this clever, sycophantic website at all. Flattery will get you somewhere, it turns out, at least on the internet. My first instinct is…
I’ve been thinking a bit about unintended legacies – lasting impacts utterly unforeseen by their contributors. A scene in the 1951 film Distant Drums featured a soldier wading through a swamp in the Everglades. As he’s bitten by an alligator, he (or to be precise, an actor in a soundbooth) lets out a scream. The scene is embedded below:
It might have languished in Warner Bros. sound effects library had it not been adopted by sound designer Ben Burtt and rechristened ‘Wilhelm’ after the soldier who coughs it up after getting shot in the leg by an arrow in…
Lissie charmed the crowds at SXSW and set off a wave of anticipation ahead of the U.S. release of her first full album this month, Catching a Tiger. She’ll be in Houston on October 10th at the House of Blues. Don’t be square.
I’m equally fascinated with bassist, Lewis Keller’s ability to keep down a nice bass line, take care of the kick drum and the high hat and some great backing vocals all at the same time.
One looks to me like a smiling person. The other looks like a frog. Wikipedia agrees with me. I am right. My girlfriend is wrong. Also, graphic representations of emoticons are heretical.
That is all.
I happened to see on Yahoo Answers a question I had always wondered about myself – why are there three ducks on the seal of the University of Houston Law Center? So I did a little research. According to the Law Center website:
The Law Center seal includes three martlets above an opened text inscribed with “LEX,” the Latin word for law. Martlets, symbolizing peace and deliverance, also appear in the University of Houston seal – which in turn is drawn from the coat of arms of General Sam Houston who claimed descent
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- Ray LaMontagne's new album streamed in its entirety – God Willin' And The Creek Don't Rise – worth the wait; http://ow.ly/2pgVk #
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- Life Hacker: how to be a guest in the 21st century http://ow.ly/2pm1P #excellentadvice #
- RT @TexParteBlog: Texas offer rates at Jackson Walker, Thompson & Knight, Hunton & Williams, and Weil, Gotshal.
Like so many good ideas, once seen, it is instantly inevitable and I can only curse myself for not thinking of it first. Available across the pond from Nation Design.
UPDATE: The like stamp inspired me to add a “like” button to this blog. Why? Because we can. Knock yourselves out.
I’m sure some die-hard Led Zeppelin fans spun in their musical coffins when Robert Plant started singing duets with Americana sweetheart singer/fiddle player Allison Kraus, but I love the direction he’s been heading in lately.
He’s teamed up with some other leading lights of the Americana music community as the Band of Joy, its name an homage to his pre-Zeppelin band featuring Buddy Miller, Patty Griffin, Darrell Scott, Byron House, and…
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A few days after the bar exam, my laptop hard drive gave up the ghost and my boot sequence ground to a halt with an ominous ‘no operating system found’ message. I didn’t lose anything of consequence – all my files are automagically backed up by Syncplicity (highly recommended, now with mac client in public beta) – but I needed a new computer.
Ooooh… shiny…
After surprisingly little soul-searching I got a Macbook Pro. I later realized this was the purchasing equivalent of a midlife crisis. I was raised as…
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- Assessing the threat to networks of targeted corporate espionage, http://ow.ly/2mekX #
- Wonderful photographs from Sarolta Ban, full of texture and surreal imagery, http://ow.ly/2mtpI #
- Should retired SCOTUS justices come off the bench when current justices must recuse themselves? http://ow.ly/2n0G5 #unintendedconsequences #
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- David Boies discussing Prop 8 litigation in videotaped presentation, http://ow.ly/2nGSZ #
- happy long-time @syncplicity
My apologies, to anyone who may still read this thing, for my intentional neglect. I went on a self-imposed blog hiatus as I underwent the semiannual hazing ritual for all new lawyers known as the bar exam.
For recent law graduates, life divides neatly into equal halves. There is everything that has come before the bar exam (B.B.) and then there is post bar exam (A.B., annos barexamini). The bar exam has the unique ability to obliterate all your other interests, achievements, dreams or aspirations, at least temporarily. They are like 8mm home…
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- This is grammatical – “The bartender served the bourbon fell down the stairs” – took me 15 min to figure out how; http://bit.ly/cNHHlP #
For Del Barber, a singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba, the Americana label doesn’t seem quite right, but the influences are there – Greg Brown, Townes Van Zandt, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, John Prine, Wilco, and Woody Guthrie – and come shining through in the songs. The songs are steeped in narrative, expert fingerpicking and a clear tentor. He also does a great version of Richard Thompson’s 1952 Vincent Black Lightning – check it out around 15:37 in the Poor Michael’s set below, no small feat in itself.
Del Barber-Poor Michael’s-17July2010-Part 1 from
