February 2010
1 post
a world without sin
I’ve accepted the fact that I have things to say in this life that I’ll never be able to. I’m not a failure yet… but will be one day. I am only potential energy.
Saving money can be good. Being buried with my riches is another thing altogether. Who’s the bigger fool: the one who is six feet under in his sunday’s best or the one who limps to death naked?
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December 2009
1 post
July 2009
3 posts
Dear Mr. President... a letter on healthcare →
How GE Controls Your News | McCon
literate-long:
This week I’m reading Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent.
Manufacturing Consent shows media’s reliance on advertising (and thusly the huge corporations that spend those millions) and bureaucracies, and how that effects the content and “news” we are fed.
It also explains the even bigger issues that arise when multinational corporations start to own the major news/media...
Top 10 ETID lyrics
10. I use big words quite often in substitution for semantically equivalent words.
9. This is a rock and roll takeover. Living each day one night at a time.
8. When in Rome we shall do as the Romans, when in Hell we do shots at the bar. Last call, kill it.
7. Bite your tongue. Who taught you those words? Blaspheme! When you are under my roof, don’t ever say “rock and...
June 2009
2 posts
http://sweethomestyle.tumblr.com/ →
a home design website. there’s some overlap with the other site, but hot damn, these are gorgeous.
http://architectureblog.tumblr.com/ →
blog providing photos of amazingly designed homes. i want to go to there.
May 2009
3 posts
Lazy Rivers
I recently had the privilege of enjoying the sublimity of one of America’s finest water park institutions… the lazy river. Following my humble and also extremely sage advice will maximize the potential pleasure that 21st century hydro-recreational engineering has to offer.
First and foremost, take an hour to apply 70+ SPF waterproof sunblock. Twice. Because once you enter this...
At That Hour
At That Hour
At that hour when all things have repose, O lonely watcher of the skies, Do you hear the night wind and the sighs Of harps playing unto Love to unclose The pale gates of sunrise? When all things repose, do you alone Awake to hear the sweet harps play To Love before him on his way, And the night wind answering in antiphon Till night is overgone? Play on, invisible harps,...
Tilting at Windmills
sometimes you feel like you’re fighting a losing battle, and there’s some honor and dignity in that. but sometimes you feel like the idiot who has mistaken windmills for giants.
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Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, “Fortune is guiding our...
April 2009
8 posts
In Memoriam (excerpt)
I falter where I firmly trod,And falling with my weight of caresUpon the great world’s altar-stairsThat slope thro’ darkness up to God,I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope,And gather dust and chaff, and callTo what I feel is Lord of all,And faintly trust the larger hope. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Blue Palace Resort →
This is the resort in Greece where I’m honeymooning… Now I just have to find someone to marry.
All-Nighter
I am currently going on 27 hours 40 mins without sleep. I thought it might be interesting to write while in this daze of exasperated exhaustion. I feel a little disconnected from what’s going on around me, like I have tunnel vision and everything’s a little quieter. I move more slowly than almost everyone I interact with. I walk slower, think slower, talk slower…...
Lawyered.
Quotes from Varnum v. Brien, Iowa Supreme Court.
The very purpose of limiting the power of the elected branches of government by constitutional provisions like the Equal Protection Clause is “to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the...
March 2009
14 posts
the law
sometimes, it strikes me as strange to apply black letter law to the infinite continuum of human experience…
that is all.
This American Life - Kid Logic →
This is my absolute favorite This American Life story. Gives me goosebumps every time.
“Oh, I love being alone. I just prefer to be alone when there’s other...”
– Alan Shore (James Spader)
song i made on garage band on some hungover day.
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Women
Women. They are wholly other to me. Sometimes I feel De Kooning tapped into something real when he painted Woman I (shown here).
Actually liking a girl is horrifying. It hasn’t happened to me in a while. Don’t get me wrong, there have been, and are, girls that I could like at some point, but taking that next step of actually liking a girl is just plain scary. So, instead of...
“The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
Fall 2009 Classes
I need suggestions as to which classes I should take for the Fall. I need to pick 2 out of this list. Any thoughts?
Here are the options:
Basic Business Association
Individual Taxation
Entertainment Law
Secured Transactions
Legislative Process
Local Government Law
Wills, Trusts, and Estates
Tumblr
I followed Torpey's lead and set up a Tumblr account. Hopefully I can update daily, but realistically, given law school obligations, it only will be regularly, whatever that means.
“All human error is impatience.”
– Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka International Airport Named World's... →
Hilarious.
