August 2010
1 post
May 2010
2 posts
September 2009
2 posts
Twitter
I have spent a lot of time lately trying to convince my smartest friends to join Twitter. It’s my primary source of up-to-date interesting news, music, and websites these days. I enjoy seeing what other people find intellectually engaging and contributing to that pool of information for my friends. And now for another reason to be into Twitter - apparently it can also be like virtually...
August 2009
1 post
July 2009
2 posts
WatchImogen Heap - “Hide and Seek”
June 2009
1 post
Theme song, week of 14 June 2009.
April 2009
5 posts
"Ballad of the Girl Whose Name is Mud"
A girl with all that raising, It’s hard to understand How she could get into trouble With a no-good man. The guy she gave her all to Dropped her with a thud. Now amongst decent people, Dorothy’s name is mud. But nobody’s seen her shed a tear, Nor seen her hang her head. Ain’t even heard her murmur, Lord, I wish I was dead! No! The hussy’s telling everybody— Just...
March 2009
5 posts
"Hipster." →
I’ll consider reconsidering my hatred.
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative...”
– Albert Einstein
(via kortina) (via alimentary)
This rings true to me for many aspects of my law school experience thusfar.
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The...”
– Nelson Mandela
“Don’t fuck this up.”
– Alexis
February 2009
7 posts
5 am.
Just right.
“When I have struggled through three hundred years
of Roman history, and...”
– Ballad of the Scholar’s Lament, ee cummings
bell hooks was right.
I feel like I’m being productive and progressing toward some end. However, I also feel that I’ve lost a sense of what it is to be real, to feel, and to be rooted. I feel like I’ve lost a lot of my expressive power. Practicing my lines for The Vagina Monologues is interesting; I am another person telling her story. It makes me wonder what my story is these days. I’m not...
“Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate,...”
– bell hooks
WatchJust saw this film at the Cineqmatheque. It was kind of incredible, heartbreaking, and uplifting all at the same time. I question whether I should go into issue-based work or if war crimes prosecution is really the way to go… I think I still want to be part of the immediate struggle for better things, though, and not the aftermath and cleanup. I highly recommend the film.
January 2009
3 posts
Power to the People
I become more intrigued and impressed by the law as I continue through my legal education. Professor Jonathan Adler commented today in my Constitutional Law class that “amendments are adopted by ratification of the states. However, the Constitution was ratified by the people. This creates an interesting dynamic.” It’s fascinating that states are considered sovereign and are...
“The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every...”
– United States Supreme Court, Marbury v. Madison (1803)
December 2008
6 posts
Survival Tactics
I have officially decided to divorce myself from the mainstays of law school social life beginning on January 12, 2009.
Who’s with me? (Law students not invited.)
I swear we're not total law school geeks.
Alexis: you have peculiar and sentimental value to me
me: are you going to sue for specific performance?
Alexis: YES
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
– Johann Wolfgang Goethe
October 2008
6 posts
This crisis gets better and better →
I still have a bit of faith in the people of this country.
Sexual Ambiguity at its Best →
Thank you, Vh1’s I Love the 80s 3D: 1987.
Brilliant. →
Lawsuit Against God Dismissed For Lack of Service of Process. Further information on this hilarious move by Nebraska Senator, Ernie Chambers: http://www.ketv.com/news/14133442/detail.html
