Why work holidays?
 

My response "Umm, no."

I have worked just about every holiday under the sun but Christmas day (as well as Easter Sunday) are the two days I absofuckinglutely refuse to. For religious reasons. And Superbowl Sunday. No job is worth eternity in Hell.

You have to draw a line somewhere. Some draw it at sucking partner dick; others draw it at sucking partner shitdick. I draw it at these 3 religious holidays.

Why work holidays?
 

I've gone through it. Two Christmases ago, I was working on one deal invloving parties in California, NY, and London while simultaneously working on a second deal invloving parties in California, NY, London, Amsterdam, and Belgium. Each deal needed to close by 12/31 to avoid certain tax issues, both in the foreign countries and the US, and both deals needed to close by 12/31 because the public companies involved wanted to be able to announce the deal with their quarterly filings.

I not only worked on Christmas, but actually never left my office from 12/24 until sometime early in the morning New Years Day. I showered there, I ate there, I slept there...my secretary made an emergency run to my house to drop off my laundry and pick up clean clothes. I only saw my husband if he came by bearing food.

It was unpleasant.

Why work holidays?
 

Holy crap. Thank God for litigation (I can't believe I'm saying that)... Though we get the occasional months-long trial, at least our schedules are tied to the whims of judges who for the most part don't even set foot in the office the last half of December... I've had several early January trials, but even then we busted our asses so we wouldn't have to be there on holidays.

Bring Back the Rants!
 

That's not a rant. Have you been living in a cave alone for the past 30 years? Its been recognized as common knowledge that if you have a vanity plate, you are cosmically defective in just about every regard a human can be measured. How in the fuck could you not know this. If you must rant, pick a novel subject. Or just go with why fat people suck.

Why work holidays?
 

Like clockwork, opposing counsel will file flurries of motions just before each holiday, as though I'm too stupid to just call the clerk and request an extension to respond. To date, no judge has denied my request. I pushed a trial around for about a year recently. The way to do it is to appeal to the Judge's laziness. If you give a judge even a hint the case may settle in the interim, or that he'll somehow not have to decide a complex motion for summary judgment, you can move court dates all over the goddamned place.

Bring Back the Rants!
 

So sorry. Next time I will try to be more creative and less repetitive. Maybe a rant about how being a lawyer sucks and all lawyers (except me, of course) are uptight humorless assholes?

Bring Back the Rants!
 

No no no. How religion is stupid and and that all religions have such fundamental flaws that anyone should be able to see through them.

Bring Back the Rants!
 

You know, in the end, any of the foul truths we don't want to hear will do just fine.

Why work holidays?
 

I file flurries of motions before the holiday so I don't have to work on them over the holiday. And I'd be happy to agree to an extension if you call me, too. Unless you're an asshole, in which case I'll file on the day that, under the applicable rules, will maximize the number of weekends and holidays during the appointed time period for a response.

No Rant - this is just sick
 

Link to Boston Herald item According to the Herald (citing the Sun), Kimberly Stewart had her implants removed and gave them to Jack Osborne .

For the record, if anyone has a penile implant, when you get it removed I do not want it.

No Rant - this is just sick
 

Jack Osbourne is one seriously ugly mass of pasty flesh. The bit's comparison of him to a serial killer may not be far off the mark.

Speaking of Christmas
 

Who, if anyone, is going to see The Passion and why or why not?

I will see it, just to see what the "hype" is, though I believe it is not entirely historically accurate.

The preivews looked pretty fucking intense.

catch up
 

I quickly skimmed so if I missed anyone sorry.

I do believe sheesh is the new whiff. Or maybe it is just whiff with an irritated edge.

I am afraid you will have to call the 900 line for the lesbionic video. I will not be posting it here. But, if you can get your hands on the security video from the big bookstore/coffeeshop type place where we had coffee last night, that might be fun.

People have the most interesting reactions when two women make out in the middle of a parking lot in Lancaster.

Go figure.

I can't decide if I want to see Passion. I watched a review of it on Ebert and whatshisname this weekend and they seemed very impressed. I think the violence might be too intense for me though.

Oh and I just learned Bush has finally decided to get off the pot and commit to a constitutional amendment confirming my second class citizenship status. Happy day!

Speaking of Christmas
 

Not, because my Latin and Aramaic aren't up to the task. Plus, if I see it, I might start understanding Atticus better, and I'm not sure I want that.


On the other hand, I do plan to see EuroTrip because Buffy's sister has sure sprouted a pair.

Speaking of Christmas
 

Good grief. This almost exactly mirrors my choice of words for this response. Good thing I read first.

Speaking of Easter
 

A movie in Aramaic with a plotline that's been beaten to death for 2000 years? Sounds fascinating. Line me up... will they be giving root canals and colonoscopies afterward?

That said, I love the Easter season. A whole bunch of waterheads who give up booze for Lent are out of the bars and I can finally get a reservation at my favorite steak joint on a Friday just two days in advance.

Speaking of Christmas
 

Shouldn't it be spoken in Greek? Has this already been mentioned?

Speaking of a pair...Elisha Cuthbert in The Girl Next Door...

catch up
 

Unreal. Why doesn't he just wipe his ass with the Constitution? He's effectively acting like Homer Simpson in that episode where he uses the Stonecutters' sacred text to wipe his face after eating ribs.

My God, I'm a dork. I just used a Simspons analogy.

Speaking of Easter
 

so to speak.

I'm keyed up for the news coverage early next week of the outraged, OUTRAGED, church group leaders who took their young minions to the matinee showings, and left astounded by the extensive violence. What has Hollywood done to our youth!

Speaking of Easter
 

It's okay.

They cut out the nipple scene.

Speaking of Christmas
 

I wouldn't see it in the theater - there are enough yammering freaks at a typical movie here and this one is sure to bring out many many more. I might see it on DVD sometime down the road - I agree, it looks intense. Although I have no desire to line Mel's pockets further.

I heard when they were first filming it that Mel didn't want subtitles. Did he relent on this?

Speaking of Christmas
 

You never lie. She's bangin'.

http://home.iprimus.com.au/bhersey/w...llage.1024.jpg

http://www.tvtome.com/images/people/18/5/71-9807-sm.jpg

http://www.perfectpeople.net/media/c...1047237905.jpg

http://elishacuthbert.terrashare.com...t-fan-page.jpg

http://www.theyak.co.uk/images/elisha.jpg

Up the charts to the top five with a bullet.

TM

Cop it while it's hot...
 

...and while you still can.

Some DJ (DJ Danger Mouse, for those of you keeping score) has taken Jay Z's Black Album and Mixed it with The Beatles' White Album. The result? The Grey Album. An amazing mix of rock and rap that transcends what we usually hear in the form of sampling and sounds way ahead of its time.

Danger Mouse put it together as a tribute and pressed 3,000 copies for friends in the industry who he thought would enjoy it. It has turned into a huge underground hit. Problem is, EMI wants to put an end to it even though Danger Mouse isn't profitting from it. Whatever.

I have it and have listened to it. It is already one of my favorites.

http://www.greytuesday.org/

TM

PS - I have a few friends who went out to buy the White Album based on what they heard in the remixes because they were so impressed. (It sounds weird, but a lot of people have zero interest in the Beatles.) I think it's kind of cool that people are using the Grey Album to open their minds about something they wouldn't normally.

PPS - There is also a Brown Album which mixes the Black Album with a bunch of Jazz riffs. I'm still looking for this one.

Speaking of Easter
 

Of course they were MORE outraged over Janet's right nip for one sixteenth of a second.

Speaking of Christmas
 

I will take your word for it on her hotness, but she is absolutely unbearable to watch on 24 as the brainless twit. Unbearable.

Speaking of Christmas
 

I imagine it's better with the sound off.

Cop it while it's hot...
 

Interestingly enough, the cock sucking rat bastards at Capitol have never sent me a red fucking cent as they know they don't owe me enough for me to sue the rat sucking cock bastards; they haven't ever sent me an accounting.

Speaking of Christmas
 

They interviewed a group of nuns who were invited to a sneak preview. One was in tears and said she was going to drag everyone she knew to come see this glorious epic event. Another said she loved it even though she didn't think it was technically acurate - or something like that - I should have been paying closer attention.

Speaking of Christmas
 

But then you have to turn the sound back on for Kiefer's voice, which is very sexy. As for Elisha, she has never looked that good on the show, even before she was all covered up in her entry-level government employee suit. Who knew she was that hot? And her hairstyle (for those of you who notice it) is much more flattering in the pictures.

Speaking of Christmas
 

She looked great in Old School. In the film commentary, Luke Wilson says that he's almost always watching himself when he watches his movies. However, during the scene when he wakes up with her after the party, he said his eyes drifted elsewhere.

Speaking of Pony
 

While channel surfing over the weekend, I stumbled upon something on VH1. Cool, I thought, expecting old footage of... Instead, I got some overweight celebrity reporter. Bummer.

On the bright side, the show did feature Jenna Jameson's tits.

[edited by RT to remove possible outing information] Further edited by Leagl to remove further possible outing information.

Speaking of Christmas
 

No need to take anyone's word on her hotness.

She is empirically hot. I'd fuck her.

Speaking of Christmas
 

I'm with you - I want to see it but don't particularly want to give Mel my cash. But I'm psyched to see a movie in Aramaic and Latin (though, apparently, most of the merchants and low-level Roman functionaries about would actually have been speaking Greek, which was sort of the "Latin" of the time, but nevermind). What can I say, I stayed up until 2 am to see Incubus (the only film ever made by William Shatner in Esperanto), I'm a language freak. Dunno about subtitles, but they would be helpful since my Latin sucks pretty badly and my aramaic is, er, nonexistent. (Though, if the Latin dialogue is the Jerome Vulgate Latin, I'll know most of it.) Quod scripsi, scripsi!

Re: Bush: TUIMM more than a little bit. Fucking ignorant prig biggot. And, Fugee, I plan to vote for Nader and write to all the applicable other candidates & their national parties and tell them exactly why. By hand. On my nicest monogrammed stationery so they worry they have also pissed me off enough to forego my contributions.

Re: Xmas - in my case, there was a 12/29 court date we were racing to meet, believe it or not. On the other, I worked 8 hours Thanksgiving Day because the inhouse client wanted to review drafts at his leisure over the rest of the weekend and send them to the other side Sunday in preparation for honcho-business guy meetings Monday after the holiday (which I guess qualifies as a "biz guy wants to have it all ready when he comes back from his vacation" situation).

Skadden Holiday Woes
 

We shut down entirely for the week of Christmas. I got sympathy from coworkers because I came in for a few hours to get a few things done on December 23.

I will cease bitching about my salary for a week or so.

Cop it while it's hot...
 

But it don't take much at all to make it worthwhile for a LAWYER to sue, does it?

(Do it for the fun. Do it for the future victims. Just Do It.)

Speaking of Christmas
 

What'd Mel do?

Speaking of Christmas
 

Ugh, that stupid modified page-boy haircut of hers. I know they were going for the "more professional than the hot nanny banging the boss" look, but it sucks on her with her straight hair.

Because I get paid a dollar (US) every time I do this
 

Canadian.

(see re line. that, and I can't help myself)

Speaking of Christmas
 

She acts?

Speaking of Christmas
 

Barely. I think she's in the union, but I wouldn't call it acting.