It's all about me

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
This weekend I unpacked the last of my boxes in my office (I moved last September, whoops). This was the box with the "Str8's past" stuff -- old newspaper clippings, reference letters, college application essays, and most importantly, photos of ex-girlfriends and letters from same. This time, I was able to fight off the urge to phone/e-mail/mail them. I also put them in a place that my wife is unlikely to look for them. She knows I keep this crap, she just doesn't want to stumble across them.

Anyways, RT, my reaction this time was one of wondering about the choices I've made that have led me to where I now find myself, and wondering where various people were now and what they were doing with their lives, but this was mostly unaccompanied by disappointment or regret (as opposed to the last few times I've looked over this stuff). How did you feel going over your old keepsakes?

This sounds kind of sad, Str8. Did you marry the wrong woman? Did you let your love go? I have kept lots of letters from old flames until very recently, when I was on a cleaning binge and tossed all sorts of stuff that used to make me sentimental, which now seemed lost in time somewhere. I think that was a defining moment in affirming that I really care for the Bunnyman, that I no longer felt the need to lug around all the old crap. But then I heard that the most serious of past Bunnymen (who I was dating when I first started posting) is getting married to "some Peruvian floozy" he met a year ago in Rio. (he called her this, I didn't and my heart kind of sunk a bit and I thought about all those letters I had trashed. But I was still glad I trashed them, and still glad I trashed the ones from like 4 others I had been keeping.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Looks like the Pierce Brosnan, will he or won't he? is getting to be a pretty definitive "won't he."

I'm down for Clive Owen. I have Taxwonk down for Colin Firth, and Hank down for Will Ferrell. There is no fucking way it's Ioan Gruffudd --- the world isn't ready for that. It's barely ready for a guy named Clive.

(It's not like we have anything else to talk about, apparently.)

Orlando Bloom is to play a young James Bond in a new film about the secret agent's early years.

http://www.ananova.com/entertainment...tainment.films

I think he's too pretty for the role. Hell, Brosnan was almost too pretty for the role.



TM

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
notes, etc. were long gone, but I held onto my books until the last move. I have a crazy friend who thinks that law school books would be perfect for the library room she doesn't have (non-lawyer, obviously), so she took all my law school books off my hands. I think they are sitting in her garage gathering dust. Or maybe in a closet somewhere.

I tossed my books pretty recently. My notes etc. were tossed a few years ago. The books got banished from our house (and to my office) a few yars ago, and were thrown away a few months ago when I changed offices, mostly because I didn't fele like moving them.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
I tossed my books pretty recently. My notes etc. were tossed a few years ago. The books got banished from our house (and to my office) a few yars ago, and were thrown away a few months ago when I changed offices, mostly because I didn't fele like moving them.

I still, for whatever reason, have most of my law books related to my practice area. I can't remember the last time I touched them. And they're scheduled to be thrown out when I run out of bookshelf space (again). I also have all of my notes. They're sitting in a box in my attic, untouched since I put them in that box shortly after graduation. They've moved across the country with me twice. They will not make another move.

On a somewhat related note, has anyone taken the board specialization exam for their practice area? This year is the first year that I have enough time under my belt to sit for the exam. I'm inhouse, and I'm not really looking to move anytime soon, but you never know... Does the board specialization thing add value? My practice area is rather broad, and I'd have to study a bit to feel comfortable taking the exam. If it's not worth it, then I'm not interested.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
I tossed my books pretty recently. My notes etc. were tossed a few years ago. .

Strangely, I've held onto the notes, I guess because they might be useful if I end up teaching. Besides, they take up only a few inches of space. I culled out all the garbage, like photocopies, and saved just the actual class notes and the syllabus.

Books I've started to pitch once it's clear I won't need them. But some of them are pretty good for first principles, which come in handy with some frequency.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
I don't really think that Bond is relevant in a post-9/11 world. It's too difficult to write a movie where someone is trying to blow up the world, when someone is really trying to blow up the world. They'd really have to reinvent the franchise, and there's too much risk in doing that to justify it.

I'd love to see Clive do it.

As for its relevance, audiences don't really seem to care. The last Bond flick, Die Another Day, was released post-9/11 (11/02) and did an astounding $160,942,139 domestically and $271,028,977 internationally. That I know this without googling makes me want to be the crap out of someone.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by evenodds
makes me want to be the crap out of someone.

sounds like a self-esteem problem.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
sounds like a self-esteem problem.

Looking to bump my crazy-ass client off the top of the list?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by evenodds
Looking to bump my crazy-ass client off the top of the list?

ask Atticus. He should be happy to help, what with his poop fetish.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
ask Atticus. He should be happy to help, what with his poop fetish.

TWOSIES, damn it. It's called twosies.

I mean, really.

[Dave]

Originally posted by evenodds
I'd love to see Clive do it.

I'm going with Nick Lachey, not because I actually think he'd get the role, but rather more out of a general sense of "what else can they possibly do to fuck things up?"

[notcasesensitive]

Could someone who watched last night PM me and let me know if my fat, lazy pizza friends made it through? Tivo was jacked up (I think we fixed it) and only recorded sound but not video for like 8 programs in the last two days. I have it set to tape the repeat on Saturday, but I can't wait to find out if they are out. No other episode info required.

[Replaced_Texan]

I got a call from a charitable organization that does something or another for police officers on Monday night. I think the "charitable" part exempts them from the "do not call list."

The guy who called mispronounced my name, so I claimed not to be there. He started off his spiel with: do you think, now more than ever, that we need to support law enforcement personnel?

What asshole is going to say no to that? No one is going to say "no, actually, I think the police are sucking on the government teat, and they're doing just fine." Not when the guy is calling your home phone number. So of course that's how they suck you into agreeing to give money to an organization whose purpose is unclear.

Anyhow, the guy said he'd call later when "Ms. Texan" came back from vacation.

What, exactly--besides giving you bumper stickers that you can put on your car to avoid speeding tickets--do these organizations do for cops?

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I got a call from a charitable organization that does something or another for police officers on Monday night. I think the "charitable" part exempts them from the "do not call list."

The guy who called mispronounced my name, so I claimed not to be there. He started off his spiel with: do you think, now more than ever, that we need to support law enforcement personnel?

What asshole is going to say no to that? No one is going to say "no, actually, I think the police are sucking on the government teat, and they're doing just fine." Not when the guy is calling your home phone number. So of course that's how they suck you into agreeing to give money to an organization whose purpose is unclear.

Anyhow, the guy said he'd call later when "Ms. Texan" came back from vacation.

What, exactly--besides giving you bumper stickers that you can put on your car to avoid speeding tickets--do these organizations do for cops?

I don't give money to anyone who asks for it over the phone so I would have said no to his question. He has your home number, so what? He has no influence.

Actually, at home I don't answer the phone unless I know who is calling, and then frequently I still don't answer it unless I really feel like talking to that person, which is rare, so I doubt I would ever encounter those circumstances.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
What, exactly--besides giving you bumper stickers that you can put on your car to avoid speeding tickets--do these organizations do for cops?

They buy bullets. I shit you not. Apparently, practice rounds are a big expense for law enforcement, so many of these organizations buy practice rounds for cops to keep themselves in practice. They also buy bullet-proof vests.

The traditional unions also step in and defend police when they are charged with misconduct, plus the usual collective bargaining and lobbying. The firm the floor above me is on retainer to the local police union, and they do a lot of disciplinary hearings, civil rights violations defense, and criminal defense for cops, as well as a surprisingly large spin-off business of cop divorces.