American Eyes

Things You Learn as a Lawyer

There is or was a legal entity named “Whatever, LLC”.

Open Note to My Colleagues: Can you please stop calling me?  It’s nearly seven, I need to finish editing this brief, and the Blackhawks game starts in a half-hour.  And there’s, you know, the buttload of snow I have to get through to make it to my dinner plans on time (read:  fashionably late).  K, thanks.

Pitchfork Fest Announcement, Part One.

maura:

The Pitchfork Music Festival is my favorite of all the multi-day musical extravaganzas. A lovely location, really well-run, prices on food and water that aren’t wallet-gouging. And hey:

This year’s festival welcomes the highly anticipated return of legendary band Pavement as they make one of their first appearances since reuniting! Pavement will perform on Sunday night. Friday features indie-rock, chart-topping mainstays Modest Mouse, while Saturday and Sunday sees performances by LCD Soundsystem, Raekwon, Here We Go Magic, St. Vincent, Lightning Bolt, Cass McCombs and Sleigh Bells.

Did you know that Pavement played an outdoor show at my college on my birthday in 1994? It capped off my freshman year. I remember thinking that it was the best way to end a nine-month period that was pretty transformative for me in mostly good ways.

And I wore, ahem, green short overalls from the Gap that day. FASHION.

Lighting Bolt?  Really?   Fun times in my neighborhood!

Real talk.  I wish I could get my brother to understand this, but it’s tough to reason with someone who’s broke-r than I am.

An experienced attorney with insider industry knowledge

Finally checked out this guy’s site, as I was starting to wonder what kind of lawyer leaves out his business cards at Swim Cafe.  Dude presented a paper on the history of house music to the National Librarians’ Association!

However, if I were him I might have made different editorial choices for the photos on the “Testimonials” page…

Oops, fixed.  Minus the self-righteous comment.  Seriously, it’s time to watch this film.

Yes, yes and yes.  Time to watch this film again.  (I wanted to add, “with my fiancee”, but realized that would be gratuitous.  Oh wait.  Sorry everyone, I’m still shocked/stoked!)

Daaamn, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, go on with your bad self!

The logic of forgetting a trauma

magicmolly:

Here’s an interesting recovered memory. I was thinking today about how much I loved the movie I Love You, Man and recounting favorite scenes from it in my head. I skipped over the projectile vomiting scene because vomit is unappealing, but the elision triggered a memory from a visit to New York taken long before I lived here, about eight or nine years ago.

I was on Clinton or near there doing something when a splashing noise turned everyone’s attention to a crackhead making her way down the block. The woman was vomiting in an interesting way. When she opened her mouth, the vomit flew out with great force as if by its own accord. The woman was a passive instrument of her barf. She did this every ten feet and I watched until it was unbearable, then walked in the opposite direction.

This must be projectile vomiting, no? If memory serves it is is not unlike what happened to Paul Rudd in I Love You, Man after speedy beer-drinking. Two conclusions can be reached from this account: one, that projectile vomiting occurs in real life; and two, that Paul Rudd is a detail-oriented actor.