January 2012
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How to be a fan of problematic things →
“Liking problematic things doesn’t make you an asshole. In fact, you can like really problematic things and still be not only a good person, but a good social justice activist (TM)! After all, most texts have some problematic elements in them, because they’re produced by humans, who are well-known to be imperfect. But it can be surprisingly difficult to own up to the problematic things in...
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Ultra-Geekery, Right Here
Talking about the UCC and the “battle of the forms” (which, for non-law people, is even less exciting than it sounds) in sales today gave me another idea for the webcomic/musical/short-story idea that’s been floating around in my head for a couple years.
If only I had more artistic skills, a tablet with a nifty art program on it, and/or time to actually create this idea.
On a...
The Table Room: If Famous Writers Had Written... →
amysnakehole:
paperquake:
Flannery O’Connor
When Native American werewolf Jacob threatens her with death, Bella reconsiders her hardcore racism, and just for one milisecond, the audience finds her sympathetic.
And they are all just that good.
(P.S. Read the comments. Trust…
One of my favorites:
“Virginia Woolf
The novel takes place over the course of twenty four hours, during...
Emo kid just threw a slo-mo dove in my face; I guess that means he flipped me the bird.
December 2011
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I’ve only been back in the states one day, and I’m already sick of Christmas music— let’s get some Israeli music up in here.
And the trek begins, waiting for a train at providence amtrak which will take me to JFK… Israel, here I come!
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I have no idea what’s happening on Community, but this is the funniest thing I have watched in ages, and most amazing holiday special ever.
Well, that was quite a jump in my MPRE score. Hooray for not having to take it again, and being able to cross one more thing off my list!
Realizing that Schmidt (from New Girl) is Deputy Leo (from Veronica Mars) = pop-culture worlds colliding.
keithjacks asked: What is the silliest thing you believed as a child?
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I'm pretty sure Leslie Knope and Ben Wyatt are the...
Also, where can I find myself a real life Ben Wyatt?
Maybe there’s a Model UN event somewhere in Providence.
November 2011
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RI Housing Resources Commission →
BTW, if you’re in Rhode Island, you can find the Landlord Tenant Handbook, with everything you need to know about your rights as a tenant on this site.
I’m sure that other states have similar website with relevant resources.
If your landlord isn’t doing his job, know your rights and confront him about it. In most cases, he/she will back and down and correct him/herself, but if...
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It's As If the Universe Has Presented Us With a...
My roommate and I have been typically cursed with lucky enough to have a landlord who is both impressively incompetent hands on and a condescending douche-bag willing to impress his land-lordy wisdom upon us.
How else could we have learned that laws (requiring notice and consent to come into our apartment) are just super annoying technicalities which nobody has ever bothered with?
Who else would...
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
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Meh. I may have been overly ambitious with this paper. I guess I’ll just have to make sure the final draft is the most amazing paper my…
Has Shakespeare been reading my law and lit paper? RT @IAM_SHAKESPEARE This is a dreadful sentence.
Attention all friends in NYC: Anyone going to be around with some free time on December 23rd? Apparently I’ll be hanging around Newark …
I’m apparently going to be visiting Israel in less than a month. It’s kinda short notice, but trip planning will provide me with an exce…
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I consider my simulation of a religious discrimination claim centered around Pastafarianism to have been a rousing success. FSM for life.
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'...Occupy Wall Street is not a movement without a... →
October 2011
10 posts
I’m super excited to be in the Immigration Clinic next semester!
Little to no motivation to write up this fake motion for summary judgment. Meh.
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The Thought Process of a Shameless Procrastinator
1. I have a motion and memorandum I have to write by class at 10:30 tomorrow.
2. I don’t have my latest class tonight, so I’ll get home early. Yay!
3. I should start writing, but I’ll have dinner and catch-up on The Sing-Off first. That shouldn’t take too long.
4. Look: I made the heading for the pleading while watching the show! That’s like half the work,...
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I’m psyched and nervous to be a legal observer with the National Lawyers’ Guild at Occupy Providence today. #OWS #occupyprovidence
Thank you for all of the birthday wishes!
Dear kid sitting next to me on the train: headphones are a neat invention that helps you not to inflict your bad music on other people. …
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WatchJeff Magnum of Neutral Milk Hotel swung by Occupy Wall Street to support the occupiers and perform a bunch of songs. (It seems like he performed a majority of the songs from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.)
Strange day @ the internship when a car is parked outside, blasting disco music so loudly I hear it clearly 3 floors up w/windows closed
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I Get Excited About Weird Things in Shows,...
I’m currently watching Battlestar Gallactica (concurrent with Mark Watches, which is awesome and hilarious and everyone should start following his blogs) and I finally got to an episode called “Collaborators.”
Out of all the stuff in this really excellent episode, the thing I got most excited about was at the very end, when a Truth and Reconciliation Commission was proposed in...
September 2011
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First "Sherlock," and now "Luther"
Public Service Announcement: The BBC really wants you to be afraid to get into a cab in London.
In other news, watching Idris Alba on Luther is making me want to watch The Wire even more than I already wanted to.
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A Simple Love Like That: 19. Five items you lust... →
kmhalley:
clairemiller86:
Anything you can purchase in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Hogwarts robes, books, Butterbeer, a wand, anything.
A Charley’s Grilled Subs location nearby so I can buy a Buffalo Chicken sandwich anytime I want. The one in the Athens mall closed, and now the closest one is in Terminal…
I regretted not buying those damn sweat pants every day of grad school. And...
Just glimpsed Kevin Bacon at brunch place in Providence with @mad_azn and others. Real celebs in RI? Surreal.
$10 for $20 to Spend at Whole Foods Market http://t.co/ck6Edeo via @addthis
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All Hallow's Read →
Neil Gaiman wants to revive an ancient tradition (going back about a year) of giving scary books on Halloween. I never read much horror, so the best I could do would be giving someone a copy of Frankenstein or something by Poe, but this sounds like a great tradition to start.
August 2011
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“I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.”
– Virginia Woolf (via cannabis666sativa)
Random Observations From Today, Pretty Much All...
1. Today was the first day of my externship with Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights, which is basically the RI state version of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, plus a smattering of Housing and Urban Development, and a few other random civil rights-y type things. It’s pretty good so far, but the thing I’m most amused about is the fact that I’ve already been...
Hanging out in Cambridge for the day, to check out the HP v. Buffy and Nerd Slams in the National Poetry Slam. Am expecting tons of pit …