10.29.2004

Disney, Chabon retelling 'Snow'

Disney, Chabon retelling 'Snow'

10.28.2004

Origin of THE...VERS

yancy derringer

Ive been jokign about going as yancy for halloween. Firstly i was talking about being a judge and wearing ahwaiin shirts under my robe. then we started talkign about me being aaron boones wife (yancy means yankee)..then finally about me going as yancy.


so then im talkign to kris and i said
me - "im goign as lyme disease"
me "im going as all the misfortune that has befallen me this year"
kris "are you going as yancy"
me - "have you been reading my im's"



TingerCee: never tell Jamee your misfortunes
manianosmia: why?
TingerCee: all u do is laugh
manianosmia: im goign as my misfortunes for halloween
manianosmia: HAHAH
manianosmia: thats so true
manianosmia: !
TingerCee: if I said "I have AIDS" you'd be like "HAHA"
manianosmia: i just laughed outloud
manianosmia: im getting in trouble
manianosmia: byw
TingerCee: oh geezus bye

Origin of THE...VERS

yancy derringer

Ive been jokign about going as yancy for halloween. Firstly i was talking about being a judge and wearing ahwaiin shirts under my robe. then we started talkign about me being aaron boones wife (yancy means yankee)..then finally about me going as yancy.


so then im talkign to kris and i said
me - "im goign as lyme disease"
me "im going as all the misfortune that has befallen me this year"
kris "are you going as yancy"
me - "have you been reading my im's"



TingerCee: never tell Jamee your misfortunes
manianosmia: why?
TingerCee: all u do is laugh
manianosmia: im goign as my misfortunes for halloween
manianosmia: HAHAH
manianosmia: thats so true
manianosmia: !
TingerCee: if I said "I have AIDS" you'd be like "HAHA"
manianosmia: i just laughed outloud
manianosmia: im getting in trouble
manianosmia: byw
TingerCee: oh geezus bye

10.27.2004

not funnier than the wild boar...

we read hte faomous contracts case about a ship called the peerless. The funniest is that the entire case is based on the fact that the peerless wasnt peerless. hilarious.


then corey says "not funnier than a wild boar"...which is totally supportivce of law schoo being like tour, cause everyone knows everyone elses favorite cases.

10.26.2004

For Buck, the Microphone Doesn't Fall Far From the Headset

The New York Times > Sports > Baseball > For Buck, the Microphone Doesn't Fall Far From the Headset

best quote ever

macfarland - "i dont even know what facts are anymore"

10.23.2004

the conundrum

Sitkoff: what are you gonna be for Ween
manianosmia: i dunno
manianosmia: i dont htink anything
Sitkoff: weak?
manianosmia: i dunno
manianosmia: i cant think of anythign that doesnt involve law school
Sitkoff: can you be a 'tort'
Sitkoff: what is the physical instantiation of a tort
manianosmia: hahahah

10.20.2004

The New York Times > New York Region > Top Colleges, Rated by Those Who Chose Them

The New York Times > New York Region > Top Colleges, Rated by Those Who Chose Them: "Meanwhile, colleges like Brown University, which offers a flexible curriculum, along with Notre Dame and Georgetown, which attract a loyal Catholic following, placed several spots higher in the student preference rankings."

so theresa and i are obsessed with this guy from the band matty works for. we went to see them and he looks like crispin glover and was wearing gun holsters for apaprently no reason. so we obsessed over this. and he tells us tonight. "oh it was somethign his stylist made him wear. and he jsut wore it. and then he put his drugs in it. not liek it was for that, but it was hjust convenient. no not to do onstage. just to have. but yeah, its all really his stylist or something. marc something...not jacobs, no wait, marc jacobs, yeah, thats it" All this whil ehe was wearing a 200$ prada shirt that was cast off by some other band member.

10.19.2004

making our critique so much more fun.

So we had to do a mock client interview today. The premise was that this person owned agallery and had been approached to sell art on consignment. They were seekign our advice about the liability. We had to dress up in suits and then be filmed. Afterwards, we have to critque ours and another group's interview.

funniest thing #1: the weird liability turned out to be that the guy sellign the art was a drug dealer. The prrof they gave for this was "ths guy cant be makign this much money in commercial real estate. its cleveland. he must be a drug dealer."

funniest thing #2: the group we have to critique is brad and andrew, who are both hilarious. Iwas sititing in the lounge afterwards and they come in giggling histerically and Brad says "you know how she kept tlaking about the paintings and hte hudsen river school? I asked her if that was a famous elementary school" he was serious. and he went to yale.

the wacky expert witness biz

from Daubert v. Merrell Dow (yes the famed daubert principles case!)
43 F.3d 1311

Bendectin litigation has been pending in the courts for over a decade, yet the only review the plaintiffs' experts' work has received has been by judges and juries, and the only place their [**21] theories and studies have been published is in the pages of federal and state reporters. n8 None of the plaintiffs' experts has published his work on Bendectin in a scientific journal or solicited formal review by his colleagues. Despite the many years the controversy has been brewing, no one in the scientific community - except defendant's experts - has deemed these studies worthy of verification, refutation or even comment. It's as if there were a tacit understanding within the scientific community that what's going on here is not science at all, but litigation. n9


I personally dont know if ive ever read anythign so funny, but that may just be my personal experience.


from a chabon essay on pittsburgh

: "The city of Pittsburgh, as I came to understand it, first entered my life in an important way in 1971. I was eight years old, and we were living by now in the Maryland suburbs. I was in the process of becoming a baseball fan, and that year one of our local teams, the Orioles�the Brooks Robinson, Jim Palmer, Boog Powell Orioles�went to the World Series, and met the team from that frozen, unknown and unimaginable city of Pittsburgh. Right away, I noticed that playing for Pittsburgh in right field was this marvelous, handsome, graceful, brown-skinned guy. He was strong, lean, serious. He ran hard, threw hard, and swung hard, but he always looked relaxed and unruffled. He was everything an eight-year-old boy could most devoutly wish to be. I'm sure I'm remembering wrong�I know the Pirates got some fine pitching during that series�but to my eight year old self it seemed that Roberto Clemente won the ' '71 series single-handed. He got at least one hit in every game and wounded up batting over .400. From that moment, Pittsburgh began to live in my imagination as the place that I believed was the home of that beautiful, admirable man. Pittsburgh, the home of beauty. "


My younger brother, Stephen, saw Pittsburgh first, when he went with our father and new stepmother to hunt for a house in a neighborhood with the quaint and evocative name of Squirrel Hill. It sounded to me like a tidy, leafy spot. Domesticated and elegant, but home to all manner of forest creatures. I figured we'd probably live somewhere near the very top of this hill, and the squirrels would come out of the trees to eat out of our hands. Hell, for all I know I imagined that the squirrels might even be sentient and capable of speech. Anything could happen, it seemed to me, in a place like Pittsburgh.

10.18.2004

just like kansas street

ubernanni: marcgvn
ubernanni: i always saw that as "marcgiving"
manianosmia: HAHAHHAHA
manianosmia: thats sucha front
ubernanni: ha
manianosmia: its should be "marcgivingandthenaskingformoney"
ubernanni: hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahaha

10.17.2004

im not alone in this disfunction

This american life has a piece on people who cry during movies on airplanes. This always happens to me. I cried at Casper the friendly ghost for christsakes....
http://www.thislife.org/ - 9.24.04

10.14.2004

Portrait Illustration Maker - Let's make an original icon!!

Portrait Illustration Maker - Let's make an original icon!!

Which Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Are You? - Quizilla

Which Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Are You? - Quizilla

why you cant take me anywhere aka how i embarrased myself in front of hip hop royalty to be.

Casey told me that nike is running three ads about brooklyn hip hop. ONe is done by RZA, and another by domer. The guy tess made me spill my drink on.

today it gets hard core

as a harbinger of the doom to come...today is the day that i
a. start listenign to christopher parkening
b. have my first anxiety dream abotu not being in a study group


10.12.2004

absurd nostalgia theory

I came to the realizationt o day that when i get nostalgic for college, and new england, and hooodies and all that jazz...and all i want to do is listen to phish like simpler times, its not that i get nostlgic for 97-98 phish, which were the concerts i was seeing then. but i get nostalgic for 92-95 phish. Cause while i was driving to virginia to see 11.22.97 i was listenign to 12.1.95. On analog. of course, on analog.

1997 on the other hand, makes me nostalgic for eveyrhting post 97

absurd nostalgia theory

I came to the realizationt o day that when i get nostalgic for college, and new england, and hooodies and all that jazz...and all i want to do is listen to phish like simpler times, its not that i get nostlgic for 97-98 phish, which were the concerts i was seeing then. but i get nostalgic for 92-95 phish. Cause while i was driving to virginia to see 11.22.97 i was listenign to 12.1.95. On analog. of course, on analog.

1997 on the other hand, makes me nostalgic for eveyrhting post 97

absurd nostalgia theory

I came to the realizationt o day that when i get nostalgic for college, and new england, and hooodies and all that jazz...and all i want to do is listen to phish like simpler times, its not that i get nostlgic for 97-98 phish, which were the concerts i was seeing then. but i get nostalgic for 92-95 phish. Cause while i was driving to virginia to see 11.22.97 i was listenign to 12.1.95. On analog. of course, on analog.

1997 on the other hand, makes me nostalgic for eveyrhting post 97

somethign so funny about law shcool it makes the general audience

Instructions for Practice Problem #1

Identify and discuss ALL of the potential intentional torts in the following scenario and any possible defenses to these torts. When identifying the potential intentional torts, make certain that all of the elements of the intentional tort are met and specify any elements of a possible tort that are missing. You may also want to cite to any relevant cases from your reading. Please ignore any negligence torts. Your complete answer should not exceed five, double-spaced pages. This may seem tough, so focus on concisely identifying the torts, their elements and applicable defenses. This simulates the type of constraints you will have on the exam.

If you would like the TAs to comment on your response to the problem, please e-mail your response to the TAs listed for your review session before the session begins.

Your response to the practice problem will in NO WAY reflect upon your grade in this course. It is simply a way to help make certain that you understand the course material. It is also a very good way to familiarize yourself with the way in which you will ultimately be tested during the final exam.

Thanks. See you next week.

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One late October afternoon (campaign season, mind you), a 1L, Adrian Monk, skips his Contracts class to go down and volunteer at the local campaign headquarters. Adrian is a big fan of the Kelly / Edmonds campaign and he wants to do his part. As he walks down West 3rd Street towards the East Village location, he passes some Stern Business School professors discussing the coming election. Adrian overhears the professors say that “those Kelly / Edmonds rascals want to drive corporate taxes through the roof!” Adrian, silly with rage, approaches the professors and says, “If I weren’t worried about getting arrested and not being admitted to the bar, I would kill you for spreading lies about the Kelly campaign!”

As Adrian stalks off, Professor Notaxem expresses his disdain by spitting on Adrian’s backpack. Adrian doesn’t notice the glob, but he does notice a group of schoolchildren (who see the glob) laughing and pointing at him as he walks by. Unknown to Adrian, however, he is being tailed by an out-of-control volunteer working for Kelly’s opponent, the Cush / Zaney campaign. The volunteer, Stottlemeyer, figures Adrian is due for a lesson. Stottlemeyer pulls out his leather-bound copy of Ayn Rand’s Fountainhead and throws it with all his might at Adrian’s head. Adrian sees the book coming and ducks, avoiding the book entirely.

Unfortunately, the heavy novel hits Sharona, a 2L who runs out of Shade Bar on the way to an interview with Jacoby & Meyers. The book breaks Sharona’s arm and makes her miss her interview. Sharona is rushed to the hospital.

Adrian keeps moving, a bit shaken by his near brush with the book. As Adrian heads east, he cuts through Tompkins Square Park. In the confines of the park Stottlemeyer, who has continued to follow Adrian, lunges at Adrian and successfully pries away from Adrian’s hands the glossy flyers advertising “Concerts for Kelly.” Stottlemeyer bolts away with the flyers in the opposite direction. Adrian chases Stottlemeyer and tackles him, retrieving his glossy flyers.

Adrian decides to retaliate against Stottlemeyer. He pretends to take a phone call in which he is supposedly told that Stottlemeyer’s candidate was hit by a car and pronounced dead, which he relates to the nearby Stottlemeyer. Stottlemeyer breaks down from the stress of this “news,” because he is, unbeknownst to Adrian, the candidate’s nephew. Stottlemeyer then lapses into a hallucination that Adrian is his fourth grade teacher who used to beat him with his shoe. Stottlemeyer flies into a rage and tries to strangle Adrian, but Adrian barely manages to pry loose and run away. In his haste to escape, Adrian pushes over a yoga instructor in the “downward dog” position who was in his way. Unbeknownst to Adrian, the instructor has a bizarre hemophilia-like disease. The instructor begins to bleed and goes into a coma and dies later that night, despite the yoga.

Adrian at this point is so disgusted with the rival campaign that he decides to sabotage their highly successful Internet fundraising efforts. Adrian hangs a cab over to the Cush / Zaney team’s posh fundraising HQ on the Upper East Side and finds no one guarding the front door, though there is a sign saying “Danger: No Trespassing.” Adrian then sneaks inside and sees a box of fine Havana cigars sitting on the table. Adrian—always one to indulge—picks up the box and triggers a spring gun intended to stop thieves. The gun, however, is aimed at the floor and thus only makes a small gash on Adrian’s pinky toe.

Hobbling now, Adrian enters the Cush campaign’s computer room and, with wizard-like efficiency, writes a small program that floods the Cush computer network with false Internet contributions, thus blocking many legitimate contributors from reaching Cush’s website.

Adrian leaves the HQ and strolls down Madison Avenue, happy with his petty revenge. While strolling, a Madison Avenue Co-op doorman spies Adrian and mistakes him for the notorious Newspaper Thief of Madison Avenue (who roughly shares Adrian’s height and build). Before Adrian knows what is happening, the doorman hustles Adrian into the lobby of the swank apartment building and pushes him into a large broom closet, closes the door and suddenly leaves. Although Adrian doesn’t know it, the door remains unlocked, but Adrian decides to throw his chair through the window and climb along the exterior drainage pipe to the street below.

Adrian then returns home, and compulsively washes his hands and clothes, swearing off politics forever.

I was telling kris that I spent lunchtime chatting with a guy from our civ pro class today and she said “wow your off making tons of friends” and I said not really. I said they’re all fake friends. She said “ I think that what you consider a fake friend is what others consider a real friend”

Latvia national anthem

Latvia national anthem

Sitkoff: i thought of you yesterday when i ran by the embassy of Latvia


Dievs Sveti Latviju

Dievs, svÂti Latviju,
Mus' dªrgo tÂviju,
SvÂti jel Latviju,
Ak svÂti jel to!
Dievs, svÂti Latviju,
Mus' dªrgo tÂviju,
SvÂti jel Latviju,
Ak svÂti jel to!


Kur latvju meitas zied,
Kur latvju dÂli dzied,
Laid mums tur latm diet,
Mñs Latvijª.
Kur latvju meitas zied,
Kur latvju dÂli dzied,
Laid mums tur latm diet,
Mñs Latvijª.


TRANSLATION
Bless Latvia, O God

Bless Latvia, O God,
Our verdant native land sod,
Where Baltic heroes trod,
Keep her from harm!
Bless Latvia, O God,
Our verdant native land sod,
Where Baltic heroes trod,
Keep her from harm!


Our lovely daughters near.
Our singing sons appear,
May Fortune smiling here
Grace Latvia!
Our lovely daughters near.
Our singing sons appear,
May Fortune smiling here
Grace Latvia!


Sitkoff: 'god save latvia'
Sitkoff: 'the star spangled latvia'
manianosmia: HAHA
manianosmia: i was just goign to sen dyou a ling to the words
Sitkoff: oh i already know them
Sitkoff: sandasnlkdnaen213 ans,dmna.,dn.,qen,.mqen292oin asdlkasd
Sitkoff: that is latvian

Fairness is the last refuge of analytical obscurity

thats right. my civ pro rofessor said that. i love him. He also said we are a sea faring vessel afloat in the bouliabase of logic without a sextent.

10.07.2004

today i love school

davison said that in october people start to get wacky.. i thrive in wacky.
so then i got involved int eh liberal world, and everyone seemed sad, so i decided that i was going to just commandeer the torts class. and we all lost control. between kris hating on everything, bill just laughing at everything as i did, lawrence with his shirt way too undone, and then corey taking all his notes in wingdings, i just lost it. Like i laughed so hard and so laoudly the entire class turned around to look at me and i had to bite my arm and duck.

10.06.2004

onamonapeia (though not really the right word)

I realize today that brown was the nicest most cuddly college environment. That, in effect, it was the brown bear. As was vartan. gosh darn i want to give them some money.

10.05.2004

uber information conversation

i just had tis great smarmy law student philosophical conversation with the liberal that i respect here. Ive decided to attend his critical theory reading fgroup that adressed minority perspectives on the law. And after an hour long conversation with him ,i realized that i am a free market theorist - *with my mind*. As in i will let his ideaology into me my mind and let it fight it out. Although, this all just means that i am the META IDEALOGY. SICK.

But other interesting things came out, about deciding things in a vaccuum...

10.04.2004

my new dream musical project

I want to commission jam bands to cover cake songs. Obviously phish would cover jolene. But imagine if lake trout did arco arena! And the biscuits did the distance (though they already have with helicopters). SCI could do stick shifts. STS9 could so long line of cars. moe. would do rock n roll lifestyle. I am so into this idea......