3 for 5 might be a good night in MLB
 

But not in prognostacating the results of American Juniors. Especially when two of them were capital-L Locks. But congrats to the five girls who made it through to the finals of AJ. The moral of the story is: white male children have no place in a kids' group. I predict that the band will consist of A.J. Melendez, Tori and Taylor Thompson, Catelyn Tarver and little Danielle whats-her-name. Which would make for a pretty strange dynamic indeed. Is AJ going to front the band, with his four bitches in back? I assumed they'd do something to guarantee a 2-3 split, but I have my serious doubts that either of the two male african-american children will get there. Especially the one who's gayer than gay. (not because he's gay, but because he's not that good a singer).

That said, I am shocked, SHOCKED, that heartthrob Canyon Grove is out. My theory of who is watching and voting (girls aged 8-14) seems to be right, as 5 girls advanced. The fact that these girls didn't heart Canyon surprises the fuck out of me. I guess I'm not in touch with my inner tweener chick.

Of course, I watched it on TiVo because I was at the LA opening night of "Gigantic, a Tale of Two Johns." A dorkier LA crowd you'd be hard pressed to find. Great movie for TMBG fans, less great for those who don't like the band, I suspect.

Oh and Paigow, please edit your signature? Please?
Thank you.
Str8.

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Her attorney put on no defense at all. One freaking witness and all he says is that Biggs was prolly unconscious when he hit the windshield and thus would not be moaning in agony while he died in her fucking windshield? No evidence to make this killer appear human? What about her mental state what with the drugs and all? Don't get me wrong, this trainwreck of a person deserves to do some jail time but her lawyers sucked.

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The joke goes beyond the fact that they are from Springfield, which is highlighted by your "i'm guessing not springfield, va"

California dreaming -- law stuff question
 

A friend of a friend is a consultant working as an independant contractor in Grey Davis Land, and is thinking about whether to incorporate his little one man bidness.

If any California lawyers would like to give free advice to me, so that I can pass along said anonymous free advice to the FoF, please email me at notabob_99@yahoo.com.

Thank you. Please resume your regularly scheduled carping and elitist beer snobbery.

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True. But there's not much of a sympathetic mental state defense you can make out of "Holy crap! I hit a guy! And I might get busted for drugs if I get caught!":rolleyes:

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So I'd better drive home with this guy on my windsheild and hope no one sees me. What? How do you drive with a person on your windsheild? I have a hard enough time just with bug death on the windsheild.

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But the drug use coulda got it knocked to manslaughter. [deletion of analysis of case, charges, etc.] Fuck, I need a life. :o

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This is why I could not be a good criminal defense lawyer. I would just stare at my new client in disbelief and say "I can't believe you're so freakin' stupid. You should be locked up for longer on the grounds of being a moron."

My attitude probably wouldn't help her much with a jury.

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Not true. Charlotte and Samantha would never be friends (and the tension there is portrayed on the show). Carrie could most likely be friends with all the others (which is why she works as the main character). I doubt she would talk about the same things with Charlotte that she does with Sam tho. Miranda and Samantha would be friendly acquaintances. I have a circle of girlfriends who are somewhat similar in their dissimilarity. It is doubtful they would all do everythign together, but an occasional group outing of various friends and friends-of-friends is quite possible...

What was someone saying about getting a life? I'll have to look into that...

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You and me both. I was a prosecutor before I followed my true calling into corporate/transactional booshit and the defense lawyers always intrigued me. In school I clerked for a judge and we had 2 capital murder cases. I don't know how defense attorneys do it. I remember when I was clerking this one child molestor who was sooooo guilty that I stopped watching the trial after the first break. I know the blather about everyone being entitled to a defense, but I think I would "serve fries with that" before I got into that area of the law. But hey, someone has to do it I guess so I do give some props to my homies in the criminal defense world.

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I think you are reading it wrong. There is a glue character (Carrie) and the others stick to her and know each other because of her. That happens fairly often. I have a glue like friend and I know some people through her that I would never be friends with otherwise. I also act as glue for some other friendships that would never otherwise happen (law school friends and friends from murky youth that don't have anything in common but get along reasonably well.)

I can't stand any of the characters on the show though. I watched up until (I think) the third season. Then it began to bug me.

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I can see Carrie being friends with Samantha (though explain how that got to be a deep, meet twice a week friendship, given Samantha and the age difference), and maybe Miranda (though every sitcom throws the "high-powered downtown lawyer" character into the mix without ever giving a glimpse of how, as a practical matter, it's difficult for a high-powered downtown lawyer to participate in the fun, telegenic activities required by sitcom formulas, like meeting for a lunch date without rescheduling five times).

Not Charlotte, though. If Charlotte and Carrie were college roommates, they might have had some awkward conversations, found they had no worldview or priorities in common, and that would have been it.

Then again, I was always the guy wondering what the fuck Elaine was doing spending time with George and Kramer.

3 for 5 might be a good night in MLB
 

Is Canyon Grove the name of a child or a street in the Hollywood Hills? That may be the worst bullshit name I have ever heard. It's beyond Nanny Diaries.

ANd I think I made the point about the quotes, so I am changing it. The movie quote in signauture was so March 2003, as originated by moi, but I guess its making a comeback.

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My decision to leave that part of our world very closely followed my successful motion-based defense of two kiddie porn traders. I was just fine getting drunks off, but that experience sort of chilled my fun.

Divorces and adoption fights were a breeze after that.

3 for 5 might be a good night in MLB
 

I knew a doctor named Dr. Sandy Shores. When he gave me his business card it took everything in my power not to ask him if his parents were stoners.

Heineken
 

"Hip" is now trendy, which is in for now. Keep up.

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Cynthia Nixon reached her peak lookswise as the hippie girl in Little Darlings. At least, that's the way I remember it.

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1. I'm the guy who said Sarah Jessica Parker was Daltrey with tits.

2. You missed my point entirely. Whether or not the show is believeable has nothing to do with the fact that its an overhyped faddy pop tart of a program. A show can be utterly unbelievable yet well done.

My gripe is that the show is not really intended to be popular because of its plot or writing. Its intended to be popular because its always on the cutting edge of hip. The writers go out and hunt down topics from the local style pages and place trendy brands and references to brands through the show because they know most of the crowd is really only interested in what shoes Carrie is wearing.

SATC is made to appear like the very possible lives of four chicks in the city because that makes the fantasy seem almost reachable to the viewers. Its staunchest fans love the show because they're enraptured by the idea of four chicks hitting all the right clubs, wearing the latest stuff and being part of the "scene." "If not for X, that could be me." I guess in some warped sense certain people find the idea that Carrie has thoughts not unlike theirs while at the same time hob-nobbing with Ibankers in the Hamptons and fashion designers empowering. No one idolized Seinfeld or wanted to be one of the characters because the characters were all loathesome fuck ups. I'll bet everything that 70% of the folks who love SATC secretly wish they could be Carrie. That's pretty gay.

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Cool. Can I continue to use "fresh" and call things "da bomb" while drinking my Pisco Sours and discussing my metrosexuality? It's so hard to keep track, I don't know how you guys do it.

:P

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What? Are you kidding? Who wouldn't want that life? Let's see...I go out to lunch with my friends, spend about an hour typing an article which is a rehash of today's lunch conversation, which pays me enough for this hugh rent controlled apartment in in Manhattan and I spend the rest of the day smoking, drinking and shopping. Geez.

Heineken
 

Dammit, Flinty. I told you last week "metrosexuality" is passe -- since the NYT featured an article about the lifestyle. The new term is "prosumer."

Prosumer?
 

I haven't heard that one yet. What does it mean?

:cool:

Is that a Bug?
 

Defending criminals for corporate crime or victimless crimes (drug trafficking, insider trading, etc...) is easy. In fact, as a libertarian, I view people who prosecute drug sales as criminals interfering in a valid market wrongly illegitimized by provincially minded politicians who do not represent society as a whole. But that's a whole day's worth of writing there...

I could never defend a child molester, but a murderer - yep, that ain't hard.

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So did any one else see Pam "Kid Rock and I are just friends" Anderson on Leno last night? What is wrong with her? Does she not have a mirror? Her implants have been pumped up so big and so tight that she now looks like Dolly Parton with huge Hobbit feet! When asked about her former engagement to Kid Rock, she stated that I'm all about being a mom now. A mom who can no longer hug her kids due to the large implants that have deformed her figure to a new freakish proportion.

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No one (not even you) believes this.

TM

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Now don't go insinuating that I have a conscious and you don't, I am just as conscious-free as the next person (I am, of course, in the 5th circle of hell for being greedy and unrepentent don't forget). I think what I would hate the most is dealing with bad facts ALL of the time and looking like a fool (at best, and an animal at worst) with some of the arguments they make. And although I am certainly no hep-cat when it comes to fashion and such, I can honestly say that the attire of your average criminal defense attorney is hideous. In that child molester case I mentioned earlier, I spent the time until opening arguments thinking that the lawyer was the defendant and vice versa -- he had fucking paint drops on his shoes for fuck's sake. And what is this pony-tail thing that so many male defense lawyers do? :wtf:

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Pictures please. I thought she had them removed or shrunken or someting. I know trends are passe, but I dont think breasts are meant to change sized periodically to suit the new fashions.

Tuesday night Reality Wrap-Up
 

I watched all two hours of the championship last night. It makes me want to learn to play hold-em really well.

I realized I left some shows out last night, so because I know you all care:

Meet The Folks: Unwatchable.

WWE Tryouts (or whatever the fuck it is called): Unwatchable to me, but I suppose I could see the interest if one was enough of a mental midget to watch the WWE.

American Juniors: Unwatchable.

Fame: Unwatchable.

Surf Girls: Best with the sound off.

Making the Band: Unwatchable.

Boarding House - North Shore: I watched this for the first time last night and found it oddly compelling. The two girls are cute and the one who tries/cares did well in the first tournament, and the one who just parties because she is a "Roxy girl" paid basically to model surf gear sucked, satisfied my sense of justice on one hand. On the other hand, though, I was appalled at the behavior of Sunny Garcia and left wondering how much Mark Burnett paid the guy Garcia assaulted to not sue so that Burnett could use the footage. Garcia's explanation that the guy looked at his wife on the beach somehow in the wrong way is the kind of stupid, male, macho behavior that embarrasses me on behalf of my sex. His wife's response was almost equally moronic, though. If I was the DA in that county, I would charge him to the fullest based solely on the videotape even if the victim wouldn't cooperate.

Paradise Hotel: After saying yesterday that I didn't think it could hold my interest because there was no purpose and you don't get to see any of the good bits, I watched it anyway (before going out, Bilmore). Also oddly compelling, but the premise of allowing audience members to replace the original contestants could backfire if they got too many dorks like the one they added last night. He was a fish out of water, a bull in a china shop, a paramecium among flatworms. He was both unattractive physically and personally that I realized why these shows carefully screen contestants. Still, I was left wondering why they all wanted to stay on the show so bad because I could only take so much sitting around a beach hotel doing nothing with a bunch of strangers. What have they promised them?

Is that a Bug? -- Ain't she purrrty??
 

http://www.amren.com/FOXNews_com_fil...ard_chante.jpg

I would love to get busy with her - not.

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a) She is 36 and looks amazing
b) Her chest is no bigger than its been the last few years. It was because her blouse was cinched right below them
c) How can anyone not like her - she clearly doesn't take herself seriously and seems genuinely friendly.

Hell, we need more Hollywood types that can say "No one cares what I think about the war, they just want to see me naked"

not7y(everyone is a Hata)S

Tuesday night Reality Wrap-Up
 

See above.

As for Nevada, I do it in all senses. That said, I have no idea what you are asking.

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You forgot d.

d) She could suck a golfball through a gardenhose.

Heineken
 

I don't know what was more disturbing about that article - that the NYT actually did it, or that I have more hair products than the guy in the profile.

Oh, the humanity.

Penske

FB Love?
 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,90508,00.html


Spree: SAN FRANCISCO — A chicken that was strapped to 100 helium balloons and sent skyward last weekend in a cruel stunt is resting these days at the city's animal shelter as people vie to adopt her.

My favorite line is: "This is a great chicken, a friendly chicken, a chicken that is ready for a relationship," said Kat Brown, deputy director of the shelter.


Perhaps an entry for the FB motto contest?


Please note that I personally find the activities of the person who put this bird in peril to be revolting and criminal but I couldn't pass on the quote.

California law stuff question answered; shameless Lawtalkers.com plug
 

Thanks to a kind Californian, my questions have all been answered.

Apropos of nothing, if you haven't already looked at the complaint against Vinson & Elkins* on the Texas page, I encourage you to do so. Wow.**

*Yes, I know that they are just allegations. In fact, as a defense lawyer, I look forward to reading V&E's sure to be successful motion for summary judgment, which (via affidavits and depo excerpts) will doubtless show that the plaintiff's claims are meritless, and that this whole thingy is all just a big misunderstanding.

**And by "wow" I merely mean "these allegations, if true, are worthy of an exclamatory remark."

e/o - world poker tour
 

from e/o (as quoted by Sebby): My favorite reality show, to the horror of all my friends, is: the world poker tour they are currently airing on the travel channel. How could you not watch "Devil Fish" Elliott?!!

Me: I missed this post, but I'm wondering if you started watching in response to my post a couple weeks ago... SO and I love that show (and have started learning TX Hold Em). I saw Devil Fish. He wiped the floor with those other players!

FB Love?
 

I would have just pointed and said "ga ga."

Fly fly away
 

Actually, there are implants out now which can be inflated and deflated from time to time. She probably has those.

world poker tour
 

Though I am not a gambler, I am going to enter one of those satellite tournaments. It just looks so wild.

My second favorite reality show is on tonight: the NBA draft!

Boarding House - North Shore
 

I am not a reality tv fan by any stretch but I am also compelled by this show. Maybe it's because I know nothing about the surfing scene or maybe it's because I find Holly, the serious surfer, really hot looking.

Regarding Sunny Garcia, I also watched last week and that train-wreck of excessive machismo also picked a fight with some random drunk at a bar. Same crime, leering at the little woman. What I don't get is that his wife is not particularly attractive -- horsey face.