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April 06, 2024
O’Hara’s “Deconstructed:” Evergreen Dan Hull podcast on J6
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April 05, 2024
Real Women: Natalie Portman.
“You don't need the money with a face like that.” Born in Jerusalem in the summer of 1981, she is a citizen of both Israel and America. Natalie Portman is now 42. Based on a performance she gave at age 28, she won the best actress Oscar for her performance in Black Swan. She’s also a 2003 Harvard grad. A film and stage actress at an early age (she was “discovered” at the age of 10), she was a serious and precocious child. Ambitious. She has loved languages since she was a schoolgirl growing up in New York and DC. She’s studied French, Japanese, German and Arabic. She’s been in our WAC/P Pantheon since 2015.
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The Slackoisie
Urban Dictionary: Slackoisie
Slackoisie.
Prounounced "Slack-wah-zee".
This term was coined by J. Daniel Hull, Esq., author of the "What About Clients?" blawg, and popularized by Scott H. Greenfield, Esq., author of the "Simple Justice" blawg. It refers to:
(1) a class of narcissistic young professionals, particularly attorneys (usually Gen Y/millenials), who believe that having a job is an entitlement, rather than a privilege. They often complain about the work they have (if working), opine the lack of "real lawyer" jobs available in the market, and are critical of the long hours and inadequate pay found at most small firms. They believe they are entitled to work/life balance, that their opinions on any subject are inherently important and that whatever benefits they enjoy are inadequate. The Slackoisie are more interested in having a place to go in the morning and some spending money than committing themselves to their clients and the profession; or
(2) a slacker with an exaggerated sense of self-importance and entitlement.
Examples:
(a) Attorney 1, "OMG, like I got a job at (insert name of any law firm) and they expect me to work like a hundred hours a week. I did not go to (insert name of law school) to work all the time."
Attorney 2, "Stop being such a slackoisie, and appreciate the opportunity you have! There are tons of people graduating law school who would love to have a job doing (insert type of law practiced at Attorney 1's law firm)."
(b) Anyone who claims to be a social media expert/guru;
(c) Anyone who posts on "JDJive" and "JD Underground"; or
(d) Anyone with a graduate degree who lives in their parents basement and is unemployed because they cannot find an employer who "appreciates their uniqueness" or demands that they actually produce quality work before being given a raise, the corner office and a convertible sports car.
by SI_Counsel February 28, 2010
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April 04, 2024
Congressman Daniel Sickles: Original Gangster, Radical Dude.
In 1859, in Lafayette Park, U.S. Representative Daniel Sickles shot and killed fellow lawyer Philip Barton Key II, son of Francis Scott Key. Sickles was a talented, ambitious, somewhat shady and philandering Manhattan politician who counted President Lincoln among his many friends. He discovered that Key was having an affair with Sickles's young yet long-neglected wife, Teresa. During his life, Sickles made American foreign policy, helped create New York's Central Park, had a hand in the development of the modern insanity defense, and was a celebrated if controversial Union Army field general. The best book on Sickle's amazing, checkered and long public life is Thomas Keneally's American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles.
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April 03, 2024
Another Holy Surprise: Georgetown's Potomac Boat Club.
Below is a photograph of Georgetown near Key Bridge (the bridge barely out of the picture on the right) on the Potomac River and Georgetown University taken from Virginia. Barely hidden and on M Street, which runs parallel to the river, are the terrifying stone stair steps used in the movie The Exorcist. A few hundred feet east down the shore--but also out of the picture--is northern side of the Key Bridge, finished in 1923. The building on the shore is the Washington Canoe Club (WCC), established in 1904, founded by members of the Potomac Boat Club (PBC).
Potomac Boat Club members in 1921. Behind them is Key Bridge under construction.
The Potomac Boat Club, about 100 meters east of the WCC.
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April 02, 2024
Young Ben Disraeli: On Writing Well.
When I want to read a good book, I write one.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
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Euripides on Speech, Expression, Humor, Satire.
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
— Eurípides (480-406 BC)
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April 01, 2024
Paul Cezanne: Les Joueurs de Carte.
Paul Cezanne, Les joueurs de carte, 1890-1892
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March 31, 2024
The Judgment of Paris
Paris was a bold man who presum’d
To judge the beauty of a Goddess.
--John Dryden
The Judgment of Paris, Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553)
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Easter
Happy Easter, y’all. The time of new beginnings. Step back from the canvas. Sharpen the tools. Get a religion. Call someone who needs help. Go outside. Dance around.
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