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The continuing story of a man fast approaching middle age, armed with a fast wit and bad intentions. Follow me through the Atlanta nightlife, my own sad romantic life, and whatever else crops in my mind.
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Trippy
Ramblings Post #69 Sometimes bad things happen to bad people. But more often than not, good stuff happens to bad people, and then keeps happening and then continues on as long as you can stand to watch it. This is how some people get rich, despite ce...
Sometimes I surprise myself
Ramblings Post #68A few weeks ago, I hit the six month mark of time left on my cell phone contract. And those duffers at AT& Suckers are playing hardball. The little online thing I got said I could renew my contract and upgrade my phone for only ...
Thoughts on Things...
Relapse Post #3It's been a long time since I've been down this road. And although I'm familiar with the trip, I get lost every time. It's scary, and searing, but just a little bit fun. Okay, a lot fun. The trip alone is worth whatever the destination...
Office Breaks and Gold Ping Pong Paddles
Ramblings Post #67 The office is a strange place. You go early in the day, sometimes before the sun comes up, met and hang out with mostly like minded folks doing pretty much what you're doing for 8 or 10 hours a day and then....go home to real life?...
Law School Tips #1
Something Else #1 - LawI'm not quite sure which category this post falls into. It's not just general rambling, nor is it bar chatter or political. Maybe I had another category somewhere but I'm too lazy to look right this second.First year law studen...
Mickey and Jerry in for a visit
Ramblings Post #65There are things I just inherently don't do. I do not do hot pants. Anymore. I don't do heights, but only because having to call the fire department to get a grown ass man off a one story roof is ridiculously embarrassing. And as yo...
So they loaded up the Truck, and moved...
Ramblings Post #65A shrewd investor I read back in the day, when I read investment advice like some men read a sports page, advised that during a calamity, one needs to look for bargains. And if the current state of Wall Street isn't a calamity, I'm ...
Fill in the spaces
Ramblings Post #63We all get busy. There's the thing, and then the other thing, and that stuff we were supposed to do but we forgot, and then that other thing and before you know you forgot something. And then you're really in trouble. Luckily for me...
Let\'s see, this weekend...
Ramblings Post #60 Every now and then, everything comes to a head. You have to go in for the interview, the test date actually arrives, you actually have to open your eyes who see who that is snoring, and so forth and so on. It's just generally unusu...
Old Age
Ramblings Post #59 We get little signs as we get older. A twinge where there used to not be a twinge. Somebody calls you sir or ma'am, for no reason. The first gray hair, I got that one at 25 for the record. Suddenly, ten shots of tequila has the re...
Ah, the Weekend
Ramblings Post #58There are some days I wake up, and struggle to remember what day of the week it is. I have to concentrate for a few minutes where I need to be, what I need to do, what do I need to do to get to the whatever. And then there are speci...
9/11
on Sept 11, 2001 ...I was unemployed and at home. I had no interviews scheduled, not a whole lot of money and I was a little depressed. When I awoke, the sun was shining, and the world seemed okay. I got some cereal, sat down and turned on the TV.......
And the Weekend...The Recap.
Ramblings Post #57Life is about being true to yourself. Every so often we all need to stop, take a deep breath and take a long and hard look at ourselves and be honest with the results. Not what you plan to do, what you hope to do or anything like th...
The Spanky Chronicles
Ramblings Post #56I am for the most part an observer of people. To be a creative, someone who is creative, you have to be an observer of something. Something has to inspire you, move you, motivate you. What I do is see people. My brother once said a ...
Points in the Dark
Ramblings Post #55It is a long strange trip into the unknown that each of us embarks upon as we wake each morning. We make great effort to minimize that as we go through life, getting and adorning our home, maintain the same employment, excluding cer...
First class, first impressions...
Ramblings Post #53Ah law school. I had started wandering into the office as late as noon, and spent my nights aimlessly searching the web and putting off little things I really needed to do because I could always get to them later. I think I really n...
The New Terrorists are American
This is a political post. In this country we have a system. Every so often we sit down and we all vote and decided that the great ship of state either should stay the course or change direction. It was devised ages ago by our founding fathers, a syst...
Bar Chatter
Bar Chatter#1When it's not enough to make a post, but deserves to go out to the world... it's just Bar Chatter.Three classes this fall, three nights a week. Five books, just five books. Looked them up online and if I can find used they should only ru...
I so love British Television
Ramblings Post #52It has been a long strange trip. I mean from my house to my house and back, this break from law school has been a something I relished and dreaded at the same time. I'm back for another season of "Old Law" , the rolling internet alm...
A Quick Restaurant Review - The Social House
When I was college quite a while ago, I had a professor make a statement that at the time was probably true: That only black people ate at black restaurants. It was sociological statement that at the time may have been true, but does not hold water t...
Bad Concept Redux
Ramblings Post #49The definition of lunacy or stupidity or insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting to get different results. The problem comes in when you look at the situation and the result you thought everyone was looking for ...
A Man's Home is His Castle
This is a Political Post“I’m up with a gentleman, says he resides here, but was uncooperative, but keep the cars coming,” the sergeant said.These are the words of Sgt. Crowley as recorded by the Cambridge police during his incident with Profess...
One last Sucker Punch!
Ramblings Post #45Getting ready for a long trip, have you ever get packed the night before, make sure you have everything, check the vehicle and make sure you've gassed up, then get a good night sleep and wake up at 5am ready to go...only to have an ...
The Office Moguls Change their plans
Ramblings Post #43For those that work, and everyday there seem to be less and less of those, there is usually that person in the office that you can't really figure out why they are still...or ever got to be...employed there. They don't seem to do a ...
Alright, Enough Already...can we let this go?
Internet Fodder Post #4This will actually cover more than just the internet, because this time more than just the internet is responsible for this lunacy. I wish we were better than this, that in some way we as the citizens of the world could recogni...
Updates from the Crisis...
Ramblings Post #41when you were a kid, the idea of growing up almost seemed a something that would never happen, and teenager, everything you wanted to do was just a bit of our grasp. Now as I, for lack of better metaphor, round the post for home, I ...
The obligatory Micheal Jackson Post.
Ramblings Post #40> in this episode, we find out that everything isn't always as beautiful as it seems. And things happen, just happen, even if we least expect it. And all you can do is roll with it, or get rolled over by it. Either way, you wake up ...
Atlanta 2009
Ramblings Post #39I once left a message on Spanky's phone that consisted of me running out the allotted time (and it must have been five or eight minutes) with me simply repeating the word "Chicken" over and over, with different pronunciations for va...
Thinking about odd things...
Ramblings Post #38I started realizing I was old when home renovation magazines became as interesting as photos that formerly had held my attention since hormones hit when I was thirteen. Um, wait check that...since I was four or five. I suddenly reme...
If one more thing goes left...
Ramblings Post #37Sometimes you get frustrated. And you can sit back, assess the situation, figure out what you need to do and then execute. Or you can pick up a trash can and broken bottle and go to war. And if you're educated enough, cultured enoug...
