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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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And With A Gurgle of Frustration, It is Done. For now.
Ramblings Post #72I'm trying to remember the exact moment I decided to go to law school. I haven't always wanted to be a lawyer. I remember the convincing argument that if I went in X amount of time I would be a lawyer, and if I didn't go in X amount...
Tiger by (well, after) some tail
Ramblings Post #71There is an old country song that fits perfectly with this post. Written by the now wholly artificial Kenny Rogers, the opening strains of "The Gambler" used to be known to a generation. And today, facing a media onslaught and quite...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
The Current State of Urban Flava
Ramblings Post #48There are times when you discuss in a intelligent fashion, with voice modulated and facts clear as to your disagreement, and there are times when you just lean in close to your opponent and make your insults as personal as is humanl...
Bad Concepts
Ramblings Post #47For many years I didn't have a cell phone. I was one of small group of individuals (I think the other six folks in Atlanta are still holding out) who felt that if you needed me, you could reach me at home. When I had no phone, plans...
More Actual Musings
Ramblings Post #46Sometimes, you just got stuff to say, but not enough stuff to constitute what you think is enough for a single post. So instead of letting it slide or putting together a "best of" compilation...assuming I had a best, and there was m...
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 ...
A Throwback Restaurant Review - Kevin Rathbun's Steakhouse
I had dinner with Sporty.Last week, for my birthday, I gave myself a present and sent Sporty a book I made by hand, just for her. In was some poetry, some quotations and a story I wrote that put on the table the reasons for a whole lot of things. I w...
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...
Day One
Ramblings Post # 30With the change of the seasons, new performances open while other shows prepare to close their doors, hopefully with good reviews and no need to re-stage a production. We hope. They say that all of life is but a stage, and we as pl...
A House is not a Home
Ramblings Post #29Sometimes you want to feel a certain way. You know, a feeling of how things are supposed to be. Like eating off of china instead of paper plates, or not being comfortable leaving the house until you've got your face on, or until yo...
Good Television?
Ramblings Post #29 It's the middle of the night. You just finished eating some pizza rolls, you're tired of re-reading the damages problem that as it turns out you won't figure out anyway ( and according to real attorney's you would hire an accountan...
Last of the Spring Cordials
Ramblings Post #28As I stood there Thursday night in the lobby, surrounded by fellow students and professors suggesting I go get drunk (great school by the way) since we'd just knocked it down, I wanted to do a lot of things. I wanted to scream in fr...
The Doctor is IN
Ramblings Post #27 When you need I need to be focused sometimes I take my eyes of the ball, because first I can and second because life is usually more than one thing. The trick to life is balance, understanding, lots o' cash and apparently six pack ...
All Quiet on the Education Front
Ramblings Post #26This started as one of those moments, one of those instances that you could see coming but couldn't, it was in legal parlance, foreseeable. And then I ran with it, or so I thought. Honestly, I need a drink. And some trim. And not in...
All at once now....
Why does everything happen at the same time?All those weeks when nothing was going on, and I was just going through the motions, and then bam! Three or four deadlines all fall in the same 72 hours. And since I'm procrastinator 85% of the time (it wou...
And now we come to the showdown..
My admittedly meager knowledge vs the diabolical mind of my property law professor. I'm writing this to unwind my mind for a moment. A mental deep breath between reps. My test is in about two and half hours and I'm in the law library writing and re-w...
The end of an era
This is a Sports Post. Sometimes these are really fun to write. This one both was and wasn't. A celebration of an era, the moving on of a broadcasting giant. John Madden has stepped down.Coach Madden, whose name now means football to a whole generat...
Too Independent?
Internet Fodder Post #2You ever see something on the internet while you're just browsing and have something to say about it, but realize that you don't have the vast forum that whoever you read has, so that you can put your word to the people's ear i...
When we gonna get to the good part...
Ramblings Post #21Law school is doing something to me that hasn't happened in a long time. It's challenging me to actually think. My job is down to rote, with the occasional burst of insanity, but as each set of facts is different, and each changes t...
I want to do Good....but not that good
Ramblings Post #18That time of the season when law professors start talking about that outline that we should have started working on that second week of January - started mine during spring break before I realized my notes sucked - and a first year ...
I can speak!
Ramblings Post #17Great people don't just exist, but are made by responding to the call of extraordinary moments. Or they just happen to be a little bit better than everybody else over a long period of time. Or they...well, you get my point, there is...
It's starting to get a little cloudy
Family Post #3 Sometimes, people just get old is the way the nurse explained to Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day. And I guess it's true. At least until we get that stem cell thing worked out...thanks George. And sometimes tomorrow actually co...
Bad Show Old Boy...
Ramblings Post #15Sometimes it's not like riding a bike... you DO forget. It took me eight years to get my Sweet Potato Pie filling to taste my grandmothers, and I'm still working on getting the crust. But I stopped making it once a month or so last ...
A Quick Restaurant Review - Pot and Pan
So for brunch Saturday, Schmoopy takes me to a gay Chinese diner. Wait, I'll explain.Schmoopy, who I've known for almost a decade now, wanted to go sit and eat since this week she didn't have any issues she wanted to bounce off somebody while she thi...
