I became a little less nondescript this week - my Etsy "CHINGA LA MIGRA" buttons arrived, and I put one on my jacket. It's small enough to not pop out, though.
I love 'Judge' as a mode of address. I can't really carry it off myself (I stick with "Ma'am"/Sir" and "Your Honor") but there's something about it that really amuses me.
But generally, yeah -- I'll get these moments on the subway where I look around and realize that I can see fifty people or so, and every one of them has a life, and thoughts, and relationships, and responsibilities as complicated as whatever I've got going on. Sort of the same feeling as standing in a big library and feeling overwhelmed by how much information is written down all around you.
Outside of a legal setting, nobody ever called my dad "Your Honor." Quite a few people called him "Judge". I myself really enjoy sending Christmas cards to "The Honorable and Mrs."
Different context but I call the judge I work for "judge," including in chatty casual conversations about restaurants or fashion and I'm very worried that will slip out into my courtroom practice when I'm back to litigating.
I love 'Judge' as a mode of address. I can't really carry it off myself (I stick with "Ma'am"/Sir" and "Your Honor") but there's something about it that really amuses me.
I get amused by the knots barristers twist themselves in when referencing judgments written by judges who have since become law lords, or master of the rolls, or similar.
I'm fully going to call every judge "law lord," which is in no way a thing here, from now on.
"Judge" was the standard address in the small city where I started practicing. It feels more democratic, somehow, than "your honor"
I'm very worried that will slip out into my courtroom practice when I'm back to litigating.
I think that's fine -- I see other people do it all the time. It does feel informal, but respectfully informal, and it gives you a sort of insider/courthouse-rat air.
I used to notice people during my commute, but now I just catch Pokemon.
I mean, state court. Federal court it'd be a little edgier.
And each of those Pokemon has a rich, full inner life.
Honestly, I'm thinking of taking up cock fighting because it's basically the same thing but roosters have personality.
15: Weirdly, the work of literature that I think best captures the mindset of working class Trump voters is Garcia Marquez' "No One Writes to the Colonel", which is about cockfighting.
12- I haven't been able to find anyone else saying this online*, but the new (last month or so) Pokemon Go splash screen shows a Gengar in a vagina, with a big clit above its head, right?
*Mostly because when you google "Pokemon Go" + vagina you get a bunch of people who say they don't play because they've touched a real vagina.
barefoot in pointy dress shoes
Were the shoes on his hands or something?
I knew our chief federal judge before he was a judge, and am FB'd to his wife. I call him Judge when we meet on the street. He calls me Charley.
I've probably mentioned here before how annoying I found it during the Manville Trust litigation when some of the lawyers insisted, in conversations among lawyers, on calling Judge Weinstein "Jack." To his face if he's demanded you do so, fine. Talking to me about what you think a ruling might be on a procedural motion? Nope.
I really liked the Pynchon Bleeding Edge thing with noticing one subway commuter a day as a tarot card of sorts, some sort of message about what the day will be. I'm not writing this very well and don't want to go down and actually find it.
18: I wondered about that too.
It reminded my of how my stepdaughter used to be disturbed to see me walking around the house in my bare feet, and ask, "Why are you wearing your feet?"
Were the shoes on his hands or something?
Heh, oops. Sockless.
Holy crap! I just checked, and not only is Judge Weinstein* still alive, he's still carrying a full docket. If the internet is to be believed.
* No, I'm not going to call him Jack in a blog comment either.
...the new (last month or so) Pokemon Go splash screen shows a Gengar in a vagina, with a big clit above its head, right? is the new "colorless green ideas sleep furiously"
A former Ohio Supreme Court judge works in my office. She just goes by her first name.
barefoot in pointy dress shoes
"You can see her legs!"
"No, you can't," said Nanny Ogg. "The reason being, the material is in the way."
"Well, you can see where they are."
"That's silly," said Magrat. "You might as well say that everyone is naked under their clothes."
"Magrat Garlick may you be forgiven," said Granny flatly.
"Well, they are."
"I'm not," said Granny. "I've got three vests on."
Careful what you wish for. The man with the blue pencil is on his way.
I never really got used (though I was never very much exposed) to the practice of kitchen people of using "Chef" as if it were a name. "Chef said blah".
I've had the sort of thoughts ogged is describing, but with somewhat different stimuli, I think.
The UK seems to have lost its mind even more than the US.
Yeah re 13 I was definitely imagining this all unfolding in front of scheind/lin and her deputy just automatically opening up a trapdoor under my feet. And that's all my inside baseball for today, promise.
What I don't understand about the link in 29 is how a country can come to such a policy without a big contingent of religious nuts driving it. Like, if you don't think god is gonna be mad about your weird porn, then who the fuck cares? This is assuming that "protecting the children" is always just cover for the real goal of punishing the perverts.
Nice to see that Parliament has time for the important stuff, though.
30: Because I am a shut-in, I have FB friends whom I know fairly well IRL but see only occasionally. This has resulted in me referring to them, when speaking to AB, by their full FB names. One of these is a good friend of hers, and she always reminds me that she doesn't actually go by Firstname Maidenname Lastname, but in my mind that's who she is. Same deal with Chef Firstname Lastname, whose FB name is that because he's a bit of a media personality and so his FB feed is sort of both personal and professional. But I don't think people IRL call him Chef--certainly not his friends.
sex acts involving...female ejaculation
See, it all comes back to the Gengar.
Cloyster is the battle vagina. Or maybe, given the name, it's the shell around it.
I opened the app. Maybe it's different on iOA, but I don't see anything near Gengar that looks clitorisy.
At the top here although it's cropped so you only see the bottom edge. Also much bigger proportionally than the real thing.
I still don't see it. Too asymmetrical. Must less of a Georgia O'Keefe effect than the above mentioned Cloyster.
I guess standards are loose out here. "Judge" is conventional in court or for judges you don't know personally. First names are normal and expected outside of court with judges who are friends, former colleagues, etc.
But you also wear aloha shirts and hurache sandals in court, right?
Not in court, no. Basically if you see someone in a jacket and a tie in Hawaii, the odds are very high that they're either a lawyer headed to court or a mainland business type on their first day here.
I was pelting down the stairs to the platform a few weeks ago, in a desperate rush to catch a train, when I ran up against a knot of three older folks, 2 dudes, 1 woman. I was making mildish "excuse me, if you wouldn't mind letting me scoot by" noises and motions, when I realized one of the guys was sort of winking at me. Oh, so that would be 1/3 of the penultimate panel I'd been before, ah hello Justice, I'm in no hurry here! Dude thought this was *great*.
And we got the decision last week and won, so no complaints!
Over the years I've had a number of cases in the USVI: last time I was in court, my local counsel wore huarache sandals. I wore cowboy boots. Quite the pair.
I'm appearing in GTMO next week. It'll be 90F out, so short sleeves under the jacket. The panel sees me through video, so it doesn't matter as much as in person.
My dad's court had a dress code specifically forbidding wearing a cowboy hat during court.
I know because he paid me to type the court rules in Apple Works so he could edit them.
29: This, along with the Investigatory Powers Act that just passed, makes me deeply furious. Why shouldn't people watch two consenting adults have sex? Why should your local [fire service / NHS trust / insert outrageous example here] have access to your browsing history?
Why shouldn't people watch two consenting adults have sex?
Because we didn't even know you were there! How did you get in this house? Go away right now or I'll call the NHS Trust.
My dad's court had a dress code specifically forbidding wearing a cowboy hat during court.
Your dad was not Judge Roy Bean, I take it?
Nebraska is not actually west of the Pecos.
35: Now I see it. It's like a slightly to the side view.
Everything is West of the Pecos if you go far enough.
33: to maintain a complete inventory of hypocrisy, blackmail, mutually destructive knowledge for use in unadmitted struggle?
Is there a name for doing horrible stuff in a group to enforce group loyalty?
Is there a name for doing horrible stuff in a group to enforce group loyalty?
Folk music.
Is there a name for doing horrible stuff in a group to enforce group loyalty?
Well, before 60 it was group masturbation to Andrew Sachs.
