Oh New York City you talk a lot…
You look like a city. You feel like a religion. –L. Nyro, 1969 Five Points, George Catlin, 1827 Foley Square, 1963 (Bettmann/CORBIS)
Am I a bad person?
Some 20-something pre-law Swarthmore College girl summer intern four weeks into her internship just told me that she”˜d be the BEST intern […]
Hot muggy angsty with increasing existential dread by Thursday night
Global warming-driven or not, now is the always-hot weather period between July 1 and August 15 that early Greeks and Romans roughly […]
Jane Mallory Birkin (1946-2023)
Jane Mallory Birkin (1946-2023). Anglo-Gallic elegance, way-talented, enduring, hardworking, beautiful, and as well-rounded as humans get.
Bastille II
“Is it a revolt?” “No, Sire. It is a Revolution.” Jean-Baptiste Lallemand The Storming of the Bastille July 14, 1789
Help me save The West.
Help me. The new body positivity for women and girls is grossing me out. It’s grossing out my dog, too. We’re out […]
Milan Kundera (1929-2023)
An older woman is a jewel in the life of a man. –Kundera in “Immortality,” 1990 One critic: The book will make […]
37 years
On July 12, 1986, around 1:30 AM EST, on 14 F Street N.W., I had my last drink. Probably a beer–likely a […]
The Best of Partner Emeritus: “I own a dog so I can understand how to be patient with associates.”
If you work for a peer firm, you will encounter me or someone very much like me. [Y]ou cannot avoid the essence […]
Huxley: So many gods to chose from.
More people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country. The craving for […]
See this movie.
Just saw this in Georgetown. Not my usual movie fare but well done, tasteful, nuanced and surprisingly powerful. What mainstream film American […]
The Jurists
“Art. III judicial meltdown, It’s always the same. Having a nervous breakdown, It drives you insane.” ~ R. Plant, J. Page, D. […]
MC5: Shakin’ Street (1970)
Little Orphan Annie and Sweet Sue too They’ve been coming around Gives ’em somethin’ to do Their mamas all warned ’em not […]
Prince Hal with Falstaff at Boar’s Head Tavern. Henry IV, Part 1. 1840
Hal listens to Falstaff’s lies in Henry IV, Part 1. Folger Shakespeare library. Unknown artist, c.1840 Peto, Bardolph and Gadshill at left; […]
What About Paris?
“What About Paris? is a blog about lawyering and doing business globally. Established in 2005 as What About Clients?, it features law […]
Americans: Born Outlaws
Make no mistake. Americans are born outlaws. 2023? Year 234 of our current form of business. Still a very new nation. With […]
July 3, 1863
July 3, 1863. Day 3 of Gettysburg. I had ancestors on both sides of the Civil War. Scores of them. I walked […]
Prisoner of Rock ‘n’ Roll: Help, I’m a Rock.
How was your week, Campers?
World-Famous Way-Mindful 12 Rules of Client Service.
The 12 Rules, that’s who. Sometimes all you need is what one favorite poet called a New Mind. These now classic if […]
The Church Militant and Church Triumphant (1365)
Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze, The Church Militant and Church Triumphant, fresco, Santa Maria Novella, Florence (1365)
My go-fund me account in the sixties in Ohio before I could drive.
Starting around 1965, and until 1971 or so, I painted Indian Hill mailboxes, washed cars and taught tennis. For two years I […]
The Fighting Temeraire, 1838
The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1839, by Joseph Mallord William Turner. The National Gallery, Trafalgar […]
Henry Miller: The Classics
A man with his belly full of the classics is an enemy of the human race. “” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer […]
Gonzoid Specimen # 1 from Duke Chanticleer 1975
Duke Chronicle piece 10/23/74 Duke Chanticleer piece August 1975 Original WAC/P? blog post 10/22/16 People don’t want to accept that about themselves, […]