a kinder, gentler hayrick

first things first, a heart-felt welcome goes out to "Drumhead", "nanfan", "palsgraff", "packout78", "aint no power like the Power of Procedure", and "Absent Bargee." some of you seem to be pretty funny motherfuckers, and some of the names are quite clever as well. thanks for coming.

fyi... here's the track listing from the "great" soundtrack to Garden State...

1. Don't Panic - Coldplay
2. Caring Is Creepy - The Shins
3. In The Waiting Line - Zero 7
4. New Slang - The Shins
5. I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You - Colin Hay
6. Blue Eyes - Cary Brothers
7. Fair - Remy Zero
8. One Of These Things First - Nick Drake
9. Lebanese Blonde - Thievery Corporation
10. The Only Living Boy In New York - Simon & Garfunkel
11. Such Great Heights - Iron and Wine
12. Let Go - Frou Frou
13. Winding Road - Bonnie Somerville

i know maybe half of these bands, and they're all pretty good. could it be possible that sebok, in addition to being a polymath armed with a rapier-like wit, also has great taste in music? what can't the guy do?

yes, yes... true enough, i know that any sebok-worship posted here will be construed by some as a manifestation of some sort of subconscious / latent homosexual desire for the man (menlove = manlove???), but i just think that big tony is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

the point is that someone needs to arrange a Garden State party / screening a.s.a.p., and we can do it up in style. i'll bring a box of fireworks if someone can hook us up with a few barrels of flour.

in other news...

regarding the request for me to share my feelings on the "HOTTEST chick in our class"... man, that would be a lot of fun to write about. certainly there is no shortage of beautiful women in our class. i mean, just look around for a minute next time you're in crim. it's almost criminal to have so many lovely ladies in one place at one time. we're very near the saturation point. we've got

girls in glasses, boots and skirts
girls in tight and tiny shirts
with their batting-eyelash flirts
makes me smile til it hurts

girls with simply sinful booties
girls who took good notes on duty
some are gorgeous, some are cuties
make my thoughts in class get lewd- ee?

uh, i sort of lost it there at the end. but let's just imagine, arguendo (boo-yah!), what would happen if i did post my specific thoughts on the topic. the last thing i would want to do is to hurt someone's feelings based on their exclusion from any such list.

true, the argument could be made that exclusion from one of my idiotic little postings would not hurt anyone's feelings...

i disagree. there's this wonderful book i'm reading right now called the power of procedure. in it, clinton's lawyers argued that jones had no right to discover information on the chicks clinton was boning pre-gubernatorially. "why must their names be named," his lawyers rationalized, "if paula didn't even know about it, how could it have affected her?" as it turns out, the court held these other quid pro quo arrangements DID directly affect ms. jones. by virtue of the fact that these women were advancing through the ranks more quickly by riding on the slick willy express, paula was left behind, with nothing to show for it but a dead-end job and a horrendous haircut.

do you follow my analogy? really?? i don't. it's really rather flimsy, and is in no way analogous to the intant case.

so here's the second prong to my defense:

my sole purpose here is to build a kind and gentle hayrick, a hayrick where everyone can feel welcome to visit and maybe even to post a thing or two, a hayrick where people can forget about how shitty and stressful 1L life is, if only for a few minutes. it would truly suck if even one person estopped checking out Menlovian, or estopped sharing their thoughts just because i let things get too close for comfort. the way i see it [cue the violins], every woman is the most beautiful woman in the room in someone's eyes, and i hope that each and every woman in our class finds the person who sees them that way.

my next post will be after tuesday's quiz. have a great weekend everyone... and if someone could tell me what the fuck estoppel means, i'd appreciate it.