serious & silly
i think that the stuff you guys wrote on yesterday's message board was incredibly thoughtful and meaningful, so thank you.
it was great to read the quote that someone posted from the captain in cool hand luke. does anyone remember that guns n' roses song called civil war from one of the use your illusion albums? i believe that they actually sampled the captain's quote at the beginning of that song. i'm not sure why, though, because it really doesn't fit so well with the rest of the lyrics. oh well... who can try to comprehend the madness that is axl rose.
that's a pretty sweet name when you think about it. axl.
axl rose sounds pretty cool.
axl menlove... not so cool.
axl hellerstein... that's more like it.
speaking of the donker, hellerstein's been pretty interesting lately, and class tomorrow should be a good one, especially considering how he was in the trenches for all of this voting rights stuff. i'm sure we'll hear some good stories. personally, i'm still hoping to hear more about his role in the attica insurrection of 1971. i picture him running through the prison corridors, as always, with a machete in hand.
anyway, back to your comments on the message board. my absolute favorites were the back-to-back scorpion parables you guys posted. they both resonated with me, and i believe them both to be true.
in the spirit of these parables or koans or whatever they were, here are two of my favorites, one serious, and one a bit silly.
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buddha told the following parable in a sutra:
a man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. he fled, the tiger after him. coming to a precipice, he jumped off, caught hold of the root of a wild vine, and swung himself down over the edge.
the tiger sniffed and swiped at him from above.
trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. it paced around in a hungry circle. only the vine sustained him.
two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away at the vine.
the man saw a luscious strawberry near him. grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. how sweet it tasted!
***
menlove told the following parable in sutra:
two tall trees, a birch tree and a beech tree, grew side by side in the forest. a young sapling sprouted up from the ground between them.
the beech tree says to the birch, "is that young sapling the son of a birch the son of a beech?" the birch tree says he cannot tell.
just then a woodpecker lands on the sapling. the birch says, "woodpecker, you are a tree expert. can you please tell us whether that tree is the son of a birch or the son of a beech?"
the woodpecker takes a tiny taste of the small tree.
he replies, "this here tree is neither the son of a birch nor the son of a beech. this, my friends, is the finest piece of ash i have ever put my pecker in."
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i also came across this somewhere in my travels:
the four stages of courage
the fear of courage
the fear of fear
the courage of fear
the courage of courage
in these final weeks of this terrible and wonderful roller coaster ride that is our first year at BLS, may we all be driven by a courage born of courage. know that the end is in sight, and know that you will do well.
or as these weird chicks once told me: "be bloody, bold, and resolute: laugh to scorn the power of man."
or as marky mark would say: "nicole 4 eva"
"now i popped both your cherries, mister walker"
i'll see you all tomorrow at the wednesday morning B.J. extravaganza...
-menlove
posted by menlove @ 12:57 AM
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8 Comments:
Menlove... were those weird chicks by any chance Weird Sisters?
Way to share your morning wood, Menlove!
Just wondering if I'm alone here...lately I've noticed an increase in the amount of cell phones ringing in the library, people answering their phones before they are out the door, talking loudly outside on the phone or with others so that people studying can hear, loud music on headphones, and laughing, to name a few distractions, all going on in the library reading rooms. I'm not saying people have to spend every minute in the library studying, but I would like people to be respectful and be quiet. Have I become one of the anal 1Ls whom I despised when they criticized latecomers for causing a distraction in class, or is it ok to be annoyed here?
yep, you're a dork. And for anyone else who writes later with some "come on we're in law school show some consideration, everyone does it sometimes but blah blah blah": you also are a dork. If the library is ever too loud for you, you are O-Ding on law school and need to go home get drunk and chill out.
"Yo, sit back relax catchin contacts, sip your cog-nac"
Dork? Is this step by step or full house? Anyway, the library should be a place to study without hearing people answering phones. If they wanna be in an environment where they can answer phones and talk to people, they can go to the student lounge or an empty classroom, or at least put their phone on vibrate and when they get a call make the 20 foot walk and answer their phone outside of the room where people are trying to read.
Oh come on. Everyone take a breath and lets talk about funny things again. Law school is hard enough without stupid drama. And Owen Equipment- I'm loving the name.
is anyone else in section 9 fuming over Robyn's inability to set up a section trip to a bar?? I mean i know people who have been taken out by their legal writing professor not once but TWICE. it is true that she tried to set up one last semester but I mean she had all of this semester to get her act together. Now she is trying to make up for her inability to grab a few alcoholics and walk over to O'Keeefes by substituting bagels. I used to defend her before but i am a raging alcoholic and lack of free drinks makes me angry. I would love to yell at her in class tomorrow about it but i hear she would make me go to her office so she can yell at me like when you complain about margins. I think I am going to pick up one of her bagels take one bite and throw it out in protest (and this will hurt because I almost love free food as much as I love free alcohol)
I agree. As a former Robyn fan, I can't help but be dissappointed by this drinks thing. No professor has the obligation to take us out, but once she said she would, she really should've followed through with it (and it would have been pretty easy for her to do so at some point during these two long semesters). And I also agree that bagels and muffins during class time (though a nice gesture on its own) is definetely no substitute for going out for drinks. That being said, I can't wait to see you throw a bagel at her tomorow.
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