popov v. hayashi: the movie

in honor of our recently vanquished property class, i thought that some of you might like to know that there's a new movie coming out about the barry bonds case called "'up for grabs." it actually looks pretty good based on the website. although, truth be told, i doubt i'll ever see it, as my goal is never to think about property class again.

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on the message boards, someone wrote: "Menlove -- I experienced a mild burning sensation for the 27 hours Menlovian was off the air. Since you said before that you couldn't continue next year because that would reveal your identity -- and now you have agreed to reveal your identity -- why not keep on keepin on? I'm sure someone will back me up on this."

menlove replies: um, thank you for the compliment, and i hope that the burning sensation has cleared up. (i got a rash, man.) however, the menlovian must end this year, for two reasons:

(1) enough is enough already;

(b) people donated in reliance on my promise to come out - at the latest - on the day after our last grade is posted. there might be some sort of contractual something or other operating here, and if i've learned anything this year, it's that the subtleties of contract law are well beyond my ken; and

(4) look, man, i've got certain information, all right? certain things have come to light. and, you know, has it ever occurred to you, that, instead of, uh, you know, running around, uh, uh, blaming me, you know, given the nature of all this new shit, you know, i-i-i-i... this could be a-a-a-a lot more, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, complex, i mean, it's not just, it might not be just such a simple... uh, you know?

i'll tell you what i'm blathering about, man. the whole thing has been fun while it lasted, but it's gonna be over soon. i always thought i'd ride silently, facelessly off into the sunset, knowing that i'd succeeded in hiding my identity for a full year from a shitload of very intelligent people. it was a perfect plan, a swiss fucking watch. that was the beauty of it, the simplicity. if the plan gets too complex, something always goes wrong. if there's one thing i learned in 'nam--

(ok, sorry about all the lebowski quotes. i'll try to stop now.)

but then, menlovian somehow spawned BLSforGood, and my planned exit from the BLS blogging scene took a wild turn (in the big picture, a turn for the better), and now i'm bound to reveal myself in just a few weeks.

of course, i am proud of what we've done with BLSforGood (the royal we, you know, the editorial--), and i'm even thinking about putting it on my resume, sandwiched in between "moot court honor society, trial advocacy division tryouts, march, 2005" and "law review writing competition, picked up the packet: may, 2005."

i know that some of you may be excited to find out who i am. some of you have even told me this to my face, and i've overheard it in random conversations. however, i have to warn you that if you've got your hopes up too high, the whole thing is going to end up being somewhat anti-climactic.

when all is said and done, i'm (probably) not someone outside of section 9, and i'm (almost certainly) not your lady friend, or your special lady, and i'm (very likely) not professor pitler.

in reality, i'm just a dude in your class. maybe you've gotten to know me really well this year, maybe we're just friendly, or maybe we hardly speak; regardless, i'm just a regular guy who clearly likes to put off studying for as long as possible. (case in point: it's one a.m., and i've yet to crack my con law case notes for the semester. i sold the S&G text in february to pay the cable bill. booyah! heathcliff huxtable, you know i'd never let you go.) hence, menlovian.

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ok, so here's the deal: it's been a long, extremely stressful and ridiculous, often tedius but occasionally amusing blurry whirlwind of a year. we've all given somewhere between 35-100% of our "best effort." whatever your level of input, you've just got to keep it up for two more days. and then... our fucking troubles are over, dude!

keep on keepin' on,

-menlove