Who wants to guest blog for me? I seem to have lost interest.
Yeah yeah. I was thinking of just posting over there and hoping no one here noticed, but I figure I'd get busted. God knows what I'm going to come up with -- I'm completely out of ideas.
Why don't you neglect your children (more than usual, I mean) and then write about the cute things children do when neglected?
This was exactly how I felt at the Washington Monthly. He asked me to guest there just when I had absolutely nothing to say.
Posts about pie are always a big hit.
As are those that hate on Althouse.
In case you're wondering, LB, I'm laughing at you and your hiatus.
5: Mmm. You did not bring your A game at WaMo. But the comments you inspired made up for everything.
7: Oh, I'm completely sitting here with my ears drooping and my tail tucked between my legs -- I can't even quit blogging decisively.
You did not bring your A game at WaMo
Hey!
Ogged's stint at WaMo was fantastic. I ran across one of those threads on a google search for something else, and the aggrieved comments were a delight to read.
10: I was just kidding. The pie post was a work of art.
I was just kidding.
No, no, it's totally true. I had nuthin'. But when I emailed Drum later about the abusive commenters, he said something like, "You read all the comments? You poor bastard."
So much for the sanctity of off-blog communication.
This is why I never agree to guest blog anywhere. Blogging here is fine because, with all of the co-bloggers, there's not as much "I MUST write something" pressure. Guest blogging, you're making a commitment. Even if I wasn't in a "I got nothin'" phase (which I go through), I'd surely enter one as soon as my guest blog stint started.
No one (or at least no one posting at blogs I read) seems to be reading Scotusblog these days, and I'm not either, but I imagine that there's probably good material there on which you could post.
Alternatively, play devil's advocate and make the case for voting for Kucinich.
So much for the sanctity of off-blog communication.
Then he offered to pay me for sex, but I said no.
Washington Monthly is not ogged's crowd. One of the signal joys of Unfogged is its ability to attract oggedian (and similar) crowds without attracting others.
There's no spirit of whimsy at WM.
16: It would begin "So, I was on this ship, and suddenly we detoured away from reality..."
15: Yeah, usually I figure I can just pull something out of the NYT every morning. Which I figure I can still do, I'm just not in the mood for it.
Seriously, I think I'm bummed out about politics because it looks so certain that Democrats are going to really take back power (that is, Congress is exercising it, rather than just rolling over, and we'll get the presidency in '08) and I've hit the "But wait a second, everything's still going to suck anyway!" moment.
20- that made me laugh at the time, and it makes me laugh again now. Thank you, ogged.
Do a series of reviews of courtroom dramas either a) seriously or b) pedantically focused on ways in which they get law wrong. I actually don't really feel like this would interest you, and it involves a substantial time investment, but I'd read it and it'd fit into to both the film reviews and bizarrely categorized series over at LGM, though the bizarrely categorized series are more of a Rob thing.
I could write one of those about 12 Angry Men off the top of my head (I can just hear the judge: "You went where? You brought what into the jury room? Jesus Christ, people, don't you listen to instructions at all? Mistrial.")
"The Verdict" came out when I was in LS. I was apoplectic, not having learned to just let it go.
You could do Witness for the Proesecution, but you'd have to learn British law. The eponymous novel upon which Anatomy of a Murder was based was pseudonymously written by a Michigan Supreme Court justice, but I don't know what that means for its accuracy.
I knew James Spader in high school. Maybe I'll find his email address and you could interview him.
21: Me too. But I'll have less feeling of dread.
28: Really? Oooooo. Although he's looking baggier lately -- five years ago I'd have been all over the idea. ("No, really, Mr. Spader, it's a very prestigious blog.")
Although he's looking baggier lately -- five years ago I'd have been all over the idea.
Somethingist!
A partner at a big LA firm that I used to do business with said that at the time the only things accurate about LA Law were the committee meeings and backstabbing. The law parts were all a joke.
I like pie. Particularly pecan pie. Never coconut pie. Sometimes french silk pie. Always key lime pie.
mmmmmmm. Pie.
Who wants to guest blog for me? I seem to have lost interest.
I'll guest blog for you. I'll even pretend to be you, although I must warn you that my female characters have been said to lack verisimilitude.
First order of business: "Sisters! It is incredibly foolish to pronounce "Ob-Gyn" with five syllables. We're playing into the hands of militarists who claim women can't handle syllable-based acronyms."
There's the latest in the Padilla case.
And pie bloggin a la Fafnir.
I always thought that that Gene Hackman movie where he sues "Ford" motor company in a product liability case was kind of fun. His daughter totally violated all sorts of ethical rules, and yet I was rooting for her the whole time.