Lex regit, arma tuentur you fascists

#lawsky yet a-fucking-gain [that is an example of tmesis, for those following at home, and @lexlanham.bsky.social], the client work thing I have been worrying about since Friday turns out to be fine. I will be glad when *this* is over.

#writing I'm afraid my poetry doesn't "destabilise[s] cultural or stylistic classification and boundaries" enough for that journal...

A little more cooking…. Basil Fettuccine with salmon, tomatoes, olives, and spinach

Melie Kerr caught out by Lauren Bell on a full toss…..

Making brunch? (Yes I save the leftover takeout ketchup packs)

I usually find places like care repairs shops and hardware stores intimidating because of my near-total absence of "traditionally-male" mechanical skills, but the guy this morning - bearded, tall and stout, with a goddam EYEPATCH was just too much.

@anyuse.bsky.social how I, sometimes …

"The new rules of sorority rush, according to a top consultant" 🤢🤢🤢

“It happened that one day as Hewitt left his office for a late lunch, he became aware of a pallid and agitated Jew who was pervading the front door of this adjoining building.” Arthur Morrison, it’s like you know me.

Aeneid super omnia.

Poetryyyy

0527 train departure always sounds more sensible in the planning than it feels in the execution

Sickening

“I suppose everyone tries to ignore the passing of time: some people by doing a lot, being in California one year and Japan the next; or there’s my way—making every day and every year exactly the same. Probably neither works.” —Philip Larkin

@anyuse.bsky.social how I…..

#writing getting a rejection notice twice from the same journal for the same submission is like.....OKAY I GET IT, you hate me....

This is an exceptional hotel bathrobe.

I think my uber driver has a bag of trash in the back seat with me

For May

#lawsky The bar is raised. www.law.com/nationallawj...

"Kai Trump* Opens Up About Last Name Backlash on Podcast" [*who nobody would ever had heard of or be interested in apart from her last name]

LinkedIn bro: “Life is short. Might as well play the game on hard mode.” Serious question: why? nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda

Everyone is pissing me off

yes this is an endless and annoying week, but I was able to quote Admiral Lord St Vincent to a colleague by email today, so that's something. ‘I do not say, my Lords, that the French will not come. I say only they will not come by sea.’

Disturbing dreams...one of *those* (ugh) and otherwise. Yonder see the morning blink: The sun is up, and up must I, To wash and dress and eat and drink And look at things and talk and think And work, and God knows why.

Route 128 when it’s late at night….

"Riley Gaines Frustrated by Opaque Hospital Bills Seven Months After Daughter's Birth" who could possibly give a shit?

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED

‘Disappointed’ ‘Surprised’ ‘Betrayed’: 12 Dogs Who Were Given a Bath After Being Embraced and Told ‘It’s Time for Your Bath’

This is Ohio US Sen Jon Husted, currently running for reelection. I say to all Ohioans, VOTE FOR SHERROD BROWN!!! We need him back, he works for all Ohioans, not just wealthy donors. Go blue, Ohio!

has the new york times ever thought about doing a focus group with someone who has read a book

Let's make is not so quietly...

Rule 11.

The Trump administration cutting NOAA funding means Gloucester fishermen lose weather forecasting and safety monitoring. But sure, tell me again about caring about working people. 🎣 #mapoli #MA06

"'Imagine' by John Lennon ranked 'worst song in rock history' despite charting at No. 1" I am vindicated.

#lawsky me to English partner this morning: "I know this is counter-intuitive (and rightly so!) from an English law perspective...." Ah, the good old Landreth Timber Co. v. Landreth, 471 U.S. 681 (1985), how I love thee.

I think this is 100% correct.

New sports crush - Nonkululeko Mlaba: she is incredible. (Also I am Old Enough (tm) to find it very moving to see multi- racial South African national teams.

Trying day, but India v South Africa in the women’s’ T20 cricket series is on Prime so I can watch my sports crushes Laura Wolvaardt and Jemimah Rodrigues for a bit

Just finished a fascinating book of literary criticism and the author’s photo is just beyond. Is this guy the coolest “cool 70s English professor” of all time? Could be….could very well be.

they don't prepare you for how much food you're going to eat as a dad simply because you already paid for it and someone has to

Financial advisory dude in Berlin on LinkedIn, saying he works on "Designing 1,000-Year Family Institutions" I dunno, sounds oddly familiar from some other German dude, but....? (

Oh wow really

Give me the toadwork of Lowry, Perec, Larkin… give me the provincial office, the works bbqs, the Monday morning catchups…

@clairemtaylor.com this is beautiful

Imagine, just imagine, writing this and thinking “nah, not that good, I won’t publish it.” It’s enough to make one never want to write anything ever again.

"gone wrong".....? That's just your opinion, man.