Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground

THE WEEKLY LAW SCHOOL ROUNDUP . . . You'll find Weekly Law School Roundup #231 at Thanks, But No Thanks. The next installment will appear here soon.

A Concert Review, Plus News About a Book

It’s been a long time since anyone accused me of being cool. Yesterday, however, that door slammed shut completely: I'm now officially uncool forever.

Last night, the Eagles played at Busch Stadium. I attended the concert. I even made sure to get there in time for the opening act, The Dixie Chicks.

Embarrassing as it is, this is my report.

Before I begin, however, I want to apologize in advance for some digressions I'm going to make along the way. They have to do with my new work-in-progress, Be Rich Like Me! A Memoir, by Evan Schaeffer.

Read on. All with be explained.

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The evening began at a downtown restaurant called the Terrace View. I turned my car keys over to my wife, Andrea, and ordered a couple of vodkas on the rocks, doubles.

It's a pre-concert ritual I don't recommend to anyone who likes to enjoy a concert sober. For me, it works.

I also ate a little food. With that out of the way, we walked with some friends toward the stadium.

FEED MAGAZINE ARCHIVES: BACK ONLINE . . . You'll find the archives to the old web magazine FEED here, with this introduction--

Launched in May of 1995, [FEED] was among a handful of "webzines"--as they were once called--in existence then. FEED tried to re-imagine how we would read and write in the digital age even as we dedicated ourselves to the craft of writing, a craft we were perfecting as green writers and editors ourselves.

Link from Mark Athitakis’ American Fiction Notes.

DRIVING IN BUENOS AIRES . . . I've rented cars in Mexico, Uruguay, and Costa Rica.

In Argentina, I said no. 

If I ever change my mind about driving in Argentina, I'll take a look at this post first: "The Joys of Driving in Buenos Aires."

As they say, "lanes are just suggestions." Good to know . . .

Related Post: "If You're Going to Spend a Month in Buenos Aires."

WHAT TO DO WITH THE REST OF YOUR SUMMER . . . You could read a biography of Marcus Aurelius, keeping in mind that "Stoicism Is Just So Yesterday." (Link from Arts & Letters Daily.)

The Weekly Law School Roundup #230

It's the weekly list of good posts from the past week by law students, some current or almost current, some recently-graduated--

Jobs Being foolishly quixotic about jobs for lawyers. [KatieLuper.com]

Mystery A tale of intrigue and Similac. [Thanks, But No Thanks]

Stuff Beauty-product roundup. [Legally Fabulous]

Home Qualities of country music. [The JE Guide to Life]

Advice How to choose a law school. [Maybe So, Maybe No]

Argument Advocacy versus puffery. [Exhibit L]

No Flirting at law school. [Dennis Jansen]

Mix A soundtrack for the bar exam. [Virgin in the Volcano]

Networking Pushed to the brink. [I Don't Wear Skinny Jeans]

Police Government showing force. [The Corner in the Middle]

Prep Non-law-related advice for 0L's. [Legally Questionable Content]

Roundup Moms in the Legal Profession #155. [PT-LawMom]

Look for next week's roundup at Thanks, But No Thanks then it's back here the week after that. You can find some other recent roundups in the "At the Law Schools 2" category, as well as sixty or so older roundups from 2004-2005 here. Finally, if you want to know how I choose posts to highlight, see "How I Write the Weekly Law School Roundup." (If you have a law-student weblog that I don't seem to know about or that isn't in my blogroll, please send me an email.)

THE WEEKLY LAW SCHOOL ROUNDUP . . . You'll find Weekly Law School Roundup #229 at Thanks, But No Thanks. The next installment will appear here soon.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND IN THIS WEBLOG'S ARCHIVES . . . Here are just a few of the items that once appeared at the top of this weblog, but which now appear only in its archives:

A simple formula for escaping the law by writing a legal thriller

An annotated federal-court decision in which a law clerk hid names of Talking Heads songs

A bit about The Lawyer Who Brings Her Breast Pump to the Office

A prayer for trial lawyers

A letter from a lawyer on the run

Lots of podcasts

A set of instructions for finding a modest lawyer, if such a thing exists

A blow-by-blow account of my trip with another lawyer to Prague in the Czech Republic

A description of some of my favorite things: the Fender Jaguar guitar; Drinking, Smoking, and Screwing; and computers.

An explanation as to why everyone needs to develop their own "a circle of advisors"

A description of lawyers who advertise on TV

The Legal Underground Official Tort-Reform Glossary

The best way to learn the skill of issue-spotting on law-school exams

A short story about law-firm partnership

A little more advice about law and literature

An anecdote about the time I stayed out all night drinking with Christopher Hitchens

A post about the way that riverboat gambling shook up the monotony of my BigLaw lawyer's life in the early 1990s 

My advice to a senior law partner who was having trouble connecting with the younger generation

A short note about Richard Nixon and why I became a lawyer

That's just a few of the things you'll find among this weblogs 2,852 posts (which also feature 6,306 comments). If you don't want to stop there (though I won't blame you if you do), you can also find many of my posts arranged in a chapter-by-chapter form here: "The Sixteen Types of Lawyers, and Other Observations from a Lawyer with a Weblog."

CONUNDRUM: SYNONYMS FOR "TWEET"  . . . At the New York Times, they've made a decision: they're not using the word "tweet."

In a memo to staff, a Times editor suggests alternatives, e.g., "write."

From The Awl.

CREATE YOUR OWN LITERARY iPAD APP . . . Or maybe not. Says Scott Lindenbaum of Electric Literature--

It takes hundreds of hours, with a typical development team, you could be paying hundreds of dollars an hour per developer. It can be very, very expensive. We got lucky because we had this team that's working for literature, rather than development, purposes. So we were able to build it sort of on the cheap. But even so, it cost us thousands of dollars to develop the thing.

From GalleyCat.