"The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 World Champions of baseball!"
- Harry Kalas
It’s time for a little World Series Phever! My beloved Phillies find themselves, for the second consecutive season, playing in the World Series. And I find myself, for the second consecutive season, staying up too late to watch television commercials spliced with occasional live baseball action. But since the Phillies, the losingest franchise in professional sports, had not won a World Series ...
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“Yo... It’s cold outside, Paulie.”
- Rocky Balboa, Rocky
It was just another quiet Sunday in the middle of October. I was sitting on my couch sifting through some cases, having just put a bread in the oven to bake. Having finally relented and turned on the heat in my apartment...
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“Give him the heater.”
- Lou Brown, Major League
Having only recently emerged from my work-induced stupor, I’ve noticed that the weather has become decidedly chilly of late. Usually mid-October is the point at which I stop thinking of fall as New England’s premier season...
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“‘Cause all I wanna do is go the distance.’”
- Rocky Balboa, Rocky
Like the runners struggling up Heartbreak Hill during the Boston Marathon, I’m on the final slog to the finish line with my tandem of humongous briefs.
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“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.”
- Alka-Seltzer Advertisement
This past weekend, my mom and aunt came to town to visit my baby cousin. And while I spent a fair portion of the weekend furiously cite checking and revising my two briefs, the family provided me a welcomed respite from the rigors of drafting.
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“There’s no easy way out. There’s no shortcut home.”
- Robert Tepper, Rocky IV
This past week, I have continued my descent into the permanent brief writing abyss. Although I managed to pick off two smaller briefs last week, I still have two whoppers on the horizon.
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“From now on you’ll have no identifying marks of any kind.”
- Zed, Men in Black
As I mentioned in my last posting, I’ve shifted into full-blown brief writing mode. In the next three weeks, I have to draft and file: an Eighth Circuit appellate brief, a gargantuan motion to dismiss brief, a smaller motion to dismiss brief, and a short memorandum of law in my veteran’s benefits case.
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“Well, I got her number. How do you like them apples?”
- Will Hunting, Good Will Hunting
In Boston, Labor Day inevitably means several things: the leaves begin to turn, the air becomes cooler, football season kicks off, partners return from their houses on Cape Cod, and folks from across New England flock to orchards to go apple picking.
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“That rug really tied the room together.”
-Various, The Big Lebowski
This past weekend, my wife and I made a final, concerted push to get our new apartment into the realm of presentable. At long last, it was time to purge the Everest-sized pile of boxes that had collected in our living room; proudly hang the Bon Jovi clock in our bathroom; and find a home for our kitchen appliances.
Above all else, my goal for the weekend was to purchase (and assemble) a stand for our television. Apparently, it is not OK for adults to prop their mammoth tube TV (how old fashioned) up on plastic crates.
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“How’d you do that? Actually, I’m not even mad; that’s amazing.”
- Ron Burgundy, Anchorman
I survived my mini-vacation down to the Cape without any work-related emergencies, which is a victory in and of itself. Although I had a federal judge lampoon my two-day-long “summer vacation” as “pathetic,” I found the whole weekend quite relaxing and enjoyable, notwithstanding the outlandish traffic en route to Cape Cod.
My wife and I got down to the Cape at lunchtime on Friday, and after scarfing down some pizza, we bolted to the nearest beach for an afternoon on the sand and surf. After blinding some unwitting beachgoers with my iridescent farmer’s tan, we headed back to our B&B to de-sand.
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“Ah, that must be exhausting”
The Dude, The Big Lebowski
To show that WH is at the vanguard of the technology revolution – I’ll be tweeting this week’s entry, 140 characters at a time.
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“No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater… than central air.”
- Azrael, Dogma
Because no good complaint goes unpunished, my previous lament over the sorry state of Boston’s summer weather has (obviously) given way to the stifling humidity of August...
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“So this is what a courtroom looks like.”
- Lt. Daniel Kaffee, A Few Good Men
Work has settled down somewhat after last week’s runaround. This week, I was all geared up to handle a hearing on my own down in southeastern Massachusetts...
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“I’m Keith Hernandez.”
- Keith Hernandez (1979 National League MVP), Seinfeld I’ve been feeling rather old of late, and not just because I’ve been popping Advil like Pez from toting boxes and a 9,000-pound armoire during my recent move...
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“You can act like a man! [slap] What’s the matter with you?”
- Vito Corleone, The Godfather ...
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So you are probably wondering why on Earth the powers-that-be at WilmerHale asked me to write this blog. I am as puzzled as you. Perhaps a brief introduction is warranted...
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“It’s like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.”
- Nigel Tufnel, This Is Spinal Tap ...
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