I know I’m not supposed to acknowledge things like self-googling or looking up site stats, but I do both, quite regularly (and thank you you 11 people who come here every day to see how I’m doing!  thank you!!!  what would you like to see more of here?).  and I’ve noticed that just about every […]

if this is any indication.  is it a real indication?  is it an anomaly?  what is this, other than depressing?

I got it into my head yesterday that I should walk from Bethesda to Adams Morgan, to see what interesting things turned up along the way, and so I did it, and there were many interesting things, including a teeny tiny Filipino grocery store in Tenleytown.

I went inside the store and got all teary because […]

Here’s the piece for the ABA Journal about Indian lawyers who do work for American companies and law firms:
Manhattan Work At Mumbai Prices

This is depressing
This is funny
This is my friend John’s book and should be read toot sweet and all

and this is a squirrel in a
plexiglass cage that I once saw
in a kimono shop/petting zoo
in Osaka, my favorite town, where I had in fact been drinking small amounts of absinthe
but nonetheless, this squirrel is for […]

turned into a real article for the Washington CityPaper
Wanted: Gullible Lawyers

Freedom is the right of all sentient beings

(hospital window, Warwick)
even, it turns out, Scooter Libby

but July is National Horseradish Month
also, it is 400 degrees in D.C. I am missing Saipan’s relative balmy summers.

102 degrees is what this thermometer says
four times that is how it felt

How I wish the Smithsonian’s Center for Short Term Phenomena were still in existence

(house, couch, stump, in Takoma Park)
there are so many neat things in the world to study
one or two of these things even involve squirrels