Baddest Ass

Friday morning I flew from Milwaukee to New Orleans at 6am. (Thursday night I had dinner with my step dad and this guy and this other guy who represents Guantanamo guys and Padilla and other cool stuff.)
The weekend was wonderful. I was there for a wedding and got to spend great time with new and old friends. It was a beautiful ceremony (including a reading from the law nerdily appropriate Goodrich v. Dept. of Health.) I discovered I still had "it" when I caught the shuttle to the airport at 3:50 a.m. on Sunday, still wearing my dress. I had actually decided to leave the rest of my stuff in New Orleans and fly back as-is... but made a last-minute good call.
And so, I am still recovering. I arrived home without my cell phone charger but with some kind of upper respiratory infection. Nevertheless, internet, please know, I am badass.

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Musical Reviews

I've gone to concerts for free the past two Friday evenings. You wouldn't know it. In fact, if you only read this, you'd know very little about now.

Friday before last, Charlie won tickets to Langhorne Slim. I've found it very easy to win tickets to minor concerts in Madison. Basically, if we both enter three main sites (Madison.com, the Onion and Muzzle of Bees), we seem to have a better than 50% chance of winning. Overall odds are helped by incidents like where I won tickets to the Avett Bros. from both Madison.com and the Onion. Anyway, the show was really high energy and fun. I didn't really realize his following is approximately 8-10 years younger than me... but it was cool. We just sat in the balcony with the old people. I don't know his music that well, but the other fans did and it always makes me happy to see a bunch of people get SO STOKED when a song comes on.

Last Friday I registered people to vote at the Neko Case show, one of the first acts of Madison's ingaural Forward Music Fest. Yeah. That's right, I exercised my giant muscle of democracy while being entertained by a slightly-less-hot-than-I-remember-but-still-pretty-hot Neko. I am a really good person.

My good personality continued through Saturday morning when I participated in a 5k raising money for public interest law students. It was a lovely day in Madison. Riding to the race along the lakeshore path, I mused that if UW were located in a more temperate climate... it would be the hardest school to get into in the country. Because, let me tell you, on a nice day, it's unbelievably lovely. Post race we did what Wisconsinites do when it's nice outside... start drinking. And kept drinking. All day. Until 10:30 or so at night when I caught 20 minutes or so of SNL and decided that "the free market... not looking so free lately..." was the cleverest joke I'd ever heard. And then I fell asleep.

Now, see, this is why I don't blog more often. I try to talk about music and it turns into some minute by minute rundown of my day to day. Lame.

Tim Wise Does A Really Good Job

White Privilege and the election, via my mom.

This is Really Funny

Bad Sarah, for reals.

So Sarah Palin is totally crazy. But I guess the real question is, crazy like a fox? (or a caribou, in her case?)

"I believe Alaska is one of the refuge states in the last days, and hundreds of thousands of people are going to come to the state to seek refuge and the church has to be ready to minister to them."

Um, hundred of thousands of people don't even believe Alaska exists. Increasingly, I may be one of them. All of this crazy-ass Sarah Palin stuff has given me some good tips, though. When arguing my point, be sure to mention that's what God wants. She says God wants off-shore drilling. Well, I say God also wants to you find my crack possession client not guilty. God also wants me to have an iPod touch and go on some kind of tropical vacation later this year. Um, and professors, yeah, since it's my last year and all, God would prefer you give me straight As and require no effort on my part. I mean, it's for God and all. Wow, this is awesome. I can see why she's so qualified to be John McCain irregular heartbeat away from leader of superawesome America.

Addendum: Found this-- while Palin was mayor of Wasilla, the town was billing sexual assault victim's insurance for their evidence-collecting exams. WTF?

More Complete Outrage

Two Things About This Article...

1. "I was vetted by John McCain" sounds dirty. Like there is a lawsuit in the works....

2. Sarah Palin is like Paul Wellstone how exactly? No, gross. Find a new analogy, please...

Oh, this is the article I'm talking about.

RNC, Yeah You Know Me

I was in Minneapolis this weekend, in St. Paul for what was supposed to be day one of the RNC. Of course, the Republicans cared too much about poor people in the Gulf Coast to party? Or I suppose that's the line.

Anyway, I was a legal observer on Monday. And saw some shit. The whole thing was so disheartening, kids being beat up and tear-gassed in my home. As I said in my email to St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman, we're supposed to be better than this.

So here are the pictures I put on Facebook, with a little more narration.


The National Guard, getting ready to bust some anarchist kids' heads. Then, about 6 cops take a non-violent kid (with no shoes on) down. And kick him repeatedly on the ground. Onlookers from the sidewalk start shouting, "hey man, take it easy, chill out!"


So those onlookers got pepper-sprayed. Naturally.


Paul and Sheila would be proud of those kids, and grossed out by the St. Paul police.

I wish I could have stayed in town longer, there was literally tear-gas in the air and it was exciting... but stupid school got in the way. Today was day three of 3L... oh yeah, and SENIORS!!!!!!!!