Ms. Ross
You may have dramatic cheekbones, pouty lips, Chiclet-white teeth, the neck of a gazelle, four feet of legs, a French manicure, and […]
Author: Dan Hull
It’s summer. You can leave your hat on.
They don’t know what love is.
St. Thomas Episcopal
I’m not religious. But I like churches. Inside and out. Mainly, the architecture. But also the hope held out. The notion of […]
Satire is Good.
The satirist is to be regarded as our physician, not our enemy. —Henry Fielding, 1707-1754 Physicians–like lawyers–may no longer be the great […]
Best of Partner Emeritus No. 2: PE Does ‘Nam.
If you work for a peer firm, you will encounter me or someone very much like me. [Y]ou cannot avoid the essence […]
Oh New York City you talk a lot…
You look like a city. You feel like a religion. –L. Nyro, 1969 Five Points, George Catlin, 1827 Foley Square, 1963 (Bettmann/CORBIS)
Am I a bad person?
Some 20-something pre-law Swarthmore College girl summer intern four weeks into her internship just told me that she”˜d be the BEST intern […]
Hot muggy angsty with increasing existential dread by Thursday night
Global warming-driven or not, now is the always-hot weather period between July 1 and August 15 that early Greeks and Romans roughly […]
Jane Mallory Birkin (1946-2023)
Jane Mallory Birkin (1946-2023). Anglo-Gallic elegance, way-talented, enduring, hardworking, beautiful, and as well-rounded as humans get.
Bastille II
“Is it a revolt?” “No, Sire. It is a Revolution.” Jean-Baptiste Lallemand The Storming of the Bastille July 14, 1789
Help me save The West.
Help me. The new body positivity for women and girls is grossing me out. It’s grossing out my dog, too. We’re out […]
Milan Kundera (1929-2023)
An older woman is a jewel in the life of a man. –Kundera in “Immortality,” 1990 One critic: The book will make […]
37 years
On July 12, 1986, around 1:30 AM EST, on 14 F Street N.W., I had my last drink. Probably a beer–likely a […]
The Best of Partner Emeritus: “I own a dog so I can understand how to be patient with associates.”
If you work for a peer firm, you will encounter me or someone very much like me. [Y]ou cannot avoid the essence […]
Huxley: So many gods to chose from.
More people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country. The craving for […]
See this movie.
Just saw this in Georgetown. Not my usual movie fare but well done, tasteful, nuanced and surprisingly powerful. What mainstream film American […]
The Jurists
“Art. III judicial meltdown, It’s always the same. Having a nervous breakdown, It drives you insane.” ~ R. Plant, J. Page, D. […]
MC5: Shakin’ Street (1970)
Little Orphan Annie and Sweet Sue too They’ve been coming around Gives ’em somethin’ to do Their mamas all warned ’em not […]
Prince Hal with Falstaff at Boar’s Head Tavern. Henry IV, Part 1. 1840
Hal listens to Falstaff’s lies in Henry IV, Part 1. Folger Shakespeare library. Unknown artist, c.1840 Peto, Bardolph and Gadshill at left; […]