Month: July 2023

Ms. Parker Posey

I’m not religious. But I like churches. Inside and out. Mainly, the architecture. But also the hope held out. The notion of […]

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 […]

If you work for a peer firm, you will encounter me or someone very much like me. [Y]ou cannot avoid the essence […]

Julius Caesar 100 BC – 44 BC

You look like a city. You feel like a religion. –L. Nyro, 1969 Five Points, George Catlin, 1827 Foley Square, 1963 (Bettmann/CORBIS)

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 […]

Global warming-driven or not, now is the always-hot weather period between July 1 and August 15 that early Greeks and Romans roughly […]

Cosmos Club. Since 1878. Library.

Jane Mallory Birkin (1946-2023). Anglo-Gallic elegance, way-talented, enduring, hardworking, beautiful, and as well-rounded as humans get.

“Is it a revolt?” “No, Sire. It is a Revolution.” Jean-Baptiste Lallemand The Storming of the Bastille July 14, 1789

“The Storming of the Bastille, July 14, 1789.” Jean-Pierre Houël, 1789.

Help me. The new body positivity for women and girls is grossing me out. It’s grossing out my dog, too. We’re out […]

An older woman is a jewel in the life of a man. –Kundera in “Immortality,” 1990 One critic: The book will make […]

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 […]

If you work for a peer firm, you will encounter me or someone very much like me. [Y]ou cannot avoid the essence […]

Just saw this in Georgetown. Not my usual movie fare but well done, tasteful, nuanced and surprisingly powerful. What mainstream film American […]

“Art. III judicial meltdown, It’s always the same. Having a nervous breakdown, It drives you insane.” ~ R. Plant, J. Page, D. […]

Hal listens to Falstaff’s lies in Henry IV, Part 1. Folger Shakespeare library. Unknown artist, c.1840 Peto, Bardolph and Gadshill at left; […]

“What About Paris? is a blog about lawyering and doing business globally. Established in 2005 as What About Clients?, it features law […]

Make no mistake. Americans are born outlaws. 2023? Year 234 of our current form of business. Still a very new nation. With […]

July 3, 1863. Day 3 of Gettysburg. I had ancestors on both sides of the Civil War. Scores of them. I walked […]