I have no ability to predict. I have scintillating text conversations with women and then the dates are duds and vice versa. As Pascal says “the heart has its reasons that the reason cannot know.”

Summary judgment so we have done a bunch of depositions and our clients were brilliant.

I am going to go to the Newark fireworks tomorrow and then PATH to the NYC fireworks on Monday. Win-win.

Read up on anything in advance that is seemingly completely unrelated to politics — the history of dance, the potato famine — and tell people you have been really into that and thus don’t want to talk about the election. It can be passive-aggressive but that’s really the only passive I know.

Support request: I have mentioned in some posts that I am a lawyer and in others that I represent some women inmates in our state’s women’s prison. These women were abused by a guard while the guard who was his partner acted as a look out. The abuse ranged from relatively minor (in a legal sense — name calling) to the…

The coat of arms of the City of Warsaw is a mermaid holding a sword over her head and the city’s motto is “It defies the storms.” I have always thought that this suggests that one basis for continued allure of mermaid symbolism is that the ability to bridge the two environments brings the benefit of being able to…

It’s all right that we remember driving around just waiting for a specific song (“Who’s Going to Drive you Home”) or band (The Cure) to come on the car radio before driving home, isn’t it?

I am a straight man, and my money is on him being a straight man - the amount of circling back and the fishing suggest this. A woman who is open and positive is captivating, and so my guess is that he is captivated. As for what he is like, I say, give him a chance, through texting, to wow you. If he does, then go for…

This is an affront to circus peanuts — nature’s (well not nature’s at all).... the laboratories most perfect food-like candy product!

No I don’t think he can appeal because of the assault — not successfully anyway — he could sue the father for assault in civil court (just like any person who is put in fear of attack can do) but that would not be a challenge to his criminal conviction.

The conviction is final and subject to appeal for any errors in the trial that lead to the jury’s verdict of conviction.

You guys have posted this video of Drew dancing on Chopped enough.

There is some appropriate and Frostian comment about art as work is buried deep in my brain — maybe it is about axe handles — but it can’t be found in the immediacy of this performance. I love the moment — like 1:15 to 1:25 where Florence realizes that the girl in the back (the one the camera eventually pans to) can…

If it’s not you, it’s not you. I went on five dates with the last woman I met on OKC prior to any flinging occurring. There are all sorts of people out there, the sort that you may want, however (the kind that tend to be more circumspect and thoughtful) are harder to find because it is in their nature to be less easy…

I really liked the graphic novel “The Undertaking of Lily Chen” because the art was so well done — it is by Danica Novgorodoff. Not funny so much, but things work out.

There is a Spanish saying: “With the rich and powerful, always a little patience.” In my limited experience with very wealthy people I have found this to be good advice. There are so many perceptions that people have they don’t even know are functions of their wealth. A mindful approach to their often confusing habits…

If I want something light and summery I take 2 oz. Aperol, 1 oz. lemon juice, and 3/4 oz. simple syrup on the rocks in a tall glass. You can fuss with the ratios until you like it. The benefit of Aperol is that it is relatively cheap, and it is only about 14% alcohol so you can three of them and not feel like you got…

I know that to some this Frost quote sounds fatalistic but I always find it strangely comforting: “In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on.”

Damn, and here I am sitting around Temecula waiting for the fight to start.

+1 for National Poetry Month (ending April 30th, get your poems now people)