Going Legal for a Minute

I don’t like to go legal very often on my blog, but I saw this and thought it was kinda funny. Keep in mind that commercial litigation isn’t exactly a hotbed of comedy so I take my laughs wherever I can find them.

In this case, a lawyer representing himself in his own bankruptcy case got caught allegedly trying to play fast and loose with the Court. The judge ordered Lawyer to do something. Lawyer didn’t comply with the Judge’s order. The judge then ordered Lawyer to appear and show cause why he shouldn’t be sanctioned and held in contempt. The lawyer failed to appear again. The judge got on the phone with the U.S. Marshalls, and told them to haul this lawyer’s ass into court. (I’ve seen this judge do this before). Below is part of the Order entered in the case after the Lawyer finally appeared before the judge:

I didn’t post this part, but the Judge also ordered the lawyer to “write a letter of apology to the United States Marshall’s office for not turning himself in immediately when they called him, apologizing for making the Marshall’s office spend substantial time and using numerous personnel in attempting to locate him, and acknowledging a substantial amount of taxpayer dollars have been expended attempting to locate him” (personally, I think I’d rather see my tax dollars and the U.S. Marshalls’ time being put to better use, but that’s another story).

Even though this is a public document, HIPPO requires that I redact anything that would identify the parties or disclose my location. But this is a real live legal document. You can trust me, I’m a lawyer.

That’s Dr. MSG to You

Congratulations MSG!!!

I have been following MSG through the last two years of his med school career. He says he’ll keep on blogging, and I hope that’s true, but I'm not going to get my hopes up. I’ve been reading medblogs long enough to know that MSG will be boarding a bullet train to Sucksville in July.

Good luck and all the best, MSG.

Now I am off to find me a new medstudent to lurk around and ask the occasional stupid question.

Where’s the Beefcake?

I had a little dilemma when I was preparing the Dr. April post. I wasn't sure what kind of photo to use. The past calendar docs have been men and a dinosaur. I have no problem posting half nekkid men as my calendar docs (but I admit I have a problem posting 7/8 nekkid men). There was no way I was going to post a picture of a half nekkid woman and call her Dr. TBTAM.

First, I thought I would go with a 1950’s pin-up girl:

or maybe a racy cartoon character.

Then I thought, maybe it would be safer just to post a food related photo.

I ain’t afraid to say it – there are some days of the month when I would choose a chocolate cupcake over a half-nekkid man. But somehow, one cupcake didn’t seem to fit the spirit of the calendar doc post. So I thought about going for two cupcakes.

That was too subtle. Since it was food, I decided I could be a little more racy.

Maybe a little too racy. But I saved Willie just in case Dr. Keagirl agrees to be a calendar doc.

Dr. TBTAM describes her blog as “sort of culinary gynecology,” so I considered a culinary gyno photo (and yes, I know my photoshop skills suck, thank you very much).

I still can't believe it, but I thought about getting a little personal -- I guarantee y'all, this is the most you will ever see of me on this blog.

This photo covered everything—gardening, cooking and gyno. Just wasn't right though.

Bonus points for anyone that can guess the gynecological tie-in here.

A bit of calendar doc trivia -- the calendar doc that gets the most Google hits is Scalpel (my first photoshop pic).

Marilyn Monroe photo credit: http://freespace.virgin.net/b.mercer/Pinup1Nav.html

That Six Word Memoir Meme

I was tagged by Seaspray a while back with that 6 word memoir meme. Then I just got tagged by MMT at IntraopOrate.

Like everything else that I don't quite "get", I wiki'ed memoir and found Gore Vidal's definition: "A memoir is how one remembers one's own life, while an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates, facts double-checked." (I'll have to wiki Gore Vidal later.)

How I remember my life really depends on my mood and how my day is going. Since I got tagged twice, I'll do one for a good day, and one for a not so good day.

(1) All work. No play. I’m tired.

(2) How did I get so blessed?

I think I like the 6 word story meme better. Except for that embarrassing part where I got carried away and couldn’t stop leaving 6 word comments in my comment section.

I think everyone with a blog has been tagged with this one, so I’m not going to tag anyone. But I’d love it if someone left me a 6 word comment (because then I would have an excuse to leave a 6 word response. I lied earlier. It wasn't embarrassing. I had fun making up 6 word comments).

Mom

I wanted to write something about my mom for Mother’s Day but knew I could never get the words to come out right. So I’ll just say this. When we go to my parents’ house to celebrate Mother’s Day today, I know that, in addition to the cards from me and my brothers, there will be a stack of Mother's Day cards from other “kids” -- my friends, my brothers’ friends, old neighborhood kids, new neighborhood kids, cousins, nieces, nephews, etc. All will be wishing my mother a happy Mother’s Day and letting her know they are thinking about her. My mother has that effect on people. She is one of those people who give, just because they want to, never expecting to get anything in return. I am going to try to be more like my mother.

Happy Mother’s Day.

Photo Credit: Another great photo from Carver. Thank you Carver.