Wholly Comedy
Larry Townsend's book "Secrets Of The Wholly Grill," which explores the humor in shrink-wrap software licenses, got a nice review today on law.com. Its first chapter had me cracking up too. Wish my pop would finish it so I could read the wholly thing.

Blawg Additions
Some cool blawgs join the roster today: Rebeca Delgado has been around the block as a lawyer and is appreciating La Belle France. (Her blog and her site sont très, très belle.) Rick Klau works on bringing technology and legal professionals together - a glutton for punishment, clearly. He's an author and a regular columnist for the American Bar Association's Student Lawyer. (Thanks, Ernie.) Finally, the EFF has been blogging about the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group - "Consensus At Lawyerpoint" - since March 27, and it looks like there's more to come.

Half A Century, And Counting
Justice Mildred L. Lillie, who presides over the Second District, Division Seven, of the California Court of Appeal, was honored yesterday for her fifty-five years of service as a California jurist. Between the time Justice Lillie passed the Bar and I did, 133,300 people were admitted to practice law in California. Justice Lillie has authored over three thousand decisions, and in her own words she has been there, and she has done that. And will keep right on dispensing conscientious justice.

"I Have Seen The Future, And It Blogs"
Geoffrey Nunberg's observations about language and culture almost always make me smirk, or consider, or both. He is a regular contributor to National Public Radio's "Fresh Air." Sadly, by the time I inhale "Fresh Air" it often has gone somewhat stale. (While my computer downloads the broadcasts each day courtesy of Audible, it can take awhile before they get added to what I'm listening to in the car as I commute.) This morning I caught up with a show from last December, where Nunberg put blogging in historical perspective alongside George and Wheedon Grossmith ("Diary of a Nobody") and Anais Nin, among others. Nunberg likens the "accretion of diurnal detail" in blogs to "what the novel was trying to achieve when eighteenth-century writers cobbled it together out of subliterary genres like personal letters, journals, and newspapers, with the idea of reproducing the inner and outer experience that makes up daily life." He wonders whether "anything as interesting" as the novel could "grow up in the intimate anonymity of cyberspace." Personally, collectively, I think it already has.

(Nunberg's other "Fresh Air" commentaries are collected here on his site.)

Tell Your Friends
Thomas Pacheco needs our help and people want to give it - so spread the word. Several friends we met for dinner last night will be checking out the site today, and the Little River Inn will be displaying Thomas's art and promoting the site in its lobby.