Published on
7 January 2008 in
Random Fire.
Tags: beer, blogging awards, Brown, children, Dan, data protection, drunk, film, filth, human rights, legal aid, Met, motoring, Police, police powers, privacy, WAC.
Geeklawyer has been busy today (rather than working he spent the afternoon watching “I am Legend’, the ho-hum OK-ish remake of the impeccable 1972 Omega Man with Charlton Heston) so he doesn’t have much time to rattle off sweary posts and biting invective. But, here are some things that caught his attention:
1) Geeklawyer was off getting hammered in Bavaria and so unable to vote for or promote WAC?‘s entry for the American Bar Association’s ‘Best Business Blog’ award. So mad props to Dan Hull and his alter-ego Holden Oliver for winning despite that. As entertaining collateral damage they gave the blogs of the Wall Street Journal and Forbes one up the arse. Nice. Remember Geeklawyer’s saying kiddies:
“it isn’t enough to win: the path to the podium must be littered with the dead and dying bodies of one’s competitors children.”
2) Buffoon motoring journalist Jeremy Clarkson, whose extravagantly laboured metaphors are as lardy as his arse, had his Gluteous Maximus handed to him on a platter. He demonstrated that he knew as little about data protection as he does about dieting by publishing his bank details in a press story to show that the HMRC data fiasco was nothing much to worry about and how no-one could abuse the data to his disadvantage. Result? Someone set up a direct debit to a Diabetes charity using those details. Ha ha — stupid cunt.
3) Apparently someone hasn’t told the filth that being drunk isn’t per se a crime. And certainly not one for which an entire pub can be hauled out into the street and made to perform demeaning sobriety tests on the pavements. Even if to do so would help prove publicans were serving drunk people. Imagine, people drunk in pubs?! Whatever next, “something must be done”. West Midlands filth, famed for endemic corruption torture and perjury are now now facing the consequences of enforcing Gordon Brown’s hatred of insobriety and pleasure. They are refusing to comment following a formal complaint. Geeklawyer hopes that those embarrassed in this fashion will sue the police for whatever human rights claim will stand under Article 8: trespass assault or whatever. Mind you, now that crime has been eradicated in the West Midlands the filth must find something to fill their timesheets with.
4) Geeklawyer would normally ascribe the collapse in legal aid to Machiavellian intriguing by the Illuminati but in truth it looks like good old fashioned incompetence and penny pinching by the government. I suppose we will eventually decay into a society where the accused will be aided by US style public defenders no-hopers paid £100 to defend a murder charge or where battered wives can’ get protection. Yay! Go libertarianism.
Geeklawyer will be hosting the Blawg Review on June 30th 2008. The Blawg Review is a well regarded balanced and intelligent review of the best of the Blawgosphere (ick).
Geeklawyer is grateful to finally be able to accede to the repeated & interminable groveling of the editor to host it. He intends to repay this consideration in a manner as ungrateful and incendiary as one would expect from such a wretch as himself.
update: The editor of Blawg Review furiously denies being Dan Hull of WAC? fame. He is lying, he is him; and Holden Oliver is also Dan Hull. There is something weird going on. Buggered if Geeklawyer doesn’t mean to get to the bottom of this (if you’ll pardon the anal inferences). He is a little refreshed (to adopt the vernacular of CharonQC): Geeklawyer has consumed the livelier portion of a bottle of Donato from Deglia Antinori (16th century dago viniculturist) and is, inevitably, insensible to a larger extent even than would be regarded as normal for himself. To cap it all it is his Fasting Friday: so, a bottle of strong sweet wine on a profoundly empty stomach; oh dear dear.
content:
- Ruthie visits the Harley Davidson factory in the US & tries to shag Dan Hull of WAC?
- Geeklawyer gets a reader a job.
- Geeky stuff: idiot FSF lawyers. Ruby on Rails.
- Geeklawyer is organising a blogger meetup in London.
Background music:
“Leaving on a Jet Plane” — Peter Paul & Mary
“Shave ‘em Dry” — Lucille Bogan
theme for Billion Dollar Brain.
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Dan over at WAC? is lauding the British Invasion because Corporate Blawg and Nearly Legal, both friends of and admired by this blog (despite the Latter asserting that Geeklawyer was a commie — he is in fact a libertarian anarchistic nihilist), are hosting the US Blawg Review.
Well Geeklawyer is sure that it will be done adequately but let us be honest, if also vain, that it cannot be done properly without this blog’s contribution. We do after all have the only media star in the UK legal blogging world.
Sadly we have been spurned. We bear Dan no ill will — but he’s not going to get laid by Ruthie anytime soon that’s for damned sure.
Geeklawyer doesn’t know who this Oliver Holden fellow is at WAC? but he is clearly dangerously mad. He describes Ruthie as sultry. sultry?! Yea, sultry like Doctor Ruth.
He adds insult to injury by sarcastically describing Geeklawyer as a “team player” — as it happens Geeklawyer is a great team player, just so long as the rest of the team is on a different continent.
Published on
28 May 2007 in
podcasts.
Tags: Barrister, blogging conference, cambridge, Dan, drunk, ego, law society gazette, london, oxford, podcast, pub, solicitor, WAC.
The drunken rambling in the pub. An embarrassing reminder to all.
Hear the drunken slurred voices of:
Geeklawyer, Ruthie, MichealE, Alex of Freeth Cartwright, Charon, Corporate Blawg (well, sort of), Rupert White of the Law Society Gazette and Liadnan.
Update:
Dan at WAC had this to say of the podcast:
“An associate lawyer has been playing this podcast lately. For a couple of days I wrongly assumed it was an audio of the Hells Angels 1968 Memorial Day picnic or the maybe the soundtrack from Barfly, the 1987 film on low-bottom Los Angeles drunks starring Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway and the elegant South African-born actress Alice Krige. Neither. It’s a post-LawBlog 2007 debauch in a London pub on May 18 starring GeekLawyer and co-counsel Ruthie and featuring the astonishingly slurred voices of otherwise reputable solicitors, barristers, journalists and academics who went to schools like Oxford and Cambridge. Anglophile WAC? is shocked and impressed.”
Geeklawyer will concede that the others are low-life drunks but believes it to be a rather harsh judgement on him and pleads in mitigation that he was led astray, as ever, by Ruthie, the Sinful One who was in turn egged on by the rabble. So can we entertain your London clients on your behalf Dan?
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Following Ruthie’s bragging at the conference to the effect that she ‘made’ the site by her popularity Geeklawyer noticed that the 9th ranking for exit pages is ‘about Ruthie’. That is, people read that page and depart in haste never to return 
On the upside (for Ruthie if not Geeklawyer) is that there was a large spike in traffic to the website from a certain domain:
| 15 |
985 |
0.61% |
980 |
0.80% |
25487 |
1.24% |
18 |
0.10% |
mail.hullmcguire.com |
The speculation is that this related to Dan Hull emailing recent photos of Ruthie around his firm which is reported to have caused a frisson of interest. Being the Nazi tyrant that he is one imagines that he will sack any associate spotted looking at this site from a work computer rather than their home machines (assuming that is that the poor blighters ever get to go home earlier than 3am and thus have time to look at a computer). Geeklawyer expects a court order at any moment to surrender the web logs to Dan so that he can locate the offending IPs of employees in order to whip and dismiss them.
If any disgruntled HullMcguire wage slave want to dish the dirt on Dan to Geeklawyer he is only too willing to conspire with them in a breach of confidence/contract/whatever. Remember boys and girls: use a proxy web server or disposable email address to contact us
And since sex sells perhaps it is time to release the appalling sickening deviant Geeklawyer & Ruthie private videos. Didn’t do Pamela Anderson any harm …
American readers. You have felt a nagging sense of fear recently haven’t you? An ill sense of foreboding and worry. An unconscious message from the Id talking directly to your atavistic, primitive, brain stem. And yet the lawn looks fine, no strangers are seen lurking in the area but there is that sense of ‘not right’.
Geeklawyer is coming to your shores. Given his blasphemous irreverence to your president it seems inconceivable that the Reich’s ministry of Homeland Security can have granted him a visa. But yet Geeklawyer has powerfully connected friends in Washington, no not Dan Hull personal friend of the Clintons, but an old old money aristocratic New England family who have the desire to inspect Geeklawyer’s teeth for reasons that may one day appear on this blog.
He will be flying to Maine from Germany at the end of April and returning to Germany in very early May. He would love to meet any US readers in the neighbourhood. A car is to be provided for Geeklawyer so reasonable distance driving is possible.
A non-disclosure document protecting Geeklawyer’s identity will be made available to those wishing to meet up for a beer and didact. He can promise only outrage; but you must promise not to bring any weapon that goes “bang”: offended haste is a mistress not to be denied.
A couple of linked posts over at What About Clients caught my eye. Apparently American lawyers have trouble asking for business.
This struck Geeklawyer as positively bizarre and for a moment he thought Dan was talking about his own experience of effete poofy English lawyers on one of his numerous jollies over here. But no it was yanks he was talking about: lean hungry denizens of the goal driven land of pecuniary want. No, lean would be
wrong
Geeklawyer has never had any trouble asking either other lawyers or lay punters for business and he can’t really imagine others do either — is he right?
Mr Hull to you, of course. Dan has been sighted in London again; it appears that he lives on board a 747 so frequent are his sojourns to Dear Old Blighty.
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