Bottom line: low expectations exceeded.
Several months ago, when we first saw the previews for “The Interview,” it didn’t look all that funny, even though we liked James Franco and Seth Rogan’s last joint effort (ha, ha), the entertaining stoner comedy “This is the End.” Mildly disappointed (our general rule is
Get ready. With the end of the year nearly upon us, and our “For The Blog” folder brimming with opinions and items that we just haven’t had time to post, in the next couple of weeks we’ll be putting up a lot of these 2014 cases so we can start the new year afresh.
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Here’s another takings decision from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, In Perry Capital LLC v. Lew, No. 13-1025 (Sep. 20, 2014), a hedge fund and others sued the federal government
Perry Capital LLc v. Lew, No. 13-1025 (D. D.C. Sep. 30, 2014)
We’ve mentioned Gerald O’Hara’s talk to Scarlett about the importance of land before, and on the occasion of the film’s 75th anniversary had an opportunity to see the entire movie again, fully remastered, and in its original aspect ratio.
There’s still one more chance, if you’re interested. It’s playing in 650 theaters nationwide
We’re starting to repeat ourselves. Every year at this time, it seems, we’re saying again that as you get older, you forget birthdays. Thus, it only occurred to us only over the weekend that that this blog’s “birthday” passed without notice. It hardly seems like eight years ago that we posted here for the first
Above is what it looks like out our downtown Honolulu office window on Saturday, August 9, 2014, at 11:30 a.m. A little gloomy, and very humid, but otherwise, just another day. According to the reports, the anticipated hurricanes, as we predicted, didn’t amount to much for us on Oahu.
Below is downtown at
An update from this morning for those of you wondering how things are going out here in the Hawaiian Standard Time zone with one, two, or even three hurricanes possibly bearing down on us. Here’s the view out of our office window, circa 1715 hours (that’s 5:15pm HST), August 7, 2014.
Pretty much
A few have asked how we’re doing out here, with one, maybe two hurricanes apparently coming our way. Thank you for your concern.
We’re “girding” according to this story, but here is the view out of our office window, downtown Honolulu, looking east towards Waikiki and Diamond Head, circa 0630 hours, August 7
After several days of the blog being booted off-line (through no fault of our own, it was our blog platform, Typepad), we’re back from our forced blog vacay, and all looks good.
Thanks to Gideon Kanner for posting the notice so y’all didn’t think we skipped town or something.
Looks like it’s time for