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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 3h

Area Pika still convinced living under a rock was a good call.

smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 11h

Continued an annual tradition of hiking the Brighton Loop the first weekend in October. Four lakes in four miles. (Didn’t see in any moose. Those uncooperative lanky forest freaks refused to show themselves.)

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 15h

America’s finest bird, spotted in the Brighton Ski Area this morning.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To be clear, I will fight a bear for pastry—and win!

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I may have given the impression that I love depositions so much, but in fact I do not care for them. I have met people who like depositions more than arguing in court. These people are difficult and insane.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Now do Great Concavity / Great Convexity

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

$640 million in negotiable bearer bonds.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

View from kid’s elementary school playground is not messing around.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

All bands are edible if you’re hungry enough.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If my kids come home from school reading a book I should’ve read but haven’t, I’ll get a copy & read along. I’ve caught up with To Kill a MB (excellent), Brave New World (boo hiss), & Catcher in the Rye (not for me). And now, Beloved. Don’t know if word’s gotten around, but this one is, like, sad.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ralph does not dream of being a Viking. Ralph is a Viking who dreams that he is Ralph. The entire run of the Simpsons is the dream of a single Viking, Ralph (that is, Ráðúlfr or Wolf’s Counsel). Oh, you thought he was just being silly? It’s hard out there in the long boats.

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Ralph Wiggum: I'm In Danger - The Simpsons

ALT: Ralph Wiggum: I'm In Danger - The Simpsons

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Gonna have a helluva hard time serving some of these defendants.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The abject stupidity of this entire conversation is just staggering. Breathless Atlantic reporter: “I went to PepsiCo and they told me that they’ve engineered a Pepsi so delicious that it will destroy human will to resist its deliciousness. Pepsi engineers are really worried.”

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“Appellants argue forcefully that bananas are aardvarks. After careful review of the record on appeal, we conclude that bananas are not aardvarks, but are, in fact, bananas.”

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Accurate. (As in, I have told this lie.)

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty William Labov:

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Tonight in the grocery store, teenage kid learned a very hard truth from her dad: When the C+C Music Factory says “Everybody dance now!” you dance. They didn’t say “If convenient, please consider dancing shortly.” Instructions couldn’t be clearer. I do not make the rules.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Two different but related rules of oral advocacy: 1. Don’t interrupt the judge. 2. Don’t be a dude lawyer constantly interrupting a female judge. I get it. I also enjoy the dulcet, sonorous tones of my own voice. But there are some limits.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The nerve of this guy setting up shop on the Freedom Trail. What happened to no titles of nobility?! No kings means no kings.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Office needs to comptrol the currency harder, IMHO.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

When I said I missed living in NYC, I did not mean I missed living in NYC in *August*. Sheesh. All this water in the air is a very profligate use of moisture, if you ask me. Meanwhile, back home in my garden:

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Is ‘Woke 1’ where they had a CGI Peter Cushing play Grand Moff Tarkin? I didn’t care for that. Just recast the guy, geez.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Thanks, Internet, but I was looking for a quote by Arthur L. Corbin on consideration, not a quote by Love Island resident, Corbin, on being considerate (tho I am sure that it’s an important virtue in a sparsely populated island community).

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tiger tiger gets unstuck From a box inside a truck What immortal scheme or plan Dumped you out in Kazakhstan?

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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ My grandad told me he saw the Titanic - from the outset he warned all the people that the ship would sink, but nobody listened to him. He knew he was right and didn't give up. He warned them again & again, until eventually they kicked him out of the cinema.

The Titanic sinking under a moonlit sky.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Now, if I’m being evaluated for Tolkienmaxxing, that’s a whole different story. You pay me a certain amount of money and I *will* finish the Silmarillion.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Kid keeps adding drama to my backyard photos.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Listen, I just loved this guy and I’m sorry he’s gone. Here are some performances I really liked. To start, if you haven’t seen the film, Once, you should check it out. Strong opening: youtu.be/JMqKOt7R_K8?...

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Once (2006) - Say It To Me Now (by Glen Hansard)

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It’s raining. Didn’t know it could still do that.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just got out of Béla Tarr's adaptation of the Odyssey. Really amazing. Three shots: the beach at Troy, the beach on Circe's island, and the beach on Ithaca. All the dialogue was in Attic Greek *and* was muffled by the sounds of the waves. Ended w/BOB from Twin Peaks digging his way out of the sand.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just got out of Terrance Malik’s adaptation of the Odyssey. It is one of the most visually stunning things over committed to film. Odysseus (Adrian Brody) remains out of frame for the entire film and is only briefly heard in voiceover. Also, there are dinosaurs for some reason.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Liam Neeson: “If you return my plums, that'll be the end of it... But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you….” This summer. Taken: Plums

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Have my favorite kind of deposition today. A cancelled deposition.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In the literature, this is called Terrence Malicking.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It really is amazing how far away you are from done with a brief once you are finished writing. Someone should look into this. Also, prior firm had amazing staff. Someone should also look into that. (Right now, I am staff, which is a problem.)

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Half of The Oddyssey is like: Eurylochus/Odysseus: This looks like a chill place to get provisions. Narrator: It was not a chill place to get provisions.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I’ve accepted an adjunct posting to teach Business Organizations at the SJ Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. Looking forward to being back in the classroom and representing the viewpoint of the *real* engines of economic dynamism—the commercial litigators who sue people.

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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026