Everything Old is New, Yet Again

I just got an email from Amazon suggesting, based on my past purchases, that I might like to subscribe to their "Vinyl Delivery" newsletter. We are not talking about upholstery or Courreges boots.  The slogan is: "Put the needle in the groove."

I knew there was a vinyl underground, so to speak.  But when Amazon gives you your own "store" you have moved sufficiently out of the underground so that you're wearing SPF 30 and sending the cabana boy for another round of Mai Tais.  Vinyl overground, maybe?  

The Law in Her Majesty: Jr. Edition

So, like her sister, Avocado has been a member of the Balboa HS Mock Trial team.  Eight years ago Sarcasm Girl's team carried the city competition (sweeping away Lowell and School of the Arts) and they went to State.  Since then, the San Francisco team to beat has been School of the Arts.

Last night, Balboa's defense team went up against SOTA.  One of trial attorneys was Avocado, and we went to watch her.  I don't know why I didn't go see her sister--I think because her sister never invited me.  Boy, is this a tough sport.  They have a complete case to try, including one pretrial motion (prosecution argued--citing amazing quantities of case law--that a statement of the defendant was admissible; defense argued--citing even more amazing amounts of case law--that it was not).  That got sorted--decision for the prosecution.  Then the trial began.

If you don't know how Mock Trial works, lemme 'splain.( Read more... )