Singing Loudly Index

Singing Loudly Index

1.16.2005

Welcome to the Singing Loudly Index

posted by Curtis 1:45 AM

The purpose of this page is simply to provide a topical index of my postings at Singing Loudly. For the most part the various topics are just listed chronologically from earliest to latest. I hope this helps you find previous postings that might be of interest or remember postings that you are wanting to reread. I am not linking every post I have made, but I am going to put the ones I think are of interest.

Current to December 31, 2004.

Categories:

Personal (Minor Triumphs and Failures)

Relationships = Head + Wall

Playwriting Speering and Spearings

Reading, Watching, & Listening

Law School

Crim Law & Death Penalty

Law

Career Affairs

Political Gestures & Overtures

Wine and Beer (and Food)

Cat Blogging

Geek Speak

Lists

Sports

-x-

1.15.2005

Personal (Minor Triumphs and Failures)

posted by Curtis 11:59 PM

About me

Monkey Business (I got to hold a monkey)

No Children For Me

The Simple Pleasures (Working at Braums)

Summer Plans

Summer Plans 2

It's All About the BMWs (Does the car get the sex?)

A Day in the Life of Singing Loudly (or a date)

Today (Thinking about going on a date with a girl I met while running)

Get a Job (Tomorrow if the first day of work at the Human Rights Initative)

My Bestfriend Jumped in a Lake

Legal Lessons (writing a memo at work on abandonment under immigration law)

They're Playing Our Song (Watching people dance in the elevator)

It Seems to Me a Strange Thing (Seeing a little doll strapped to the front of a Mack truck)

Learning to Fly (pictures from my ride with my stepfather in a Cessna twin plane)

Buffalo Conquered (First post from my visit in Buffalo)

Venturing to Canada and art in Buffalo (Second post from my visit in Buffalo)

Ending Buffalo (Getting ready to leave Buffalo)

Damnit, this sucks (Getting stuck at the airport after leaving Buffalo)

Idiot Me (going to art galleries instead of writing the paper)

No, I wasn't drunk, but I did like her (folly at the grocery store)

Kissing the Superstition (Did my visit to the Blarney Stone really influence how much communication I have with others?)

My Summer in Summary (what I did, who I met, and blog friends who influenced me)

Sin, Folly, and the true Passion of Christ: Moving Beyond Shame (My religious reviews)

-x-

Relationships = Head + Wall

posted by Curtis 11:50 PM

Girl Talk (Silliness aside)

Puppeteering (Finding a date can be quite easy)

Advice for the Bachelor: What Not to Say

Games We Play ("Advice" from askmen about dealing with women's games)

Kiss Day Poems (a collection of poems for the Int'l Kissing Day)

Afraid of commitment or what we can learn from Scrubs (When to commit and when to stay single)

The Friend Puzzle (dealiing with a former girlfriend's neurosis)

Dating Curtis (the beginning stages of)

No Dates Please - Special Requests Do Upset Us (Going on four dates in one weekend is not recommended)

Warning to Girls (discussion of he's just not that into you)

Girls Against Boys (How differently we see weddings)

Where is there attraction (trying to determine what causes attraction)

-x-

Playwriting Speering and Spearings

posted by Curtis 11:45 PM

Move Along Gypsy (The wonderful Stephen Sondheim show, Gypsy has ended it's run)

Puffy Love (Sean Combs lands a role in A Raisin in the Sun)

How I Write Plays

JD v. MFA (Why I chose to go to law school instead of an MFA program)

Playwriting Not Screenplays

On rewriting plays -- Kushner style

Playwrights and Jobs (How I find theater companies to produce my shows: announcing a commission)

Update on Play (continuing to write the commissioned play)

Close to Death: Tell me what you want director (dealing with changes urged by the director)

Tax Law Applications to Writer (Not legal advice but a good starting point)

Inside, Outside, and All Around the Actor's Studio (Going to New Mexico to workshop a play)

Emails about Playwriting (what sort of classes should you take?)

-x-

Reading, Watching, & Listening

posted by Curtis 11:40 PM

It's no "wonder" Fox screwed this up (Wonderfalls is cancelled)

Insomniac Children (Jump, Little Children album)

Killing the Passion (Box office receipts

The Way of the Gun (What a great movie)

To Thom Gunn (RIP poet Thom Gunn)

Slimy, but good, fish (Big Fish impressions)

Poetry Day (Posting a Thom Gunn poem in support of National Poetry Day)

Picasso v. Van Gogh (recent auctions)

Monster Mash (Van Helsing and other recent movies)

A Book is a Book (Hard or softbound books?)

Wishing I were There (Bad Education at Cannes Film Festival)

Happy Bloomsday

Super Size Me: My Impressions

Taking Advice (The difference between a big budget movie and a good movie: it starts with the writing)

Mr. Wizard (an interview)

Celestial Harmonies (Aleksandar Hemon reviews)

Parallel Stories - Dodgeball and Fahrenheit 9/11 (How these two movies are very much the same)

Charming, if not awkward: a movie review of Napolean Dynamite (my review of Napolean Dynamite)

It took him long enough to write; so what if my review is belated: Middlesex

The Art of the Jukebox (Making the correct selections at the bar)

[Insert Laughter] (the use of the laugh track)

Czeslaw Milosz - An Amazing Educator and Poet (Milosz passed away)

Confusion and the Garden State (my review of Garden State)

What I'm listening to and reading and watching

Calder to Hirst and the world of modern art

CDs I'm Enjoying (October 2004)

Drooling over Dictionaries

Art Fakes No Longer A Problem

Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind: a review

-x-

Law School

posted by Curtis 11:30 PM

Pre-law Advice (Take the US News rankings with a grain of salt)

Pre-Law Advice Again (Professor Leiter has some great advice)

Class Registration

Law school elections (Stupid? Yes. Necessary? No)

Rapids Approaching (Law school finals)

Pushing for Biglaw

Plan of Action (Studying for finals)

Examining Exams (Sometimes Professors do a terrible job of writing questions)

Google's Law School Ranking (I decided to use Google's pagerank to see which law schools are the highest ranked)

The Incredible, Shiny, Tasty (yet Lowfat) Penultimate Guide to your 1L Existence (read this before starting your law school career)

Classes Classes all Liberal Classes (my fall class schedule)

-x-

Crim Law & Death Penalty

posted by Curtis 11:20 PM

Class Selection: Death Penalty Project

Prisoner Short Stories

Analysis of Crawford v. Washington (Seminal case dealing with the confrontation clause)

You're A Faker (Faking Hate Crimes)

Scarface on Trial (Check out the name of this case)

That Thing Called Intent

Curb Your Evidence (a script of a meeting)

A Man Call Hiibel (Hand over the ID)

A Man Called Hiibel 2: or why the majority is wrong

What Drives a Prosecutor (Just like all professions, some are good and some are bad)

It's not broke, you just don't know how to use it (Evidence Law and date rape: dealing with a problem)

The Prison Problem (how does the American criminal justice system deal with punishment theory)

In the Courtroom (ABC has a mini-series that goes into the jury room)

Drinking and Driving: An elementary exercise in Criminal Law (Those terribly misleading ads from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.)

Roper v. Simmons (oral arguments were heard today)

Death to the Death Penalty (the Supreme Court granted cert on many death penalty cases)

Life Without Parole in Texas (consider putting it through the state legislature)

Letter to Editor: Connecticut Death Penalty on the Line

Grand Jury Indictments (a primer in how they really work)

Reinstating the Death Penalty/Removing the Death Penalty

Death Penalty in Texas: When the Courts are Lawless

The Supreme Court Grants Cert on another Texas Death Penalty Case

Death Penalty Weekly Roundup (December 30, 2004)

-x-

Law

posted by Curtis 11:10 PM

The Press Found Guilty (Tyco case antics)

Don't tell that joke: I own it (Can jokes be copyrighted?)

Is that commercial copyrighted? (Continued discussion on copyrights)

Judicial Re-election Campaigns (I hate judicial elections)

Is artistic expression protected speech? Look no further than performance artists

How Much are those Drugs (Prescription drug prices)

Newdow: Are we Surprised?

Dangerous Supreme Court Opinions (responding to Will Baude's article about the importance of federal circuit court appointments)

The "Mere" Worship Exception (The 1st Amendment under attack in the circuit courts)

Kennewick Man (NAGPRA and the remains of early man)

JK Rowlings the 9th Circuit and Invisible Jurisprudence (the use of metaphors from Harry Potter in the 9th Circuit)

Is your writing hobby or profit motivated? The Tax Court investigates (A very clever, and well written, tax court opinion: in the form of a 3 Act Play)

For $20 it sure felt like sex (Dancers and the 1st Amendment)

Booker's Got Back (my song parody)

Who is the Real Culpret of Med Mal

-x-

Current Affairs

posted by Curtis 11:00 PM

Lunar Eclipse Photos

Arson Anyone? (Horrible fire in a Hondoras prison -- probably political)

The Customer is Always Right (a wrongheaded approach to ending music piracy)

Do You See What I See? (not noticing that fat cat)

The Customer is always Right: Part 2 (The RIAA will never learn)

Stupid Victims (We've all seen stupid criminals but what about stupid victims?)

Growing Epidemic (Figuring out ways to effectively test for AIDs)

Human Rights violations in Sudan (Terrible, terrible things are happening in Sudan)

Crossing the Border to Canada (pollution, costs, and other problems in Michigan)

Beautiful Kenya (Wangari Maathai wins the Nobel Peace Prize)

The Tucker Carlson and Jon Stewart cat fight

Two Jump the Shark: or Ashlee Simpson pulls a Milli (Lip syching)

-x-

Political Gestures and Overtures

posted by Curtis 10:50 PM

Turning Market (Have you found a job yet?)

Fighting Pornography (The Bush Administration goes nuts)

Libertarian Hesitations (The Onion on Libertarianism)

Greenless in Texas (Nader is not getting the signatures he needs)

Why do people hate the Left?

You Voted Correctly (rejecting the marriage amendment)

We Want to Pump You Up! (My take on Arnold's political rhetoric)

Family Priorities (Kerry and abortion related votes)

Uh, What's Tribal Sovereignty Again? (Bush has a brain freeze)

Hooked on Phonics Worked for Me (Why the guys at Southern Appeal are wrong headed in their desire for literacy tests to vote)

Failing the Test (Bush fails the Global Test)

Trial Lawyers, Trial Lawyers, Oh My!!! (Bush's use of this term)

Why I'll Probably Vote for Nader

Presidential Elections and Popular Music: Which influences which?

Bush Press Conference 11/4/04 : Not Purple; this country is Red (a line by line response)

I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One: A Message to those interested in the Democratic Party

Meet the Press (Rove avoids answering important questions)

Ashcroft Resigns

The Duality of the South (A look into Drive-By Trucker lyrics, politics, and cultural pride)

-x-

Wine and Beer (and Food)

posted by Curtis 10:45 PM

Mexican Bliss

Texas Food (Greasy goodness)

Huh, Beer? (My beer preferences)

Crazier People (finding better potato chips than Pringles)

These Are A Few of my Favorite Things (ice cream + beer = beer floats. A sampling of flavors)

Watch What You Eat (the recent mistake of ordering a Pizza Hut Sicillian Pizza)

-x-

Cat Blogging

posted by Curtis 10:40 PM

My Sophia (Adopting Sophia)

Sophia's World

Cat Sneezes (boiling vinegar makes Sophia sneeze -- alot

My cat's a crackhead

-x-

Geek Speak

posted by Curtis 10:30 PM

April 1 (Google announces GMail)

Getting Into MIT (Many courses online for free)

Wal-Mart DVD players (Want your movies automatically edited for obscenity?)

Gmail and Privacy Issues

Library Looker Upper (A great tool to find books at your local library with Amazon's search engine)

I Love Music (Visual search engine for music)

Yahoo Fires Back (Answering Gmail)

Music File Formats (changing to ACC instead of MP3)

Text Messaging (When will it pick up steam here in America)

Auto-run Hell (why you should disable auto-run in Windows)

Don't Buy That Ipod Yet (Ipod Mini is about to be released)

My first cell phone

The Blogger Debate: Or What OS do Bloggers use?

-x-

Lists

posted by Curtis 10:20 PM

Random thoughts

15 Random Songs

Creating a Short Story (Meme to make a short story)

See, I Read (What have you read?)

Random Thoughts

Survey Says

Random Thoughts (June 12, 2004)

Singing Loudly 10, 5, & 2 (July 07, 2004)

Singing Loudly 10, 5, & 2 (July 14, 2004)

Random thoughts (July 18, 2004)

The Singing Loudly 10, 5, & 2

What Do You Say Curtis (a survey of sorts)

Random observations (August 16, 2004)

The Singing Loudly 10, 5, and 2 (August 24, 2004)

The Singing Loudly 10, 5, and 2 (November 28, 2004)

-x-

Sports

posted by Curtis 10:10 PM

Rangers and Tigers (the most runs ever scored in one inning of baseball)

Perfect Game (Randy Johnson does it again)

Mid-Season Update (My two Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball teams)

The Good and the Bad and the Ugly - Sports edition (Rumors and trades in the NBA)

Baseball Surprises (Rangers are having a great season)

Big Fight (Red Sox and Yankees get into a brawl)

Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball Live Draft

Hating OU Fans (Try watching a football game at a bar full of OU fans)

When Roethlisberger Takes Down Another

The Saddest Day in American Sports (Pistons and Pacers rumbble)

-x-

about this blog

An index of the Singing Loudly blog

contact

email: the author

Copyright

Creative Commons License

-x-