All Wet

These two are close relatives of the manta ray I met last Sunday somewhere right about here, many thanks to Byrd and Kim with Ed Robinson's. Plenty of gray sharks too, hanging out over here. Forbes, with a straight face, calls scuba diving one of "The World's Most Dangerous Sports," right up there with base jumping, street luging, bull riding and big wave surfing (uh, ok, guess I'll be throwing myself off the top of tall buildings any day now). For yet more aquatic sensationalism, it's tough to beat Celebrity Shark Week starting this Sunday on the Discovery Channel (join Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath and others as you "watch great whites on TV, and track attacks online," and play the "Ring of Death game").

"What A Great Way To Have Fun With Your Friends"

Plenty of chances to decorate the family car with fake bullet holes: for less than a buck on eBay, or grab the "rapid fire" model from Bullet-Holes.com. Psst -- real thing, free, right here, no shipping delays. (See also The Los Angeles River Tour.)

Blawg Ring

JCA has set up a Blawg Ring! Three members and growing. This should make the B(lawg) P(atrol)'s work a piece of cake. They've been admirably diligent lately, so stay tuned for lots of blawg updates here soon (this weekend). Dave Winer likes where this is going, and so do I:

It seems we're just about at the tipping point for lawyer-bloggers. I'm getting a sense that if we have a legal question that's appropriate to ask in public, it's likely one of the lawyers will answer it, at weblog-speed, which is fast. They also write well. Here's an example [Bill Altreuter]. "The Bronx is where I spent a great deal of the formative years in my professional life; it is a place apart in a lot of ways, a little banana republic in New York City." He tells a good story. I feel a kinship with the kind of lawyer who writes in public.

Real And Make Believe

Coming soon to Orange County, CA: Pretend City, a Children's Museum where kids run the commerce, transportation and press. Spotted this morning in Orange County, CA: Ralphs grocery store offers scaled-down, child-sized shopping carts. The kids need no longer sneak the Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch into your cart; they've got their own.

100 Aker Royalty

Amy Wallace has a wonderful article in this month's Los Angeles Magazine, titled Lawyers, Tiggers & Bears, Oh My! It chronicles the royalty battle between Shirley Slesinger Lasswell, who owns the U.S. and Canadian merchandising, radio and television rights to Winnie-the-Pooh, and Disney, and it does so in a style that would make A.A. Milne proud: "The Thistly Thicket in which Woozles who practice entertainment law reside is even smaller and more insular than Pooh Corner." A worthy expotition.