Fault Lines has grown exponentially since its inception less than three months ago, and it’s time to bulk up its writers. I am looking for five new writers for FL, and rather than just reach out to people I already know, now seems a good time to open the door to new voices.
Do you want to do something that will matter to others? Do you have insights that will cause other people to think, to consider ideas they may not have considered before? This is the way to make it happen.
There is one firm criterion: you must speak from authority. I’m looking for lawyers or academics who know what they’re talking about. This isn’t about pontification, but illumination.
Everyone has opinions, and everyone thinks their opinions are worthwhile. This is about bringing a deeper insight into criminal law news. FL is about bringing all perspectives, cop, prosecutor, private defense, public defense, together, even if they are in direct conflict, in a way that enlightens.
Are you disciplined and responsible enough to write? Are there things that make you need to write, to explain, to influence processes and outcomes that make a difference in people’s lives? Do you have the chops to write?
If so, email me and tell me. Tell me who you are and what perspective you bring to the table. Show me you have the skills to produce excellent posts reflecting a depth of thought and understanding that will illuminate the criminal law world for others. If you can do this, I want you. And if you want to make a difference for others, this is the way you can accomplish that.
It won’t be easy. It will be worthwhile. If this appeals to you, let me know.
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Dang. I guess there’s no need for computer programmers who read law blogs, then
Read to your heart’s content, but write? No. Sorry.
Unless the computer programmers are lawyers?
Point taken.
You should work on beefing up SCIgen, and then when Scott accepts one of your papers, you’ll be able to say “Mission Accomplished”.
I nominate John Barleycorn.
This wasn’t a nomination thing.
“…lawyers or academics who know what they’re talking about.”
Rather epexegesis of you esteemed one but then again…
Anyway, I am glad to see you have finally decided to get on with the vertical intergration game plan over at your corner of Mimesis Law and fill out the pitching roster over at Fault Lines. Five more sounds about right too. They are out there, go find ‘um and sign ‘um.
Very nice to see that this new endeavor of yours and that Pacchia guy is coming along nicely even if Pacchia needs to work on the musical scores he chooses to use as intros to the videos he produces.
Cogent will always fill half the seats but this illuminating thing you speak of will take some careful management. Don’t fuck it up!
Should be fun! Good luck and don’t forget to check out the “pitchers” in the Cuban league before one of those teams from New York starts holding spring training over there and screws everything up by replacing the cheap seats with airconditioned suites or some other such nonsense.
P.S. Thanks Captain Crunch but Fault Lines is an uptown gig, and even if the esteemed one could fully appreciate the glory of sugared cereal grains for breakfast after imbibing in fermented cereal grains to excess in the evening, I have plans downtown. And just in case you didn’t know, the esteemed one is one of those guys that pays people to smash his bagels, before he eats them, on a regular basis. I guess this nutritional discipline of his should be obvious to us all but if you hadn’t noticed yet it’s a good idea to stay out of his way when he sets his mind on something or makes a specific request of his general readership.
And let’s face it I might need a few more years to really fully master the cogent curve ball let alone throw a consistently concise sinker, both of which are frankly required at the level of play the esteemed one is more than pontificating about over at Fault Lines. Go check out the results over there, thus far for yourself, if you don’t believe me.
But don’t you worry Captain Crunch, the way I figure it, if I hold out long enough and my caculations are right the SJ URL will be mine in about fifteen years. Which will be about five years after Fault Lines fully transitions itself into a weekly magazine with a spatering of colums mixed in throughout the month in various nefarious places over at the New York Times.
But you never know…. because luck is still nine tenths of reality unless you have a good lawyer, even if you are a lawyer but nonetheless… I think the esteemed one should be about ready to reason himself into getting comfortable with the idea of selling me the SJ url around that time.
His guest posts back at his old stomping grounds ought to be a kick in the pants as he kicks himself in the ass for not growing his beard out all the way before he made it into his seventies.
Anyway, this should work out pretty good because the children of the millennial generation are going to be the ones that will most likely not be in the mood to fuck around when they come of age and the esteemed one will probably have a jolly good time messing with them and the thousands of comments they will leave under his “guest” posts.
And this my dear friends is why you need to get on over to Fault Lines and cheer on the home team while maintaining a civil decorum or fulfill your destiny and submit your qualifications to join the pitching staff over at Fault Lines.
If you don’t, I won’t get to make an extra few million off the SJ archives (which will re-emerge to redefine the tireless efforts of guilds, of all stripes, across the golobal underground) and donate these extra millions to the kids being born, to the millennials as we speak, once they come of age. And if i don’t do it where the heck do you think they are going to find the cold hard cash to start up zines with real ink, to talk about how real anarchist don’t wear black or break shit, while they get on with saving the world from itself?
Excellent grainular analysis of the marketing/sporting/follicular/courtesy opportunities Fault Lines presents. It is just missing one thing: a link to a Youtube video to tie it all together.
I noticed that too. I cried a little bit.
Opera is currently banned at SJ.
There are other options, I hear.
There are always options…
When you get your pitching staff assembled at Fault Lines you should all get together and have Mr. Pacchia produce a promotional video of your crew strolling down Madison Avenue dressed to the nines with each flank shouldering a boom box belting out this tune.