Linda Holmes

This is really useful surveillance.

You did good.

Well that’s the other thing. Not knowing how to use the system that generates it is one thing. But nobody has to let that out the door.

They’re always adding dots when you don’t need dots and leaving out stuff with dots when you do need stuff with dots!

It is very very oof.

Right—and you respect them, so you wouldn’t!

Absolutely. Let alone know how to troubleshoot one if it produced a bunch of gobbledygook like this.

Smart lawyers give a good legal secretary pretty much whatever they want, I think. It can be the difference between misery and peace.

Yeah. Because I suspect many of these attorneys are not knowledgeable about generating a TOC (which I wouldn’t be either!). If institutional lawyers with heavy caseloads lose their support staff and the people who actually know how courts expect documents to arrive…yikes. Like, YIKES.

One of my deep curiosities among all the talk about the lawyers who have quit is: Did all the legal secretaries also quit? Because when I used to file stuff in court 20 years ago, Gloria would never have let this happen to me.

Not to mention three industries that currently seem to be free to do whatever they want. What are these anti-gambling Democrats doing, exactly? Because you can probably bet on the exact size of someone else’s benign colon polyps if you want to, so I feel like gambling has a pretty free hand.

John I think about that story ALL THE TIME.

Yeah, I was thinking as I typed that that he’s not Louis Vuitton, and certainly they don’t think he is, so maybe I was being imprecise. But then I realized you certainly know that and you know I know that, so.

But yeah, I think he was very savvy about that.

Like I feel like that was a high-profile example of “refusing to dress awesome famous women is really foolish” series of moments when he first went down that road.

This is really well-said, and I have wondered whether Siriano (bless his heart) helped in this effort by so eagerly embracing a lot of women (not just Leslie Jones) who had not been embraced thusly because of age, race, body type, and so on.

If it’s anything like “girl dinner,” it’s not bad, but it is a little exhausting that everything has to be presented on social media as a hack or a trend or a diet, when actually it’s just eating.

Well, at least the dog got a few snow zoomies in of the only kind he likes: with the snow very soft and not very deep. He is resentful but satisfied.

White House reporting is a land of contrasts.

I freely admit this was motivated in part by the fact that I was unaware that it was going to snow today, which has made the snow seem exceptionally rude.

Absolutely chaotic weather forecast for the next 10 days, from today’s low of 30 and high of 36 (it’s snowing) through a week from Wednesday’s low of 60 and high of 78.

I’m sorry, what?

Right. It’s very stark!!

And this isn’t even just jeans and blazer—it’s jeans and black tie.

It’s true—and obviously he knows a lot and I don’t know anything. But I feel like even on this same guy, different choices could have made it more successful. Or less unsuccessful.

Right. Completely different jacket shape, much more classic-looking. Black, not midnight blue. Slimmer jeans, very faded rather than looking mid-range like they were just bought at the mall. And, crucially, boots.

It also looks like it comes naturally to him, which is the real trick.

Truth.

And the shoes! Good lord. At the very least, split formal top from relaxed bottom (ahem) rather than making a denim sandwich.

Like, this does not look thought out even as the thing it’s supposed to be. These blues do not go. The satin looks ridiculous.

Unless he gave his pants to a person in need out the limo window on the way to the ceremony and opened the Emergency Dungarees, this is just weird.

Every so often, somebody thinks they’re Sharon Stone in her Gap button-down, and they never are.

And I think he really loves it. I think he’s really, really happy there and really creatively satisfied.

A man showing his usual understanding of what is (1) cool and (2) appealing.