NMissCommentor

In my first semester of law school (in 1978), for property, I had Bill Champion for Property (Guff Abbott taught my section Property II).  In that class and upper level classes what he wanted to sound was themes from trusts and the like, and there was a way each class was the particularly subject through [...]

Mildred Quarles was a local leader from the Price Hill community in Oxford, active for decades in civil rights, community work, and Democratic politics.  She was a friend and client.  Her mother died at 97 in January, and I posted about it.
The lawsuit desegregating the Oxford city schools was styled Mildred Quarles v. the Oxford [...]

Melanie Addington has a story on the bottom half of the Eagle that states the firm that handles licensing for Colonel Reb is going to withdraw it from licensing as of August 31st, with businesses allowed to sell off inventory after that date (which means that 1) they’ll get through football season;, and 2) they’ll [...]

The Eagle reports:
Fire marshals with the state of Mississippi and Oxford Fire Department have ruled the fire that ravaged the former popular night spot The Gin over the weekend was suspicious in nature although there’s not enough evidence to rule it arson.
The fire broke out at about 9:30 p.m. and [...]

Gawker has a montage of sports mascots behaving badly, consisting of mascots brawling, head-butting passers-by (I swear at least one looks like an official), and the like.  Some maybe staged, but some are clearly not.  To this lawyer’s eye there looks like some serious liability issues in there.
Tongue planted firmly in cheek, Alan Lange suggests [...]

There’s a blog up of the sticker below, or you can click on the photo to read it, which reminds me in this context of what W.C. Field’s told Vanity Fair he wanted for an obituary.

h/t JLA.

Folks with any connection to Oxford surely remember the Gin, the bar in an old cotton gin down the hill from the square and beside the Hoka.  It opened in the 1970s and survived into the late 90s, I think, finally ending up after one to many license problem from serving underaged college kids.  Over [...]

Tom Junod, who once wrote the worst celebrity profile ever written (“But when it comes to fawning, there is nothing quite like the elaborate, elevated, wannabe-highbrow fawning that gentlemen’s magazines (mainly Esquire and GQ) do when they produce a cover story on a hot actress.”  That one was [...]

This piece doesn’t exaggerate the emotional impact on Oxford this week.  There’s a “well, this might be over now” aspect to the piece that I don’t want to think is so.
Word of Barry Hannah’s death hit a lot of people hard this week, nowhere more so than in Oxford, Miss., where Mr. Hannah lived, [...]

A large part of Oxford has paused to think about and remember Barry Hannah.  Night before last, Tom Franklin, Jim Dees, Ron Shapiro and others read from Hannah’s fiction and talked about him from the stage at Proud Larry’s.  Last night, there was a showing of interviews with Barry at the Power Station.  On tonight’s [...]