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Posted: 07 Jun 2009 09:30 AM PDT

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Molly, a fresh-minted college graduate and officially a 1L, tagged our editorial team here at Asterism for the Honest Scrap award. That’s really something, because The Lovin Spoonful is just one of many blawgs I creep on. Also, as I started blogging as a junior in college, I get to read about Molly’s 0L experience as I pace through my own. She was two especially helpful tags: “LSAT awfulness” and “Law school application yuckiness.” Hear, hear.

Unfortunately, I don’t feel like I can rightfully partake in the whole “Honest Scrap” meme because I dislike memes. They are a fallen art. Once, it was an actual way to help navigate the strange, twisty-turny Web 1.0 landscape. Webrings and the like. Then it was the “blogroll.” Who thought up that name? Then along comes Facebook and the only memes are the How Well Do You Know the Zombie vs Pirate Snowballfight Extravaganzas. The day memes start appearing on Twitter is the day that API is dead to me. However, I’m a little bit more gracious with Twitter, since “Follow Friday” or MC Hammer’s “Respect Women Wednesday” aren’t really memes as I hate them.

Also, this meme is contingent on linking to ten blogs you’d like to nominate. Aha. Well, I read many many blogs, many of which are excellent, but not all of them will be of any interest to anyone but me. So I’ll just link around and see what happens.

You also need to post ten “honest scraps” about yourself that the readers might not know. Well then, buckle up.

1. I am not an obsessive, uptight, retentive kind of person. I’m definitely not the type of person who would normally write a blog about studying for a test. But the LSAT did it to me and it can do it to you, too. Watch your back and don’t let Elle Sack get inside your head. Obla di, obla da, life goes on.

2. My favorite tree is the catalpa. I never want to live anywhere that doesn’t have enough space to grow a catalpa tree. The flowers are beautiful and always bloom for my grandmother’s birthday. Within three days they are gone, and all the fallen petals look like snow in July.

3. I have traced my family tree as far back as Samuell Gorton, the first Gorton in America. He was kicked out of Boston by the Puritans and helped his friend Roger Williams found Rhode Island. We haven’t done much moving and shaking sense.

4. While I am not anal, there are some things that I will require rightness about. My girlfriend doesn’t understand that you only button the top two buttons on a three-button jacket. I get supremely annoyed when mediocre bartenders cannot properly mix my three favorite cocktails: a. Cuba Libres, b. “perfect” martinis, and c. kamikazes. There is no excuse for failing to make a kamikaze correctly, it’s an IBA cocktail served straight up unless served in a rocks glass. I am snobbish when it comes to drinks, cigars, and beer.

5. I am, contrary to popular opinion, not a book snob. I am a voracious reader of all books, including some most would be ashamed to admit. However, I love writing just as much as I love reading, and that will inevitably change one’s perspective.

6. I feel that Lady GaGa is the most intelligent pop artist of our day and will be what this last slice of the decade will be remembered as, culturally. Try to deconstruct her work and you’ll realize just how much of an elaborate game she’s playing with you.

7. I hold grudges against inanimate objects and abstract entities far more often than I hold grudges against real people. For example, I will never buy a Lexmark printer. I also deeply distrust Chef Boyardee.

8. I never drank coffee until the summer of 2008 when I had one of the most boring jobs you can imagine.

9. I no longer classify myself on the “liberal, moderate, conservative” spectrum. I try to consider at least three aspects to each major political question. If I can’t, I’m not thinking hard enough.

10. There are only two types of people: people who would put a narwhal on their personal coat of arms, and people who wouldn’t.

Without further ado, here are some links that I think you will enjoy:

1. Rachael at “Foray” gets first billing because she might beat me up otherwise. She is a fledging blogling writing about feminist theory and issues.

2. Bojan Rajkovic’s blog presently outlines his development of Twerp, a Linux Twitter client, but he’ll eventually get back into music reviews and other types of posts.

3. No634. Jansen is a 2L tripping his way through a very interesting life.

4. Brandon Sanderson is my favorite young writer in the fantasy genre . . . although I can no longer really describe him as “young” “new” or “fledging” as he is now quite established.

5. I’m reserving #5 for every Masonic blog I read, including the “Tao of Masonry” and the “Freemasons for Dummies” blog.

6. Roger Ebert’s blog is fantastic.

7. XKCD is a comic, but I read it like its a blog written by a guy who lives in my head.

8. Daring Fireball. Good stuff.

9. Teasingly Diverse has so many great features, like 101 in 1001. I should get on that . . . 

10. Law and Letters, although I’m not smart enough to keep up with anyone who contributes there.
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