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<\/a> ..<\/p>\nW<\/strong><\/em>hat a strange coincidence: Just as I was announcing that this would be the last week of production for f\/k\/a<\/em>, my friend “Ed Post” was putting together this week’s version of Blawg Review<\/a><\/em> — #200<\/a>!! — which opens with a link to Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger<\/em> post, “If your blog died today . . . what would it be remembered for?<\/a>“.\u00a0 Happily, the 200th milestone for Blawg Review is not its last edition.\u00a0 As its anonymous Editor puts it:<\/p>\n “Not to worry; we’ve come to praise Blawg Review<\/em>, not to bury it. This moot funeral is not a morbid affair, but a celebration of everything good about Blawg Review<\/em>.”<\/p>\n Like every issue of Blawg Review<\/em>, this week’s puts the spotlight on the best material posted during the prior week at law-related weblogs.\u00a0 As part of the 200th-edition celebration, Ed has structured this issue around an apt Traveling Wilburys<\/a> metaphor — a musical group composed of rock-n-roll superstars whose collaboration magically “was greater than the sum of its parts.”<\/p>\n One of my favorite poems posted here at f\/k\/a<\/em> is this senryu<\/a> by lawyer-poet Barry George:<\/p>\n his quiet funeral\u2014 ………………. by barry george<\/a><\/p>\n The faux funeral of “Ed Post” and his Blawg Review<\/em> inspired dagosan<\/em><\/a> to pen a new version this morning:<\/p>\n his noisy wake — …. by dagosan <\/em><\/p>\n \n Blawg Review<\/em>, which is to say Ed and many of his hosts, has always been bery-bery good to this weblog — from giving us the Blawg Review<\/em><\/a> \u201cCreative Law Blog Award\u201d in 2005 [see “thanks a lot (for all this pressure)<\/a>,” Dec. 27, 2005], to including f\/k\/a<\/em> in Ed’s \u201cSimply the Best<\/a>\u201d Top Ten Blawg lists [see our post<\/a>, October 5, 2007], letting us host Blawg Review #52<\/a> (April 11, 2006), and mentioning our work often in the weekly Review.\u00a0\u00a0 Behind the scenes, Ed has also often acted as our long-distance proofreader extraordinaire (saving the Gang from many embarrassments), and as cheerleader and moral support when stress and fatigue and Weltschmerz<\/a> made me want to throw in the towel.<\/p>\n E<\/em>d’s two stops in Schenectady to visit this cranky blawger — memorialized here<\/a> and there<\/a> — were testaments to the ability of the blawgiverse to create and nurture more than virtual friendships.<\/p>\n So, congratulations, Ed, for creating an enduring, high-quality blog carnival.\u00a0 And, heartfelt thanks for all you’ve done to create and celebrate the blawger community, and done for this little weblog and its humbled Editor.<\/p>\n bookie’s funeral …. by ed markowski<\/p>\n As usual, Ed has also reminded me that I have a lot work to do this week — crafting an auto-obituary and apologia for this weblog.\u00a0\u00a0 Because we tried to close down this little project once before, after only 19 weeks in busines, I guess the second (and last) time should go a little more smoothly.\u00a0 See “exitedEsq: going dormant (gonna miss ya)<\/a>” (October 11, 2003)\u00a0 Re-reading that post, I see there were a lot of lessons I never learned and a lot of mistakes repeated since our premature death notice.<\/p>\n O<\/em>n the other hand, we got such nice obits from other bloggers (back before Denise<\/a> had even coined the word “blawg”), it’s a wonder we ever started back up.\u00a0 Living up to our death press was quite daunting.\u00a0 See, e.g.<\/em>, this humble-making post by law-blog supertar Ernie Svenson, a\/k\/a Ernie the Attorney<\/em>, “Requiem for a Heavyweight<\/a> – ethicalEsq? is shutting down” (Oct. 12, 2003).\u00a0\u00a0 Actually, the blog-obituaries were so generous, it’s a wonder I haven’t sought even more long before now.<\/p>\n update<\/strong><\/em>: And, it’s happening again — nice words inspired by our leaving town. See Scott Greenfield’s “Phoenix Rising<\/a>” (Feb. 24, 2009).<\/p>\n Wait, I’m supposed<\/a> to be concentrating on lawyer fees this week.\u00a0\u00a0 I am so<\/em> easy to distract.<\/p>\n <\/em>L<\/em>et’s close with a few topical poems written by lawyer-poets: funeral dirge \u2013 \u2026. by David Giacalone – Frogpond<\/em>, Vol. 31:2 (Spring\/Summer 2008) \n after the funeral \n funeral over his death notice. . .
\na man who did
\nmost of the talking<\/p>\n
\nthe man who let others
\ndo most of the talking<\/em><\/p>\n
\nthe undertaker pays
\nhis debt<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nwe bury the one
\nwho could carry a tune<\/p>\n
\nrepub. \u201cwhite lies: Red Moon Anthology 2008<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n
\nthe seeds she ordered
\nin today’s mail<\/p>\n
\nthe deadbolt
\nslides into place<\/p>\n
\nthe get-well card
\nstill in my briefcase<\/p>\n