{"id":5278,"date":"2006-04-21T15:53:13","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T19:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/04\/21\/frivolous-restaurant-lawsuits"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:59","slug":"frivolous-restaurant-lawsuits-tinas-groove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/04\/21\/frivolous-restaurant-lawsuits-tinas-groove\/","title":{"rendered":"frivolous restaurant lawsuits – “Tina’s Groove”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With <\/span>Overlawyered<\/em><\/span><\/a>‘s Walter Olson taking a few days off<\/span> for family duties, I guess it’s up to us to point you to<\/span> today’s Tina’s Groove<\/span><\/a><\/em> comic strip on <\/span>Restaurant Lawsuits<\/span><\/a>.<\/span> (Seattle Post-Intelligencer<\/em>, April 21, 2006) It’s well worth<\/span> a click. (Hey, buddy, can I borrow your placemat?)<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
<\/span><\/em>\"TinaSample\" get Tina products here<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n
early Alzheimer’s<\/span><\/div>\n
she says she’ll have . . .<\/span><\/div>\n
the usual<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
dining alone<\/span><\/div>\n
I rehearse<\/span><\/div>\n
a conversation<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
home<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
and homesick<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
all-night diner<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n
\n
\n
late night —<\/span><\/div>\n
a waitress repeats<\/span><\/div>\n
the list of pies<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

\"diner John Stevenson<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
“dining alone” – <\/span>Quiet Enough<\/em><\/span><\/a> (Red Moon Press, 2004)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
“early Alzheimer’s” – Quiet Enough<\/em><\/span><\/a> (2004)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
“home” – <\/span>Upstate Dim Sum<\/span><\/em><\/a> (<\/span>2003\/I<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
“late night”- <\/span>The Heron’s Nest<\/em><\/span><\/a> (<\/span>March 2006<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
. . .<\/div>\n
<\/p>\n
coffee shop . . . <\/span><\/div>\n
the only empty seat<\/span><\/div>\n
still warm<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
\n
all tongue<\/span><\/div>\n
the clam in the fire’s<\/span><\/div>\n
hiss<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/span>Randy Brooks<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
from <\/span><\/span><\/span>School’s Out<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span> (Press Here, 1999)<\/span><\/div>\n
pretty waitress —\u00a0 \"SlicingThePie\"<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\njust a nod when we say
\nwe’re getting old<\/p>\n

…\u00a0 by dagosan<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Overlawyered‘s Walter Olson taking a few days off for family duties, I guess it’s up to us to point you to today’s Tina’s Groove comic strip on Restaurant Lawsuits. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 21, 2006) It’s well worth a click. (Hey, buddy, can I borrow your placemat?) get Tina products here early Alzheimer’s she says […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1n8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12678,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions\/12678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}