{"id":7152,"date":"2006-09-02T19:45:03","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T23:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/09\/02\/labor-day-shlep\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:55","slug":"labor-day-shlep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/09\/02\/labor-day-shlep\/","title":{"rendered":"labor day shlep?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the rest of us are taking it easy, celebrating the Labor Day weekend, the mellowed ghost of ethicalEsq<\/em> appeared at a new\u00a0almost-ready-for-post time weblog yesterday, looking for a few good co-conspirators.\u00a0 The weblog is shlep: the Self-Help Law ExPress<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, and it promises to spotlight news and offer views about the Self-Help Law (and pro se<\/em> litigation) revolution — a topic we’ve been covering<\/a> at this weblog since our first<\/a> week online.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"HelpWantedG\"\u00a0\u00a0 f\/k\/a<\/em>‘s Editor is looking for co-editors<\/a>\/contributors to make shlep<\/em>\u00a0a robust, daily weblog\u00a0(and to keep his work there part-time).\u00a0 Of course, a horde of readers stopping by would be very nice, too.\u00a0 Be the first on your block to check out shlep<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and see what it is all About<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Did you hit the road for summer’s last fling?\u00a0 The f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang never shleps<\/a> [nor schleps<\/em>] very far for Labor Day.\u00a0 A nice pond with a heron’s nest or two is holiday enough.\u00a0 The folks at The Heron’s Nest<\/em><\/strong><\/a> haiku journal obliged us, yesterday,\u00a0by posting their third edition of the year (Vol. VIII: 3, Sept. 2006<\/a>).\u00a0 Among the many fine selected poems, on over a dozen webpages, you will find the following from our own Honored Guest Poets<\/a> (come back in a few days for a few more):<\/p>\n

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\"heronLogoF\"\u00a0 All poems from The Heron’s Nest<\/em> (VIII: 3<\/a>, Sept. 2006):<\/p>\n

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\nhome for the weekend
\na water lily\u2019s root
\ntrailing out of sight<\/p>\n

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a wasp nest
\nout of reach of the hose
\nautumn begins<\/p>\n

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. . . by paul m<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 “home for the weekend<\/a>” &\u00a0“a wasp nest<\/a>”<\/p>\n

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filigreed moon
\nthe soft edges
\nof her lingerie<\/p>\n

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sunrise
\nwe lower
\nthe blinds<\/p>\n

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. . . by Yu Chang<\/strong><\/a> – “filigreed moon<\/a>” “sunrise<\/a>”<\/p>\n

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no rain for days \u2014
\na half-eaten apple taken away
\nfrom the fruit flies<\/p>\n

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. . . by Gary Hotham<\/strong>\u00a0– “no rain for days —<\/a>”\u00a0 \"umbrellaV\"<\/p>\n

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leaf buds
\nthe flycatcher
\nvaries his call<\/p>\n

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\ncicada song
\njust enough embers
\nto rekindle the fire<\/p>\n

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. . . by Carolyn Hall<\/a><\/strong>
\n“leaf buds<\/a>” &\u00a0“cicada song<\/a>”<\/p>\n

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\"announcerR\"\u00a0We are pleased to announce\/brag that at least three f\/k\/a<\/em> Honored Guest Poets have won prizes in the 17th annual Ito En “Oi Ocha” New Haiku Contest<\/a>\u00a0— they are\u00a0Andrew Riutta<\/em>, Ed Markowski<\/em> and Roberta Beary<\/em>. \u00a0Because Ito En keeps the copyright, we can’t share the poems with you, but they will appear on the label of a special series of the company’s green tea products. If other Honored Guests were also Ito En winners, please let haikuEsq<\/em> know.<\/p>\n

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\"SpringBreak\"\u00a0 On a completely<\/em> different topic (I think): Prof. Mark Liberman of Language Log<\/em><\/a> pierces the veil of the linguistic mystery of Kahunas v. Cojones<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 E.g<\/em>., is substituting one term for the other an eggcorn<\/a> or a malapropism<\/a>?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(via Ed at BlawgReview<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n

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While the rest of us are taking it easy, celebrating the Labor Day weekend, the mellowed ghost of ethicalEsq appeared at a new\u00a0almost-ready-for-post time weblog yesterday, looking for a few good co-conspirators.\u00a0 The weblog is shlep: the Self-Help Law ExPress, and it promises to spotlight news and offer views about the Self-Help Law (and pro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1Rm","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152","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=7152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12630,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152\/revisions\/12630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}