Friday Links

We hope you enjoyed Tuesday’s April Fools’ Day post, entitled Tuesday’s “In Employment Case, Texas Trial Court Holds That Retweets Are, In Fact, Endorsements As A Matter Of Law,”  as much as we enjoyed writing it. In celebration of the occasion, we direct your attention to the comic book cover above, that being The Spirit #357.  As you can see, it is rather appropriate (and it’s a Will Eisner cover to boot!). Further, in the interests of completism, we present these links to our four past April Fool’s Day Posts:

“North Carolina Court Declares Harlem Shake ‘Over,’ Enjoins YouTube From Accepting Further Videos Depicting Same” (April 1, 2013).

“American Bar Association Denies Provisional Accreditation To Miskatonic University School of Law” (April 1, 2012).

“Star Wars Prequels Unreasonably Dangerous and Defective, South Carolina Federal Court Finds” (April 1, 2011).

“Unsatisfying Snickers Bar Unreasonably Dangerous and Defective, Texas Court Holds” (April 1, 2010).

On another note, over at Evan Schaeffer’s Legal  Underground, Evan Schaeffer has a post entitled: “Charlie Daniels Has Recorded an Album of Dylan Tunes?” In said post, Evan muses:

The Sirius/XM station “Outlaw Country” has been playing the Daniels’ version of “Tangled Up in Blue” quite a bit during the past week.

It’s not bad. Keeping in mind that this isn’t a music blog, per se.

Let us be the first to say that law blogs should be free to stray into the topic of music. Back in 2011, we here at Abnormal Use dedicated a full post to the life and death of the rock band R.E.M. and created the ultimate list of “Songs about Lawyers, Judges, and Attorneys.” So we’re fully on board with music lawyer blogging. By the way, Evan started his blog way, way back in January of 2004, meaning that it just celebrated its tenth anniversary. That’s no small feat, and we congratulate him on that achievement. His very first post, from January 28, 2004, was “New to the Blawgosphere,” and you can revisit it here. In fact, one of our favorite legal blog music posts was done by Evan in February 2004, just a few days after he officially launched his blog. That post, of course, was “Federal Judge Sways to Rhythm of Talking Heads,” in which he analyzed and annotated United States v. Abner, 825 F.2d 835 (5th Cir. 1987), the famed appellate opinion in which the author embedded more than a few Talking Heads song names.