Well, we’ve got one more holiday themed comic book cover for you, and that’s Mickey Mouse Magazine #28 which, as you can see, celebrates the new year. How curious to think that this comic book is nearly 80 years old. We wonder what readers will think of this blog eight decades from now. Hopefully, there will be throngs of graduate students poring over our prose. We’ll wait see if that comes to be. Surely it will, right?

By the way, we ran our very first edition of “Friday Links” five years ago yesterday. See how far we’ve come by clicking here.

And back in 2013, we posted this list of songs related to the new year.

In case you missed it, here are the “Top 10 Legal Grounds Stories of 2014” as recounted by Daniel Taylor of Findlaw’s Legal Grounds blog.

FYI: Last week, the South Carolina Supreme Court published its annual order on Interest Rate on Money Decrees and Judgments. For the full order, please see here.

If you practice in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, we have some news for you. According to an email sent from the court late last month, the Bryson City division is no more:

Please be advised that the Bryson City Division and case number will be dissolved effective 01/01/2015.

All new cases filed that fall within the counties that were before covered by the BC division: Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Jackson, Macon and Swain now are incorporated into the Asheville Division and will be assigned a “1” at the beginning of the case number. (Example: 1:15-cv-00001)

Update your files accordingly.

Well, we here at Abnormal Use typically do not post on weekend days, but today is a special occasion. It’s our fifth birthday. To celebrate, we direct your attention to the comic book cover above, that of Yogi Bears Birthday Party #1, published a good many years ago. (We don’t know why they omitted the apostrophe from the title, which should likely be Yogi Bear’s Birthday Party.).

That’s right, dear readers. It was five years ago today, on January 4, 2010, that we published our first blog post, our mission statement. Many thanks, of course, go out to our contributors, Nick Farr, Rob Green, Kyle White, Batten Farrar, Jessica Waller, Lindsay Joyner, and Janice Holmes, without whom this enterprise simply would not be possible. And to you, our dear readers, we thank you for your support.

You can read our past birthday posts here, here, here, and here. And if you want to see the last time we used a Yogi Bear holiday themed comic book cover in a post, click here to revisit a 2013 post.

Hey, it’s our first Friday Links of 2015! How about that?

As we previously mentioned, Back To The Future Part II is set, at least in part, in the year 2015. When that first was released way back in 1989, that future year seemed very distant. Now it’s upon us. So, now that we’re here, we feel we should direct you to “11 Predictions That Back to the Future Part II Got Wrong” and “11 Predictions That Back to the Future Part II Got Right.” Oh, and if you dig those, you’ve got to see this tweet. Enjoy.

Since this is a law blog, we had to share our favorite lines from Back To The Future Part II, those being:

Marty McFly: [Reading the newspaper from 2015] “Within two hours of his arrest, Martin McFly Jr. was tried, convicted and sentenced to fifteen years in the state penitentiary.”? Within two hours?

Doc: The justice system works swiftly in the future now that they’ve abolished all lawyers.

Ouch. I suppose it’s a good thing for us that such a thing never came to be.

Our favorite headline of late: “Lawsuit Blames DA’s Office for Failing to Supervise Investigators Accused of Stealing High-Priced Comic Books.” (Thanks for the link, Eric Nordstrom!).

Happy New Year from the Abnormal Use law blog and Gallivan, White, & Boyd, P.A.!

You know, usually, we set our posts to run at 7:30 a.m. each business day, but today, we couldn’t resist running this entry at 12:01 a.m. on this New Year’s Day of 2015. Wherever and in whichever time zone you find yourself, be safe, and be merry. Enjoy your day off and try to find some time to listen to U2’s “New Year’s Day” (which we mentioned here two years ago in a post about songs celebrating the arrival of a new year).

By the way, above, you’ll find the New Year’s themed cover of Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories #28, published way, way back in 1942.

It’s New Year’s Eve! We here at the Abnormal Use law blog and Gallivan, White, & Boyd, P.A. wish you a safe and festive evening. We can’t believe that it’s going to be 2015. In fact, twenty-five years ago, back in the halcyon days of 1989, we went to the movies to see Back To The Future Part II, in which the protagonist travels into the future and arrives in 2015.  We don’t think the coming year will be full of hover boards, but we’re still excited about it. (In fact, on Friday, we plan to dwell a bit more on the predictions of the future made by BTTF 2.).

By the way, above, you’ll find the cover of Batman: The Long Halloween #4, published in 1997 (itself a fine year). It seems appropriate for the day, no? Here’s a brief summary (from a much longer post on the issue) courtesy of Comicvine:

The gangsters of Gotham are having a New Year’s Eve gala aboard a yacht. Carmine “The Roman” Falcone is talking to Salvadore “The Boss” Maroni, and suggest that Maroni might be behind the Holiday killings. Falcone runs into his sister Carla and tells her that he is looking for his son Alberto. Alberto is scene alone by the rail of the yacht. Carla steps outside to have a cigarette. A gloved hand is seen unscrewing one of the light bulbs behind Alberto. An untraceable handgun fires and Alberto goes over the rail. Carla rushes towards the sound of the shot and finds the gun along with a glass of champagne and some confetti. It looks like Holiday has claimed another victim.

Yikes! Whatever the case, we wish you a fun evening, and we’ll see you next year.

We here at Abnormal Use and Gallivan, White, & Boyd, P.A. hope that everyone has a wonderful Christmas yesterday. With that in mind, we’ve got time for one more Christmas themed comic book cover, so we direct your attention to that of The New Archies #21, published not so long ago in 1990. As you can see, the Archie gang is up to its usual set of tricks.

Last week, on December 17, we published a piece about the U.S. Navy’s new laser weapon. In so doing, we referenced – and included a picture of – Dr. Evil. Well, just three days later, on the final episode of “Saturday Night Live” of the year, Dr. Evil returned. How about that?

Speaking of which, this is our last edition of Friday Links of 2014.

Behold: “6 Predictions For Law Firm Marketing in 2015” from the LexisNexis Business of Law Blog.

Congratulations to GWB shareholder Ron Wray on his election as president of the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association. For more information, please see here.

Don’t forget: You can follow us on Twitter here and on Facebook here!

We here at Abnormal Use and Gallivan, White, & Boyd, P.A. wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. To celebrate the occasion, we direct your attention to the Dennis The Menace comic book cover above, published way, way back in 1965. (We thought we’d go with something traditional today.). We’re a bit concerned with young Dennis, who finds himself on a snowy rooftop. That fact scenario is a torts exam question waiting to happen, isn’t it? Whatever the case, we hope you have a safe and festive holiday. And, dear readers, try not to bill too many hours over the break.

Now, we’re off to open some presents, so we’ll see you tomorrow with a Christmas-themed edition of Friday Links.

We hope and trust that you are not in the law office today. If you are, put down your work product and time slips and go spend time with your family. It’s Christmas Eve! Of course, on this most merry of occasions, we simply had to share the comic book cover above, that The Brave and The Bold #148, published way, way back in 1979. Look at Batman and Plastic Man fighting alongside Santa Claus! That’s some Christmas magic!

If you’re traveling today, be safe, and when you arrive at your destination, be merry. We wish you the best and a very happy holiday.

Since this is our last edition of Friday Links before Christmas, we thought we’d share the cover of Archie’s Giant Series Magazine #216. We’re not entirely certain when this particular issue was published, but it seems appropriate (especially with Archie’s looming 75th birthday). Enjoy.

Today is the last day you can vote for Abnormal Use in the ABA Journal‘s Blawg 100 poll! To do so, click here (and you can find us in the “Tort/Consumer” category). We would very much appreciate your support. The polls close at the end of the business day today.

Today, by the way, is our editor Jim Dedman’s birthday.

The Lawyerist site – a blog we’ve linked many times over the years – is starting a new podcast. For more information, click here.

Our favorite tweet of late simply has to be this one:

Dance like no one is watching; email like it may one day be read aloud in a deposition.

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) December 13, 2014