Maggie Wittlin

Roger.

Just sat down in a packed theater to see The Odyssey. To my left is a six-headed sea monster. To my right is a giant whirlpool. I hate navigating the problems of a middle seat.

It's officially June 28th, and you know what that means... 🎉 HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY, MEL BROOKS! 🥳 @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social In the next post, I'll tell you my favorite joke cut from the Broadway production of Young Frankenstein...

In the Spring of 2020, while you and I were descending into madness, David Hockney went out with his truck and his iPad and documented the onset of spring in Normandy.

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Where’s #watchsky at? Here are some beautiful dials at the Gotham Watch Fair today. @joedudekjd.bsky.social, @notalawyer.bsky.social

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I haven’t watched any of the second half. My semi-solipsistic theory that I, personally, cause the Knicks to play badly gains increased support.

There are only two things you need to be a true New Yorker: 1. Presence 2. Intent to remain

I haven’t paid close attention to basketball since 1994, and I just really hope that my Knicks are prepared to take on David Robinson!

There's a lot of slop online these days, but I gotta say: nothing bothers me quite so much as obituary slop.

Nice short article about @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social Dean Emeritus John Feerick and his role in drafting the Twenty-Fifth Amendment: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Had a great time at the biggest Evidence Summer Workshop yet! What an awesome scholarly community. Thanks my co-organizers Ed Cheng, @alexnunn.bsky.social, and Julia Simon-Kerr. #ESW

Hey, sorry I’m late to work; my barista just got back from jury duty.

This is an excellent story. I laughed. I cried. I learned bread-related etymologies of common words. I got dirt on PR people who wronged the author. And I learned where to go for great free bread. My post-publication submission: the garlic knots at Villaggio Italiano on Central Ave in Hartsdale.

This is an excellent story. I laughed. I cried. I learned bread-related etymologies of common words. I got dirt on PR people who wronged the author. And I learned where to go for great free bread. My post-publication submission: the garlic knots at Villaggio Italiano on Central Ave in Hartsdale.

The two best things in the world: a cryptic crossword clue and this one’s answer.

I'm excited for Tim's deeply researched book about Walter Jenkins, LBJ's friend and de facto Chief of Staff who resigned after he was arrested for soliciting sex with a man in a YMCA restroom. Pre-order your copy today!

Escape castle, obviously. Puzzles created by the greatest puzzling minds with an unlimited budget. Secret rooms galore. Ideally a full-weekend-long affair, at least.

As a teenager, I looked enough like the winner of the 1997 Scripps National Spelling Bee that well into college, strangers would semi-regularly come up to me on the street and ask if I’d won a spelling bee.

The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence is an invaluable resource, and political interference with its contents is a serious problem.

The conditions at our immigrant detention centers are a national crisis. @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social's Feerick Center reports: - Insufficient, spoiled food - Insufficient, non-functional toilets - Calls for medical care unheeded - Court dates missed - Guards picking physical fights More here:

“Roses are red, Violets are blue” Won’t qualify you as a botanical expert Under 702

Great launch event for @profadediran.bsky.social’s new book, Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress, presented by @fordhamracelaw.bsky.social! Buy it here: www.amazon.com/Disclosurela...

I am extremely in favor of games being a larger part of law teaching. Fiss & Berger’s “Woburn: A Game of Discovery” is great (if outdated). Students have to dig through the rules to win! Maybe someday I’ll actually get on that Evidence computer game I started…

Scientific Evidence Expert Named Next President of Columbia University! (I really wish the NYT would put the important info in the headline.) Congrats to all!

Berk v. Choy is here! SCOTUS holds that Fed. R. Civ. P. 8 and Delaware law “give different answers to the question whether Berk’s complaint can be dismissed as insufficient because it was unaccompanied by an affidavit,” and Rule 8 governs in federal court. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

It was a delight to comment on @cmorten.bsky.social’s excellent paper! This is a great workshop, even for us IP interlopers.

And there it was, emerging from the shadows…

Overheard on Central Park West: “What’s Celine Dion’s favorite campfire snack?” “Uhh…” 🎤🎵 “One s’more…” 🎶

I love teaching 1Ls, but I gotta say, I’m glad I’m not teaching—or grading!—them this semester. This can’t be the way forward.

In-court sandwich identification is very suggestive. I am therefore proposing an amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(C)…

Ok, judgy social media people: rate my trick or treat candy selection.

Deliriously: “Blue Jay baby, LA lady…”