This is one of those days when being a non-employed person is a plus.
My energy level and attention span are both de minimis. If I were still
practicing law, I’d have to be one of those non-hourly billers.
Since I’m just an old weblogger, I can get away without doing any heavy-
lifting – a lightweight story and some tiny poems, to match my level of
productivity.
Speaking of heavy-lifting: three different companies
have left large phone books on my stoop in the past two weeks
(Verizon, TransWestern, and TalkingPhoneBook). They all
purport to cover the New York Capital Region (Albany, Schen-
ectady, Troy, Saratoga Springs). I see piles of each of them
everywhere. What a waste of paper, advertising expenses, etc.
I’m glad I don’t pay by the pound for my trash removal.
Naturally, personal injury law firms are all over the covers and
pull-outs for each book. That’s fine, they have the right to ad-
vertise and to be tacky. However, I can’t help but think that
those full-page ads are cost-effective for them, but not for other
types of lawyers, because p/i lawyers are taking far too much
money from many of their clients. The standard contingency
In light of our recent discussion of “the” Heavy Hitter lawyer from
Nevada, I was curious to see a fullpage ad (in the telephone book
that arrived today) by a fellow in Albany, NY, who’s tagline is:
“A” Real Plumber
detail
TheTalkingPhoneBook/AlbanyNY
I don’t think there is a Plumber Advertising Commission that banned
the term “The Real Plumber.” So, I figured this was just another
telephone book editing error. Just to make sure, though, I went to the
website of Winston J. LaPierre, Master Plumber. To my surprise, he
really did want to say “A” Real Plumber, as his trucks have those
words painted in large red letters, over white. See photo.
My preference, as his marketing advisor, would be
A “Real” Plumber. But, this is the “real” haiku
advocacy website.
Thinking Plumber LaPierre might be trying to get to the front of the
alphabet with this tagline, I flipped through all three of my new phone
books. In each, however, AAA Marc’s Plumbing and A A Sewer &
Drain snuck in ahead of LaPierre’s A Real Plumber.
That notion led me to wonder whether we have any AAA or AA lawyers
in our region. As a matter of fact, we do: AA Stephen Commins, on
Wolf Rd. in the Albany suburb of Colonie, NY, is the first listing in all
three yellow pages under lawyers. [he has no website, but see his on-
line directory listing here for an example.] As a Scrabble player, I know
that “aa” is a word (meaning “rough lava”). To make sure “AA” isn’t act-
ually Commins’ given name, I went to the NYS Attorney Registration page.
To my surprise, there was no result for either “AA Stephen Commins”
or “Stephen Commins.” I’ll try his office tomorrow to see if Mr. Com-
mins goes by another name.
your name in the phone book before the Nevada
Attorney Advertising Commission claimed the con-
sumer is being misled.
You’re going to have to take my word that I had a lot more topics
as interesting as the one above, that I had hoped to share with
you today. However, I have run out of steam.
“tinyredcheck” Luckily, haijin Ed Markowski never runs out of poetic
inspiration – especially when it comes to round balls
(and food) (and romance). Here are a few from Ed for
a March evening:
long rebound
crossing mid-court
she crosses my mind
Indiana farm
one tractor
three hoops
calligraphy class
the point guard
pens a nike swoosh
rained out
the ticket scalper
panhandles for bus fare
new neighborhood
i strike out another
invisible man
rain delay
the length of the lines
at the stadium restrooms
late innings
the shortstop backpedals
into fireflies
distant thunder
the home run hitter
drops a bunt
“red hots!”
for an instant i’m ten
and
father’s still alive
March 9, 2006
plumb out of energy
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