Wheels of Justice

[jere7my]

The trial has been adjourned for two weeks, to give the victim more recovery time. (He is apparently out of the hospital, but still unable to sit up.) I only learned this after waiting in the courthouse hallway for an hour. It was, I think, the worst-designed public building I've ever been in: a single cramped, fluorescent-lit hall stretched the full length of the building, with courtrooms and offices branching from one side like leaves from a fern, and information desks at either end. There were very few signs, outside or inside, which made it difficult to get around, particularly since (for instance) Courtroom 6 was adjacent to Courtroom 1. And I get to go back in two weeks. *sigh* Everyone was apologetic, at least, which I appreciated.

Kendra kindly drove me twenty minutes to the courthouse, then drove down again to pick me up while I waited outside in the cold, eating dry KFC chicken strips at a picnic table.

On the plus side, today I received spam from "Centipedes A. Lamentable." That's really too good a name to pass up.

Also, these pictures of the Batmobile from Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins have actually given me some hope that we will soon see a Batman movie that doesn't suck. (Christopher Nolan is Memento-guy, so my hopes were already rather high. Also, Ra's Al Ghul and the Scarecrow—yes indeed.)

Comments

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Nolans earlier film "Following"?

it is amazing. I'm really excited to see what he does with the fab cast he will have.

Ooo...

[ultranurd.livejournal.com]

That does look good. Ken Watanabe should make a good AlGhoul.

The days of Clooney are finally over!!! Rejoice!

[elysdir.livejournal.com]

I think I stopped reading Batman before Ra's Al Ghul became popular -- I just found out he first appeared in 1971, but he certainly wasn't in any of the Batman comics I read in the late '70s through mid-'80s. Anyway, I've always wondered one thing about his name: how do you pronounce the first part of it? The first dozen times I saw it (probably in the late '80s or early '90s), I thought the first word was the possessive of "Ra" -- that is, that he was an Al Ghul (?) who belonged to Ra the sun god. Eventually I got the impression that the apostrophe is actually some sort of glottal stop or Arabic punctuation mark or something, and that it's not a possessive at all.... Various web sources suggest that it's pronounced "raysh" -- true?

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

Various web sources suggest that it's pronounced "raysh" -- true?

That's how they pronounce it on the animated series: "raysh al ghoul".

[zorblak.livejournal.com]

The one time I went to court to testify, I didn't actually get to testify either. It was for a car accident I'd witnessed a couple of years earlier in The City, and there was a long saga of giving statements, depositions, etc. Eventually it went to trial, and they asked me to come as a witness. (I was 13 or so when I saw the accident, was in high school by the time of the trial.) It turned out to be the day of the worst snowstorm that year, but we schlepped into The City and down to the courthouse and sat around waiting. And waiting. And waiting. They kept sending someone out every 20-30 minutes to tell us "Soon, soon." After a couple of hours (!), they came out and told us that the guy had settled. Apparently the fact that I was there to testify was enough to scare him into accepting the settlement, which was cool, but not as cool as getting to testify would have been. And then we got to schlep back out of The City through the snow.