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Sheba and Rio want to try this :)

From This Year’s Model notes on elviscostello.info

The following night we made our U.S. television debut on Saturday Night Live. The Sex Pistols had been scheduled for the show only to cancel after an alleged oversight regarding work permits. Needless to say the expected viewing figures for the debut of U.K. punk outrage were in our favour.

We arrived at NBC with the intention of playing a couple of songs from our live set. Maybe something got lost in translation, but none of the humour seemed nearly as “dangerous” or funny as they seemed to think it was, or perhaps they were just having a bad show. The record company interference certainly didn’t help my mood.

We were getting pressure to perform a number from My Aim is True. I honestly believed that the words of “Less than Zero” would be utterly obscure to American viewers. Taking a cue from an impromptu performance by Jimi Hendrix on a late ’60s B.B.C. television show, I stopped this tune after a few bars and counted off an unreleased song, “Radio, Radio”. I believed that we were just acting in the spirit of the third word of the show’s title, but it was quickly apparent that the producer did not agree. He stood behind the camera making obscene and threatening gestures in my direction. When the number was over, we were chased out of the building and told that we would “never work on American television again”. Indeed, we did not make another U.S. television appearance until 1980. Although this clip from SNL went on to be rerun on numerous occasions, I was not allowed back on the show until 1989. However, I was forgiven in time to be invited to re-create the moment, with the Beastie Boys as my backing band, for the show’s 25th anniversary special.

And a Wikipedia Article on the SNL performance.

Part 1

Part 2

Bob Winter on Trademarking Ethiopian Coffee… and some Starbucks analysis.

And Here is a post from Donna Byrne’s Food Law Blog.

This video sent to me by some librarian.

Apple Lisa commercial with Kevin Costner and a dog.

Apple Lisa being demonstrated in 1984

And here is the Mac 1984 commercial… since it is Super Bowl Sunday…

and the 1984 ad with an iPod

Steve Jobs demonstrating the Mac

Part 1 of March of the Law Students a documentary about University of Chicago Law Students

Part 1 of March of the Law Students a documentary about University of Chicago Law Students

Here are some videos made by Cardozo Law School that they put up on YouTube. Cardozo is of course home of the Innocence Project run by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. 194 exonerated so far.

Professor Herz giving an Environmental Law Lecture

Professor Hamilton on the Constituion and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Professor Crane on Antitrust

Professor Leslie on Family Law

Professor Sterk on eminent domain and Kelo v New London

Professor Hughes on Intellectual Property Law

Here is the Chicago Bears’s Super Bowl Shuffle Video from 1985
Go Bears!!!

University of Chicago Professor Richard Epstein talking at a Federalist Society meeting at George Mason University Law School on Kelo v. New London which allowed public takings of private land to be used by other private parties if the public was benefited and that promoting economic development is a traditional and long accepted governmental function, and there is no principled way of distinguishing it from the other public purposes. Here is Professor Epstein’s commentary on this case adn decision and on takings in general.

As I need to start posting again… here is a Saturday video.

Sent over to us from our friend Gerry Riskin of Edge.ai :)