Can't Touch This

Calling a random number in the phone book and asking someone if his refrigerator is running might be a funny prank. Calling 911 and telling them that you are in a sinking boat which causes them to send out helicopters and ships to find you is not quite as funny a prank. In fact, it can lead to being charged with some substantially criminal offenses.

I started my day by assisting my new client with some pre-arrest issues that relate to his case. On my drive to this meeting, I was listening to the radio. Well, I was trying to listen to my Spanish cds (I am on a thirty year plan to learn Spanish), but I have trouble staying focused for too long. So in between lessons, I will listen to the radio a bit to break things up.

You know how sometimes you hear an old song that brings back some memories or that you can't believe you used to like? Usually, you think you haven't heard the song in years, but the reality is that the song has probably popped up on occasion every year or two. Not this one. Today I heard a song that I believe has not been played since it's popularity in 1990(?). I think that it might actually have been banned from being played for the past seventeen years. And I am not just talking about radio play. I think that it may have become illegal to play this song within the privacy of your own home. Being the free speech advocate that I am, I am outraged that this song was banned for seventeen years. Seventy might have been more appropriate. If I am not dead by then, at least my hearing should be sufficiently shot to be able to make out the lyrics and beat to...

Too Legit to Quit. Yes, that was the lead single off the album of the same name for MC Hammer to follow up his wildly successful, "Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em" album. MC Hammer scored three hits off that album, and they were all just raps over the instrumental of hit songs (Super Freak, When Doves Cry, and Have You Seen Her?). 2 Legit 2 Quit was Hammer's attempt to write his own hit in its entirety. It effectively ended his career.

Do you remember the hand signals? A Ghostbusters-like sequence of celebrities now in the Witness Protection Program begin doing the hand signals for the song. The hand signals are great, and the song sounds like a cross between C+C Music Factory and diarrhea (my apologies to diarrhea).

So the interview process continued today. I actually had a few good candidates today. Among them was a woman who just moved here from Florida and is living at the Salvation Army. She was very nice, and was even well-dressed. One of the hardest parts about interviewing people is finding out things about them that make me really feel for them and want to give them the job based on their need. Last time I interviewed people, I spoke to one woman who had her home destroyed in Katrina and had recently moved here. She was living in a cupboard or something with her family of five. It was heartbreaking. Anyway, I won't be hiring the Salvation Army person, but I sure as heck want to.