Sorry for the long delay.
Here is the link until I can post this properly

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/11412507

So mid-way through recreating the lost posts when my phone died for whatever reason I discovered KF Li and Icarus’ icons no longer show up for whatever reason.  Since we’ve had this weird glitch we’ve had Casey Anthony, a Skadden Associate die of a heart attack and a whole slew of other crap.

Please check out the political page as Simon’s Girlfriend has an interesting take on the Healthcare debate.

As always I remind you to go back and read some of our legacy posts.  Most are about the ongoing phenomenon of being a student debtor, not say, a specific event.

Also check out the media section. More stories and movies to follow, I promise!

One of the good things about losing a string of posts is that it gives you some time to reflect on what you wrote . With respect to the Thomas Jefferson Law School lawsuit I feel I originally failed to get at the real crux of the matter.  For those of you unfamiliar an unemployed law grad with excellent grades is suing her alma mater for false advertising because they materially misrepresented their employment statistics to her when she was considering matriculating.

Triforce and Alpha Man had a long fight about it and I sat on the sidelines eventually reluctantly agreeing with Triforce that there was no case because there was no precedent, no specific guarantee was made, and because surely there were enough employed individuals from this school so as to make the premise easily rebuttable.  I didn’t even touch the Triforce slippery slope/don’t hate the player argument. Alpha Man muttered something about cracker lawyers under his breath but stuck to his guns about consumer fraud and the seriousness of a potential FTC violation.
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Ok. Because all of your are too lazy to click on the other categories available on this site, throughout the summer I am going to highlight past posts of note.  This is also a good time to search the blog by author, checkout the media section or just pick a random month before you discovered this site and see what everyone was up to.

Specifically I would recommend:

Tales of an Unpublished Author – Our mini series from last summer.  I must read for aspiring authors.

Mike Triforce Says Go to Law School and Get Paid – Our debut (and so far only) xtranormal movie.

The Roommate – Our debut (and again so far only) short story.

Enjoy your summer everyone.  The Job Applications will be there after Labor Day.

Hopefully our short story selections won’t follow in the footsteps of our movies.  Without further ado I present: “The Roommate” by Angsty Kong.

The Roommate

Matt Finer was on death row for the murder of his roommate Michelle Row.  A last minute stay of execution had been denied.  Finer was a lawyer and had tried, unsuccessfully, to avoid execution due to a mental illness.  The guards didn’t buy it, just another trick to keep privileged pricks like Finer out of the hot seat and in minimum-security resorts.  Matt Finer was guilty and he deserved to die.  He wouldn’t even give Row’s family the location of the body.  It was widely believed that unwillingness contributed to his sentence more than any other factor.

Up to this point, Finer had been about as calm and coherent as anyone facing execution, particularly a person who ought to have a lot of regrets.  But when the guards came for him he was wide-eyed and wild, already hoarse from screaming and bleeding all over his face from scratching himself, like he tried to claw his own eyes out.  Experienced guards who’d led hulking beasts such as ex-football players, ex-military and hired killers down the Green Mile were having trouble with a 5’-8” dumpy kid who five years ago had been tossing a Frisbee around his ivy-league campus.

The guards began to strap Finer into place and he grew even wilder.  It was more than just fear.  He’d seen something behind the glass where the family waited to view his execution.  Standard procedure was to keep the curtain pulled until the inmate was strapped in, but Finer’s antics had caused them to run behind schedule.  The crowd was restless.

“I wish executions had previews,” remarked one guard and his colleagues nodded.

Once everything was prepared Finer grew calm.  He said several times he had something to say and the warden ensured him he’d be permitted to speak before the execution.  When the warden asked him if he had anything to say Finer said, after visible deliberation,

“I should have watched the end of the tape,” then nodded when asked if he was finished.

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It’s the first day of summer.  My phone is no more and I am not due for an upgrade until September.  Of course my mother just figured out how to text her friends on her church committee last week and is unwilling to let me have HER phone which she previously never used, not even to call 911 when she fell off the kitchen stool while reaching for the flour at the top of the cupboard.  Of course she was reaching for the flour to bake me a cake so it was my fault.  The cake was to celebrate a job interview.  Obviously I didn’t get the job.  When an interview begins with “I’m sorry, we thought you were someone else,” it is not a good sign.

But I digress.  Summer is about escapism.  Escapism in the form of movies and stories.  I know I promised you guys movies a few months back, then delivered nothing past our inaugural film.  That’s my bad.  Despite that failure, I am now offering in addition to movies, short stories in the media section.  That’s our goal for the summer here folks.  Build up the ole media library.

So we are NOT taking a break for the summer as a number of people have inquired.  What we have had is a technical malfunction uploading posts.  My mistake, but here at Debtor’s Prison we really are in debt and you can’t go replacing your phone just because you fell into a kiddie pool while running from a dog that the owner released after asking “why would a 30 year-old man offer to paint my mailbox?”

Sigh.

Anyway, we’ll do our best to recreate the lost posts.  Back up your stuff people.  Back up Back up Back up Back up!

I am just beginning to come out of the acute depression of getting my interview cancelled for my dream job.  The sad thing was it wasn’t even so much the prospect of finally getting a job that enticed me, it was the opportunity for the dignity of putting on a suit and speaking with another professional in a competent matter about an area of law I happen to specialize in. I was talking to Triforce about it and he likened it to enjoying a date regardless of whether was going to be sex. He then laughed in my face.

The worst thing wasn’t missing the interview or the job that went along with it. It was the timing. When you’re unemployed and seasons are generally meaningless all calendar events sneak up on you. But it has recently come to my attention that Memorial Day is next weekend. The working world slows down and a glut of interns hit the market…permanent hiring is put on hold until after Labor Day. It currently is the 5th month of the year. Labor Day occurs in the 9th. So sad.

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So I landed an interview.  One cover letter out of the literally tens (yes) tens of thousands I have sent out over the past couple of years hit a bulls eye.  And I mean it hit a bulls eye.  I am talking about the exact department of my exact specialty. I received a call right away.  The HR woman was in contact with me everyday.  I had an itinerary and directions to the office.  I had a list of real people I could research on the company website.  I booked a hotel for the interview at their branch office.  I was all set to go.

It fell through.  Big surprise.  But its not so much that it fell through but how it fell through.  I’ve had a ton of interviews not work out and I had a laundry list of reasons in the back of my head – not enough experience, hasn’t worked in over two years, he’s too old, he’s too young, he has too many degrees, etc.  I had prepared myself for that disappointment.  But none of those reasons are the reason my interview fell through.

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Wahoo! Don’t forget to click on Politics for a more thorough reaction from Alpha Man.