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May 20, 2020
20
May 2020

Boston Police and Peacock Maintenance

Nicholas A. Ferrell

Boston Police employ a peacock maiting call to wrangle a renegade bird.

May 19, 2020
19
May 2020

Response to Victor: Tik Tok No

Nicholas A. Ferrell

Responding to Victor V. Gurbo’s TikTok story with a simple mantra: Tik Tok NO.

May 19, 2020
19
May 2020

Insomnia Diaries: TikTok and Lucille Bogan

Victor V. Gurbo

While suffering from insomnia, I discovered the shockingly salacious Blues lyrics of Lucille Bogan on TikTok.

May 17, 2020
17
May 2020

The Matter of Great Wall – But Not Those Walls

Nicholas A. Ferrell

A post on an immigration issue involving a great wall. However, this is not about proposals for a border wall, but instead about an immigration precedent decision titled Matter of Great Wall, 16 I&N Dec. 156 (Acting R.C. 1977).

May 16, 2020
16
May 2020

NLJ Week In Review (May 10-16, 2020)

Nicholas A. Ferrell

New Leaf Journal site news for the week of May 10-16.

May 16, 2020
16
May 2020

Welcome to The Emu Café

Nicholas A. Ferrell

Welcome, one and all, to the opening of The Emu Café. In this special establishment of The New Leaf Journal, we serve only the finest descriptions of coffee, tea, and snacks to accompany.

May 15, 2020
15
May 2020

The Quarantine Sessions: “The Railroad Boy”

Victor V. Gurbo

Victor V. Gurbo and Mark Caserta perform “The Railroad Boy,” a tale of rejection and sorrow.

May 14, 2020
14
May 2020

Mosley on Mayweather: Confidence and Fear

Nicholas A. Ferrell

Examining Shane Mosley’s interesting thoughts on how the confident Floyd Mayweather was motivated by fear of failure.

May 13, 2020
13
May 2020

TI-89 Haiku: Boerum Blue Jay and Black Squirrel

Nicholas A. Ferrell

I wrote a haiku about having seen a blue jay and black squirrel from a window in Brooklyn in the early 2000s on a Ti-89 Titanium graphing calculator and then posted the screen capture. (Why not?)

May 12, 2020
12
May 2020

NIXON and the Illness of Apple in Animal Crossing

Nicholas A. Ferrell

I explore the mysterious connection between Nixon going to China and the illness of a pink bear named Apple in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

May 11, 2020
11
May 2020

New Leaf Journal Updates

Nicholas A. Ferrell

Recapping the first 10 articles at The New Leaf Journal and looking ahead to what was to come in May 2020l.

May 10, 2020
10
May 2020

“I’m a Little Maxed Out on Existentialism”

Nicholas A. Ferrell

Back in 2005, I overheard a gentleman waiting in line at Cobble Hill Cinema tell his date that he was “a little maxed out on existentialism.” The ineffable haughtiness of his declaration stayed with me.

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