Jeff Sheehan
@jeffreysheehan.bsky.social
Nashville law-prof/dad trying to love all my neighbors.
Shouldn’t they just be calling him “Andrew”?
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Shouldn’t they just be calling him “Andrew”?
I love being surprised that we lost to Texas and still knowing that we’re going to a bowl game. #AnchorDown
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I love being surprised that we lost to Texas and still knowing that we’re going to a bowl game. #AnchorDown
I don’t know what to make of the fact that Spotify seems to really get me, especially when I ask for seasonal instrumental music.
November 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I don’t know what to make of the fact that Spotify seems to really get me, especially when I ask for seasonal instrumental music.
1:52 left in the Vandy game.
October 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
1:52 left in the Vandy game.
I’ve been a Vandy fan for 28 years. I’ve never seen a tougher, smarter, more capable Commodores football team. #anchordown
September 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I’ve been a Vandy fan for 28 years. I’ve never seen a tougher, smarter, more capable Commodores football team. #anchordown
September rain in Nashville.
September 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
September rain in Nashville.
It’s a lot of fun to sit in a fancy stadium and watch your team win the football game.
August 31, 2025 at 2:55 AM
It’s a lot of fun to sit in a fancy stadium and watch your team win the football game.
It’s hard to describe the weight of always having to fight to get your kid a fair shake in school. It’s even harder knowing that there are *so many* kids who must be written off because they don’t have the scariest possible dad. We’re failing in some important ways.
August 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s hard to describe the weight of always having to fight to get your kid a fair shake in school. It’s even harder knowing that there are *so many* kids who must be written off because they don’t have the scariest possible dad. We’re failing in some important ways.
The pop ballads of the 1980s will eventually stand beside Shakespearean sonnets as high-water marks in English-language articulations of romantic love.
August 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The pop ballads of the 1980s will eventually stand beside Shakespearean sonnets as high-water marks in English-language articulations of romantic love.
Tina Turner was crazy good at her job.
August 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Tina Turner was crazy good at her job.
A question, friends: the exposed bass clarinet line in Steven’s Last Night in Town—is it the best use of the instrument ever or just the best use in a pop song?
August 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
A question, friends: the exposed bass clarinet line in Steven’s Last Night in Town—is it the best use of the instrument ever or just the best use in a pop song?
Saw Eddington today at @belcourttheatre.bsky.social. Thoughts?
July 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Saw Eddington today at @belcourttheatre.bsky.social. Thoughts?
This. A hallucinated case is much easier to detect than a misinterpreted case that made it into the memo you found in the system from 2018. Here’s the tell: when you pull the case to cite check it, it doesn’t exist.
I get requests to speak about how attorneys can properly use ChatGPT in their practices without getting sanctioned.
I honestly don't know what to say. I use ChatGPT as one of my research tools. I review every single source it finds. This really doesn't seem that hard. What were y'all doing before?
I honestly don't know what to say. I use ChatGPT as one of my research tools. I review every single source it finds. This really doesn't seem that hard. What were y'all doing before?
Finally, we’re getting some attorneys getting referred for discipline for using ChatGPT for legal research.
The attorneys in question, ofc, are counsel for the Alabama Department of Corrections.
The attorneys in question, ofc, are counsel for the Alabama Department of Corrections.
July 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This. A hallucinated case is much easier to detect than a misinterpreted case that made it into the memo you found in the system from 2018. Here’s the tell: when you pull the case to cite check it, it doesn’t exist.
If you’re a newish parent, you have well-meaning old folks constantly telling you to treasure the early years. I’m here to tell you that some things get better with age.
I always loved my kids, but every year they’re more interesting than they were the year before.
I always loved my kids, but every year they’re more interesting than they were the year before.
July 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
If you’re a newish parent, you have well-meaning old folks constantly telling you to treasure the early years. I’m here to tell you that some things get better with age.
I always loved my kids, but every year they’re more interesting than they were the year before.
I always loved my kids, but every year they’re more interesting than they were the year before.
Nicole’s work has been a great public service and a good example of informative writing that benefits from a clear, fully human voice. I’ll miss reading the council meetings through her coverage, and I look forward to learning new things from her in the future. Thanks, @startleseasily.bsky.social!
Friends, it's time. After five years, I'm moving on from covering #MetroCouncilNash.
The July 15 meeting will be the last one I cover. It'll also probably be the last one I watch for some time.
I'll have more to say about this decision later, but for now, I want to thank some folks.
🦞
The July 15 meeting will be the last one I cover. It'll also probably be the last one I watch for some time.
I'll have more to say about this decision later, but for now, I want to thank some folks.
🦞
July 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Nicole’s work has been a great public service and a good example of informative writing that benefits from a clear, fully human voice. I’ll miss reading the council meetings through her coverage, and I look forward to learning new things from her in the future. Thanks, @startleseasily.bsky.social!
A large pot sits in plain sight.
Signs the Frog Has Been Boiled
A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it.
Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT F...
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June 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
A large pot sits in plain sight.
TN teen parents: Has anyone gotten the online knowledge test for the learner’s permit to work recently? It’s telling me my 15yo is ineligible to take the test.
June 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
TN teen parents: Has anyone gotten the online knowledge test for the learner’s permit to work recently? It’s telling me my 15yo is ineligible to take the test.
The stakes are too high for me to want you to fail electorally in a general election, but if you’re still pushing “send” on these, please know that I want you to get a bad parking spot and bump your toes and elbows on all available surfaces. Please just stop.
April 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The stakes are too high for me to want you to fail electorally in a general election, but if you’re still pushing “send” on these, please know that I want you to get a bad parking spot and bump your toes and elbows on all available surfaces. Please just stop.
Listen, my children, and you shall hear . . . .
Opinion | Naval Academy Censors Ryan Holiday’s Lecture on Censorship
How a lecture to the U.S. Naval Academy on censorship was censored.
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April 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Listen, my children, and you shall hear . . . .
Not to minimize the moment, but we’re due for some protest-song covers, right?
April 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Not to minimize the moment, but we’re due for some protest-song covers, right?
Standing room only on the #77 after the @nashvillesc.bsky.social win! #NashMassTransit
April 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Standing room only on the #77 after the @nashvillesc.bsky.social win! #NashMassTransit
I wonder if Tennessee is the only place where both parties are so toxic that a squishy moderate party could win. Dollars to donuts (a full dozen), I think a party committed to Dolly Parton’s song lyrics would out perform the democrats in the Tennessee midterms AND pick up a GOP house seat or three.
March 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I wonder if Tennessee is the only place where both parties are so toxic that a squishy moderate party could win. Dollars to donuts (a full dozen), I think a party committed to Dolly Parton’s song lyrics would out perform the democrats in the Tennessee midterms AND pick up a GOP house seat or three.
I’m not mad at Chuck. But I won’t follow him. And no one I can vote for has any reason to care.
March 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I’m not mad at Chuck. But I won’t follow him. And no one I can vote for has any reason to care.
Weird request: Does anyone know where I could get a ye-olde-style powdered wig that I could safely burn? I want to make a writing statement (about distracting formalism in legal writing), not a fashion statement.
March 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Weird request: Does anyone know where I could get a ye-olde-style powdered wig that I could safely burn? I want to make a writing statement (about distracting formalism in legal writing), not a fashion statement.