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Bankruptcy Bill isn’t the only one into haiku these days.  NPR’s Planet Money has collected a bunch of good ones from its readers here:  http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/05/our_favorite_recession_haiku.html

Memorial Day Special Haiku:

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Chillin’ and grillin’

We try to forget that soon

GM will file

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Read more bankruptcy haiku here.

You may have noticed that the domain for this site is now “bankruptcybill.us,” and if you go to bankruptcybill.wordpress.com, you’re automatically brought to this site.  This is because we finally have the site hosted on an independent server which enables us to do a few things here and there that we can’t do on a wordpress.com site.  (If you want to learn more on the topic, feel free to get in touch for a tutorial.)

Of course, “.us” wasn’t exactly our first choice.  But bankruptcybill.com and bankruptcybill.net were already taken, and bankruptcybill.org seemed a tad precocious.  So after some consideration we decided that our readers are all patriotic, bankruptcy law fearin’ Americans and that a “.us” would not only do the trick, it would even give us a sort of fresh start, if you will.

Bearing all this in mind, we look forward to continued reader support as we say good bye to the Dot Com Era and hope that Bankruptcy Bill will help usher in what we hope will be a big new Dot U.S. Era.

Bankruptcy Bill could really use some STR.I.P. Financing.  We’ve been doing this all so far without any syndication or sponsorship, and at least one of the creators of the cartoon is a starving freelance illustrator who may soon be in need of some of our readers’ services, if you catch our drift.

You can help just by making a donation via PayPal.  With a little support we can do a whole lot more than we’ve been doing, including publishing several strips each week.  Just think of us as the NPR of the bankruptcy humor world.

Additionally, anyone interested in syndicating or sponsoring the site’s content, please contact us at bill [at] bankruptcybill [dot] us.

Gliding underneath

The great shark’s belly, I wait

For the conflict work

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Purchase the “Conflicts” Haiku Mug here.

Read more Bankruptcy Haiku here.

The Deal’s Bankruptcy Insider has a feature this week (subscription required) in the Letter from Delaware section on the Indubitable Equivalents, a band comprised of bankruptcy professionals that has been rocking the bankruptcy conference circuit.

According to their web page on the ABI site, the “Indubies” (as they call themselves) are:

• Andy Caine (Alto Sax)
• Jack Esher (Bass/Acoustic Guitar/Vocals)
• Steven Golick (Organ, Wind Controller)
• John Good (Trombone/Bass/Percussion)
• Dillon Jackson (Pedal Steel/Autoharp)
• George Kelakos (Lead Guitar)
• Jordan Kroop (Organ/Piano/Lead Vocals/Harmonica)
• Steven Rhodes (Rhythm Guitar)
• Michael Richman (Piano/Vocals)
• Mitch Ryan (Lead Vocals)
• Tom Salerno (Drums/Vocals)

Click here for audio samples, here for t-shirts and here for photos.

No word yet on rumors that they plan to team up with Bankruptcy Bill & The Fresh Starts for a summer stadium tour.

A reminder that we are always open to various forms of STR.I.P. Financing to help us continue to publish future strips of Bankruptcy Bill (ideally with more frequency).  Please contact us to discuss sponsorship.  And thanks to everyone who has purchased a bit of merchandise.

• “AboveTheLaw”
  
  • Posters – now available for purchase at http://www.zazzle.com/bankruptcy_bill_above_the_law_poster-228919838424232157
  • Mugs – now available for purchase at http://www.zazzle.com/bankruptcy_bill_above_the_law_mug-168286032811618539
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• Here are links to see more of Gideon Kendall’s creative artwork as well as his Sketch Journal and a recent profile of Gideon in the Kensington Brooklyn Blog.

Thanks!

-Bill & Struck

p.s.  Regarding copyright issues, our legal counsel, IP Aileen, says:  “Other bloggers/websites/publications:  You are more than welcome to post Strip #15 on your sites as long as you also include all of the text, links and images in this post, including this paragraph.  If you fail to respect our wishes, then we’ll get you laid off from your blog, leak news of it to Law Shucks and insist your anonymity be revealed by Thomas Lauria and the Chrysler Non-TARP Lenders.”

A recent article on Corinne Ball, lead debtor’s counsel to Chrysler, inspired an additional haiku on the topic of Chrysler’s bankruptcy:

Reuters has listed Bankruptcy Bill as a sign of the times in its recurring feature “Signs of the Times”.