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i had to wait amonth for this one!!! say hi to Meredith!
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Nov 29, 2010 05:17PM
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WHAT THE FUCK ALFONSO?! WHAT THE FUCK?!
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YOU HAVE TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING!!1!!!%!! Think fast! WHAT THE FUCK?!
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but here it goes!!
THE FUCK IF I KNOW! I DONT GIVE A FUCK!!!
now answer mine!!!
Oh, okay. My name is Meredith and I'm a goodreads-aholic. I like to read when I'm not on goodreads.com. I also like to watch movies and television and to drink coffee and beer. I love propaganda and monsters. I hate Charlie Kaufman and Harold Bloom.
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I'm kind of losing track, but I think you might be the very last person of the Portland babe reunion for me to interview. (?) You are my last hope! Everybody says nothing sexy there went down, but if you just say the word and tell me it was a oiled-down free-for-all nonstop orgy, I'll believe you!!! What say you, Meredith?!? (the more graphic the better!)
Well, you tell me. There were like nine hot goodreads babes in a beautiful pacific northwest city, reading books and braiding hair. I mean, what do you think happened? It was a weekend of love for sure.
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i will close the subject right here! ya'll hear me goodreads babes? i give up! i no longer care!!!! there! i said it!!!!!
let's talk about you! your law textbook reviews are famous! People love them, even if they aren't lawyers! That's pretty amazing since most of the popular reviews on GR are fiction. Is writing a nonfiction review harder than writing a fiction review?
Hmmmmmm. I think writing the law reviews isn't necessarily harder, but it is more boring. They're probably the same amount more boring to write as they are to read. Mostly, I've just written them when I'm studying for the classes as part of reviewing for the tests. It's a good way to clear my head before I really start studying. But, the topics are usually pretty tragic, so they're not as fun to think about as fiction usually is.
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back to you!!! I notice most of your recreational reading doesn't have to do with lawyers (John Grisholm, etc). Did you used to read those kinds of books back when you were a kid dreaming about going to law school?
Yeah, but unfortunately a lot of times the cases are more like the Nazis winning than the Nazis getting hurt.Nah, I'm more of a Legally Blond girl myself. My mom looooooooved all of those law and spy books, though, so I grew up watching the movies with her and listening to the audio books on car trips. But, I don't have a sense of suspense, so most of those books are pretty boring to me. I did watch Matlock as a kid, like every other person who has ever gone to law school.
I also really really really love the first four seasons of The West Wing. Even though that show isn't the reason I went to law school, it was probably more influential than I'd like to think. But now that I'm in law school, I like to read and watch things that are as opposite of the law as I can find.
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i asked this next one in one of my favorite interviews... and i've been dying to try it again! Writing reviews and then the fun of discussing them with your GR friends is pretty addictive. If you had to choose between:
A) Reading the all-time most awesome book ever, but then you would never ever be allowed to write about it or talk with anybody about it ever.
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B) Reading a pretty okay book, but then writing the world's most famous, most voted-for, most discussed GR review ever.
...which one would you choose?
That's easy. If my review was the most famous because it was the best, I would choose (B) because you get both in the same answer. I would be able to read the best piece of writing ever (my own review), and still get to talk about it with other people. Reading something amazing and not being able to talk about it with other people is depressing.On the other hand, if my review was famous because it was the worst ever, I would choose option (A). Even though it sounds horrible, it would probably be better to read the best book ever and not get to talk about it than to write a review that totally mutilates everyone's experience of a book.
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AWWWW MAN!!!!!! It's no fun if I make no sense. It's all this practicing for finals. I'm answering in finals mode.BRAAAAAAAAAIIIIINNS!!!! Zombies are awesome. They are one of the only scary monsters. Zombies are able to be completely terrifying or totally silly. I'm pretty on board with Ceridwen's consumerism analysis about zombies in general.
I think there's just a cycle of monster popularity, though. Like vampire, zombie, ghost, alien, vampire, zombie, ghost, alien. Maybe there are others. Like, dystopia probably falls in there somewhere. I don't think the sudden popularity is very meaningful, other than everyone's sick of vampires, but we still gotta have monsters!
But I think there's always that moment in any monster story where the storyteller is like, "syke! WE'RE really the monsters!" And that's cool. I don't think it has to be about one social topic or another for a storyteller to point out that humans can be monsters.
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now i feel guilty!!! what if i give you a chance to be all lawyery and stuff... with a hard ass lawyery question!!!
The fallowing will be my last question!!! give me something juice to say goodbye!!!!
Literary legal clinic! Applying principles of American law, please answer the following:
a) Family Law from "A Handmaid's Tale": The Commander is getting a divorce, and he, the Commander's wife, and Offred are all fighting for custody of the child conceived in the book. The Commander's wife comes to YOU for representation. Does she have a case? Do you represent her?
What arguement would you lay out?
b) Personal injury law from "The Host": While occupying Tracy's body, that space being got her infected with a bad case of syphilis. Tracy now comes to you, seeking legal recourse. What is the best strategy- civil court for medical expenses and harm and suffering? Criminal court for Rape? Battery? How does the space being's alien status bear on the case? (Does Tracy even have standing to bring suit!?!) Sidebar- if Tracy were inhabited for more than ten years, would adverse possession apply?
c) Property law in "Hamlet"- Hamlet's next of kin wishes to legally challenge Fortinbras' acquisition of the Danish kingdom. Does he have a case? What strategy would you recommend?
d) Intellectual property law from "Uglies". One of the "Pretties" comes to you for representation. She wishes to bring suit because a popular advertisement makes unauthorised use of her likeness (or at least of a model identical to her). Does she have a case?
WHOA!!! It's like I'm already taking my finals. I can do it, though!a) The Commander's wife would legally be the child's mother in the book. She definitely has a case. According to American law, there can only be two parents to a child, and when a parent's rights are terminated, they no longer have a claim. So, Offred is a slave in the book and probably had no legal rights to begin with, so she wouldn't be able to have legal custody of the kid in the first place. Assuming she did have any legal rights, she probably gave them up at the birth. BUT, if she did have legal rights and didn't give them up, Offred would still be the mom. It's REALLY unlikely that she would have rights to the kid, though.
b) NICE WORK DROPPING THE ADVERSE POSSESSION IN THERE!!! hahahaahaha! Yeah, the alien should totally make an adverse possession claim. I would make all the claims on both sides that you list. I mean, you would only sue in criminal court if you wanted the alien to be arrested. Then a jury would say whether they thought the alien's conduct conformed to community standards, which they probably would have, so it's unlikely the alien would be arrested, since all of the aliens were doing the same stuff.
She would sue in civil court if she wanted money, which is more likely what she'd want. Tracy would have standing because for standing you only need harm, causation, and redressability. She got syphilis (harm), from the alien's actions (causation), and money would make her feel a lot better (redressability). But, in the Host, everything is free and the medicine fixes all sicknesses, so maybe she should just go get some free medicine instead of suing.
c) Weeeeelllll, I haven't taken international law, so I'm not totally sure how this would work out. This seems like a case where the guys with the biggest guns would win. Most law is different from country to country, and then international treaties would govern a situation like this. But, who would punish Fortinbras? You'd be looking at a world war, probably.
d) This is another one where I haven't taken the classes I need to answer this. Probably, if it is her, then she has a case. Or, if the advertisement is holding it out to be her, she probably has a case. But if there is someone identical to her, and the audience is supposed to know that it is that person, her case wouldn't be very strong. Like, Queen Latifah can still be in movies even though my friend's sister looks almost identical to her.
Okay, thanks for having me over! Sorry I made you wait a month!!!
One last question for you: On a scale of 1 to 10, how hot do you think I probably am?
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thank you for coming! it was a hell of a last interview!!!
in answer to your question...
any woman with an picture of herself dressed as a zombie... with an atari t shirt gets a 10 from me!!!!
again!! thank you for stopping by stupid!!!
Sweet! Thanks for having me Alfonso! Have a Merry Winter Holiday!
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