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Less than a day until class begins. Still working on the syllabus, but the school has a nice web interface (apparently it's bad with .jpgs, but it's been fine with documents). I'm going to bring my prop bottle of Mylanta Night Time Strength with me, to show a genuine falsely advertised product.
My office is in full pop culture swing now. I have my Buffy, Independence Day, Spiderman and Supreme Court posters (one of these things is not like the others), pictures of Justice Souter, my circuit judge & his court, Kirk & Spock, and Jed Bartlett (signed, okay?); a print of Norman Rockwell painting showing a female juror holding out against a bunch of guys; a mini-poster that says "When you pirate MP3s, you're downloading Communism"; a wedding picture; a picture of me and Miss Kitty; and pictures of me & my husband at Acadia. Also action figures: Spike, Mulder & Scully, and a corpse on a gurney that came with M&S. Oh, and a stapler shaped like an alligator.
Which reminds me of a Justice Breyer story (he looks exactly like Mr. Burns of the Simpsons, and he has a habit of holding his head in his hand in a way that looks like he's trying to prevent his brain from exploding). During oral argument on Wal-Mart v. Samara Bros., the case from 2000 about the protectability of trade dress, he asked the parties a question about whether a hairbrush shaped like a grape would be protectable trade dress. Let's all take a moment to contemplate a hairbrush shaped like a grape. (All I can think of is that it would generate a lot of static cling, like a balloon. At least in the actual opinion Justice Scalia used the example of a cocktail shaker shaped like a penguin.) Justice Breyer is a deeply, deeply strange man, and I say that with full respect.
My office is in full pop culture swing now. I have my Buffy, Independence Day, Spiderman and Supreme Court posters (one of these things is not like the others), pictures of Justice Souter, my circuit judge & his court, Kirk & Spock, and Jed Bartlett (signed, okay?); a print of Norman Rockwell painting showing a female juror holding out against a bunch of guys; a mini-poster that says "When you pirate MP3s, you're downloading Communism"; a wedding picture; a picture of me and Miss Kitty; and pictures of me & my husband at Acadia. Also action figures: Spike, Mulder & Scully, and a corpse on a gurney that came with M&S. Oh, and a stapler shaped like an alligator.
Which reminds me of a Justice Breyer story (he looks exactly like Mr. Burns of the Simpsons, and he has a habit of holding his head in his hand in a way that looks like he's trying to prevent his brain from exploding). During oral argument on Wal-Mart v. Samara Bros., the case from 2000 about the protectability of trade dress, he asked the parties a question about whether a hairbrush shaped like a grape would be protectable trade dress. Let's all take a moment to contemplate a hairbrush shaped like a grape. (All I can think of is that it would generate a lot of static cling, like a balloon. At least in the actual opinion Justice Scalia used the example of a cocktail shaker shaped like a penguin.) Justice Breyer is a deeply, deeply strange man, and I say that with full respect.
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