16 of 30 - Interview: Kris

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   Today we here at Emosnail have decided to interview Kris Fricke, often mistaken as the author of this livejournal. Read on as we explore the very nature of this livejournal and its associated insanity.


Interview
[17:39.47] executivecommite: You are the "protagonist" of the emosnail livejournal?
[17:40.05] snailofdeath: I reserve the right to deny that
[17:40.37] executivecommite: Who actually writes the emosnail livejournal?
[17:40.47] snailofdeath: Its a closely guarded secret
[17:40.51] executivecommite: why is this?
[17:41.46] snailofdeath: plausible deniability. As explained in the disclaimer on the userinfo page, nothing in this journal is necessarily true, and anything which is in contradiction to any law or regulation is clearly fictional.
[17:42.08] executivecommite: So nothing written in it is true?
[17:44.19] snailofdeath: I think one can generally count on the entries being consistant with actual events, but anything illegal is absolutely fictional
[17:44.27] executivecommite: do you think this claim would stand up in court?
[17:44.35] snailofdeath: we like to tell ourselves that
[18:21.23] executivecommite: Is it possible that you're just becoming schizophrenic?
[18:21.33] snailofdeath: Yea I'd say thats a likely possibility
[18:22.48] executivecommite: so on to the normal questions, whats the origin of the name "emosnail?"
[18:23.02] snailofdeath: everyone always asks me whats up with the snails first of all
[18:23.22] snailofdeath: and I mean, they're not my favourite animal
[18:23.25] snailofdeath: (thats the anteater)
[18:23.47] snailofdeath: its just a theme for my screen names and things
[18:24.06] snailofdeath: it started with this one and then with every new one I was like "whats similar to the last one but not the same?"
[18:24.55] snailofdeath: and emo was kind of a joke about livejournals being emo
[18:25.08] snailofdeath: although a lot of the first entries WERE in fact kind of emo
[18:25.22] snailofdeath: not that I necessarily wrote them or was responsible for the creation of the livejournal of course
[18:25.24] executivecommite: of course
[18:26.14] executivecommite: so how long has the journal existed?
[18:26.22] snailofdeath: almost a year and a half now
[18:28.35] executivecommite: has the style changed at all during that time?
[18:29.53] snailofdeath: originally the idea was that every day there was a story worth telling and the livejournal was to tell it
[18:30.25] snailofdeath: but I think lately that hasn't been happening as much.. we've been ending the day without a story to tell. I think the writing was much crappier when I look back at the beginning too
[18:31.40] executivecommite: Who did you get your LJ code from?
[18:32.22] snailofdeath: captainanarchy. He's still on my list only because I got my code from him. I never knew him too well.. I don't think I'm even on his list.
[18:32.49] executivecommite: Did anyone start accounts from codes from Emosnail?
[18:33.37] snailofdeath: Yea captainanarchy asked for my code and it went to this kid agentskunker who only ever posted a few times and now I'm the only one who has him as a friend, its effectively a dead journal. Our illegitimate child is rather a disappointment.
[18:34.06] executivecommite: Where did everone else on the friends list come from?
[18:36.27] snailofdeath: I'd say 90% of them or so are people we know in real life
[18:37.46] snailofdeath: the rest were added for various incidental reasons, mainly we ended up having a comment conversation with them or in a few cases we discovered their livejournal to be awesome
[18:38.14] executivecommite: what are your favourite entries to read?
[18:39.54] snailofdeath: I think it would be nice to see entries the way our original goal was, interesting stories about people's adventuring.. but as it happens whenever someone writes about what they did in a day its usually pretty boring.. I suppose it probably is when we do as well.
[18:41.12] executivecommite: you have a favourite Emosnail entry?
[18:41.55] snailofdeath: someone (my mother actually ... frightening) recently brought up the post titled "Chancellor Vanderhoef Reads This Livejournal!!"
[18:42.22] snailofdeath: I think that one also really highlights the grey area where people don't know whether or not statements in the livejournal are true or not
[18:42.32] executivecommite: so does the chancellor read this livejournal?
[18:42.57] snailofdeath: doesn't everyone? (=
[18:43.44] executivecommite: on that note it turns out the entire student government of UC Davis really does read it and you almost got removed from your position [of Chief Justice of the ASUCD Supreme Court] because of it?
[18:44.50] snailofdeath: Yes. I think [ASUCD President] Sara was just looking for any excuse to eliminate me at that point and called for a closed hearing the moment she discovered the emosnail journal based on the assumption it said something incriminating
[18:45.25] executivecommite: Did you use the claim that you are not the author?
[18:46.40] snailofdeath: No, I defended myself on the grounds that I should have a right to have an online journal - that its ridiculous to put that much pressure on a fellow student in a volunteer position of student government, and that even if I did write the journal there's nothing in it that would come close to warranting my removal from my position.
[18:46.57] snailofdeath: Those were the more important justice issues to me at the time.
[18:47.23] snailofdeath: and now, now I'm going to go to Diedrichs and see if by some crazy chance someone has turned up there
[18:51.18] executivecommite: what about making a livejournal post?
[18:51.29] snailofdeath: Eh there'll probably be no one at Diedrichs
[18:51.35] snailofdeath: Anyway, someone else can do it.
[18:51.36] snailofdeath: (=


   I've been meaning to do this entry for a few days actually.. the interview was a few days ago. Turns out I think I was suffering the usual caffiene withdrawel I go through when I come home, and it wasn't until I bit the bullet and had some diet coke that I actually got anything written. Turns out diet coke tastes worse than Tab ::shudder:: but I was desperate for caffiene and it was all I could find.
   And of course, there ended up being no one I knew at Diedrichs. But at least I got some caffiene.

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