I would think that even though it's a Wal-Mart, it's still gonna be pretty busy. But as far as avoiding the festivities, it'ss probably be your best bet.
Sunnydale's got too many demons and not enough retail outlets.
Glory ,'Potential'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Aims - Jul 17, 2007 5:26:47 pm PDT #3214 of 28197
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ginger - Jul 17, 2007 6:00:27 pm PDT #3215 of 28197
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Many Krogers supermarkets will have Harry Potter.
le nubian - Jul 17, 2007 6:03:31 pm PDT #3216 of 28197
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Ginger,
oh that's a good tip. I didn't know they had Kroger in La.
Ginger - Jul 17, 2007 6:08:40 pm PDT #3217 of 28197
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I don't know that there's one near where you'll be, but they're in Louisiana, anyway. They've been advertising Harry Potter and I remember going to Kroger after one of the books came out and they had a huge pile of them.
le nubian - Jul 17, 2007 6:11:10 pm PDT #3218 of 28197
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I just looked and there is at least one store in the city. Cool beans. I like having options. Who knows? Maybe I'll want to do some face painting after all...
Consuela - Jul 17, 2007 6:23:34 pm PDT #3219 of 28197
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
P-C, Diesel is an awesome bookstore.
Polter-Cow - Jul 17, 2007 6:44:11 pm PDT #3220 of 28197
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yay! I will go there, then.
Kathy A - Jul 18, 2007 2:23:20 am PDT #3221 of 28197
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
If anyone is going to attend a midnight selling of HP at a place having an event (instead of your local Krogers/Walmart), I'd recommend contacting them either today or tomorrow and finding out if they're handing out tickets/bracelets/whatever ahead of time to determine what order you'll be getting in line. For OotP, the local Borders was handing out tickets a week ahead of time in order of when you put the book on reserve (March reserves got one color, June reserves another). At my B&N, it'll be bracelets on Friday depending on when you come in--9:00 am, it'll be an "A" bracelet, by 5:00 pm, it'll most likely be an "R" or later bracelet. Then, at midnight, we'll be calling for all "A" braceleted people to get in line, etc.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 18, 2007 2:52:41 am PDT #3222 of 28197
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
News this morning in the Globe was that the entire new book was photographed and posted on-line. I guess the original site got a big time C&D and pulled it (and supplied the name of the poster), but not before it had been put up elsewhere. Supposedly it's still out there (I'm not going looking for it though).
Jon B. - Jul 18, 2007 3:22:58 am PDT #3223 of 28197
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Also from the Boston Globe
To help prepare for the final book, the Globe asked four well-known local authors to tell us how it might all go down >[link]I haven't read through it yet, but this opener from Chris Bohjalian looks promising:
Hermione motioned toward the portkey, a cupcake the size of a quaffle, and murmured quietly, "It's time to go."
Harry thought about this, and wondered why almost everything he and Ron and Hermione had ever said was modified by an adverb. Was this a spell left upon Hogwarts by an ancient Slytherin professor?