Thanks, tommy, Nutty and Nora! Your explanations both make sense and make me happy.
Kristin! I can HappyBirthday you to your font!
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Nilly - Feb 12, 2007 9:25:29 am PST #310 of 10001
Swouncing
Kathy A - Feb 12, 2007 9:34:26 am PST #311 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Allyson, has your publisher started setting up a promotional tour for you yet? Because I was just thinking that a great interview for you would be on WGN radio, with Nick Digilio. His late-night weekend show is very pop-culture heavy (he's interviewed Tim at least once that I recall), and his listeners are really into things like your book. Also, in the nighttime hours, WGN's 50,000 watts can be heard in 38 states and a few provinces.
Pix - Feb 12, 2007 9:37:33 am PST #312 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Nilly! Thank you!
Sue - Feb 12, 2007 9:40:44 am PST #313 of 10001
hip deep in pie
tommyrot - Feb 12, 2007 9:42:20 am PST #314 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Why the human-dog bond can be so strong: [link]
Psychologist Brian Hare of Harvard has also studied the human-animal bond and reports that dogs are astonishingly skilled at reading humans' patterns of social behavior, especially behaviors related to food and care. They figure out our moods and what makes us happy, what moves us. Then they act accordingly, and we tell ourselves that they're crazy about us.
"It appears that dogs have evolved specialized skills for reading human social and communicative behavior," Hare concludes, which is why dogs live so much better than moles.
Allyson - Feb 12, 2007 9:43:01 am PST #315 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Nothing like that so far, Kathy. It's still pretty early.
I'm trying to figure out my own little book tour: Seattle, LA, San Francisco, and then over to the east coast for Boston, New York, and Baltimore.
I don't travel well. I'm like organic fruit. I'm way sweeter close to home.
So I'm trying to stay in places where there are many Buffistas to keep me from having a nervous breakdown and give me safe harbor.
megan walker - Feb 12, 2007 9:46:59 am PST #316 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Happy Birthday Kristin and Maria!!!
Vortex - Feb 12, 2007 9:47:54 am PST #317 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I'm trying to figure out my own little book tour: Seattle, LA, San Francisco, and then over to the east coast for Boston, New York, and Baltimore.
no DC? You can stay with me! I'll even have a guest nook with a door!
Pix - Feb 12, 2007 9:57:51 am PST #318 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I didn't realize Amazon finally has the book for pre-order. Whee! I just pre-ordered it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 12, 2007 9:58:15 am PST #319 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Allyson, is it better for your purposes if people pre-order through Amazon or Wal-mart?