I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
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.
sumi - May 03, 2007 6:57:51 am PDT #5370 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Kat - May 03, 2007 7:05:33 am PDT #5371 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
yay niece!
Noah's nurse from last night is hugely pregnant and her due date is 6 days shy of my old due date. anyway she is having a boy that she is going to name Noah.
so. very. tired. now
Liese S. - May 03, 2007 7:22:53 am PDT #5372 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Aww, poor little terrier hero.
Aww, Neil Gaiman & dog! That's totally the sort of dog that Neil Gaiman would have.
Aww, LOLTRIBBLES!
Jessica - May 03, 2007 7:27:22 am PDT #5373 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Baaaaaaaaaaaby turtle
Eeep! Want!!!
DavidS - May 03, 2007 7:29:50 am PDT #5374 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Brave little terrier.
::sniff::
So the good news is that I got a look at my book cover.
The bad news is that "Swordfishtrombones" doesn't fit so they have to break it. (I'm guessing that maintaining consistency with the rest of the series is going to trump using a smaller font.)
It's bad news because the point of the title (in part) is the joining together of disparate things. So breaking up the word is contrary to the album's essence.
Here are the options they offerred:
Cover #1 - I think this is a definite no as it is the most broken up.
Cover #2 - maybe if they took out the hyphen
Cover #3 - Both intriguing and irritating. It is more consistent with the album to have something unwielding and Not Fitting and contrary to expectations. But I'm afraid it's too visually irritating.
I'm trying to get them to try:
Sword
fishtrombones
or,
Swordfishtrom
bones
Any thoughts Buffistas?
§ ita § - May 03, 2007 7:30:00 am PDT #5375 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dammit, that's a gorgeous dog. I'm unimaginative enough that I'd name it Ghost or some variation thereof.
Congrats to the SIL, Allyson.
Kat, was she always going to name him Noah?
Liese S. - May 03, 2007 7:32:49 am PDT #5376 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Nooo David, they can't break up swordfishtrombones. Can't they, I dunno, slant it or something? Probably not, huh. I guess of those options I'd go for the last, but man, it should really be one word.
Polter-Cow - May 03, 2007 7:35:56 am PDT #5377 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Can't they, I dunno, slant it or something?
This is what I was thinking.
DavidS - May 03, 2007 7:36:10 am PDT #5378 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
but man, it should really be one word.
It really should. They seem intrigued by the
sword
fishtrombones option.
Daisy Jane - May 03, 2007 7:38:53 am PDT #5379 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I like #3. Breaking it up is unfortunate, but I like that the way it's broken up in #3 doesn't actually make actual words. If you do find it too visually irritating, I also like
Swordfishtrom
bones.
Sort of on this topic, cousin K wants to know if Matilda was named after the Tom Waits song. She would also like me to tell you that "I can't tell you how many times I've listened to "I wish I was in New Orleans" while bawling over the 15 years I was gone. Of course now it makes me cry happy tears that I'm back!"