Lorne: My little prince. Oh…what did they do to you? Angel: Nina…tried to…eat me. Lorne: Oh, you're--medic! You're gonna make it Angel. Just don't stop fighting. Doctor! Is there a Gepetto in the house?

'Smile Time'


Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?  

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.


Ginger - Jul 19, 2007 10:55:56 am PDT #8881 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Punctuation question: Is the name of a band in italics, inside of quotes or just naked?


sarameg - Jul 19, 2007 10:59:41 am PDT #8882 of 10001

I was wondering about that line too, paperdol. The B'more reviewer got her copy from a relative who received one of the DeepDiscount books.


Frankenbuddha - Jul 19, 2007 10:59:50 am PDT #8883 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I think it was just a poorly edited statement of fact, because, seriously, the NY fucking T didn't get an ARC for Harry fucking Potter? Seriously?

I dunno. Stephen King was saying (in his Entertainment Weekly column) that he didn't get and AR, and he's written the last several EW reviews for HP in the books section (and generally been a mega-cheerleader for the series).


juliana - Jul 19, 2007 11:02:05 am PDT #8884 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

I was under the impression that no one got an ARC for HP7. The articles I read about the lengths Scholastic went to to preserve the security kind of implied it, at least.


Zenkitty - Jul 19, 2007 11:02:21 am PDT #8885 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Punctuation question: Is the name of a band in italics, inside of quotes or just naked?

Naked and capitalized.


Kathy A - Jul 19, 2007 11:02:36 am PDT #8886 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I don't think they had ARCs for Harry Potter, at least not since #3. I remember from HBP that the Times, Salon, and every other media source had to wait until they got the book at midnight of the release date to read and review it.


bon bon - Jul 19, 2007 11:02:59 am PDT #8887 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Some folks on LJ are reading this to mean that the NYT reviewer went out and purchased a copy of the book, illegally to do the review.

I think it was just a poorly edited statement of fact, because, seriously, the NY fucking T didn't get an ARC for Harry fucking Potter? Seriously?

No, it's apparently true. ETA: xposted.

Also according to Gawker you can pick them up at Duane Reade. Duane Reade: always the weak link.

IOQ, I forget something: when you have a letter with a legend above the address like "via e-mail", "via fedex", "via facsimile"-- what do you say for regular post? "via mail" sounds wrong.


Jesse - Jul 19, 2007 11:03:13 am PDT #8888 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Here's an email somone apparently got, stating that yes, someone from the Times walked into a bookstore and bought the book. [link]


Jesse - Jul 19, 2007 11:04:08 am PDT #8889 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

"via postal mail," bon?


bon bon - Jul 19, 2007 11:07:39 am PDT #8890 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Hmm. My handy dandy internal letter generator doesn't have a legend either. Maybe it's just for non-mailed letters.