Simply cannot contain themselves 

New York magazine Vulture section: "We're uncontrollably worked up over Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."

13 days. Widgetbox has a countdown widget, but I wouldn't install one with a bookstore tie-in. Just stubborn that way. Borders has gone all out, but I do wish they'd have allowed embedding of this video from a panel discussion of Snape: Friend or Foe. Cute how the presentation is sort of tongue in cheek -- a formal format with a pretty silly subject and they know it.

From the crypt 

I'm usually so stupidly (blog)garrulous about my wild-ass schemes I'm going to keep my own counsel about something I'm working on now and see if it's able to hold my interest for a change. This time it might because it involves a novel and adaptation. See, I couldn't bear to hold it all in. What a jerk.