Woooo! The NYT!!!!

Er... and more to the point, and less fangirlish, a very nice article with some serious inches devoted to you, sideways picture, typo or no :)

I checked our copy of the paper, but it didn't make the National Edition. Boo! I read it online. Yay!

Hey, they got your name right! I think that's half the battle. And you were clearly the "who" of the 5 interrogatives. (Can't bear to use the letter by itself anymore...) And yes, the picture does look funny sideways. I also thought that the reporter's style was a bit choppy. It'll be interesting to see how much additional traffic it generates.

My former business partner and I were once interviewed by the Times about the businesses colonizing space that had been abandoned by the dot-bombs. It looked like we'd get a fair amount of press until I mentioned that our neihbors had brought in a shaman to cleanse the space. We still got a couple of paragraphs, but there was a whole two-column-with-photos feature devoted to the shaman. My business partner was *really* POed, although he did get his picture in the paper.

congratulations!

That's awesome. I am very happy for you.

tnh--how extremely fun! I'm off to read it online, now.
congrats.

You know what they say--as long as they spell your name right, it doesn't matter if you were misquoted. *g* Or typoed at, for that matter.

It's a nice story and hopefully more people will grab bits of the terra cotta so less of it goes to waste. Buzzed and fangirly is a really good and fun response.

If you're like me and you can no longer remember your username and password "gaimanfan" (for both) still works to read the Times online.

Teresa, you're being disingenous and silly. Of course you feel giggly and fangirly and buzzed. It's the New York Times. It's the Gray Lady. And she's chatting about you, you delightful person. For several inches. Whoo hoo indeed. It's very cool!

I will say, the photo makes the terra cotta bit look more like a book press than a book end. Did it run in the proper orientation in the paper itself?

Oh--and don't forget that in the dreadful remake of Godzilla they shoot a missile at the beast which misses and goes straight into Tom's office. Made the whole movie for Claire and me.

As someone who frequently feels fangirly, I'm glad to see it happens to you too! And congrats.

Great appearance in the Times! Congratulations!

Muy coolo!

Teresa: I think the movie I mentioned was Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, not Spiderman.

They probably thought--with good reason--that more people would be familiar with the latter.

And congratulations!

--Mary Aileen

Respectful of Otters was mentioned in the March 28th issue of Time. Congrats, Rivka!

How Totally Cool for you! Of course you're excited!

Aha! Once you/Tor decide that you/Tor need a new burst of publicity, the obvious approach is to bring up the "work on the building has disturbed feng shui/ancient spirits/ley lines/fad of the moment and we need to have a cleansing/realignment/propitation/FotM to free our offices of the oppressive gloom/disturbances in The Force/poltergeist/Axis of Evil" story.

Our local indian buffet in SF sells a Fish Wrap. It's rather yummy, so I always order it when journalists visit.

I feel a Douglas Adams quote coming on again- my apologies; listening to 'Hitchhikers Tertiary Phase' and 'Douglas Adams at the BBC' has made me realise how much I miss him:

"Of course you can’t ‘trust’ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‘trust’ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. For some batty reason we turn off this natural scepticism when we see things in any medium which require a lot of work or resources to work in, or in which we can’t easily answer back – like newspapers, television or granite. Hence ‘carved in stone.’ What should concern us is not that we can’t take what we read on the internet on trust – of course you can’t, it’s just people talking – but that we ever got into the dangerous habit of believing what we read in the newspapers or saw on the TV – a mistake that no one who has met an actual journalist would ever make. One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‘us’."

Cool! Congratulations!

By the way, I hope that you of all people will not take it amiss when I say that it's "Spider-Man" with a hyphen and a capital M.

Lucy Huntzinger: I checked our copy of the paper, but it didn't make the National Edition. Boo! I read it online. Yay!

A note that I read after paying $4.50 for the opportunity to verify the information personally. Very well, it's a lesson whose tuition does not pinch me, and the diploma does serve for wrapping fish. The crosswords were a fair diversion, too.

For those who get only an intro and an invitation to subscribe from Teresa's link, you can find the article with a search engine. Alternatively, you can subscribe for free, or use well-known subscription avoidance techniques, but I found this method preferable.

Congratulations, Teresa. No shame in feeling 'fangirly'.

My website was mentioned a few years ago in the very last line of an article that ran on pg 69 of the NY Post--my site rec'd 38,000 hits that day.

And the proud momma ordered a copy of the paper and has the article in her scrapbook. There you go.

Of all the times I've been quoted in the paper, I don't think it's all been right once. Even the articles or letters that I've sent in have been modified by an editor. This is par for the course.

First ML is mentioned in James Patrick Kelly's article "On the Net" in Asimov's and now the NYT! I wonder if it is going to get crowded around here.

Congratulations! May your hits not exceed both your bandwidth and your salaries!

Neat-o! Cool! Nifty!

Is that fangirly enough?

Congrats. It's a nice littler article, misquotes, sideways photo and all. At least the misquotes don't render you completely ditzy, as sometimes happens to other friends.

Congrats. The NYT! Wow.

and-they-ran-the-picture-sideways.

Hm, the copy I got didn't have any sideways pictures. Want me to save it? (Let's just hope Himself didn't take down the recycling.)

Congrats! Didn't see it in the San Diego edition of the New York Times; might have been there, just didn't see it.

But -- if you get mentioned in TIME Magazine, you would be Timed. So weren't you actually Timesed? If one is mentioned in Hustler, has one been Hustled? Just wondering...

Late news:

Franklin Mint has announced a line of Flatiron Building collectable Renovation Rubble.

Each piece comes with a numbered authenticity certificate confirming that the hand-painted collectable (molded from quality resinoid) is based on rubble from a genuine Flatiron Building dumpster.

Do people really still wrap fish in newspaper? I think I've seen it in the UK within the last few years, but I can't remember the last time I saw a US newspaper used for fishwrap.

I'd guess not, unless you're really pinching pennies. (Of course, plenty of people pinch pennies.)

Newspaper does have lots of post-reading uses: Drying / polishing just washed windows. Covering a table before doing artsy-craftsy stuff. Packing. Absorbing grease when microwaving bacon (under a layer of paper towels).

Matt Austern:

Yes. Because they've tried to wrap fish in a blog and it doesn't work because [fill in punchline here].

In a previous generation they tried another technology, and that didn't work either. I think it was called microfiche... [fill in punchline here].

Oh, the picture of the books is sideways! I thought you needed to put something heavy on them to prevent their escape. :)
Cool article! You are so glitterati now!
*dons shades to keep from getting dazzled*

I was delighted just to get a photo credit in the Tacoma News Tribune; I'm sure I'd expire with delight to be in the NYT.

Entirely unrelatedly, it struck me that you (or others here) might like this: Songs Rewritten as Bulleted Lists. I've just this second blogged it with my modest example.

Being in the Times _is_ fun, as long as you're in it for the right reasons (and still alive to see the article) . . . .

My daughter now thinks Teresa is even cooler than before (and says thanks for the last batch of rocks, which I carried around in my backpack for a couple of weeks before remembering to give them to her, my bad). The kid also swiped a piece of Flatiron debris from the dumpster when she visited on Friday, a little curved bit which is now on her bedside table at home.

Teresa,
Maybe it's not a typo.

I thought it's correct to spell it "pre.cisely" when you're trying to get people to read the "e" as a long "eee," for emphasis. Because hyphens are, well, less precise. Too casual.

Jonathon: Fish wrap? I prefer to use blogs for sausage casing, because it's so much easier to make links.

Theresa: Congratulations on the article. You say that photo is sideways? I just assumed that you use bookends to keep stacks of books from floating away if the artificial gravity fails. (I may be confusing New York with New New York.)

I'd guess not, unless you're really pinching pennies. (Of course, plenty of people pinch pennies.)

I tried that, because I heard it was a way to save money. Not only didn't it save me any money, I bruised my fingertips.

In more recent Times-screwing-up-photos news, Anil Dash managed to get his photo in the Times WITH A FREAKIN' GOATSE SHIRT ON!.

He is now officially my hero-for-the-day.