So...where do you get it? Who makes it?

Oh, that's right, artists are supposed to be glad when people steal our work! Because then we get to be "the people who stole that idea from Ellen." Silly me.

I write urban fantasy, yes. PMing you. :-)

I loved ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT! Such a great book.

Sheesh!

Yeah...once is a mistake. Twice is deliberate; either deliberate theft or deliberate carelessness. Neither is excusable.

Ugh, that's almost worse!

I'm aware she has a writing staff. That doesn't mean she's not responsible for okaying the material/seeing where the source material came from—I doubt she lets the staff make those decisions on her show—and it doesn't mean I blame her solely. I just didn't feel like typing out "Oh, Ellen's writing staff and production…

Oh, Ellen...dude, that is so, so, SO not cool. It is *absolutely* "not fair" to use content like that without a credit—in fact it could be considered plagiarism or copyright violation or both, depending on a lot of different factors—and if I was Jillian Madison I'd be contacting my publisher's legal department (which…

Lol, yes, I hate that guy, too.

Yeah, that's entirely possible. But it's kind of a chicken-or-the-egg thing, really.

Exactly.

Oh, I don't know. I agree that it's a bit much to expect employee recommendations to be that big a deal, but I've had some great chats with booksellers because I see a book I love on the "Employee Recommendations" shelf, and so we talked about that book and traded other recommendations. I think it's kind of nice; it…

You know...all of this is understandable. And I've worked retail, I've worked customer service, I've worked in call centers, I know how much the public sucks. As a customer I've been irritated and annoyed by some of these same people (I'll never forget the day some woman abandoned her kid in the children's section,…

You are clearly a dirty whore, taking your vagina into a room meant only for penises. They have to use a special cleanser, you know, to get the evil taint of incorrect genitalia out of the walls and floors.

Ugh, this is heartbreaking.

Hahaha!

"Who's on first?"

Meat tenderizer is indeed an "actual cure." :-) My mom was an ER nurse in Miami for years, and it's what Fire Rescue and/or the ER always used first thing.

Hahaha! So glad I'm not the only one thinking of him as "Jimmy" every time I see him.