Day: September 8, 2005

The Spam Reading Club continues. Today, it’s something different with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Somebody has a very strange idea of what is and isn’t in the public domain. (Checking to make sure it was Volume 6 — I’m still only a couple hundred pages in myself — I discovered more than a few people have put the entire thing online in text files, which is really just a cease-and-desist letter waiting to happen.

More amusing, however, was the grammar of the spam above that:

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It’s not barely a wristwatch. At this point, I think they’re relying on a target audience of complete and total idiots.

You know, looking back over Monday’s post about CBS and Moonves, it occurs to me that, when CBS first announced C.S.I. New York and I (along with, I’m sure, the vast majority of the audience) thought, “Oh great, another New York cop show?” — I started thinking about what other cities would be a better, more original choice. Cities with great character but that don’t appear too often on weekly television series. Cities like Seattle, or Austin, or Savannah…

Or New Orleans.

In hindsight, that would have been unfortunate.