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Music visit Stamps.com and use the promo code GabFest. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 15th, 2013, the Send Them to the Glue Factory Edition.

I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate.

I'm here in Washington, D.C., with Slate's chief political correspondent. John Dickerson, hello. John? What was that? What has happened to you? He's a horse going to the glue factory. Oh, okay. You would not be first on my list to the glue factory, John. You're still strong and healthy. You can still pull your weight. Knock on wood or for my god. Pull a wagon. Yeah. From New York, just days away from the release of Sticks and Stones, her fabulous new book slash closing line slash perfume. It's late senior editor Emily Bazelon. Hello, Emily. Hi, David. Thank you. That was great. I want a perfume. There should be a board game.

Board game. Yes, Sixth and Stones. There's a good name for a board game.

Exactly.

Like shoots and ladders, but different. With your book launch next week, Emily, what is it that John and I and our listeners can do to help you? You know, it would be so great would be if more of you would pre-order my book. I am so thankful to the people

have already done that. But for those of you, the remaining people out there who would be

willing to do such a thing, there are special Gab Fest freebies for you. Assigned bookplate

from me. And then we are also raffling off signed GabFest posters and GabFest T-shirts and the chance

to either do cocktail chatter or sit in on a taping with us. So please, I would be so just so

thankful if you guys, more of you would go and pre-order my book. And to get all the freebies,

just mail your receipt in any form from anywhere in the world, from any seller,

to GabFest Preorder at gmail.com. Thank you. Okay. And if you can have it written in the blood

of a freshly slain yak on vellum, then, man, you will get like some really cool stuff.

Yeah, we'll be really impressed.

The yak advocates are going to be really mad at you, John.

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