Apparently there's no level of corruption I can sink to which will score me free tickets to Serenity.
I actually don't know what sort of massive marketing power for such things this blog could provide, but I do tend to get the wrong kind of "free stuff." I currently do get a lot of copies of nonfiction books provided by the publishers, which is great, but I rarely manage to actually read the books in an especially timely fashion and don't ever really do much to help market them.
On the other hand, I'd be much more likely to watch/say nice things about movies and TV shows if I were to get preview tickets or DVD screeners. Even for books I tend to read more fiction than nonfiction, so it'd make more sense for me to be on those distribution lists...
btw, how many blogs does Yglesias have, anyway?