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Little sleep was had yesterday due to my big Japanese test. I'm not going to jinx myself by speculating how I did but I studied pretty hard for it.

Went through the Guild in a sort of haze but managed to have a good time none the less. Played a fun little game called Frontier. Hugged Danielle some and hung out with my mooks.

Work was the hardest part just sitting around trying to stay awake but I managed(and get to do so again tonight.)

Today I'm lying in bed(at the moment) with a mischievous and restless Danielle. I should probaly get off here and take care of her ass right now in fact

Later

Cuddles

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FETISHISED FACE SURGERY OR FFS IS RAPIDLY EMERGING AS A SEXUAL ORIENTATION





these are early picture of a 12x24 poster. this is only half of the artwork and the finishing touches aint been done yet. )

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Birthday Hoodie!
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Made for me specially by Miffy! <3

Madman [userpic]

Does it mean anything if you dream of someone with scars on one side of their face and maimed arms? What if its also an extremely beautiful (to you) you member of the opposite sex and they give you nothing but sass?

I have really weird dreams...I wonder if this person is out there...

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hello, welcome to the 519 church's queer soup kitchen.


clean hair is stupid propeganda )

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Between nablopomo, grading, and advising, I've had a very busy week. Unfortunately, I was too busy to write any memorial haiku, not even for poor Soupy Sales.

Instead of my own stuff, I bought a copy of GK Chesterton's Ballad Of A  Suicide. The title suggests a bleak poem, but it isn't. It's about not killing yourself.

Beyond Chesterton's wit and skill, one thing I love about this poem is that it illustrates that "negative" doesn't necessarily mean the same thing as bad or pessimistic. That's just the most popular meaning of the word. Consider the following statements:

  • I am going to kill myself
  • I am not going to do drugs anymore
Which one is a positive statement and which is negative? And which denotes a healthier attitude? A negative statement is simply one that asserts something is not the case. The thing itself can be good or bad. And nothing demonstrates that better than a poem about not hanging yourself.

Jonathan, the MC, had told me someone requested I "read" my Marcel Marceau memorial haiku. Being an accommodating fellow, I started of with that. I also apologized to any Soupy Sales fans in the audience for not having a haiku. I then briefly spoke about the whole positive/negative thing (as you may have guessed, it's one of my pet issues.) "And to demonstrate" I added " I will now read a poem that is both negative and uplifting". And I read Chesterton's poem.

I think people enjoyed the poem. One of the baristas asked me for the title and author of the poem again, so I'm guessing she wants to read it for herself. That was somewhat gratifying.  And it is a wonderful poem. If you want to read it, just click the poem's title above.

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I know, I've been posting a lot of videos and other random things lately, but I saw this and couldn't resist. LittleKuriboh's hilarious insanity always makes me feel better when I'm a little down. XD

♪ Can't beat my, can't beat my, no they can't beat my Brooklyn Rage... ♪


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There were 38 independent bookshops around the land who had Graveyard Book parties. The people at Harpers somehow got it down to 11, and they sent them to me to judge the winner. The winner gets me for a signing in December. I watched the 11 videos/descriptions/ photos. I watched them again. I watched them yet again, this time with Lorraine, my assistant, watching too and saying helpful things like, "They are all so good. Whoo. Don't know how you'll make a decision. Look at that! They're line dancing to Monster Mash! And that Death is on stilts, isn't he. Is that a horse? A horse in a store? These are amazing." The fourth time, Woodsman Hans wandered in from the deep woods (where he is making a pond) and watched them too.

Then I made my decision. I called Elyse Marshall at Harpers and told her. "Ah," she said. "I'll have to check with the lawyers to find out if you can do that."

So we wait.

...

I posted the Amanda Palmer current East Coast tour dates here last night. http://www.amandapalmer.net/afp/upcoming-shows for venues and details.

Today it occurred to me that in the past when I've had friends on tour, I've often done special "Neil sent me" things, where people who come from this blog get some special free thing, which a) is nice for the people who get the free thing and b) tells the person on tour that people are really coming from the blog. I did it with Thea Gilmore (who is starting a new UK tour next week. People in the UK, go and see live Thea Gilmore, for she is wonderful: http://www.theagilmore.net for dates and venues.) I've done it for The Magnetic Fields, who, incidentally, have a new album coming out on Jan 26th. And then there's the Green Goddess restaurant in New Orleans, where you can mention the "Mezze of Destruction" to tell them you came from here and get sent something wonderful to eat or drink. (It changes, depending on what chef Chris DeBarr feels like making.)

I should do it for Amanda. I called her up and told her.

She called me back. "Beth and I have put our heads together and come up with a code phrase for people from your blog," she said. "So they say it and get a special free thing from the merch table."

"Fire away," I said.

"We think they should come over to the merch table and point to this poster...




...and say 'That chick in the yellow corset crowdsurfing looks kind of hot. I wonder if she's dating anyone?' And then they get something for free."

I said I thought that was a very bad idea, because people might say that anyway, and it was an awful lot for people to remember. And what if they sold out of that poster early that night?

I said, "What about any variant of 'Neil sent me from his blog?'"

"Absolutely not," she said. "That's boring."

I told her to leave it with me.

And then I stared at this screen glumly, with nothing happening in my head, and real work I should be doing starting to nip at my heels. So I turned to the Oracular Orb of truth at http://www.neilgaiman.com/oracle/ and I clicked on the orb and shook it.


Here is Doug Jones and some strange man it said.

If you go to one of Amanda Palmer's shows on this tour, wander over to the Merch table, and say that you found about it from some strange man's blog. And something good will probably happen. (If they just stare at you, tell them it was me, and this blog. If they keep staring tell them that the chick in the yellow corset in the poster looks like she probably has a really nice boyfriend.)

....

This seemed like a very good cause to me:

Hi Neil,

I am a long-time fan, and have even met you backstage at a Tori show (though that was many years ago!). I am writing to ask a bit of a favor.

About 10 years ago, I appeared on 20/20 with Tori, speaking about sexual violence. Since then, I've stayed close with Tori whose been a mentor of the best kind. I also started a nonprofit, Pandora's Project, that provides support, information, and resources to rape and sexual abuse survivors and their supporters. We operate Pandora's Aquarium, an online support group with more than 20,000 registered members.

Recently, I was named a 2009 L'Oreal Woman of Worth for my volunteer work with Pandora's. I was chosen for this honor from more than 2,500 applicants.

Now, one of the ten 2009 Honorees will be selected as the national honoree through a public online vote. Her cause will get an additional $25,000, and a lot of media exposure. This is the first time L'Oreal has recognized a sexual violence organization, and becoming the national honoree would allow me to shine a spotlight on this issue that affects so many women and women.

Voting is easy - people just need to go to the url below, enter their email address in the box on the right, and click the "submit vote" button. Each email address is allowed one vote, and voting ends November 24.

http://www.womenofworth.com/Honorees/Honoree2009Detail.aspx?nomid=5657c940-425b-47a2-879d-ed3c2d82b56f

I am wondering if you might be willing to send people to this voting link via your (infinitely popular) twitter or blog. I understand if it's not something you can do, but my experience running a small-budget nonprofit tells me it's always wise to ask!

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Shannon Lambert


I'll plug it happily.

Your correspondent asks "Will you be reading the original version where the wolf actually is killed, and not the 'oh my goodness our kids can't hear about death' version in which they bring him to the zoo?"

I fear she's in error; in the original version, written by Prokofiev, Peter snares the wolf, then convinces the hunters NOT to kill it, but to take it to the zoo.


I've been researching, and that's what I found out too. Wikipedia has a list of changes made in various versions of the story (Disney, for example, had the wolf not eat the duck). But the wolf was always taken to the zoo...

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TWITTER"

I cant be on the internet now.

been reading and writing for 3 hours. i am kicked off the internet. i really do believe the internet makes me more informed with a varriety of conflicting opinions and the internet helps me maintain a social network of real friends across the country and the internet gives my art a voice across the country and my art is the only thing that makes my life worht anything. i changed all my internet passwords. my password for face book and email is "ducklings". password for my credit card I've had for over two months now, her password is special secret banking password "kittenbasket" all my sweet friends are my ducklings. kitten basket is my name for when i fuck one of you. cuz i fuck like a cute kitten and i bet you do if your fuckin me.

i'm really glad all my friends still like me even though ever since i got hit in the head with an iron pipe (april2007 forever) my brain has been a little scrambled. braindamage is awsome. sometimes my werners area craps out and i start talking in doggeral poetry or repeating myself and scrambling sentence word orders. I think the damage to my language centers is also visible in my writing. I write kinna ok ever since i got hit in the head. I'm also really really lazy and i try to fuck everything. sometimes i have this thing where my ego hits the ceiling and i walk arround half convinced that the entire planet is in my mind and I get lost trying to figure out what things are wrong with my brain that make the world suck. and it works. I have found a trick where i have stuck over %90 of my brain in to archive storage. what I left behind is a stupid agressive horny husk who runs my affairs and takes orders from me. the creature walking arround in my flesh is my precious little golem Sybil Lamb. You might have noticed her before as my "porn name". except now she is real.

for the rest of my life i intend to just snuggle in to a gigantic bed and read and draw and write. and that is exactly where i am, except inside of sybil and she leaves the house and spends all my money. she blew $40 of cough syrope last month. Sybil gets laid alot. its insane to live inside her head and watch her screw.












i need to mine my rants of late... i need a printer,








do you like sleepy time ??

i'm in love with Nil Frykdl and I'm gonna come out and write him a note.
I have to confess my affections now, the governemnt says...

oh shit, im in trouble for something...

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I know the phrase "political correctness" tends to be overused. But it's still a useful term. The adjective before "correctness" suggests that it is something to be distinguished from plain old ordinary correctness. And perhaps that it isn't really correctness.

The Fort Hood shootings do a good job of illustrating this. A lot of people are saying we shouldn't make blanket judgments about Muslims from this incident. So far so good. I'm in complete agreement with that. I know lots of  Muslims and none of them are anything like Major Hasan.

What I don't agree with is the attempt to whitewash any evidence that Hasan's actions were motivated by his faith.
According to eyewitnesses,  Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before the shooting. The mainstream media has been obfuscating this.
A good example can be found in this article at radioviceonline.com.  when CNN quoted a witness out of context on their website. The article on the website makes it looks as if he is not sure of his recollections. When the quote is given it's proper context, it can be seen that is not the case at all.

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It's not really any of my business but I'm getting irritated over the unemployment of my two youngest roommates. Not so much that they don't have jobs, it's that they seem content to stay that way and let their moms pay their rent. Whenever I'm working a less than fun job to put myself through college and pay my own bills I get annoyed with people who just sit on their asses all day making a mess in the apartment.

I get up around 12pm-2pm every day cause I work 3rd shift and don't go to bed around 6am-7am every day. They get up generally later than me cause they sit up all night playing XBox. They waste half a day that could be spent job hunting. Then they start asking if they can have some of my food. I can sympathize with being unemployed, but when you're out of work you bust your ass to look for work. Unemployment is a full time job in of itself.

This just annoys me is all. I don't respect them because of this and I want them to either get jobs or move out. Odds are at least one of them will. Hopefully around the end of December so they can easily be replaced via Craigslist.

Later

Cuddles

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Birthday Flowers
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From Xander's mom!

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Saturday, November 21st



When: Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Where: Charlotte’s Underground 4205 Monroe Rd. Charlotte, North Carolina 28205 United States

18 +
$5/$7

DJs Spider and Sanity Ana

GothSwap is chance for you to clean out your closets of all the stuff that you thought you would wear/can’t fit anymore/cannot stand to wear ever again. This includes shoes, clothes, bags, jewelry, etc. The basic idea is “you bring an item, you get an item”.
In addition, we are offering an opportunity for you to also tag some things for actual sale for this swap, for those who would like a little extra cash for the holiday season. Please drop DJ Spider a note here on the ROTB MySpace for more info as to how this will be handled as part of the Batty Bazaar.

We will also gladly take any donations of old coats and blankets, and make sure they get to those places that are running drives this season -- Charlotte is supposed to have the coldest, snowiest winter in a few years, and we know you've thought about it, but just can't make the final pieces come together. We'll take care of it for you!

And we have some great giveaways for you, from our friends at CrunchPod! New releases from Cervello Electtronico and C/A/T will be given away to lucky winners all night!



Wednesday, November 25th



I think the flyer says it all, but yeah, we're gathering the old Thursday gang for a reunion at the Breakfast Club on WEDNESDAY, the night before Thanksgiving. I have a confirmation from DJ TinTin that he's down for the fun, and I know that a ton of people have already expressed excitement about the night (Cuz most of us don't have to work the next day!)



Saturday, November 28th



Spellbound is a weekly Alternative, Darkwave and Industrial event in Washington, DC

Saturdays from 9pm 'til 2:30am
Located at 1823 L Street NW, Washington, DC
The door policy is 21+ with proper ID
Cover charge is $7.

Spellbound's 3rd Annual Freak Bazaar!
Come out early and shop local artists and vendors.
Then stay for a night of music and dancing.

Spellbound's hostess Lori Beth presents DJ's
Spider and Kangal -- REUNITED (cuz it feels so good?)

And if that picture doesn't tell you how long we've tagged on decks together....I'd say he was half the man he was then, but it totally wouldn't come out right!

But it's been at least 3 years since we've spun together like we used to at Purgatory (including some crazy ass tag-team matches atthe end of the night), and I'm fully expecting a HUGELY good time :) Plus it's been almost a year since I've been in DC, and this time Pet is actually coming along! WHEEEEEE!




Big Daddy Cool [userpic]

Work sucked tonight in that it's freezing cold and pouring down rain. I feel waterlogged. It's the wind that got me more than anything else.

Later

Cuddles

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Went in to KNOW radio station in ST Paul today and recorded an introduction to the NPR MORNING EDITION "Open Mike" piece I've been recording on audiobooks, and heard the edit. Asked them to see if they could find a bit more time in the piece for Audible founder Don Katz, who did an amazing interview and was pared down to about a sentence in the current edit. It'll go out in the next ten days, and as soon as I know when it goes out I'll put it up here. I talk to David Sedaris, Martin Jarvis, Don Katz and veteran audio producer/director Rick Harris in it.

Also popped in to DreamHaven and signed a bunch of books. The piles of books have grown so high, and the administration was proving so hard for Greg now that he is a one-man operation that I'm no longer personalising books there. But lots of signed books now in for the Holidays at DreamHaven's Neilgaiman.net site.

Spent much of the rest of the day driving around, being a dad, taking a daughter and her friend to violin, all that normal sort of stuff, and listening to Martin Jarvis's Good Omens audiobook as I did so. I'm about half-way through it now. It makes me so happy, especially hearing Adam Young read in something sort of close to Martin's Just William voice. Weirdly, I found it easier to hear what I wrote and what Terry wrote than I could if I looked at the text (which I discovered a few years ago, when I proofread the Harper Collins edition). The text is a bit of a blur, after all these years, but listening I'd find myself going, "Me... Terry.... Me in first draft, Terry in second.... Terry in first draft, me in second.... My footnote to his bit.... His footnote to mine..." feeling vaguely like an archaeologist. Even spotted a couple of tiny continuity goofs we should have caught 21 years ago that I may call Terry about and correct in future editions.

(Edit to add, here's a link for iTunes for the Good Omens book that will, I am afraid, almost definitely only work in the US and territories that buy books from the US.)

I still haven't done the Big China Blog. Until I do, I should point you to Amanda's blog, at http://blog.amandapalmer.net/post/240943999/east-infection-china-singapore, which has many photographs of our adventures, and of us, and lots of small anecdotes.

(She has an East Coast Tour on right now -
11.12 Portland, ME
11.13 Northampton, MA
11.14 Brooklyn, NY (SOLD OUT)
11.18 Philadelphia, PA
11.19 Falls Church, VA
11.20 Carrboro, NC
11.22 Knoxville, TN.
Go see her in concert. She's a wonder live. Tell her I said hi.)


Hi Neil,

I just read about your event in January, where in you will be narrating Peter and the Wolf. My husband and I are over joyed by this. We will hopefully be bringing our three girls up to see the performance. We did have one question though. Will you be reading the original version where the wolf actually is killed, and not the "oh my goodness our kids can't hear about death" version in which they bring him to the zoo? We are both, obviously, really hopeful that being you, and not afraid to scare children (thank you for that btw) will be speaking the true to the story version in which Peter shoots the wolf and then his dead body is paraded through the town as a trophy.

Thanks for your time,
~Cecily

PS- Do you know if there will be tickets for the event or the reception afterwards? It will be a long drive, and it would be nice to be prepared for either staking out seats all day or having tickets in hand. (We could not find any reservation information on the website)


I'd forgotten - or never knew - that there was an alternative version. The script I was sent is the Zoo version. I'll investigate...

And no, I do not know about tickets. I will find out.

Dear Neil,

Your Web Goblin offered to post photos of Coraline pumpkins, and when they were told this, my 8 and 11-year old daughters decided to make some. Here they are, along with 2 emoticon pumpkins and a turnip.

http://www.steampunkfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/IMG_01521-300x225.jpg

I used them to illustrate a ghost story: http://www.steampunkfamily.com/2009/10/philomenas-fright/

Three of the four of us were Coraline characters for Halloween. (The 11-year old went her own way as Susan Sto-Helit.)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37435081@N03/4077708519/sizes/l/in/set-72157622616148613/

The Other Mother is the scariest thing I've ever been for Halloween. All the children (even the 4-year olds!) knew who I was, and I elicited much nervous laughter when I offered to sew buttons in their eyes.

Thank you for being VERY SCARY INDEED


I love how many families were Coraline families, this year.

If, like me, anybody else was intrigued by your mention of Kenneth Grahame's other works and wants to read them with a minimum of searching, they'll be happy to know both 'The Golden Age' and 'Dream Days' are available for free on the always invaluable Project Gutenberg:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/291
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/270

Thanks for mentioning them in the first place; I'm always interested in children's lit of that time that has managed to slip through my net.

- B. Bolander


What a good idea. Two very beautiful, gently funny books by the author of The Wind in the Willows. I really enjoyed them, but stylistically they are, well, out of fashion, and will not be everybody's cup of Edwardian tea. Here's a passage that describes the illustration I put up yesterday, as small children steal through the house on a midnight expedition to obtain biscuits (ie cookies, if you are American):

The Blue Room had in prehistoric times been added to by taking in a superfluous passage, and so not only had the advantage of two doors, but enabled us to get to the head of the stairs without passing the chamber wherein our dragon-aunt lay couched. It was rarely occupied, except when a casual uncle came down for the night. We entered in noiseless file, the room being plunged in darkness, except for a bright strip of moonlight on the floor, across which we must pass for our exit. On this our leading lady chose to pause, seizing the opportunity to study the hang of her new dressing-gown. Greatly satisfied thereat, she proceeded, after the feminine fashion, to peacock and to pose, pacing a minuet down the moonlit patch with an imaginary partner. This was too much for Edward's histrionic instincts, and after a moment's pause he drew his single-stick, and with flourishes meet for the occasion, strode onto the stage. A struggle ensued on approved lines, at the end of which Selina was stabbed slowly and with unction, and her corpse borne from the chamber by the ruthless cavalier. The rest of us rushed after in a clump, with capers and gesticulations of delight; the special charm of the performance lying in the necessity for its being carried out with the dumbest of dumb shows.

Once out on the dark landing, the noise of the storm without told us that we had exaggerated the necessity for silence; so, grasping the tails of each other's nightgowns even as Alpine climbers rope themselves together in perilous places, we fared stoutly down the staircase-moraine, and across the grim glacier of the hall, to where a faint glimmer from the half-open door of the drawing-room beckoned to us like friendly hostel-lights. Entering, we found that our thriftless seniors had left the sound red heart of a fire, easily coaxed into a cheerful blaze; and biscuits—a plateful—smiled at us in an encouraging sort of way, together with the halves of a lemon, already once squeezed but still suckable. The biscuits were righteously shared, the lemon segments passed from mouth to mouth; and as we squatted round the fire, its genial warmth consoling our unclad limbs, we realised that so many nocturnal perils had not been braved in vain.

"It's a funny thing," said Edward, as we chatted, "how I hate this room in the daytime. It always means having your face washed, and your hair brushed, and talking silly company talk. But to-night it's really quite jolly. Looks different, somehow."

"I never can make out," I said, "what people come here to tea for. They can have their own tea at home if they like,—they're not poor people,—with jam and things, and drink out of their saucer, and suck their fingers and enjoy themselves; but they come here from a long way off, and sit up straight with their feet off the bars of their chairs, and have one cup, and talk the same sort of stuff every time."

Selina sniffed disdainfully. "You don't know anything about it," she said. "In society you have to call on each other. It's the proper thing to do."

"Pooh! YOU'RE not in society," said Edward, politely; "and, what's more, you never will be."

"Yes, I shall, some day," retorted Selina; "but I shan't ask you to come and see me, so there!"

"Wouldn't come if you did," growled Edward.

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