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19th December 200918th December 2009
officialgaiman @ : Xmas Roundup With Some Good Links and a photo of an author in it
posted by Neil
How the hell did it get to be December the 18th? Ohhh. All the links I meant to post. Arghh.For a start, I want to repost this little true thing I wrote, from last year's Independent: it's about being an eight year old Jewish kid who really wanted a Christmas tree... http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entert I wanted to tell you that you can still get the signed prints of "Before You Read This" I did with Todd Klein -- it's a poem I wrote that Todd lettered -- at Todd's website (along with Todd's other unique signed prints -- collaborations with Alex Ross, Alan Moore and J.H. Williams). http://kleinletters.com/Blog/?p=6525. (If you're hesitating, order: they're really cheap, and the second printing will be gone soon.) Also, for signed things and rare stuff, you can Do Good while last minute shopping by heading over to the CBLDF shop website. Here's the page with stuff related to me on it.) I just got my author's copies of "A Hundred Words To Talk of Death", the poem I wrote that Jim Lee illustrated and Todd Klein lettered. (Someone wrote to me on Twitter pointing out that it is two syllables short, and unable to figure out why. I will leave that as a problem for you to solve.) It's beautiful -- the same size and quality as the print of "The Day The Saucers Came". It's glorious. (Thinks: I can take a photo to show people.) I didn't used to think of Jim Lee as a glorious and subtle pencil artist, but he really is, and this is wonderful. (You can order them from here, and read about Kitty's adventures in shipping them out over at http://kittysneverwear.blogspot.com/, with bonus pictures right now of my Very Late Guy Fawkes Part of last month.)  Here is a photo of an author who needs a shave holding a print of "One Hundred Words" poem. Kitty herself is heading off on tour with Lady Gaga early next year, and Maddy is going to see them in Chicago (where, about eight years ago, I first met Kitty, on the road with Tori) (Who will be interviewed tonight on ABC -- Tori that is, not Kitty or Maddy). Amanda and I have been having something that isn't quite an argument about Lady Gaga for a few weeks. We have really rubbish arguments, because they normally resolve into the discovery that we weren't arguing at all, just saying the same thing from two different points of view. Amanda posted a ukulele video-song-blog she'd written late last night from her Boston flat when she was probably meant to be practising her New Year's Eve Tchaikovsky, and I discovered that our latest argument wasn't an argument and we were talking about the same things again. It's art. You make it. I don't think I will ever write songs and post them on YouTube instead of blogging. I'm in awe of someone who can. It's a good song, too, not just a funny and wise end-of-an-argument, even if she has to stop and scroll down at the last verse. Also, she said "aluminium". 
muskrat_john @ : Dork Tower gets WIRED, GeekDaddy-O!
As of this coming Monday, Dec 21, Dork Tower will be running here and at the Wired.com blog, GeekDad! Here’s the announcement from GeekDad editor Ken Denmead: It still amazes me when cool stuff like this happens to us, but I’m not one to look a gift-muskrat in the mouth. Starting this Monday, December 21st , GeekDad will be happy (nay, ecstatic!) to start presenting the thrice-weekly geeky comic joy that is Dork Tower, by John Kovalic If you know of Dork Tower, then you’re already squee-ing in excitement right alongside us. If you don’t know what Dork Tower is, then either you’re about to add a new layer of happiness to the Photoshop composite of your life, or you’re slowly beginning to realize you didn’t click through to the Monkey Bites blog. From the official Dork Tower website: DORK TOWER is for anybody who’s ever been burned being an early adapter; who have more Twitter tweets than actual Twitter followers; who’s ever gone to a Star Trek convention; who’s ever played Dungeons and Dragons; who suspects Anime is more than just a passing fad; and who’s been fragged by a Gravity Hammer in Halo III – or anyone who KNOWS one of these people. But it’s REALLY for people who know what the hip social networking du jour site is; who has bookmarked thinkgeek.com; who’s memorized every lyric to Jonathan Coulton’s ouvre; who’s cataloged which Classic Trek episodes involved the Prime Directive; and who knows the names of six people and a cat that make regular appearances in Wil Wheaton’s blog. And, of course, it’s for people who know that HAN SHOT FIRST! DORK TOWER the multi-award-winning story of Matt, Igor, Ken, Carson the Muskrat (yes, he’s a muskrat) and Gilly, the Perky Goth. They’re trapped in a world they never made… but are nevertheless striving to create a realistic yet playable simulation thereof! Dork Tower has, in its decade of life, existed as a stand-alone comic book, a featured comic in Dragon, Scrye and Games magazines, and one of the earliest regular web-comics online. Its creator, John Kovalic, is also the illustrator and co-creator of world-renown games Munchkin and Apples to Apples. But perhaps his greatest creation is his new daughter, whose existence has transformed him from a simple, Bruce Banner-like comics and game illustrator, into a hulking green(bay) GeekDad. Which is where we come in. So please, let’s all extend John a warm (but slightly clammy) welcome to the GeekDad community, and thank him profusely for sharing Dork Tower with us, so we can help share it with the world! Wired.com'sGeekDad gets around a million and a half page views per month - that's THREE FULL WHEATONS, folks! - and about a million unique visitors. So, what does this mean for DorkTower.com? Well, lots of good stuff. While web goddess Cat and I sharpen the look and speed of DorkTower.com itself, if anything goes wrong, you can always catch the Monday/Wednesday/Friday Dork Towers at 9 am, CST, on GeekDad!. The Archives will remain here, and the new comics will continue to run here. The Archives – through a redesign of the site – will become easier to use and navigate through. It also means that, from time to time, I’ll be doing more than just running the day’s cartoons at GeekDad…I’ll also be coming up with some specific cartoons directed at the Wired/GeekDad audience. Plus, Ken and I have one or two Sekrit Projekts which are still in the planning stages, yet which are very, very kewl. But for the moment, I’m just thrilled to be associated with Wired.com, the GeekDad blog, and the folks at GeekDad in particular My name is John, and I’m a GeekDad! John Current Music: "And Your Bird Can Sing" - The Jam
17th December 2009
petranella @ : Here's hoping...
Agent Comments: I will be scheduling a 2nd showing for Saturday the 19th. This is one of 3 houses my client would like to see again. This would make for a very merry Christmas. I got really grumpy this morning walking Lobo. I am really sick of walking the dog every morning in the cold (V does night walk and we share afternoon walks). I hate mornings and I hate cold. I've been doing this since the week after WW and I'm tired of it. The cold has been starting to trigger my asthma so I'll buy a scarf tonight (because all mine are in storage) and I'll be fine. Actually the grumpy already passed. In happy news V bought me a jewelry armoire for Christmas. He gave it to me already so tonight I get to organize my accessories. I also bought enough plastic shoe boxes so I can sort and label all my veils etc. I have Joel's label maker. I love it and need my own. Current Mood:
 hopeful
ursulagoddess, posting in
nordskogen @ : No alcohol at Twelfth Night
But I wanted to cover all my bases because I would really feel bad if we lost our ability to use this site because of the booze. Thank you everyone!!! -Ursula http://ursulagoddess.org/TN2010.htm
ursulagoddess @ : No alcohol at Twelfth Night
But I wanted to cover all my bases because I would really feel bad if we lost our ability to use this site because of the booze. Thank you everyone!!! -Ursula http://ursulagoddess.org/TN2010.htm
ursulagoddess, posting in
northshield @ : No alcohol at Twelfth Night
But I wanted to cover all my bases because I would really feel bad if we lost our ability to use this site because of the booze. Thank you everyone!!! -Ursula http://ursulagoddess.org/TN2010.htm
officialgaiman @ : Late night mystery post...
posted by Neil
Hullo everyone. I took a week off from Blogging, then didn't have a second during the whirlwind of the last few days.As a result of which I have dozens of open tabs and dozens of letters to the FAQ line that I've marked as things I should answer. I'm not going to try and do them all now (Maddy told me that I'm taking her to school at 6:30 am, as she's got her first period of Driver's Ed). But there are a few things I should say before I sleep... The first one is to congratulate Henry Selick and all the Coraline team (and Laika, and Focus) on the wonderful way they are being recognised by Awards. Yesterday, for example, we learned that Coraline is nominated for a Golden Globe award. There's a great website at http://awards.filminfocus.com/#/coraline/a I went to Atlanta. It was foggy and thunderstormy and I signed for 1,050 people. (Here's the Atlanta paper blog on the event. And Little Shop of Stories said Thank You so very nicely.) I went to Winnipeg. It was cold outside and I signed for 869 people. Here's the Winnipeg Newspaper article. Just behind me, in the grey shirt, is the wonderful Elyse Marshall, publicist from HarperChildren's, who looked after me on the Graveyard Book Tour and who can now run a huge signing in her sleep, which is great, because it means I don't have to worry about any details or disasters. I just do my job and sign and meet everyone. (How bad can it get? Well, there was the time Terry Pratchett and I were signing in, er, I think it was Leeds, when the people who worked at the shop saw all the people who had turned up for the signing and got scared enough that they locked themselves in the staff room at the back, leaving Terry and me to climb onto tables and shout at people until they formed some kind of a line. The staff didn't come out again until the people had all gone.) Strangest moment in Winnipeg was getting back to the hotel room at 1:30 am to notice that, beside my bed, a framed photo of my children had mysteriously appeared. I assumed that this was a cool thing the hotel had done. Elyse, on the other hand, was convinced it was the action of a crazed stalker, and insisted I deadbolt and security chain my hotel room, and was enormously relieved, a few hours later, when she knocked on my door and I removed the chain and was obviously still alive.  Before we left the hotel I took the photo out of the frame and left a thank-you note in its place.  Flew back to Minneapolis. I stopped off at DreamHaven on the way back from the airport this afternoon, and signed more stock for Greg (http://neilgaiman.net/). Theoretically enough to see him through Xmas. Several people wrote asking me to express my outrage at HarperCollins joining several other publishers in delaying the release of books on the Kindle or e-book format to some months after the hardback comes out, as detailed at http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/harpe And, for those of you who want to learn exactly how an author should not respond to an Amazon One-Star review, we present an author named Candace Sams, who begins by pretending she's not the author, just someone defending a good book, then, when outed as the author, claims she's part of a noble group standing up against an evil one-star reviewer, and then informs everyone on the Amazon Comments thread that she's reported them all to the FBI. The Amazon Thread is here. Teresa Nielsen Hayden comments on it at Making Light, here. (Via Cleolinda's twitter.) And yes, it's a horrible car crash, and I post it here not because it's funny in an Oh God Make It Stop kind of way, but because, if any of you are ever tempted to respond to bad reviews or internet trolls etc, it's a salutary reminder of why some things are better written in anger and deleted in the morning. (Also, if you're an American Games company, don't sue a British blogger in the Australian courts for a bad review.) Oops. I have started blogging. I will stop now, and sleep for a little while. ... Before I go: Sky has a website for the Ten Minute Tales series, which includes Statuesque, my film starring Bill Nighy (which goes out in the UK on Christmas Day) : http://sky1.sky.com/10-minute-tales. I wish I could have been at the screening in London on Sunday, more so when I saw my old friend Paterson Joseph stars in one of the films.  16th December 200915th December 2009
ursulagoddess @ : 25 days until Twelfth Night
:D http://ursulagoddess.org/TN2010.htm Current Mood:
 excited14th December 2009
muskrat_john @ : Dechnical Tifficulties
Between that and the blizzard that hit the midwest, it essentially wiped out another work week. Fortunately, it seems (fingers crossed) as if all of my data was backed up. But getting everything back on the machine’s new hard drive has been a bit – shall we say “entertaining.” Not least because the new hard drive came loaded with a new operating system, and many of my old discs are still in boxes somewhere from the move. I *hope* to have new strips up and running by this coming Friday, Dec. 18, Monday, December 21 at the latest. On the plus side, there’ll be some news about something that’ll soon make sure DorkTower.com web site problems, etc., etc., are – if not a thing of the past – at least far more infrequent. There’ll be other big news as well. I’ll probably pst that this coming Thursday. For the moment, it’s been incredibly frustrating, and I’d like to apologize for the ups and downs (mostly downs) of the web site this month. In 2010, I hope that the thrice-weekly schedule of comic strips will be hit, and hit regularly and well. On the other hand, I’m not a kid in Darfur, so I really can’t complain too much about anything… Also at the start of the year, some more big news, about what’s going on with everything: the Dork Tower comic strips; Dr. Blink comics and more; the Dork Tower comic books; My Little Cthulhu; Mythos Buddies; Munchkin; Out of the Box Games; the Dork Tower puppet project; where my mind’s at; and so on. Kind of a State of the Cartoonist address. I’m working that up now to post New Year’s Day. It may need to be broken into a few parts. In the meantime, thank you SO much for your patience these last few weeks. Please check back in lter in the week, when I hope things will be starting to run a bit more smoothly. I’m working on making everything sharper, smoother, faster and better at DorkTower.com. John PS – please excuse any typos. I’ve got to run off for a plane, and don’t have time to proof this in my usual haphazard way… Current Mood:
 busyCurrent Music: "We Fight/We Love" - Q-Tip
13th December 2009
tygryph @ : Hanley's Corn Chowder
readmore by frmichaelh, who is at the time of this posting, the Bishop-elect of the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon. (Yay!)---- you can pick this stuff up on your way home and make the soup in about 30 minutes! serves 6ish, doubles easily 1# bulk pork sausage 1 cup chopped onion 4 cup 1/2" cubed potato 1 t salt 1/2 t dried marjoram 1/2 t pepper 2 cups water 1 - 17 oz can cream corn 1 - 17 oz can corn, drained 1 - 12 oz can evaporated milk 1. In kettle, cook sausage and onion until brown and tender, drain. 2. add to kettle: potato, salt, marjoram, pepper, and water, bring to boil, then reduce and simmer until potato is tender about 15 minutes 3. add cans of corn and milk and heat through. enjoy. Current Mood:
 hungry12th December 2009
lrdfaelan @ : WEEEEE!!!!!
11th December 2009
brithistorian @ : Sexual Assault Prevention Tips, Guaranteed To Work
And, ALWAYS REMEMBER: if you didn’t ask permission and then respect the answer the first time, you are committing a crime- no matter how “into it” others appear to be.
petranella @ : Bits and Stuff
If you have car problems and leave you car parked for hours along side the road during a storm, do not leave your hood up. We won't slow down and your engine gets covered with snow. Still not homeless. But I'm really happy for friends, one who sold her house and one who bought a new one. I absolutely looooove this shift. I'm working noon-midnight this year. Which means I get warned the day before and can sleep in. Also we cook most shifts and if we don't places are open you can get food aren't gas stations, none of which are open on my route from midnight until 5am. The boss is also more realistic Today should be my last long day so I'll get home at midnight and actually be able to see my husband. Our "new" work snowblower rocks. It will throw snow 150+ feet and will eat leaf springs, although sometimes they come out the chute sideways and some welding needs to be done.
jonnynexusfeed @ : On When The Old And The New Collide
I think that one of the most fascinating things about the ongoing change from old, analogue/physical business models to their new digital/virtual replacements, is the way we’re moving through a sort of middle, mash-up period, in which legecy businesses are desperately trying to hammer their old models into a shape that might perhaps work in the new. Take music, for example. I’ve recently got quite into listening to music on my iPhone, and have been buying quite a few downloaded tracks for it from iTunes. Like, I suspect, most people, I don’t buy albums when I buy digitially; instead, I simply buy the individual tracks I want. But iTunes doesn’t yet quite work that way. Sure, it allows you to buy individual tracks, but it insists on pretending that those tracks are part of albums. So when I search for a track, it shows me a list of probably identical versions that differ only on which album (original, compilation, greatest hits) they might have been released on. And having selected one of those at random, the iPod app on my phone then insists on showing me – and anyone who might be looking over my shoulder – the artwork of that album (an album I’ve never bought) as it plays the tune. I wouldn’t mind, except that some of those random album choices make me look pretty stupid when it comes to my taste in music. I think Scott McKenzie’s “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” is a good song, for instance, obviously, or I wouldn’t have bought it. But the iPod app insists of telling everyone that I got it from the Forest Gump soundtrack album, which isn’t the sort of album I can imagine myself buying. And when I listen to “I’m Gonna Be” by The Proclaimers, which is a bit dodgy to start with, the iPod app is adamant that I got this track from “Totally Celtic Rock: The Essential Celtic Rock Alb- Hang on a minute. Crap. That is actually an album I bought. Bugger. 10th December 2009
readmore @ : thanks, gxdm, this really makes me laugh!
In 2009,
 readmore resolves to...Lose ten books by March. Be nicer to bolddeciever.Ask my boss for an episcopal. Cut down to ten tigers a day. Find a better northshield. Eat more computers. Current Mood:
 amused
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