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January 19, 2010
Roundup of hasty strangeness...
Various partly-composed blog entries seem to have vanished, which means a VERY hasty rundown of stuff, rather than the leisurely stroll through the last few days I was hoping for.
1) Peter and the Wolf was wonderful. No, it wasn't recorded/videoed. I'd love to do it for posterity with Gary Fagin (my cousin! His grandmother and my great-grandfather were brother and sister) and the Knickerbocker Orchestra, if a way can be figured out to make it happen.
2) I went to the Golden...
1) Peter and the Wolf was wonderful. No, it wasn't recorded/videoed. I'd love to do it for posterity with Gary Fagin (my cousin! His grandmother and my great-grandfather were brother and sister) and the Knickerbocker Orchestra, if a way can be figured out to make it happen.
2) I went to the Golden...
January 15, 2010
Telling the World: An Official Announcement
Dear The World,
we are going to get married,
signed,
Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman
Labels: some things are just sort of obviously right, Ladies first, amanda palmer
January 14, 2010
Something really cool. Read this one.
This morning's meeting just got out early, so I have time to Blog a little. As Maddy says, W00t.
I'm in New York right now, having meetings from dawn until long after dusk on all manner of things, including a movie adaptation someone cool wants to do of one of my short stories, some people who want to adapt a novel as a musical. I recorded some Public Service Announcements for National Library Week. Lots of finding out what's going to happen now Marvel owns Marvelman (more...
I'm in New York right now, having meetings from dawn until long after dusk on all manner of things, including a movie adaptation someone cool wants to do of one of my short stories, some people who want to adapt a novel as a musical. I recorded some Public Service Announcements for National Library Week. Lots of finding out what's going to happen now Marvel owns Marvelman (more...
January 10, 2010
Eagle stones
(Warning: the close-up photo at the end of the first section may not be for the sensitive.)
A few people have written in asking whether yesterday's post was a joke. No, I looked out of the window, saw what I thought for a moment was a huge owl then realised was an eagle grabbing for a squirrel who had been dining on the snow beneath the birdfeeders. The bird looked like it had meant to grab the squirrel by the middle, but its talons were actually around the squirrel's head -- it ...
A few people have written in asking whether yesterday's post was a joke. No, I looked out of the window, saw what I thought for a moment was a huge owl then realised was an eagle grabbing for a squirrel who had been dining on the snow beneath the birdfeeders. The bird looked like it had meant to grab the squirrel by the middle, but its talons were actually around the squirrel's head -- it ...
January 9, 2010
Where Eagles Daren't
My friend Bill Stiteler is over at my house today. His wife, Birdchick Sharon Stiteler, is off at a Birding Thing in Atlanta.
Bill just blogged the exciting birding events of this afternoon on Sharon's blog. I'm in the photos in a VERY long scarf, which I wore because it's minus something Farenheit outside and it actually helps a bit.
I am simply going to link to what Bill said and to the photographs therein.
Frankly, I'd be surprised if he doesn't get a Pulitzer for this one.
Go ...
Bill just blogged the exciting birding events of this afternoon on Sharon's blog. I'm in the photos in a VERY long scarf, which I wore because it's minus something Farenheit outside and it actually helps a bit.
I am simply going to link to what Bill said and to the photographs therein.
Frankly, I'd be surprised if he doesn't get a Pulitzer for this one.
Go ...
January 5, 2010
Home Again, with Additional Dog pictures.
I'm home.
This is the weather the dog likes: crisp, cold, weather that puts him in mind of wolfish ancestors hunting on the steppes.
Me, I put on long underwear and dozens of layers over that, and top it off with the sheepskin Uigur hat I haggled for in Xinjiang, and trudge in the snow behind him. It's frozen on top, so you crunch and rock and hunt for ruts that already exist. While Cabal is happy in a world filled with sharp smells and frozen rivers.
***
Many years ago I discov...
This is the weather the dog likes: crisp, cold, weather that puts him in mind of wolfish ancestors hunting on the steppes.
Me, I put on long underwear and dozens of layers over that, and top it off with the sheepskin Uigur hat I haggled for in Xinjiang, and trudge in the snow behind him. It's frozen on top, so you crunch and rock and hunt for ruts that already exist. While Cabal is happy in a world filled with sharp smells and frozen rivers.
***
Many years ago I discov...
January 4, 2010
Argh
I'm at a counter at logan airport trying to go to Minneapolis. The computer believes that British Airways gave me a paper ticket when I went from London to Boston last week. Just missed my flight home, and I may have to buy a new ticket. And I am blogging this because there is nothing else I can do, while a helpful lady works hard to try to get me home in the face of a ticket that now exists only in theory. It's my nightmare of paperless ticketing finally come true. Ah well...
January 2, 2010
What I said at 3 minutes after midnight on the first...
In the end, at about 3 minutes after midnight in Symphony Hall, I did a sort of a mash-up of the two New Year's Wishes:
Yes, I am indeed wearing a tuxedo.
Labels: tuxedo, Boston Pops New Year's Eve
Yes, I am indeed wearing a tuxedo.
Labels: tuxedo, Boston Pops New Year's Eve
January 1, 2010
Statuesque
Someone has put Statuesque on YouTube.
I doubt it will be up for long; Sky's lawyers will probably ask them to take it down, once they notice. But since it's up, consider this link a New Year's present:
Labels: Statuesque
I doubt it will be up for long; Sky's lawyers will probably ask them to take it down, once they notice. But since it's up, consider this link a New Year's present:
Labels: Statuesque
December 31, 2009
Wishes
I have to read something tonight, if I can stay awake. (I'll do it somehow. Intravenous tea, possibly.)
I did an informal survey on Twitter to find who liked what of the New Year's Messages I've posted here over the years.I sent them to read this one, from http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2007/12/as-i-was-saying.html:
I know it's bad form to repeat yourself, but I was about to list all the things I hope for the readers of this blog in 2005, and I realised I'd already written it back...
I did an informal survey on Twitter to find who liked what of the New Year's Messages I've posted here over the years.I sent them to read this one, from http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2007/12/as-i-was-saying.html:
I know it's bad form to repeat yourself, but I was about to list all the things I hope for the readers of this blog in 2005, and I realised I'd already written it back...
