Neil Gaiman's Blog, page 53

April 11, 2009

All Questions, All the Time

The excitement at this end, if that's the right word for it, is all about my son Mike, who was on his bike when a car decided to occupy the same space he was in, and who now has a cleanly broken leg and a destroyed bike (and semi-destroyed bike helmet, and glad I am it was his helmet and not his head). His mum has gone to San Francisco to help him and bring him back. Seeing that he's going to have to work from home, we figured it would be easier for that home to be here, rather tha
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Published on April 11, 2009 15:30

April 9, 2009

The Unsorted Mailbag

Okay. Nothing exciting happening -- I'm writing lots of little things right now. A small host of overdue introductions, speeches and the like. Truly, it doesn't feel very creative -- more like work -- but it's good to get out of the way, and then I can get back to making things up.
And I quite enjoyed the thing of simply picking a bunch of questions in order without trying to select them to be interesting or informative or typical or whatever. So I am going to do it again. Let's see
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Published on April 09, 2009 07:59

April 7, 2009

In the wee small hours of the morning

I think it's time to see what's in the mailbox. I think I'll just grab the last half dozen or so messages that came in and answer, rather than pick them out and select, and see what happens:

I am running under XP Professional SP3. I have three internal drives and two external USB drives. Occasionally the drive letters of one of the internal drives and one of the external drives are exchanged. I have unable to determine the cause. Can you help?

I'm afraid not.

Hello

My question is in re
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Published on April 07, 2009 00:06

April 5, 2009

Jason Webley

Experimental blog post here... trying out sending a photo to blogger with email. In this case, Jason Webley and Cabal and me this morning in what I really hope will have been the last snowfall of the year.

I had high hopes for the gig and it was better than I had hoped. If Jason is playing near you, go and see him. Trust me. You can thank me later.

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Published on April 05, 2009 12:22

April 2, 2009

Apparently if you just write BEAVER! people's minds head straight for the gutter

About a decade ago we had beavers in the creek (which, pronounced crick, is what they call something bigger than a stream and smaller than a full-sized river, where I am). And then the flood came, and the beavers, and their dam, were washed away.
I missed them. I even sort-of missed having to go down with a chainsaw to fix the trees they had dropped in the wrong places. (For nature's engineers, they were astonishingly rubbish about taking down trees in the places they needed them to
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Published on April 02, 2009 20:11

April 1, 2009

Where the Books Are

It's already after lunch on April Fool's Day, except in Hawaii. But this article is, um, posted without comment:
Fiction World Rocked as Woman Claims No Sexual Attraction to Neil Gaiman
which reminded me of Locus's Gaiman One Step Closer to Sainthood.
And then there's the tragic news that I'm to be stripped of my Newbery.
And it's all an odd sort of way to wake up on an April 1st when there's something that seems to want to be a blizzard going on outside the window.
The first email I se
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Published on April 01, 2009 13:22

March 29, 2009

Past, Present and Stick

Me, a year before the last photo I posted. Age 14. Vaguely worried that I had the world's biggest lips. 1975.

...

And today it was cold but sunny and clear, and I went for a walk with my dog and Bill Stiteler.






And my dog found a stick, which was the best stick any dog had ever found in the whole of history. There never was such a stick.










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Labels:  what's brown and sticky, me in 1975, dog photograph
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Published on March 29, 2009 11:16

March 27, 2009

PEN and such miscellanea

Now people are asking for punk-time age 16 photos. The only photo out there that I know of is the one in the back of The Kindly Ones, although my friend Geoff Notkin, who was the drummer in the band, assures me that somewhere in a storage facility far from where he lives he has all the photos taken that day, and I think I will remind him of this. (Here is his website: http://notkin.net/. Go and buy meteorites from him so that he will feel well-disposed-enough towards the world to g
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Published on March 27, 2009 08:18

March 26, 2009

Hurrah for REALLY Embarrassing Photos

When I was in the UK for my father's funeral, I saw a few photos I had not seen for  many, many years. And I took a handful away with me. If you ever wondered what I looked like when I was fifteen, I looked like this:




Almost immediately afterwards, the hair got spiky and the clothes got a lot less big-scarfy and then I was a 16 year old punk. But this is a 15 year old Neil for you.

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If you're in the UK and you don't know about this http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/gra
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Published on March 26, 2009 12:16

The #100K Contest

THIS IS PHOTO A


I have a cold. In case you were wondering. I definitely have a cold. It's not just the sneezing.

But that's not what this blog is about. This is the Twitter Caption Competition blog.

Back in December I wound up signing up for Twitter. Enjoyed waving at friends. I remember being amazed in January when I realised 10,000 people were following me, and more amazed a few days later after swearing delightedly on Twitter when I won the Newbery to realise that newspapers were
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Published on March 26, 2009 08:47