Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
Oooops--forgot to say--

Mike--you know about those?  I thought if we told you about the shoes,
we'd have to kill you ;-)
  

    
Will - look forward to seeing you whenever it is that you make it out
here. Left coast... does that make us the coast 'gauche', and thus
cooler and more expensive?

Mike - I think, just maybe, I can do that... I can even turn it into
an art project. I think for now it will just have to be an odd pseud.

squeaks, who can't decide between the club she's neglected and the
party at the mansion tonight... no really!
  

    
E-mail from Dianna:

i must apologise to those of you who are fans of the Crocodile Hunter,
for calling him daft. Beg pardon. It was thoughtless of me to go throwing
remarks like that about.

i first saw his show just a few weeks ago - just a bit of one episode -
had sharks in - and 'amazed' is a much nicer word for how i felt about it
:) Cheers Martha, for helping me find the right word.

Really, i had no idea the Crocodile Hunter was popular at all. Some
friends who'd spent time in the States enlightened us as to who he was
when we saw Cartman impersonating him in a South Park episode a long
while back^Ê

i've always been more of a David Attenborough fan myself, but it's hardly
fair to compare Mr. Hunter with him. We can't all be smooth and English
after all :)

And i certainly never dreamed there were toys^ÊFlamin' amphibious doody!
:)

dianna
  

    
Diana- The Crocadile Hunter's daftness is as much a part of his appeal
as his deftness with the animals...
  

    
I could be the patron saint of possiblities, or unfinished business.
  

    
Erynn -- well, I thought that the stories would be up on the web
pre-publication, along with the photos; they even video'd a
conversation between me and Tori in London, where I read the stories
and we talked about the songs and the characters and where they'd come
from -- chatted about everything from Cindy Sherman to how Rattlesnakes
snuck off the B-list and surprised everyone, and the B-side songs
(After All, Only Women Bleed, Hoover Factory, and the one I hope she
keeps for a greatest hits album or something) and so on. It could be it
didn't work, or there wasn't time to get it edited, or something. But
as I've said on the Well every time it's been mentioned, Tori never
wanted the stories in the CD booklet, she always wanted a line from
them there, and then the stories published in the tour booklet. It's
her call -- I wrote them for her.

(I hope they send me the tour booklet stuff to proofread before it
goes out. They always forget, and it's sometimes embarrassing.)
 
Last time I stopped by the Dent forum I learned that Tori had cancer
(and despite the fact this seemed to have been posted by a troll with
Tourette's it was being taken at least half-way seriously), and that
Natashya was born with some crippling genetic disorder she doesn't have
either. (Healthy, smart, loud baby. Funny baby. Busy baby.)Decided
it's less irritating just to go to the Dent newspage if I need to check
things.

Elise -- I'd make a rotten Saint. But if I had to be a patron Saint
I'd like to be one for people who need it but don't have one.  But I do
like introducing people who ought to know each other but don't.

Tree -- they consolidate meals a lot. Veggie often becomes vegan.
Heart healthy, diet, wheat free, low salt and a few more are all the
same, and are tasteless.

Kelly -- was that in Oakland, where they made me talk at the
breakfast? I remember croaking something pitiful and sitting down
again.
...

In Trieste. Many posts behind. More later.
  

    
Actually, if he's Possiblities, I'd have to the the Patron Saint of
Impossibilities.
I suggested he should be the Patron Saint of Infinite Procrastination
in Search of Perfection.
  

    
D'oh! Neil split my answer froms Cam's. 
  

    
Why yes it was, Neil. Hosted by Bob Borden of Fantasy Books and
Games/Distribution... tho for the life of me, I can't remember the name
of the Con. Big one, tho. In Oakland. The breakfast was a Sunday
morning, way too early, and you said that much, and that was about it. 
;-) 

Why don't they do lunches or dinners? They seem much more suited to,
well, all of our schedules, really. :-)

It's been a good 24 hours. Worked a half day yesterday, had All You
Can Eat Sushi at Niko's in the Westin Hotel (and good sushi, too, and
inexpensive - it's a great find), had my feet rubbed after lunch and
took a nap, got reading and work done last night, and breakfest in bed
this morning. I'm feeling very cat-like, and very very spoiled.  :-)

Hope the rest of you have a great weekend,...
-Kelly
  

    
Martha - all the details about the show are at http://www.cafearts.com
I won't do the whole PR schpiel here again, but that's a good place
for information. We open on Friday and as soon as we get a young priest
and an old priest to hold vigil over the computer serving the digital
video... we should be in good shape.

Mousey - party at a mansion??

Dan
(wishing he had more than a passing observance of the croc hunter so
he could be witty and interesting today...)
  

    
Dang, Dan, I'd like to be witty and interesting any day at all...
*sigh*
  

    
Friday?  Yikes!
  

    

We will be there Saturday night!  Hope to see lots of other WELL perns,
too.  If you want to meet first for dinner, send me e-mail...
  

    
Neil~guess which friend of yours I met tonight at the 11th Expresso?
  

    
E-mail from Tori Bat:

Ohhh~ I wanna be the patron saint of glitter or bats...or how about
glittery bats!
*laugh*

Janell~ that was FAST! *laugh* I Had lots of fun~
you are very not offensive.  Oh! 10/11 more days! *giggle* I thought I'd
let you know that I *might* have an extra ticket to Nashville~ my friend
isnt sure if she can go with us or not... I dont want to get your hopes
up but..I thought I'd plant the little seed of idea in your head... I'll
let you know what happenes. thanks for the link...I'll check it out!

to everyone: Don't you love it when you write/paint/draw something and
you leave it and come back and see it and be surprised? I've been working
on a painting the past couple of days and I pretty much finished it, it
might need some touching up but it was 98% finished and I left for the
evening and came home and saw it on my drafting table and was impressed.
*laugh* I feel like I'm finally over my dry-uncreative phase... *YeaY*
 too bad I still haven't been able to sleep. oh well Its given me more
time to read and draw!
                                       *HUGS*
                                          Tori Bat!
  

    
Martha - I know... it's getting damn close. Still, we're in GREAT
shape for being a week away. A few technical issues to iron out (mostly
involving the ghosts (big surprise there), but it's looking freaking
great. We're about sold out for Friday. Saturday is still looking
pretty open, but I'd suggest making reservations (it'll keep our
producer from pacing madly and smoking even more than usual). Also, I
had mentioned after show Q&A session.. I know that Matt's been lining
that up with a college group to come see the show... are you still
interested in that? 

JaNell - anyone who can harrass Neil as mercilessly as you do and have
him not mind it is beyond interesting in my book... you get to be
*fascinating*!

Linda - Saturday? Ok, that clinches it. I was considering going to
party with practical strangers in Santa Cruz on Saturday night, but
I'll definitely be at the theatre if y'all are gonna show up. Once a
show opens I tend to only go when I have people in the audience. After
all, the show belongs to the actors at that point and I've seen the
damn thing about a hundred times by then. (Not that it isn't worth
seeing two hundred times... but in a row??) 
  

    

Oh, damn. I'm going to be out of town this coming weekend. Ah well- even if
I miss the WellMob(tm), I'll try to catch the show a later week. I'm looking
forward to it.

And speaking of Tori, while I haven't heard SLG yet, a friend of mine made a
mix called "Normal Little Boys" of the originals, and we're listening to it
here now.
  

    
Never mind the pseud, just had to have it on record for all the world
to see. 

Kelly - WonderCon - I go every year (starting the year after Neil was
there, by unhappy coincidence).

Neil - I dunno. Sainthood might be a possibility. You *are* very good
at introducing people who need to meet (speaking from experience). And
here I was thinking it was all just a ploy to keep me from bothering
you at readings. :P

Dan - Yipes! Um... Okay, I'll just re-schedule a few things at work to
go to the show... hmmm... I think it's possible. And yes, party at my
manager's mansion, appropriately located on a twisty street way up in
the hills. I ended up not going to either, as I needed to start work on
a web page and go to sleep, and as I'm not much of a drinker, it would
have been boring after the first hour (and then I'd have to entertain
myself by pushing the annoying drunks over one of the balconies and the
cops would have come and wouldn't have found it funny at all...)

madman - you slipped! Um, that's a wonderful idea (NLB, that is). I
may have to do something similar. 

squeaks, who is supposed to be entertaining friends, not posting. 
  

    
JaNell -- ooh, that's a hard one. At a pinch I'd have to guess
ToriBat.

N en route to being shown around Trieste
  

    
Enjoyed Ghost Girl's message, and the use of American Gods as example.

Dianna  -- I miss the blogger too. Every now and then I write an entry
and put it in so there will be a few when it goes on line, I expect.

Will -- 23 is a good age. I liked being 23. People said "But you're so
YOUNG" a lot. (Nobody ever says that to me any more. The best I get is
a wistful sort of "Well, you don't LOOK old, Daddy," from Holly, which
always seems to carry a subtext of dusty wheelchairs, ear trumpets,
and hospices about with it.) And I sold my first two books when I was
23, too, although I was an old man compared to Chip Delany. Or
Moorcock. Or John M. Ford....

It's raining in Trieste.
  

    
You, know, I had no idea that ToriBat would blow it for me like that!
And here I was trying to get her to blog...
*sigh*
  

    
And I started an BlogRing for those of your friends and fans who blog
at Xanga, Neil...
Absolutely Barking Mad.
It'll give us something else to read until your blog gets back up.
  

    
Meeting ToriBat explains how you're so patient with me...:D
Aaaaaggghhhh, the Bats are after me now!
I'm sorry, Toribat!
Heeeelllllpppp!
  

    
Neil said "JaNell -- ooh, that's a hard one. At a pinch I'd have to
guess
ToriBat."
Are you teasing me? 
I should warn you, I do pinch ~ hard.
  

    

Madman, I'm bummed that you won't be there, but really excited about
seeing Dan again.  Will there be a Q&A after our show, too, or just
Friday?

Anybody else coming on Saturday night?  Martha?  Miss Mousey?