Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
Len - ah, good.

meanwhile, details of the lecture trickle out, like what time it is
and the fact that tickets are not free, creating much less chaos
on the 'how to get a ticket' front.
  

    
JaNell:  Not The Purse!  No, no!  <runs and dives for cover>  I’d give
it back, honest I would, but it’s attached, I swear.

Ernie stole my heart completely at the vulnerable age of 4, when he
sang the "L" song with Bert.  When he sang "La-la-la-la Lumps in my
oatmeal!" and Bert frowned at him, it was all over for me.  I
recognized my soulmate.

Hugs to Len and Rocky and Will and anybody else still having to walk
around with that great big hole in the soul of their city. 

Jenny: <Little fierce Irish fairy Pam lands lightly on Jenny’s
shoulder, swaggers over toward the bad voice guy on her other shoulder,
and belts him in the nose!>  SHE DOES NOT SUCK!!!  Don’t you listen to
him, girl.  <green glitter fairy kiss on your cheek>

DanGuy: Breaka!  Many kudos to you, Neil, Martha and cast and crew.

All: Is there a transcript of last night’s chat?  If there is, anybody
know the link?
  

    
Oops.  So sorry.  Mixed up my Dans.  Very indiscreet.  Above should
have been addressed to Dan Wilson.

Random Memory: being roommate to a girl who was simultaneously dating
three Jims, who didn't know about each other, and having to be VERY
careful about how you answered the phone.
  

    
Pam: Last night's transcript should be available at the
www.scifi.com/chat... eventually. I'd like to see it too, as, even if
my name was up among the attendees, I was only able to access it for
maybe a total of ten-fifteen minutes altogether... 

Kelly: But see, you actually got to ask a question... I'm thinking
that it's just one of those crowd things I should avoid.

Pam: But how convenient, in some situations... Oh, Jim!
  

    
stagewalker, I haven't heard from your show person yet.  I don't _think_ any
of my upcoming weekend dates are booked up--no, actually, that's not quite
true, some of them are.  Anyway, you might noodge him.
  

    

Will copies of Martha's book be available for sale?  I still don't have a
copy.
  

    
E-mail from Alexx Kay:

I'm trying to get the word out as quickly as I can, that the info linked
to from Neil Gaiman's Journal web site about his 10/6 appearance has a
pretty major error in it!  The contact # listed at the bottom is that of
some hapless MIT researcher, and *not* someone connected with the Lecture
Series Committee.  I'm trying to track down a real #, and will send more
info as soon as I have it.
 
Alexx Kay
  

    
More e-mail from Alexx Kay:

The web page info for Neil's 10/6 appearance has now been updated with
the (presumably) correct contact #: 617-253-3791.
  

    
DanFowlkes- Well soooorrryyy! :/
I never did say it was negative...I love him, of course. Actually, I
think we had a discussion about him a while back, but I'm too lazy to
read through all the posts to see exactly when. A lot of his stuff
*was* about conspiricy theories, after all.

Anyhoo...

Len- I used to listen to _Fear of Music_ all the time. It used to
cheer me up when people would call me "too out there" and such things.
Actually I have most of everything that David Byrne has done. Amazing
man, and a muse for me as well.

DanW- It sounds like you're having so much fun! Break a leg as always
and I'll send you a tape soon.

JaNell- Yes, I read it and no I don't mind being quoted...I don't mind
anything, so long someone pays attention to me (well, okay....I guess
I do have a line somewhere)
  

    
Erynn~Cool. read it. But let me know what you like via the new email
address I've put up; it's just for comments by people who aren't signed
up with Xanga.
Feed my ego so it will grow up and be nice & strong.
  

    
Ohohoh! I know what I wanted to aksed! Neil - why do you think the
Real Men girl isn't a girl?  :-)

And, for y'all... this is called "Fun With Visio" .... or, more
seriously, a relationship flowchart. I think this is applicable to all
relationships, but I'd certainly love to hear any and all feedback...

http://www.redplanetsw.com/personal/loiosh/relationship_model.gif

-Kelly
  

    
Dan - Ooh, wish I could come see the show.  I'll just picture it in my
head instead, I don't like watching plays on tape.  Except for the
Wizard of Oz production in high school.  We'd play that a lot for
visitors to the band room.  Well, the part where the munchkin threw up
anyway.

Kelly - But are you sure they don't believe in you?

::blinks::  Wow, that "I suck" comment produced more responses than I
would have thought.  For some reason it reminded me of a conversation
two people had in my head not long ago.  I think I'll hide it ahead
just for the heck of it.

Jen, who should do homework or go to bed.
  

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Jenny....
As the patron saint(ess) of tangenting conversation, I must say...
that impressed me.  ;-)

(And it was funny and well thought and made a very, very good
point...)

Night folks!
-Kelly
  

    
on things french - and for the third time this week I got to talk to
the French tourists and completely blanked on my 3 1/2 years of French
when they started speaking to me in English. Really, when I tell them
"D'accord, je vous comprends", you'd think they might have some faith
that I could understand 'quelle artiste' they're looking for. sheesh.

On creative influences/outlets - It all comes out in my music (though
occasionally I've written short prose pieces that require a soundtrack
of sorts). Unfortunately, I usually have to be stressed and depressed
to write any... or at least very concerned...

DanGuy - veni vidi vici? I haven't taken Latin since I nearly failed
it somewhere around 1989...

JaNell - I dunno, as much as I like the German language, I have yet to
run into German tourists who need help in the store. For my GPA, I'm
glad I took French.

DanW (and everyone else going on Saturday) - something big and
important <tm> has come up and I'll have to go another weekend. Is
there an alternate weekend that everyone else not able to make this
Saturday is going to be at?

Pamela - Funny they should be named Jim. There is a similar problem
with James's in my clubby little 'hood. There's "James" (a.k.a. Sir
Bastard. This is the one Neil knows of). There's "the other James"
(a.k.a. Fedora James). And there's "and also James" (a.k.a.
Grease-monkey James, tho' I don't think he knows that I call him that
yet...). Even better than that, there was a 4th James that this girl
was dating (right after she dated 'and also James'). Now we just call
him "the James that moved away". It's a veritable gang of Jameses. None
of them go by Jim either. 

squeaks, who will never get her pages updated
  

    
E-mail from Margret:

Pam- I really hate to shatter a childhood memory and ruin your soulmate
image, but it was Bert who sang about lumps in his oatmeal.  Ernie sang
lovely, lilting L words like laughter, lullaby, and lollipop.  Bert, hip
dude that he is, sang about light bulbs, linoleum, and of course the
aforementioned lumps.  I hope this information doesn't cause an identity
crisis.

Margret (who knows way more kid stuff than is probably healthy)
  

    
7:18 EST
Good morning to you,
Good morning to you,
Good morning dear Wellsians,
Good morning to you.
  

    
Neil: I read your blog entry and it prompted me to do a wee little
poking reminder about the 'All the *Fun* I had at ConCat/Knoxville in
AG' piece; I'm starting to put the program book together now.
  

    
Hee, thanks Kelly, I was having doubts when I signed on today about
having posted it.  Mainly because I've never gone back to check for
grammar.  :-)

Jen, who finally remembered "hey, I can change my name up there"
  

    
Well it struck again, Yes Neil, it was a Jinx (tm) question, but due
to the flodding I didn't get to see the answer. No biggie, it's not
like the fate of the world rode on the answer, well maybe in some other
universe, but not mine. :) 

I'm off today, finally,......:sigh: 5 days, 10 hours a day,...well
sometimes 8 and sometimes 12,...and I'm going comics shopping. 

Margret, you *have* kids, and work with kids, you are totally allowed
t know these things. Where I have no kids, don't work with kids and
have extensive knowledge of cartoons, muppets, and other assorted
kid-stuff. 

JaNell, :hugs: I feel bad, I joined the webring and am to tired to
post anything to my xanga site,....:sigh: Need to take the notes I've
been making at work and stick them up on the site.

Jinx who needs the next 11 days to fly by
  

    
Jinx: Oh thank you for the hugs, I surely need them right now...
See, maybe if Neil *had* answered the worm question... but that would
have been too fun. :D
  

    
Oh, Jinx, I forgot ~ read ~ leave comments ~ blog ~ repeat ~.
  

    
Will -- I remember about ten years I got a phone call that upset me a
great deal. So I went into the garden, took an axe, and cut down a
tree. It worked wonders.

jaNell -- but Bunnies & Eggs are certainly  appropriate for an Easter
festival. (They just don't have anything to do with Christianity.)

Len -- yay.

Kelly -- problems with hauntings are so much worse if you don't
believe in them.  My house, which acts up on occasion, once terrified a
house-sitter so much she fled in the middle of the night, by doing a
bunch of bad horror-movie cliche'd stuff, like music boxes starting up
by themselves and so forth.

Pam -- "Jonathon Carrol's
_The Wooden Sea_, Kelly Link's STH, Emma's _War for the Oaks_, our
very
own Martha's WALLS and Dunsany's KOED--all purchased within the past
couple months."  Let's see -- War For the Oaks was taken from a blurb
I gave Emma's book BONE DANCE in 1988 (which is why it's so short); The
Wooden Sea Blurb is taken from an Essay on Jonathan I did on his
website in around 98,  the Dunsany was written in 1997ish, WALLS I
wrote the first half of the poem in 1992 and finished it whenever
Martha told me to, and the Kelly Link blurb was written a few months
ago, after she turned down my first suggestion ("Kelly Link is God") on
the gorunds that her mother would not approve. 

So the blurbs were taken from a variety of sources over a 12 year
period.  It may feel like an inundation, but that's only because you
have good taste & pick up the right kind of books.

(Then again, publishers have started discovering that I was reviewing
for the British Fantasy Society magazine in 1983-1986 -- and I must
have written a few hundred reviews, and I've seen a couple of those
turn up as Neil Gaiman "blurbs" recently. Sigh.)



Abbe -- seeing that they've only just announced this one, and as far
as I know haven't yet put up anything to advertise it, I'm sure you'll
get in.

Kelly -- I never said I thought she wasn't a girl. I said I thought
that girl was a boy.

JaNell:  Okay.  For the program booklet: Ahem. These are the things I
remember most vividly about  ConCat.... 

In no particular order:

Signing a gnome
Miss Tree and Reg -- two people who had come all the way from
Australia... to Knoxville? (Me: "Good lord. You must be mad. I'm
flattered of course, but you must be mad.")
People in Orange. (Who were they? *Why* were they?)
Sunshine's snakeskin pants.
Sharing a room with Charles Vess, who *smiles* in the morning -- and
means it.
Signing things.
Signing more things.
Did I mention signing a large garden gnome?
Or that the gnome turned up to every panel and reading I was on?
Nice people. (I'll assume the gnome was a nice gnome.)
The worst sushi restaurant in the world. I put it into American Gods,
although the one we all went to was even worse than that. Sometimes I
think my life since ConCat has been a dream, and that I shall wake up
soon and find that I'm still sitting at that table, waiting for the
cold miso soup to finally arrive. 
The friendliest Con committee in the world.
And watching Rocky transmigrate across a glass-topped table when
confronted with tentacles.

Jinx -- it'll show up in the transcript, then, when they post it... i
answered at more or less length.
  

    
Kelly - sounds pretty spooky... I tend to be a bit of a skeptic until
I've exhausted rational explanations, but why else do you think the
building would be acting that way?

Pamela - back when I was in Seminary (Have I talked about that here? I
can never remember...) there were three Dans in my Greek class. The
professor would refer to us as First, Second, and Third Dan and
occassionally declare one or the other of us uncanonical if we flubbed
something.

Martha - I'll noodge him. It's been insane at the theatre lately.. I
spent all day yesterday animating cartoon tombstones to replace the
faces for Wholesale. His days haven't been any less technically
frustrating. But I'll try to get him to e-mail you ASAP.

Linda - I don't think so, although I'll be sure to have information
available about how to get copies from Dreamhaven. There will probably
be a sign or a flyer. 

Erynn - having fun, feeling vaguely homicidal... it's all the same at
this point....

Ok, off to nursemaid a friend who is getting wisdom teeth pulled and
work on my animations for the show... they're ALMOST perfect. (Have I
mentioned how glad I am I took the week off work?)
  

    
Neil: Smarty-pants. Is that all I'm going to get?
(11 year-old-mode)
You promised!You promised!You promised!