Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
Neil--The man is right. And I speak with some authority. If you make
it down here and you don't visit, just apart from the fact that I will
be Very Put Out, you will be missing one of the nicest cities in the
world.

Rocky--You know you want to send me a bottle of Babycakes. There'll be
Tim Tams in it for you.

Pam--See, I promised the man. My lips are sealed.

JaNell--Thanks for chasing up the photo. I got my photos back, looked
for my thingie group shots and said, "WTF!?" Not that I have a problem
with new thingies, it's just that they never introduced themselves to
me (or anyone?) during the entire conference, then appeared in the
photos. Perhaps they are ghost thingies?

Tree
Who scared one of her co-workers last week when he pointed out her
Dreamhunters Sandman dolly and she blithered on about Neil for about 20
minutes or so. He backed off slowly and made no sudden movements until
he was far enough away to run. Sigh...
  

    
I'm feeling like sharing art today, so here:

http://www.redplanetsw.com/personal/loiosh/return.html

Those of you who are October Project fans will recognise the lyrics;
those of you who have no idea who October Project is are really missing
out and should fix this quickly.

It's one of my favourite songs by the (now no more) band. I designed
and did this a few years ago, but it's one of my favourite digital
pieces (and the only one I have up right now). 

This piece has been in my head lately as I've been thinking about how
art has meaning, and a different meaning for the people who see it and
create it, and realising that the meaning for me, in this piece, has
changed. I created it a few years ago, pre-separation, and it had one
meaning. Post -separation, he has returned to me, and it carries a
complete 'nother.

JaNell - I actually don't have a blog. :-) I was posting stuff out on
Karawynns 'board, and someone contacted me thru that, regarding things
I've written there. (I guess I was treating it like a venting 'blog.)
Anyhow, that URL is www.karawynn.net/pool , and I'm "Loiosh" on that
'board.

I did keep a web journal for a while, and I'll happily mail anyone who
wants it that URL; I'll get mail off to you in a moment, JaNell.
(Caveat: I've not updated the thing since July, when I ran out of
writing energy due to spending almost all of it on technical writing at
work.)

Hot afternoon here in Seattle... bleagh. And no liquer stores are
open, so I can't start my Christmas gifts. Double bleagh.

-Kelly
  

    
Er, I seem to have misplaced your eMail addy, JaNell - mail me, and
I'll send you the link (which I just reorganized, just for you.. heh)

-K
  

    
Neil - It's far too strange a name for this to be a coincidence. 

Mousey/Tree - You got it!  ;D  

Er..no Tim Tams for me though, I'm still working off the last batch. 

Went to see "Zoolander" last night and ended up sitting in front of
some really loud guy and his girlfriend. While groaning at the thought
of them talking throughout the entire movie, he up and mentions Neil
and DTHCOL. I turn around and we end up having a great discussion about
AG and DTHCOL. Just goes to show you, never pre-judge. ;>
  

    

Kelly (and anyone else who may be wondering) - you can always find
someone's e-mail address by either clicking their login name if you're
using the Web interface, or by typing bio <username> in the shortcut box,
if you have one of those, or at the OK prompt, if you have one of
those.  Having two interfaces keeps things exciting around here.

And, I will be damned, if a Neil reference didn't show up out of the blue
today.  We've been listening to "Blood and Chocolate" on tape which is
about this pack of werewolves living in a Maryland suburb.  There are a
bunch of teenage werewolves in the pack, and one of them, in describing
his night, said, "I was reading an old Sandman..."  Just cannot get away
from that man, now that he's in my consciousncess.
  

    
E-mail from Maryam:

:) thank you Neil.
 
~maryam
  

    
E-mail from Margret:

Len (and anyone else out there)-  If you are looking for a gathering of
Neil fans a little closer to home, may I recommend Boskone 39.  It will
be held President's Day weekend (2/15-2/17) in the Boston area.  I don't
know if we can get as many thingies as we had at ConCat, but I am
working on it.  I know of at least 5 of us that plan on attending so
far.  (Hey Rocky, it sure would be nice to see you again! hint, hint)
You can get additional info here:   http://www.nesfa.org/boskone/   It
would be great to meet you.

Pam-  You may want to make an appointment with your therapist before
checking out this page.     http://members.tripod.com/Tiny_Dancer/   You
can hear Bert profess his love of Oatmeal in his own words.  (Lots of
fun clips here for all you other Sesame Street lovers out there too.)

Margret
  

    
Linda,
Unless I missed it (always possible), JaNells wasn't listed in her
bio... ;-)

-Kelly
  

    

Whoa!  I'll be damned.  How'd she do that?
  

    
I gots skills...
  

    
Respond (r), pass (Return) or help (?): !name janell
                 janelle   Janelle Brown
           goldennokomis   JaNell Golden
                  janell   JaNell Golden

So you should be able to send an email directly to janell@well.com and she
should get it.  Whether or not she reads it, is of course, entirely up to
her.
  

    
Do all the janell's come in colors? Do we get a style choice, too?
Optional accessories? Kewl...

I've never been able to access that janell@well.com address.
  

    
I've been very sick lately, so I'm a bit behind.  Just one quick note:

Erynn -- Oh dear, I wasn't being critical of you -- just voicing my
differing perspective.  Don't be cross, please? ^_^
  

    
Man, I had a fantastic weekend.
Friday night I crashed (very un-Rock Star, but we all need to sleep).
Saturday I got some foodage with my new roommate's girlfriend
(technically it was 'brunch', but I have kind of an aversion to that
word, for some reason, so foodage it shall be).  I ordered Belgian
waffles with vanilla ice cream, and chocolate syrup.  When it came, it
had one lone lump of vanilla in the middle and no syrup.  So, without
making a fuss, or anything, I just asked another waitress for some
syrup (just bring it out, I'll put it on myself, you know).  She looks
at my plate and asks 'Why do you only have one scoop of ice cream?',
then took it away.
It came back looking like every plate of waffles with ice cream should
aspire to look.  Three scoops of ice cream, chocolate syrup.  Whipped
cream.  If breakfast could make you orgasm, this would have been the
one to do it.  It was beautiful.  I almost didn't want to eat it.
And it set the tone for the rest of the weekend.  I went to the
Upright Citizens' Brigade on Saturday night, which was genuinely funny
at a couple of points and then 'hey, we're in Chelsea and you should be
laughing' funny during a lot of others, and then went to a place
called Water Pipes and smoked apple tobacco out of a hookah (I thought
of you, JaNell, and I really wanted to start saying cryptic things and
blowing smoke rings in odd shapes, like Tuesdays and orange).
Yesterday I saw 'Hearts in Atlantis,' which was both a decent
adaptation and a good, subtle movie.  Anthony Hopkins was awesome, as
always (somebody has to do a King Arthur movie and cast him as Arthur. 
Maybe I will, one day.  He would *SO* rock), and the kids were very
good (not Haley Joel Osment good, provided, but very, very good
nonetheless).
And I finally finished "Unkindness," a short story I've been working
on.  I usually only write by computer, because it's the only way the
words can keep up with my head, but I hand wrote this one (only ever
written one other).  It was a long, slow process, and it took me over
three weeks to get a handle on it, but, once I did, it wrote itself
(I'm more than a bit convinced that, if it doesn't write itself, it
doesn't want to be written, and there always other things that do.  In
*Outside the Dog Museum*, the architect at one point writes that the
inspiration should come like a flash, and no one should really suffer
for their art, and I kind of agree.  Why do it, if you're not having
fun).  So, yeah, I finished, and I think it's the first short story
I've ever written that's both short enough and mainstream enough to be
salable, and I'm enthused.  Sending it out shortly.

Kelly- loved the October Project piece.  Just came across them the
other weekend, and I wholeheartedly agree; anyone not familiar with
them should get familiar with them.

Tara- on Dungeons and Dragons- Jeremy Irons was the one I couldn't
figure out.  He's just so cool.  He even made *Die Hard with a
Vengeance* watchable.

DanGuy- feel better.

On a less heartening note, a producer I work for just walked in, and
told me, after I asked how her weekend was, said, "Lots of masses." 
She has a lot of brothers and uncles that are fire fighters and police
officers here, and she lost several.
*Sigh*
You know, I know we're not supposed to let it get to us, because then
they win, and we're New Yorkers, and we're better than those cowards,
and etc., but I'm still a little scared.  It's frightened like
background noise.  I'm really anxious to get back home.
  

    
Will~yep, The CaterNeiler lives, hookah & all. I just don't know what
to do with him, or George Machete and The L'il Green Neils...

Re: background noise of fear... we have it down here, too. <hugs>
  

    
For anyone interested... David Hayter, who adapted the first X-Men
movie, has officially signed on to write the big screen adaptation of
none other than *Watchmen*:  http://www.lastcomicsite.com/index.php3

And JaNell- thanks.  I'm needing those.
  

    
Last night, I dreamed that I was on the subway and Tom Waits was
sitting across from me.  He started singing "Time," and I began to sing
along.  I stood up and went to a radiator pipe (I wasn't in the subway
anymore) and continued to sing "Time" into the pipe, because I knew
that by doing so everyone in the city could hear me.  I sang slowly and
quietly, and I felt the city healing.  I felt that I was giving it a
requiem.  Suddenly, those I had lost or was searching for, had followed
the pipes and came running to embrace me.  All those I care about
became one in that embrace as music echoed through the pipes.  

I woke up crying and singing.

Pamela, I'm so excited that you might be able to come!  That ROCKS! 
My hubby and I think of you as "that Jane Siberry woman" cause we think
you kinda look like her.  David (the hubby) is the guitarist and his
cousin Chuck is our bassist/keyboardwizard so it is a family affair. 
We're lovely dreampop in the vein of Tori and Garbage n' stuff.  

Kelly- October Project, so good.  mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.  
Dan- Congrats on your play, it sounds like it is going smashingly!

-Adriana, who will be at Seattle and LA Tori shows
  

    
People who know October Project - yay! I saw them, well, November
Project, live last year. They were spectacular...

I'm really pleased I managed to get Seattle Tori tickets - they had
almost completely sold out in pre-general public sales, and were gone
within an hour or two of general sales. Even better, I got great seats.
*happy*

Will - sounds like good weekends were (for the most part) going
around. I got off work at 4pm on Friday, after realising I had already
worked 45 hours for the week. Went home to my brand new jacket - a mens
riding jacket from 40-60 years ago. Mars made one of my favourite
dinners, parlsey crusted salmon, and after that we got dressed to go
out. We ended up at The Vogue, a Seattle goth club. I apparently looked
spectacular, because everyone came up to tell me so. There was a
fetish show that night, so the club was packed... so packed that I ran
into some ex-coworkers from Microsoft, plus a friend that I've known
for 14 years (and not seen, til a month ago, for 6). On top of those
two surprises, people I knew and didn't kept coming up to compliment me
- Friday is when I was dubbed "a beautiful, glittery fetish mermaid."
I met some people I'd been talking to in eMail, got some dancing in,
and lots of public displays of affection from my husband... we tripped
home around 3am, and fell fast asleep.

Saturday I woke to the smell of breakfast cooking; bacon, eggs,
toastm, coffee, and tea. After eating, we ran over to a salon and I
*gulp* got my hair cut. I lost 3 inches of length, and grew a lot more
bangs. It looks professional, styled, deliberate, and generally a lot
better on my face. After that, we went shopping and then up to some
friends house for a fun night of dungeons and dragons. We fell into bed
around 5am...

Sunday found me up early making him breakfast, and [after that] us at
the Fremont market, where I bought several really nice pieces of
jewelry - amythests and garnets! We had good food, ran into a few
friends and talked for a while, and then came home to wait out the heat
of the day. The night was spent watching him assemble the frame to a
futon - our frame was made from metal, and bending, so he's remaking it
in cedar. Smells _great_!...

It sounds simple, really, but the weekend was also so magical. I think
it was the simple small things... holding hands while walking at the
market, kissing over a table in the club, dancing together, using each
other as pillows during D&D...

:-)  I know I'm pathetic... but at least I know it.

http://www.redplanetsw.com/personal/loiosh/Photos/093001 will get you
to a directory with a photo or two or me, and of the jewelry I've
bought recently...

Good Monday!
-Kelly
  

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Linda: Thanks for the review, for those of us who couldn’t make it.

Margret: *sigh* Well, they do say it's better to live in Reality.  I
haven't much minded them yet, though.

'Becca!  Hi girl!  Burt's lovely, but Ernie's my man.

Kelly: liked your digital art a lot

Adriana: I just emailed you for show info at the address in your bio. 
Let me know if you don't get it.  Unfortunately, I have to confess
I've never heard of Jane Siberry.  But I looked her up on Google, and
have two things to say about that.  1. she has a much better chin.  And
2. I found this quote which obviously makes her a goddess of the
brightest pantheon:

""An ethereal, erudite Canadian chanteuse of no fixed hairstyle..."
- from Grooves

Neil/Tree: Even if I get her drunk? BTW, did the Dirty Duck have
anything to do with the naming inspiration for the Dirty Donkey?

DanW: Congratulations!  Sound like a great show.

JaNell/Will: Congrats on your stories.

-Pam
Who will probably be a bit scarce for a little while, as she needs to
make some very large, Life-ish decisions and the cliff she's supposed
to jump off of is rushing up a bit faster than she's ready for.
  

    
Kelly- rockin haircut.  yeeeerr perrty.  am currently contemplating
bangs meself.

Pam, and all you alls:  I am serious when i say that you NEED to hear
Jane Siberry.  start with When I Was A Boy or Maria.  she is
life-changing.  unless you're not into that whole changing your life
thing.  by the way that quote on her says it all.  she's touring this
fall.  find her.  

pam again:  good luck on (or off) the cliff.   
  

    
This was just meant to be a hasty apeal for information -- but my eye
was caught by Will's "if it doesn't come easily it doesn't want to
come" comment... 

i'd say, after having written a lot of things, some things come easy,
some don't. There's no difference in the quality, and furthermore, a
year or so later, you'll never know.

....

Hasty appeal for material: the neilgaiman.com website has forever had
a "Comics" section with a "coming soon" section. They changed this to
"go to Vertigo and click around a bit" -- which won't net anybody
anything.

Does anyone know of any good websites with a guide to my graphic
novels and comics work on it? And does anyone know if Amazon.com still
have their guide to all the Sandman books up somewhere (I can't find it
by clicking about, but that means nothing.)  Basically a link , or a
few links, I can pass on to the people who Do The Website that they can
put up on their Comics page rather than just suggesting that people go
to Vertigo and click around...
  

    
Neil... 
What about the rather comprehensive list of stuff over at The
Dreaming?... http://www.holycow.com/dreaming/books.html

*shrug*
-Kelly
  

    
Neil --
You could be looking for this
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/4371/ref=br_dp_/102-7261431-8959
354
which is their "Books > Subjects > Entertainment > Comics > Characters
> Sandman" section. Also possible is
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/15213/ref=br_dp_/102-7261431-895
9354
which is the "Books > Subjects > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Authors,
A-Z > ( G ) > Gaiman, Neil" section. I have a feeling neither of those
are exactly what you're looking for, though. Maybe I'm wrong. 
  

    
Another possibility is
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/19392/102-7261431-8959354
which is "The Complete Sandman:
The collected tales of Morpheus by Neil Gaiman" and/or
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/20907/102-7261431-8959354
which is "Beyond The Sandman: The Novels, Stories, and Comics of Neil
Gaiman". Hopefully those are a little closer. Oh, and you can find the
link for the Dream Hunters story you wrote for Amazon at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/16489/104-3779165-5039167
. :) Okay, enough linkage.