Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
*sings happily*

"I kissed a girl, her lips were sweet,
and it was just like kissing me.
Kissed a girl, won't change the world,
but I'm so glad~
I kissed a girl!"
  

    
wheeee!!! *waves tickets and bounces around with much too much energy
for someone who's sick* I got my tori tickets!!

:-)

*bounce*
*bounce*
  

    
John - Are you referring to the infamous Roy Cohn from the HUAC? That
Roy Cohn?  <shudder>

Um..speaking of Jill Soubel's "I Kissed A Girl," I met her video
husband Fabio at a book signing for his first romance novel. I think
the title was "Pirate."  And in defense of my presence there, no one
knew he was coming. It was Rizzoli Bookstore for chrissakes! 

Anyway, he turned out to be a very gracious and funny guy. And don't
let the accent fool you, he's a self promoting genius who mocks the
very idea of being a "male model."  Hey, if someone wants to pay you
mega bucks just to splash your muscles all over romance novels [a $2
billion/year industry!]and that gets you hordes of swooning women at
your feet, are you really going to complain?  Only in America. ;>

Tree and Michelle, I need your addresses.  

Will -  See, you're not watching enough daytime TV where former geeks
turn into supa dupa hotties years later and get revenge on their cruel
classmates. 
  

    
     Rocky -- That one indeed.  As portrayed in "Angels in America,"
which is what brought on the reference.
  

    
E-mail from Douglas Spadotto:

    Dan Guy - You bet that there will be a Neil Gaiman with a patch! We can
even make a bad Flash animation of it! With a pirate ship and all! And maybe
Neil could write a pirate's story exclusive for his pirate site. And we
could animate it. Badly.

    JaNell - Maybe you could share some of the weirdest bookmarks with us
(by us, read "me").

    I'll send an e-mail to AuthorsOnTheWeb too. What do I say? "You're lame,
let me make it"? I'm just kidding. I'll be polite.

    Thanks for posting,

    Douglas
  

    
JaNell--how close do you live to Roane County?  It was named for
kinfolks of mine.  

I don't blame you for being nervous.  That is so scary.

Got my Humanities Fest tickets by mail 24 hours after I hung up the
phone.  A time machine or Al E. himself had to have been involved.

Nel-- re: getting tapes converted from PAL to NTSC--it's $10 a tape in
my 'hood here in Chicago, and every one of the Indian electronics
stores on Devon Ave. does it.  Um, I don't know if they would do it by
mail order, but I can go ask, if you like.  That's where I had my copy
of Neverwhere and all my Eddie tapes converted.

Pamela--*swoon*.  And he's *tall*?!  Oh, my.  I'm just in awe.

I read Steve Martin's Shopgirl yesterday, and I can't recommend it
highly enough.  Terrific.

Mary (reading Cause Celebre by Helen Fielding)
  

    
E-mail from Dianna:

"One man's thingy is another man's wotsit."

That's what it said in an exerpt of an old issue of Melody Maker i 
saw today. (They were refering to electronic analogue noise makers 
with fancy names that are mostly numbers with a letter or two thrown 
in for good measure. So, minds out of the gutter! all you who 
thought: "Oooooh... that's rude....")

And i wondered....

Are all Neil's Thingies, Wotsits.to someone else?

Or are Wotsits to Thingies, as Bottersnikes to Gumbles, and how many 
Thingies could a Wotsit comfortably squeeze into an empty jam tin?

Big questions.... which are happy to remain so, such as they are :)

Tree - While i was wondering skew of centre; being that you are as 
close to the Patron Saint of Tim Tams as any one could be (from what 
i've read), i wondered if you've been sharing the secret of how to 
eat them properly ;) ? (You know - 
the-sometimes-messy-if-you're-not-quick-enough way?).

Which is also NOT rude for anyone who thought it.

from dianna - who is really, really hoping the rumours of Neil's 
bottom-end-of-the-planet tour are true :)

        
  

    
Posting at some vile hour of the morning, during which I'm supposed to
be sleeping, dammit!

Um, just caught up on too many posts. No energy to really write.

Rocky, check your inbox.

Tree, homicidal tendencies seem to be the trend among some of the
thingies and their clientelle lately, non? Got our first death threat
this week. Ah, retail...

Neil, maybe someday I can housesit whilst your away... I'm just
thinking what cool samples could result... odd chiming of music boxes
would be very nifty in my music - and crediting them in liner notes
would be even more fun. 

Right. I'm supposed to remind myself not to post anything when I'm
this tired. I don't think I'm listening to myself again.

Is anyone else going to Exoticon? Or is Neil the only one stalking me?

squeaks, who goes home to NOLA *every* November, I swear!
  

    
rocky - okay, I lied. It bounced. email me your address and I'll send
you all my vitals.

squeaks, who is really going to bed this time - I have to. The puffins
are calling me.
  

    
Pamela -- I love it.

Tree -- That sounds like a neat billboard?  All my train station has
is a billboard for "From Hell" with Johnny Depp on it, which has been
worrying me this past week.

Will -- I've had much the same experience since graduating from high
school.  Through my senior year I was a complete social pariah geek, so
it came as quite a shock when girls started flirting with me in
college.  I found it vaguely unsettling at first.

Rocky -- Daytime TV features plots involving former geeks turning into
"supa dupa hotties" and getting revenge on their cruel classmates?! 
Egads!  Had I only known that when I was 16, my avenues for vicarious
revenge fantasies would have been much expanded.

Douglas -- A "bad" flash animation of a pirate ship - I love it!
     My email to AotW basically said "I know you're busy and this is
probably unprecedented, but I have free time and I'm a web
professional".  We'll see if anything comes of it.

Mary -- I too enjoyed _Shopgirl_.  It made me a bit sad as I was
reading it and I couldn't figure out why until I got to the last page
and realized that the protagonists reasons for his continued
involvement with the eponymous shopgirl post-breakup mirrored my own
with an ex.
  

    
Linda:  Neil is Captain Curio, sailing a ship of bibliophiles bound
for a date with the Peter Pan movie on shore leave.
  

    
Are you very sure he's not actually Peter Pan? maybe *posing* as The
Cap'n? 
And anyway, the female parts in this scenario are painfully limited,
and limiting...
  

    
Will - what a harsh comment! I don't fully understand the geek to
hottie thing either. I always find it a bit surprising and shocking
when I'm told that I'm sexy by a woman. 

Kelly - congrats! I'm not totally green with envy at all! Nope. Not
even a little bit. Pardon me know while I go in a corner and plot...
um... I mean sit and not be jealous. 
*grin* 
that is über-cool. Let us all know how it goes, K?

Dianna - You're a loony. I respect that in a person.
  

    
Oh, almost forgot what I was going to post today... I'm a bit out of
it.
Got in a car accident last night.
Not a bad one. I was making a three point turn out of a driveway and
got my front bumper knocked half off by another car. We couldn't see
each other because of a double-parked truck on the street. Everybody's
fine, but I'm tweaked out pretty sideways.
 -feh-
It feels like I just can't catch a break lately...
  

    
Dianna: My utter admiration and awe for your post knows no bounds.

DanW: Well, I'm very thankful you *didn't* get a break--or rather,
anything broken--last night, at least.  Sympathies.

Tree: I duly promise to honor your promise if we ever happen to have
the lovely opportunity to get a wee bit tossed together.  'Cause the
warning on Warning scared me more than an actor with a non-disclosure
on a Woody Allen film (I hear ninjas are involved).

DanGuy:
>Pamela -- I love it. 

You do?  <blushes>  That's wonderful!  Umm... what'd I do?

Mary: The grossly unjust thing is that the Beautiful People are, in
fact, really truly Beautiful.  Almost without exception, the ones I've
seen are even *more* beautiful in 3-D, even sans makeup, than on film.

Squeaks: And we'd all love to get the album you made with those sound
effects in it!

Linda: Thanks.  I wasn't sure that was a for-real email address for
him; I'm not quite sure why.

Also, just to check: if a post is "hidden," does that make it readable
by members only?  And were I to hide something, would I do it just
after I post it (by clicking on the number, same as scribbling)?

-Pam
Who *tried* to stay away, really she did.
  

    
I realized I lied slightly; I went to a play a while back in which
John Shea was the lead, and I hung out for a while and managed to catch
him just before he left.  Very cool, very classy gentleman sort of
guy, who, chuckling, signed my Playbill "To a Superman." (as he was Lex
Luther in Lois and Clark).
I also met one of the guys from *The Matrix* at Virgin Megastore in
Times Square, and (Discreetly) told him I thought he rocked the house
(his was one of my favorite roles, I think), and he was pretty much a
jerk.  I didn't go fanboy, either.
I kinda did, a little, when I met Neil, but not too badly, and he was
utterly cool about it, and set me right at ease.

Dan- I hope you get better, and I hope you get some luck and suchlike
soon... positive vibes your way, man.

Len- Yes, hookahs rock.  I mentioned it to a friend, and she told me
that the only thing she'd ever smoked out of a hookah hadn't been
legal.  <shrug>  The soup at the place was good, too.  And apple
tobacco?  Not apple cider or apple pie, but definitely one of the
better apple products I've sampled.

Neil- Did you miss my question about titles, or are you just not
answering?
  

    
Man, stagewalker, that sounds just traumatic enough.
  

    
Pam - Will - Martha: Thanks. I'm glad I'm physically ok, too. I
appreciate any and all positive vibes. I know things could be a hell of
a lot worse... and hopefully they won't be... 
  

    
I really think you've had plenty of trauma already.
  

    
DanW- I'm glad you're okay:) I'm sending good vibes your way.

Dan Guy- I'm not cross. I probably come off that way a lot on here
because people can't see the look on my face, but I'm not. 
I hope you're feeling better:) 

Squeaks- I thought I was chronically depressed for the last two weeks.
I was about ready to go see a psychologist. But then I got a full 8
hours of sleep the other night and woke up happy as a clam. Now if I
could just do that *every* night I'd have it made. Even if I did see a
psychologist I know what they would tell me..."You've been working too
much and not writing enough."

I got Tori tickets too! I think. They haven't come in the mail yet.
I'm starting to get a bit worried. I need to send an email to
Tickets.com tonight. If I do get the tickets I ordered, I'll be at
Cleveland somewhere in the Orchestra section. Rock! I'm also seeing
Tenacious D this weekend. Weeee!

Neil- I have a question that is purely selfish. I've been trying to
write lately (two short stories and a short screenplay) and I'm stuck.
I've been (seriously) writing for a little over a year now and I
remember last year the ideas flowed easier...I look back on things and
my stories overall were good, but my writing style/working sucked. Now,
my writing style seems like me, not anyone else (and much better), but
I get stuck and judgemental on myself, like, every other paragraph.
Does this mean that I'm getting better (because I'm more careful?) or
that I'm just deluding myself and am not a real writer?
I have no idea if that question made any sense. I'm just torn right
now. I don't want to quit, though. I can't picture doing anything else
and I like the challenge. I've been getting rejection letters for a
year now (the one from Flesh in Blood in High School doesn't count) so,
according to the myth, I have five more years of rejections before I
get published. Wee.   
  

    
Dan W. -  Sending cyber hugs and crescent fresh vibes your way. Use
'em wisely. And I thank the gods that "tweaked" is far better than
"broken."  

Oh, I believe that truly sexy people are just naturally that way. And
I think someone can be sexy without being beautiful. Seal comes to
mind.

Michelle -  I fixed my email addy here, so please send your snail mail
my way. And what exactly is "Exoticon?"  

Will - Name names! Or at least give a bigger hint. ;> 
  

    
Sorry everyone -- in transit, and too tired to answer questions right
now, or to say that Dianna made utter and perfect sense, even the bit
about the jam tins, and that Erynn, just write. Don't worry, don't
obsess, care but don't drive yourself or the story nuts: just write.

n

who hates driving through chicago in the rain
  

    
Oh even the thought of you driving through Chicago in the rain makes me
nervous.
  

    

I hope you aren't logged in and typing while you're doing it...
  

    
Chicago? *blinks*