Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
Oh, and answer your other question, Georgia, you guess correctly. 
Neil wrote about the blue screen of a tv channel here:

http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2004/12/some-days-bears-on-top.asp
  

    
Oh, I didn't notice Glen had answered before I started this post, but
I'll leave some of it here.

The tricky thing about HTML here is that you have to precede your HTML
code with a backslash ().  So your begin tag would look like this,
only without the space:   <i>

and your end tag like this, sans space:   </i>

BUT, as Glen said, the Web interface of the Well gives us the
capability but we're mostly not "allowed" to use it because of the many
text-only readers, for whom the code just looks like soup.

I will add that it doesn't matter as much in THIS particular topic
right here, because most of the regulars use the Web interface.  (Also,
this is one of the rare publicly-viewable conferences that non-members
can read, and non-members cannot use the text-only interface.)  But
even here, we get a text-only user visiting about once every two years,
so in deference to them, we try to use HTML sparingly if at all.

There actually are topics in various places on the Well where HTML is
used and even encouraged, but most places frown upon it.  So for
"italics," you can always fall back on lame capital letters,
_underscores_, or *asterisks*.  Or type in a monotone.  ;)
  

    
I forget if I said this before, but all you New York-area Wolves may
want to know that your girl Tori is going to be speaking at the 92nd
Street Y on February 24. 
(http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?catalog=92y%5FCatalog&productid=T%2DL
C5WL07
-- That's the location where art spiegelman and Neil did their panel
for New York is Book Country last year.)

Oh, Georgia -- I want some of your latkes!  And a flour-free chocolate
cake sounds like a nice gift for Neil.  And creamy chocolate sauce...
drooooool....

Actually, haven't they found out that chocolate is good for you?  And
coffee.  They have those much-coveted antioxidants.

Hey, all things in moderation, right?  Guess our bodies crave even
sweets for a reason.  <vbg>

Dan (and everyone) -- I checked on the teapot auction this morning,
and according to the updates towards the bottom, someone has paid her
full tuition for the semester! 
(http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5544142456)  I am
so happy!  People really can be so nice sometimes, even if you only
hear about it around this time of year.
  

    
<399> - For the clickable-minded, that's <sanfran.812.123>.
  

    
Erk! I'm trying to spread the word, but with TWO cats in the house
that are both still at the "it's small, it's fuzzy, it moves, it must
be KILLED!" phase, I don't think I can take one in! Which sucks,
because I love ratties. They are the fuzziest and sweetest (well,
usually) little critters. *sigh* I hope they're all adopted!
  

    
Right now they're desperately looking for foster homes for the rats, not
permanent homes.  Well, I hope they're still looking and haven't given up
yet.
  

    
Too bad my rat-breeding friend is on the wrong coast.  :(
  

    <scribbled by dfowlkes Tue 3 Jul 12 10:14>
  

    
Quote tinymonster:
---Oh, Georgia -- I want some of your latkes!  And a flour-free
chocolate cake sounds like a nice gift for Neil.  And creamy chocolate
sauce... drooooool....---

He doesn't eat flour? Oh, if I had known. I have a bunch of good
flour-free dessert recipes because of Pessach (Passover). Though it
sounds weird even here - "Hello, Mr. Gaiman - you don't know me - but
here are some flour free family recipes."

Thanks to everybody for explaining the HTML issues here. I'm so used
to the whole Live Journal menu of choices (bold, italics, etc.) that I
got spoiled. Which begs the question - anybody else has an LJ?

I really have a problem with rats - I'm having trouble doing research
on them because the stuff usually comes with a picture and... I'm such
a wuss. I can't look. I thought of changing everything so it wouldn't
be about rats, but I can't do it. It rebels and sticks its rodent-y
tongue at me and then it just refuses to move at all. So rats it is.

Waiting for Stardust with pretty cover to arrive in the mail.
  

    <scribbled by dfowlkes Tue 3 Jul 12 10:14>
  

    


Jouni writes:




Merry X-mas, everybody!

My online christmas card can be found in
http://www.jounikoponen.com/picts.html (near bottom of the page)

Jouni
  

    <scribbled by dfowlkes Tue 3 Jul 12 10:14>
  

    
I love it!

Merry Christmas, Jouni and everyone!

(Even if you're not holidaying, have a good day anyway!)
  

    
Merry Christmas Jouni - those are all great (the Santa from last year
is priceless) and I bookmarked the site.

Here's my -make art- contribution (though I wouldn't call it art
exactly, more like doodles).
http://photobucket.com/albums/v520/GCA/Web/?action=view¤t=JJHolidays04.
gif

I said it before and will say it again - I hope everybody gets a Holy
Christmas Miracle Weeping Tea Pot of some sort in their lives in 2005.
It's that time of the year when you start taking stock of what went on
and what you want to go on. Make wise choices, or at least make fun
ones.
  

    <scribbled by dfowlkes Tue 3 Jul 12 10:14>
  

    
Shallow rant: I read Mr. Gaiman's blog over LJ and every single post
has at least a couple of people posting replies as if he read LJ. I
shouldn't really care, but sometimes the comments are
nice/heartfelt/etc and I can't help myself and I post the link to the
site's FAQ.

Walk away, I tell myself. But it's like the shoe left carelessly
upside down next to the bed... I just... can't!
  

    <scribbled by dfowlkes Tue 3 Jul 12 10:14>
  

    
That's nice of you to point them in the right direction.
  

    
BTW, I've linked to pictures from the Pittsburgh signing at
<gratitude.ind.62.49>.  If you're not on the Well and want to see them,
let me know and I'll e-mail you the link.
  

    <scribbled by dfowlkes>
  

    
Happy Well Anniversary to Davey (and me)!
  

    
- Quote tinymonster:
I've linked to pictures from the Pittsburgh signing -

I tried seeing them, but no luck. I don't need to see the pictures to
agree that, of course, Mr. Gaiman has the nicest fans.

Happy Well anniversary to you both, btw. :-)
-#-
Question: Any news on Anansi's publication date? I know Mr. Gaiman is
trying to finish it by the end of the year (I do check the blog on LJ
more often now), but what does it actually mean as to publication date?
Sometime at the end of 2005? I've been witness to the whole finished
writing the book now let's go over it and then publish the thing and it
was about 15 months - so I'm guessing. Anybody knows for sure?
-#-
2004 will be remembered. Even though I miss my cigarettes frantically,
it will be nice having my first Marlboro Reds free anniversary on
February 26th, 2005 at 13:07. It was gray and rainy that day and had I
known it was to be my last, I wouldn't have put it out without sucking
it to its carcinogenic end. Now 2005 is literally around the corner and
it should be interesting to stick around for the Year of the Monkey
(supposed to be all about fun and partying).
  

    
Congratulations, Georgia!

I thought this past year was the year of the monkey.

As for _Anansi Boys_, I think I've heard Fall 2005?  But that could
change.

Sorry the Mystic link isn't working.  I wonder if it's because I
changed my e-mail address?
  

    
2004 was the Year of the Monkey.  February 9 starts the year of the
Rooster.
  

    
Oh, I screwed up the photo link.  Try
http://www.mysticcolorlab.com/share/p=813221103739871582/l=39057811/cobrandOid
=1005
instead.

You have to register, but maybe www.bugmenot.com will work there. 
I've never tried it myself.

The first few came out really dark online, but they look better in
real life.