Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
Kathy Li 
Thank you so much for the information - the links were very useful.

miss-mousey 
Thanks - I'm not that bad with crowds, but am bad with flying and the
whole 20 hour flying deal is making me think twice.
  

    
I keep meaning to tell you folks that Neil is on this month's _Comic
Buyer's Guide_, too, peeking out of a corner of the cover.  There's an
interview or an article about him within, I forget which.  (There is
also an ad for my brother's company, which I thought looked like a
"This page intentionally left almost blank" page.)  Ben's saving me his
copy.
  

    
Neilster -- Yeah, I thought I remembered Mike starting college during
Blog Year 1.  Well, cool!  He and my Hoya brother are rivals, I
suppose.  ;)

Since you'll probably be out here for his graduation (and the glory
that is Washington in the Spring), I thought I'd pass along something I
read the other day.  A friend of mine just recommended a decent
all-you-can-eat sushi place called Appetizer Plus near the Rosslyn
metro stop (http://www.thehoya.com/guide/090503/guide7.cfm).  ("Cheezy
name," he said, and I agree.)  Have you been there before?

Sorry to read that you're sick again.  Glad Maddy's better, though. 
(And why doesn't she get President's Day off?  Even *I* did!)

Stay warm and get well.
  

    
Hey, y'all!

Just dashing through, but had to tell--

Neil--this may amuse you.  We're studying Hamlet in my classes, and
today's assignment was to draw a costume for one of the characters,
your choice.  You could also choose the time period.  I was surprised
to find that many of my students wanted to design the show in the
period. The computer in my room is buggered (today of all days) and my
students were asking me for pictures of armor so that they could draw
the ghost.  I was at a loss--I have a couple of posters up about the
Renaissance, but there was, of course not a single person depicted in
mail.  Suddenly, it dawned on me--I have my hardbound 1602 in my room,
'cause the comic geeks hang out in my room.  Voila!  Reference
material!  Thank God for Andy Kubert!

Mary (reading The Camelot Caper by Elizabeth Peters) 
  

    
Am feeling sad. And a little wierded out. Dreamed this weekend of a
lady I used to run ground crew for in horse shows. The dream was
haunting and the details weren't important just the memory of her. so,
I wrote her a letter. She'd moved, many years ago, to another state and
we'd gradually lost touch but I had her address.  I mailed the letter
yesterday. Last night, I saw the answering machine blinking and it was
her. No possibility she got the letter yet. She was calling me because
of a personal thing it would take too long to put here and wanted me to
call or email her. And her husband had died. I was shocked as her
husband was also a friend of mine. Been bummed all day about that.
Haven't really dealt with it. A few moments of welling tears when I
think about it today.

He died last November. They were here in August and October but the
lady who is still a mutual friend of ours had moved and couldn't find
my contact info and so I did not see them. Would have liked to see
Walter one last time. 

He was Walter Irwin, editor of Best of Trek and some other things and
I am very sad.

And tonight is my Science Fiction Book Club meeting. I'm tempted not
to go but I've books to return and promised to bring Neil's graphic
novels - my lend copies - this month. Sigh. Don't know if I'll stay
very long. 

The good thing, of course, is that I can now talk to her and
re-establish communication. But I shall miss Walter.
  

    
Oh, I'm sorry to hear about that, Holley.
  

    
dodge - <<<hugs>>>, sounds like you could use a few right now.

mary - comics rule, for so many little reasons. :)

in other news, my bedroom is now red. the ceiling is still white, but
now a brighter (cleaner) white than before, and there is gold trim.
though i think i'd sit back and appreciate it more if the boy didn't
get silly non-lyrics stuck in my head: in a red room, with black
curtains, full of kitties... that's a cream song, right?

curse you clapton!

-squeaks, boycotting capital letters today
  

    
Thanks for the hugs. Yeah, I needed that. Actually stayed last night
as some of the people knew Walter and we reminisced about good times.
They used to live here outside of Houston and the Star Trek clubs had
spring barbecues at their house every year and rode around on her
horses. 

Wasn't that a white room with red curtains? Hope someone more
knowledgeable shows up but that's what popped into mind.
  

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Why, thank you, Dan.  My kids think I'm a total dork.  They want
someone cool enough to stock Zane in her room and listen to 50 Cent. 
<<Sigh>>  And I am not that cool.  ;-)

I thought it was a white room with black curtains, but there you go. 
Lots of interesting design ideas, anyway.  Your room sounds groovy, oh
Snoozy One.

Dodge--so sorry to hear about your loss.  It's weird, isn't it, when
you hear about the death of someone you've lost touch with?  The father
of a good friend from high school was killed in a car crash a year
ago, and I don't think I've processed it yet.  It felt like there was
no way to grieve--no one in Chicago knew him.  Very odd.

Speaking of grief, am I the only person here who thinks that Hamlet
may be the greatest treatise ever written on the subject?  I wish I had
pulled it out last fall when Terrance died.  "But I have that within
which passes show, These but the trappings and the suits of woe." 
Hmmm.  Yeah.  Exactly.

God, I love this play.

All right, must grade more papers.  I want to try to catch a showing
of Merchant of Venice tonight, if possible.  Anyone seen it?

Mary (reading Sherrilyn Kenyon.  Don't laugh.)
  

    
(Laugh!  I don't even know who that is!)
  

    
Actually, it's a white room, black curtains, and no kitties but rather
a station. But the boy started singing the appropriate lyrics with the
same tune.

Ah Hamlet. I was just discussing part of it to a friend of mine about
an hour ago. How between Acts 4 and 5 he ages and suddenly (now that
he's 30) he's an adult and can deal with responsibility and
consequences and all that. But then my friend and I got distracted and
decided that for our local goth scene you'd need to change the age to
50 before it applied - at least for many of the boys. But that's
another story.
  

    
Mousely--<<giggle>>
  

    
Anansi Boys has been pre-ordered at Amazon.com and I feel quite happy
about it. I finally got around to watching the clip with Mr. Gaiman
reading parts of it and it made me laugh out loud - a real LOL. 
I liked American Gods. Throw mythology with a twist at me any day of
the week and I'm happy, but I do think I'll like Anansi Boys even more.
I just know it.

Now all I need is the graveyard children's book. And Mirrormask.
Death's movie. 

I saw that the US book tour will be through October. Health and
politics permitting I'll be in Israel then :( instead of my usual New
York visit. Zut. 

I'm told that Sims 2 allows you to make the Endless - and there's a
cheat that will make Despair shorter than the others. My oldest married
Death, who had kids and is now a grandmother. It just isn't right.
  

    
Hey Neil -- Do they make as big a deal about wedding anniversaries in
England as they do here?
  

    
For a moment I thought about bidding on the right to name the 
cruise ship.  Then I realized I have no idea what I'd actually want to
name it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4535020492
  

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Happy 20th Anniversary to Neil and Mary!!!!!
  

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Happy Anniversary!  Apparently, the traditional gift is china, but for
contemporary gifts, platinum is recommended.  I think we should go
platinum, don't y'all?
  

    
How about china rimmed with platinum?
  

    
How about a platinum item made in China?
  

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Just don't put it in the microwave!!
  

    
I'll add my voice to the choir of well wishers - though I'm sure I'm
late.

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The bid has passed 3,000 USD. I'm impressed. I do hope for a good name
since it's my guess people who know will be looking for it. 
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The post at FGcon on LJ reminded me that I have to be somewhere
between Tel Aviv and Netanya this October, but... If I understood it
correctly, those are the dates that 1)Mirrormask will be out in the
cinemas; 2)The book tour for "Anansi Boys" will be going on. I'm but a
poor international, but have the heart and stomach of a true fan in the
making. I figure that I can fly first to New York and from there fly
to Ben Gurion without much change in cost - only hours up in the air.
It would rock to have both my hc copy of "American Gods" signed and
"Anansi Boys" and to catch Mirrormask. 

It's that or convince Mr. Gaiman that a visit to Israel this fall is
just what he needs. I think a detour would be easier.