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does anyone know about the interview Neil is doing on WBAI on Saturday
morning?  He's the interviewer.
  

    
I haven't heard about this!  Do you know anything more?
  

    
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does anyone know about the interview Neil is doing on WBAI on Saturday
morning?  He's the interviewer.


http://www.wbai.org/

 SATURDAY, September 24
7:00-8:30 am: Special: Susanna Clarke and Neil Gaiman in Conversation
Susanna Clarke discusses her remarkable debut novel, Jonathan Strange
& Mr. Norrell, with her friend, novelist Neil Gaiman (American Gods,
Sandman). Emmy Award-winning actress Christina Pickles reads from the
book.
  

    
[Gotta get the hang of this posting thing... again]
Don't know anymore than that!
  

    
Oh, cool, that's the one I saw live!  (From the front row!)  It was
very entertaining.  (I told Christina Pickles later that she was "the
icing on the cake."  She was amused, and I got the impression she had
never heard that expression before(!).)

Thanks, (hamilton)!
  

    
See, this is what I get for leaving NY! (not)
I'm looking forward to hearing it.  I've only recently (in the last
year or so) been turned on to him and of course I'm hooked.  I first
heard him talking on the DVD of Neverwhere.  I'm not much of a "fan"
type person though, so I will go back to lurking and being excited for
all of you "thingies".  Y'all's cool!
  

    
hamilton--wellcome!  Feel free to unlurk as often as you want.  If
there was a space/# of posts/babbling limit around here, I'd have been
tossed out years ago ;-)

Saw Himself last night.  He looks a little tired, but not too bad. 
Then again, it is Day 4 of a brutal trek.  

Yes, they really did put him in a hotel downtown, which was
essentially the 3rd point on a triangle (with the airport and the
signing venue) that has sides around 40 miles long.  In Chicago traffic
(though, unfortunately, he was traveling those routes in the middle of
the bloody night, so traffic wasn't as bad).  

I believe the phrase that pays is:

Putting Neil in a downtown hotel for this signing tour seems like the
work of a total idiot.

And Neil--Sweetie, next  time tell *me* you're hungry! I could have
tried to organize food so you wouldn't have had to wait up when you got
back to the hotel. 

The only "news" (to me, at least) was the nature of his next project
with Marvel.  He said it had been announced, but I hadn't heard it
before, so until I find it somewhere else, I won't post it here.  Ask
him about it when you see him, though.

And am I the only person whose blood ran cold at the words "*If* I
ever do another signing tour...." on his blog?

Mary (who probably has less than 20 pages to go on Oldest Living
Confederate, etc., and probably still won't read it until AB is
finished)

P.S.  DanGuy--Yay!!  Congratulations!  You rock!  That is so cool. 
Have a great time!
  

    
Mary -- I knew that would make a good pseud!  I was tempted to use it
with the "What more could you ask for?" addendum.

Yeah, I noticed that statement on his blog -- but I'm not surprised
he'd feel that way while exhausted and starving.  He probably ends each
tour saying, "Never again!"  ;P
  

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It occurred to me that it doesn't sound too far off from the
"author-shaped pile of goo."
  

    
Not to drop by after a million years, but, if anyone in this topic,
here wants a promo postcard for my play running in San Francisco next
month, e-mail your address to marthasoukup@yahoo.com and I will spend
23 cents and send you one.  The former <stagewalker>, who's the
producer, designed it and it's very nice....
  

    
the-roane-- thanks for the wellcome

tinymonster--
well... I missed the interview.  7am ny time is way past my sacramento
passing out time.  I woke up just long enough to recognize his voice
and passed out again.
OH well.  
I've been reviewing my Neil acquaintance history and it really started
with Dave Mckean's artwork on Mr. Punch.  My in love falling happened
with the recording of American Gods.  This kind of cross genre writing
is where my true fanship lies and I didn't know anyone was doing it. 
He became an instant hero.  *Then* I started reading Sandman.
And OMIGOD!  I doubt that "Mirrormask" will actually show up in
Sacramento long enough for me to see it in the theater... I may have to
take a vacation day to find it.  No waiting till the dvd for this one.
  
  

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Dan -- LOL!  Have you ever seen Flickr's "Temporarily out of service"
message?  I just encountered it clicking on your link:

"Flickr is having a massage."
  

    
Am ok. Storm went east. Bad for Port Arthur and Beaumont. Did NOT get
out of town though I tried. Got on Hwy 59 at 8am and at 4:30 pm was
just to the Intercontinental Airport with only 1/4 tank gas left. My
cat, poor baby, was panting and wouldn't drink. I was dying of the
heat. You can't run your ac while sitting in traffic going 1 mile per
hour in the heat because your car will overheat and it was 99 degrees
at noon. Not kidding or exagerating any of this. Turned around and went
home. Kitty much better shortly after being in AC. I was sunburned on
my left shoulder and arm. Oh, and they told me there was NO gas in any
gas station from Houston to Livingston - and I hadn't even gotten out
of Houston proper! So, slept in my bathtub Friday night. Made a comfy
bed. It was ok as long as I was in the fetal position but eventually
tried to stretch my legs - up the side of the tile - very cold tile is.
 But no damage! No flooding. In my area of Houston. So, it turned out
to be ok.

Of course, I have an aunt who lives in Beaumont who isn't allowed to
go back yet and several people are missing at work (we know where they
are) and it's still hard to get gas here in Houston. Ah, well. 

Not enough gas to go to Austin. Darn!
  

    
Thanks for reporting in, Dodge.  I had been wondering about you.  Glad
you're OK, but I'm sad you probably won't get to Austin.  Garrr!
  

    
Oh, yeah. That's where a lot of the evacuees went. If the storm had
come in here, it's path would have been straight to Austin and, like
Houston, in some places there it floods when you sneeze. 
  

    
Ooh! Oooh! Cool Beans! I got Anansi Boys in the mail here at work. At
least got that. 
  

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I'm looking at that picture of the BookFest line from the blog, and...
http://www.dpsinfo.com/images/fan/other/050924neilsline.jpg  Hey!  Dan
and Glen!  That's YOU!

On another note, is anyone else a wee bit disturbed that in the
_Time_/Joss Whedon interview, Neil says "I'd love to stop my blog at
this point"?  Given what he's said about it (and other work) in the
past, I still figured the only reason he's still doing it is because
he's still enjoying it.  Dude -- Don't continue a "chore" on *our*
account (she said with a faint sense of embarrassment)!

At any rate, it looks as though the Kepler's closing had one sort of
positive effect; Neil seems to have an unexpected day off!  Carpe diem,
Neilster.
  

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That is *precious*.
  

    
Magic Happens!
  

    
Anyone going to be in DC/Baltimore for _MirrorMask_?
  

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