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<madman> - MirrorMask is playing at the Lumiere in SF thru the 13th of
this month (at least they've got tickets for sale thru that date).
Didn't check other theatres, but you might want to look on your own
somewhere here:

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/online_ticket_sales_frm.htm
  

    

Huh. When I checked the theater's website and asked it for what they were
showing after tomorrow, it no longer listed Mirrormask. Maybe I was
confused.
In any case, I just got back from seeing it again in Berkeley. Damn near
every single person except Dan that I know who lives in Berkeley or Oakland
was there. Dragged a friend from Davis and she brought two friends. Some
conversation snippets:

Before-
Russ: "So it's a great movie?"
Amanda: "Yup. Well, I haven't seen it, but..."
Russ: "Wait, you dragged me here because it's a great movie but you haven't
seen it?"
Amanda: "Right!"

After-
Russ: "You're right, that is the best movie ever."

It was better the second time. Caught some stuff I'd missed the first time,
even.
  

    
I saw this week's Bay Guardian, and could not miss the FULL-PAGE FULL-COLOR
AD for MirrorMask playing at the Lumiere (and two other Bay area theaters).
Obviously it's not going to stop running after Thursday, since it's a
Wednesday paper....
  

    
Finished Anansi Boys. What a great book! Must buy two more copies. One
to lend and on to give to teeager to read.
  

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It's not an investment you make on a film you're about to drop.

Anyway, last I looked at the box-office reports, it was doing rather
magnificently at the screens it was on.
  

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

    
Right. Have now seen MirrorMask three times and it is getting better
with every viewing. :)
  

    
Argh!  It will be a few weeks until I see Mirrormask.

However, last night I saw Neil for the 3rd time this tour.  As always
he was very enjoyable.
  

    
Ah, to win the lottery. I could see him at least once then. 

Colored my hair this weekend. The box said 'red' and I expected the
usual auburn color since red isn't something my hair turns. Used a
product brand I'd never used before. My hair is neon burgandy red.
Almost a dark rose glare. Egad. It is not a color that looks good with
my skin. I don't have any lipstick that doesn't clash. It certainly
doesn't match the conservative office I work in. By no stretch of the
imagination could this ever be a natural color. When I was brushing it
this morning, got a hair or two in my fingers. It looked like synthetic
halloween wig hair. 

Amusing. Most of the people here have walked by ignoring me and not
even saying good morning. Three have stopped. Two didn't like it and
the third made a non-commital statement about change and trying new
things being good. She didn't think it was too bad. My boss looked down
at his desk the whole time he was talking to me.

It's not really awful. Just not right for me. Takes some getting used
to. Guess I'll suffer for a week and see how it fades. Then when enough
time has passed, I'll dye it something else. 
  

    
I'm back, after being laid out for a week and a half with some kind of
bronchial bug.  It took a course of antibiotics (not done yet) and six
days off work, but I'm functional again.  Toward the end of it, I saw
Neil's link to the bacteria-on-the-Mall article
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/01/AR200510010120
9.html)
and found it _very interesting_....

Better me than Neil, though.  I can take a week off and then pick up
more or less where I left off.  You can't do that on a book tour.
  

    
welcome back.  read any good books while you were gone?
  

    
Thanks, (hamilton)!  Got more than halfway through one (saving the
rest for this weekend).

Only Neil would set up a pun in Chapter 2 to deliver it in Chapter 11.
 ;)
  

    
You're mean!!!  You must know I'm a pun junkie!  Hafta wait for paper,
I'm afraid.  Although.... My birthday *is* coming up and I *do* like
to treat myself extravagantly...

Started reading the interview with Neil and Susanna Clark and got no
further than them talking about the difference between the usual image
of fairies and the European image.  I read an essay by children's
author Mollie Hunter that gives the anthropological background on the
nature of fairies.  Makes the whole idea much more interesting to me...
and adds Clark's book (and any subsequent writings) to my list of
favorites.  (OK.  So that brings it up to three: Charles deLint, NG and
now Susanna Clark) 
Not that it should make any difference, but my calling is toward being
a shaman.  I've not followed it in any traditional way because I felt
it was not quite what was important for the times.  A friend turned me
on to Charles deLint and subsequently to Neil. 

I don't know how to express the rest, only that it seems important for
there to be writing about intersections of gods and fairies into a
world defined by quantum theories.

There.  I've said it.
G'night
  

    
When's your birthday?  Glad to know I'm not the only one who hasn't
finished the book yet.  (And yes, I vote for treating yourself
extravagantly.)

-tm

And if philosophy might be science
With a leaning toward hyperbole
If paleontology could cohabit with
Quantum field theory
And plate tectonics meld with ethnomusicology....

-Bruce Campbell,
from "I Hear the Continents Are Drifting Like Great Granite Pirates"
(one of the songs I sang on 9/25 before going straight over, still
dressed up, to Neil's signing)
  

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

    
Yeah,(dfowlkes), that was a bad one.

 (tinymonster) 25 this month.  And I had a
(nameofthepsychicintheterrypratchett'sbookwhereDEATHgetsfired and since
names have gone out of my head I can't remember it) moment reading
your post.

I'm hovering among book choices, though.  There's one on math language
that I'm dying to get hold of to see if someone actually explains it
clearly enough for me to understand and use outside of a math context. 
Since it's a text book, well...
But as I'm typing this the rest of me is going "And... So?"  Maybe
even an early birthday present!!!   
  

    
Cool!  I mis-rememebered the price of the book I wanted... So I get to
have 3 books for the price I thought one would cost!  Does that make
sense?
  

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

    
Reaper Man
  

    
Over at topic 'Read free books. Join the conversation.' they are
sending out free books of Anansi Boys in preperation for the Neil
Gaiman discussion! Go and sign up. 
  

    
 (clotilde) Thanks for the tip!  I was thinking of how fun it is to
read a book that others I know are reading or have read.  Feels like my
favorite coffee place (Weatherstone) in the morning.  Shared reading
is something I missed growing up.
  

    
Yeah, I've been getting pretty excited about the fact that the next
interview is Neil's.  By this time next week, I'll be checking the
"Retired" topics for the beginnings of the new interview, as I do every
two weeks.

Neil, we've missed you around here!
  

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

    
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