Most days I'll check Dooce; some days I'll check blogs of people I actually know; but I'll always, always check Neil's blog first.

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aitapata wrote: (there's something in the works as far as a Blog Discussion)

Is there really?

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I love that Gaiman publicly blasted his long-distance phone company today. I hope someone there reads this.

I, too, never knew Mrs. Gaiman's name before reading this thread! Actually, I'd been wondering if he was divorced and didn't like to talk about it or something like that... She literally is non-existent in the blog, and practically non-existent elsewhere (I googled her name and the 8th result of about 12 was this very thread..). It's all very mysterious, which is sort of fitting for Neil, I guess.

edit: Ha! This shows what I know...I went to the Quotable Neil site for the first time today. The site organizes by subject selected quotes from Neil's blog. Today's Mother's Day entry included the following:

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“I did a site search for "wife" and was relieved to see more than twenty references to mine, by me, on this journal. She doesn't get mentioned as much as, say, Maddy, but then, Maddy will say things like "Have you mentioned me on your journal recently? Say that I'm cool. No, don't say I said to say I was cool. Just say I'm cool." Whereas my wife is happier to be a shadowy and mysterious figure in the background, or something.”
– Neil Gaiman 12/26/03

edit 2: My Valentine icon was neat and small at first, but now it's big and blurry.. no wait it's small again...er..

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It's so funny because how many of us have had frustratingly similiar experiences? I hope people from all major phone companies are forced to read that blog post and do something to get their act together and start serving the customer.

Most really big companies don't worry about pissing off individual customers because there's always more where that one came from.

"I was woken this morning by the gentle sounds of a small yellow bulldozer demolishing the garage, and now I keep looking out of the window and seeing the place that the garage isn't."
-Neil

Ah. So it begins. The Vogon constructor fleet should be decloaking any minute now. *grabs his towel*

not talking about the blog so much as the webcast thingie...

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starcrest isHATE: neil gaiman says in this podcast he had that his books were spread sexually
starcrest isHATE: a boy would be dating a girl and he would say "Read this comic" and she would say "fine" and grumble as she read the first page. Then she would turn the page and grumble as she read the second page. by the time it was over she would grumble and ask if he had any more.
starcrest isHATE: So he would give her all of his sandman stuff and theyd break up
starcrest isHATE: and of course the girl got to keep them.
starcrest isHATE: So the girl would start dating some guy and she'd make him read them.
starcrest isHATE: So the sandman was primarily spread like an STD
starcrest isHATE: if you were sleepign with someone who had it, you got it and eventually let someone else have it
Homeless J: Mine was on the computer so I can burn them to a disc and then give the disc away and still have the original. So in essence, mine is like herpes while the actual comics are like the clap - they go away after a while.
starcrest isHATE: haha yeah
starcrest isHATE: I've made girls read sandman
starcrest isHATE: heh
starcrest isHATE: they usually give em back to me though
starcrest isHATE: cuz i yell if they dont
starcrest isHATE: THAT SHIT WAS 20 DOLLARS AND YOU ARENT LETTING ME HIT IT
starcrest isHATE: so mine was ilke the mumps
Homeless J: hahaha, or cold sores on the mouth
starcrest isHATE: haha
starcrest isHATE: yeah that too
starcrest isHATE: but the mumps=kissing disease
Homeless J: Do they mump in the night?
starcrest isHATE: oh yes

Hahaha! Neil's blog trumps MCI. Kinda. At least he got some kind of response, apology, and sensible letter. All hail the power of the blog!

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Hahaha! Neil's blog trumps MCI. Kinda. At least he got some kind of response, apology, and sensible letter. All hail the power of the blog!

all my blog gets are.... well nothing really. Not even comments.

Well, where's the link to your blog then?

from thursdays blog:

"I keep finding myself wondering whether there's a little footnote in the report somewhere explaining that New York did once have a National Landmark, but some people flew a couple of planes into it." -neil

effin' hilarious; i was thinking the EXACT SAME THING when i read that.

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Originally posted by The Scoundrel:
Well, where's the link to your blog then?

http://www.myspace.com/botro

Spent the better part of today trying to track down some smilax vines to plant in the back garden. Google had tons of information about the thorny plants, but no sources, seems most people think of it as a weed - living barbed wire. Finally I found a website that rated garden supply companies with a searchable database of hundreds of garden suppliers. Only one company carried the vine. It was a weird deja-vu feeling when it turned out to be the same company Neil said he ordered plants from in his blog. Queue the Twilight Zone music.

i just downloaded maddy's interview, which was adorable. listening to it, it went straight from the end of maddy's interview; "thank you maddy" "thank you dad" into "Once upont a time!" from into the woods
kind of perfect.

Alright, enought baiting. What the hell is this secret project he's working on? I'm guessing it's the screenplay with Penn (from Penn and Teller). What is it?!?

He's working with Penn Jillette? That's gotta be trippy.

to briefly hijack, I have a handkerchief used by Penn in one of his shows, 'cos I helped shuffle a deck of cards for him and messed it up so magnificently. I managed to fling cards EVERYWHERE! Well, the trick involved getting Teller to stab the chosen card, even though he had was "blindfolded" by silver coins taped over his eyes. And, well, the chosen card never leaves Penn's hands, so Teller stabbed Penn's hand. He wiped off the fake blood and gave it to me, for "helping". At the end of the show they basically ended up in long t-shirts (to prove that the tricks they did had "nothing up their sleeves" and covered in fake blood. They were out on the plush carpet of the Tropicana in Atlantic City, dripping, flicking and signing autographs. I approached Penn first and said, "I'm the girl who can't shuffle cards!" And he was immediately so apologetic and sweet and explaining that he wasn't truly being insulting, it was all an act. And I cut him off and said, I know that! It was funny, can I have a bloody handprint and an autograph please?

We also had the James Randi Conjuring book which they hadn't seen yet, but he didn't want to get it messy. So my husband held it up and flipped through it a bit.

I also got Teller's autograph, bloody handprint AND an inprint from his, erm... "Little Houdini"

Unfortunately the fake blood didn't really set, it sort of spread out, so you can't really see Little Houdini anymore, but I know it's there!


so, /end hijack. I'm sure Mr Gaiman will wait for the perfect moment to tell us! You know, that bit when we're slavering for information and we're just about to strangle something if we don't find out soon!

I've just added 'tell handsome strangers to use conditioner' to my list of things to do when I get old.

Happy late birthday to Miss Maddy Gaiman.

I think that Maddy looks like her daddy, and that this is a Good Thing.

- Cho

Er, meus dorkus.

Or perhaps, mea dorka.

I will stick with the "maybe submit the 4,382nd FAQ 'question' of the day wishing him a Happy Birthday. Hmmm... tempting." Although by now it would probably be 44,382nd.

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Originally posted by Weeble:

p.s. those livejournal folks are putting us to shame - I don't have an account with livejournal so I shall post my birthday wishes here...

Considering that Neil doesn't read the board, no. Not really.

Well he theoretically doesn't read the livejournal comments either. I guess today is an exception.

Most accounts on livejournal allow anonymous posting for which you don't need an account. Maybe Neil's feed is not set up that way.

neil likes the moomins!
could he be more adorable?