Blur Vision And Finger Tingle

In the early hours of the day. Jason Webley

Published April 7, 2009

I think it's time I take a look at my inbox. I think I'll take the last half-dozen emails and replying rather than select them. Let's see what it's going to give:

I use XP Professional SP3. I have three internal hard drives and two external drives. Sometimes the letters of my internal hard drive are replaced by that of the external hard drive. I do not know where the problem is. Can you help me?

I'm afraid not.



Hello My question is related to the upcoming tour. For dedications, could I bring my copy of Sandman? Or do you just sign your last book?

Thanks for your time. Darrell Moher.

When I'm on tour for book signings, you can bring everything suscpetible to be signed, but I am not sure of being on tour now.

Hello Neil,

Here is a question somewhat indirectly but I'm starting. Not long ago, I discovered a character whose name was Grace de Dieu Milacar, which made me think of your regiment of witch-hunter with the same kind of name. I learned that there was a 17th century English economist whose name was at-Less-Than-Jesus-Do-Or-Death-For-Those-Who-Have-Summer Condemns Barbon, apparently son of God Rent-Let-Barbon. I was wondering if Mr Barbon had been an inspiration for the names of characters from "Good Omens"? Or have you had a different source of inspiration?

~ Kathryn

There were many names as Puritans. I do not think I have been inspired by these same names. A little research on Google shows a lot:
http://gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateMonk/England-Medieval/Puritan.htm

I wondered who had imagined the image of Robin Goodfellow in "The Kindly Ones ". Was it you or the artist? And what was his ispiratrice?

I've never seen such a representation of him, and I was intrigued.

Charles Vess has created this version Robin Goodfellow in Sandman # 19, based on my script. ABSOLUTE SANDMAN Volume 1 contains the original script drafts and the "Dream of a Summer Night. If you read this, everything should become clear.

Goodnight



I am a very big fan (as if you've never heard it)! Imagine my surprise when I saw you enter Amazing Thailand in Uptown April 5 (I was in the group ahead of the window). I must confess, I have keeps me on my chair and did not throw myself on you and ask for an autograph. In any case, I wanted to sire j'adorece that you do, especially the movie "Coraline." I'm trying to convince my husband is a perfect name for a future daughter. I hope you enjoyed your meal as much as me (it's really good!).

Mary

Thanks. I certainly was very nice, although somewhat disconcerting, if you were sprung on me to make me sign something, and I'm even sure I was very happy to sign. And yes, it was very good.

Many people, including my parents, doubt my vocation to become a writer and artist, both for comic books. Before you trade you have now, how many times people have doubted that you would become the brilliant author that you are now?



Max

I do not think anyone will ever think I'll become the writer I am now, not even me. I'm not sure how it happened. I liked the idea of a world in which I could support my family by creating things and setting them on paper, and it was pretty hard the first years.

Neil:



I noticed that since you are on Twitter, you do not post all the days on your blog. I guess as time goes on Twitter is good for your friends and inform them of what you do, but why should we suffer, us humble fans?

I had not realized that my humble suffering fans. Sorry.


I blogging less mainly because I blogging less before. I post on this blog for over eight years, for a total of 1.4 million words (see stats), and I blogging less these days, first because I'm like "I talked about this the other ...", because my most interesting project I'm working on is envore secret and I can not talk, and mostly because I really did not have time.

The amount of emails has never been as important, the number of invitations, requests, everything, is enormous, and this year, from the film "Coraline," the Newbery (which also means even more people ask me to do things) and try to have a family life, and I spend most of my time, it all take care too.


The limit was that I blogging here until all this looks like work. It is not yet, but it has never been so close, partly because I've never so much lack of time.

(This post is written because I wake up after 3-4 hours of sleep, I realized that I was completely awake, and I turned on my computer to answer a few emails.)


Twitter is interesting and relatively new, I am fascinated by the possibilities offered. It's not like a blog, but in the same genre, it amuses me to see that 3 or 4 posts 140 letters (that's 25 words on average) on Twitter encourages people to ask me or I find time surfing on Twitter. This is not a very reliable tool: I can be offline during the day, or even a few hours, and Magnifier 1500 messages sent to me.

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Some links: criticism of A Walking Tour of the Shambles by the site Onion.

The great SF writer Fred Pohl blogging.

It seems that Coraline will be released in Australia in August next and not in May (not good) and that he no longer called "Coraline and the secret door" (Good!)

A glorious critical Blueberry Girl on Newsrama.

And the nominees for the Galaxy Award Chinese were ads.

Spaghetti In De Steamer

The advantages of cities in the fight against pollution

Article found in THE WORLD, dated April 4, 2009

In climate change, cities are not the problem but the solution. So concludes a study published in the April of the journal Environment and Urbanization, against the current of the fatalistic view of cities focusing all environmental defects: traffic congestion, endless sprawl, waste piling up pollution and varied.
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While more than half the world's population now lives in town, the liability of cities in global warming seems overwhelming: they occupy only 2% of the surface the planet, but they concentrate 80% of CO2 emissions and consume 75% of global energy.
The equation is too simple, according to David Dodman, a researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development in London. For beyond the mass effect produced by the overall figures, "Many cities have per capita emissions surprisingly weak," he says in Environment and Urbanization.
Calculated per capita emissions of greenhouse gases of some towns are much lower than the national average. Discharges of New Yorkers are less than one third of the average United States, each Barcelona emits half the greenhouse gas emissions than the Spaniard lambda, just as Londoners are twice better than the British. In Brazil, even the sprawling Sao Paulo and Rio show that per capita emissions do not exceed one third of the average Brazilian. What
encourage the efforts of cities like New York, London, Chicago and Amsterdam, which in recent months have launched ambitious climate plans, or metropolitan area of Curitiba, Brazil, became, with its 4 million residents, a sustainable development model for emerging countries.
The explanation is known, proclaimed in every possible way by urban professionals: a compact city, combining accommodation and activities and served by public transport is less polluting than individual homes scattered based on the automobile reigns. The correlation between low urban density and a high amount of CO2 emissions per capita has been demonstrated. Lighting and heating buildings generates a quarter of all emissions of greenhouse gases in the world and, according to estimates by the World Bank, transport accounts for one third of discharges in urban areas.
"Cities offer a real chance of reducing climate change, said Executive Director of UN-Habitat, Anna Tibaijuka, the report" The state of world cities 2008-2009 ". Cities provide well-designed both economies of scale and population density reduce the per capita demand for resources. Our data show that policies that promote efficient public transportation, which reduces urban sprawl and encourage the use of renewables can significantly reduce the environmental footprint of a city and CO2 emissions. "
For Mr. Dodman, designate cities as culprits of climate change distracts attention from the main emission factor of greenhouse gas emissions: "The real culprits are not the cities themselves, but the lifestyle of residents rich countries, based on consumption. "
Yet, observes the researcher, economic development does not necessarily increase pollution. Thus the city of Tokyo makes it a quantity of greenhouse gas emissions per head equivalent to 45% of the average Japanese, well below the emissions per capita in Beijing or Shanghai, two times higher than the average Chinese.
remains that beyond the virtuous examples, many cities are very far from the guns of sustainable urban planning in the developing countries as in the richest states. "There is always need to drastically reduce emissions if we are to achieve the objectives of the fight against climate change," David Dodman cautions.
Transportation is responsible for 60% of CO2 emissions in Sao Paulo, a metropolis of traffic congestion, against 20% in London or New York, well served by Metro. And the United States, countries suburban sprawl, compact city remains a challenge, while the total area of the hundred largest cities in the country increased by 82% between 1970 and 1990 ...
International organizations have recognized that the climate battle will be played in cities. After the recent mobilization of the OECD and the European Commission, the World Bank organized in late June in Marseille, a symposium on the theme "Cities and climate change."
In return, municipalities claim to the UN a place at the negotiating table on climate. Their credo summarized by the Association Cities and Local Governments: "The solutions to global climate change can only be viable if local governments are not fully integrated into the process of decision making."
Grégoire Allix

The buyer or the Parisian workman Beijing? Consumers
Paris should they be charged a portion of CO2 emissions workers in Shanghai? In Europe, but also in Tokyo and Rio, the reduction emissions of greenhouse gases is largely due to the relocation of industry, especially to China, where 20% to 30% of emissions come from production for export. The plants are thus responsible for 80% of discharges in Shanghai and 65% of emissions in Beijing, against just 7% in London and 10% in New York or Tokyo, said David Dodman in the journal Environment and Urbanization. The researcher therefore recommends an emissions measurement based not on production but on consumption, through individual carbon footprint, which gives consumers the environmental impact of what he buys. A analysis reflects the request made on 16 March by China that its emissions of greenhouse gases linked to its exports are excluded from negotiations on climate.

How To Make Sugar Paste/fondant Ballet Slippers

Published April 5

experimental Post today ... I try to send a photo to Blogger via email. In this case the , Jason Webley , Cabal and myself this morning in the middle of what I hope will be the last snow year .

I expected much of the concert and he was even better than expected . If Jason plays near you, go see it. Believe me . You'll thank me later.

Average Watts In A Bathroom

Apparently, if you write "beaver", people think on a "gutter". Where are the books

Published April 2, 2009


There are about ten years, there were beavers in the small river near my home. There was a flood, and beavers and their dam were swept away.

They miss me. The act of going off the trees they had put the wrong places I miss. (As engineers of nature, they had poorly positioned well logs has the appropriate places)

Today, during walking the dog, I was very happy to see him back.


Beside the bridge, the beavers built a dam with an old telegraph pole (it was a bridge before the flood, who carries the beaver, do not destroy).


Here is a piece of wood already well chewed by beavers.


And a dog who wonders why I stopped so pleasant walk to take pictures of things totally uninteresting.

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My plans for Saturday evening are very simple: I'm going to see Jason Webley concert, which I discovered in 2006 with this video. Jason sent me a lot of music (including this song) I love it, it was briefly meeting in London, then on stage during a concert Amanda Palmer Camden ... and since that time, I was never home when he came to play in Minneapolis.


(Me left, Jason Webley with the guitar on stage with Miss Amanda at Koko in Camden)

And finally, I will be in Minneapolis when Jason will play. So I will be present.
http://www.bedlamtheatre.org/display.php?event=325

And Jason will be on tour throughout this year. Take a look to see if it goes through you:
http://www.jasonwebley.com/events.html

About endoits or I want to go, next June will be held the Fourth Convention Stree Fantasy in Minneapolis. It will be a convention without guests, which is none the worse for a convention that is primarily concerned with debates. For the preceding 4th Street, I participated in debates that have ended in the corridors, and hallway conversations that ended in debates.

I said that I will have aucne convention as a guest this year, apart from the Worldcon, but I just had 4th Street, I will not be there as a guest, Just as an interlocutor.

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Neil

I just realized you have no mention of the Watchmen movie. I know that you and Alan Moore are friends and I wondered what you'd think the movie? Could you see? Friendships



Shannon

I have not seen it yet. I expect that someone whose opinion I respect and with whom I have the same tastes, tell me "It's great, you have to see, you will love." But for now, tut what I hear they are "Yeah, there's things right, you will love the opening credits and the end is pretty good, not the alien lacking. Well, the story goes in all directions, and they have many copies of the comic scenes, sometimes without real meaning. Ah yes, they are all super-hero now, not just Dr. Manhattan, they can all make great stuff, but it's not bad ... "I probably will watch on HBO at one time or another. I am may even be pleasantly surprised.

Hello Neil,

I did not know if you saw this:

http://www.contrariwise.org/2009/04/02/theme-week-neil-gaiman- day-1 /

You seem to be a popular topic for tattoos.

I love the site contrariwise, there is something great has about literary tattoos (except, as I said before, when there are spelling errors). I am fascinated to see the theme of the week.

Dear Neil,

Many schools try to include books for adolescents, especially graphic works in their program. As a writer Ayany key to both genders, can you imagine one of your works taught in a classroom? Do you see a oppurtinite for a young player to have easier access to classic literature, or just a way to learn while having fun?

I just started as a teacher and I wanted to use this kind of work in class, but I also know that sometimes a book can only be just a diversion.

Thanks!

Allison

Honestly, I will be the last person who you should ask this question. I've never been convinced that there is a real distinction between high culture and popular culture. I think there are good things, and there are less good, and that Sturgeon's Law is applicable to both classical and popular culture: 90% will be bad, leaving us with 10% very good.

I am always happy and a little disoriented when people tell me they teach my work, but it is no longer a surprise.

Best Oil For Altima Coupe

Published on 1 April 2009

It is already in the post-lunch on April 1st, except in Hawaii. But this article is posted without comment ...

The world of fiction has shocked the announcement of a woman claiming not to be drawn by Neil Gaiman.

What makes me think: Gaiman, one step closer to sainthood.

As the sad news that I am withdrawing my Newbery.

is a strange way to wake up with a 1st April this which seems to be a blizzard blowing behind my windows.

The first e-mail sent today addressed a few people who want me an award. I refused because of the same day, I must get one in another city. It was not very nice to do and I do not feel particularly happy or anything gratifying. I had the impression that the whole universe became sarcastic about things very special and I thought: Ok, I understood. Important things: relatives and the stories. Unimportant things: everything else. Absolutely everything.



The good news is that I am writing again. Yesterday I finished something I started last January. It was a great relief because with all trips, promoting the film, the tragedy in the family and everything else, I began to believe that I did not know how to write.

Many passages written in the early hours of the day, looking for strange DVDs on TV and the DVD kind of bonuses that you look without really paying attention because you can not afford to go get another above. Then suddenly you find yourself watching Val Singleton preparing a Dalek Cake from a cake rolls, liquors of all kinds and some Smarties, all at 4am.

Now I have a few things to show you.

# 100 The competition ended on Twitter (it took a little longer than expected to Kitty and Lorraine to judge all the works, more than 6000 have been sent). You can read the 27 best (and discover if you won) on http://kittysneverwear.blogspot.com/2009/03/100k-contest-winners.html
(I also notice that there are only few prints Day the Saucer Cam )

A nice critical Blueberry Girl
And here too

Todd Klein reinked Death: The High Cost of Living for Collecting Absolute Death to come and talk on http://kleinletters.com/Blog/?p = 3440

LibrairyThing organizes "flash mobs" of booksellers to scan works by writers.
Personally, I love the idea of "flash mobs" of writers.

Empire publishes its critical Coraline is the first English critics, I think. (The magazine will be on newsstands May 8 in England). Michael Marshall Smith

comes just won a literary prize in France . When I read the list, I realized that Sandman: The Kindly Ones (The Kindly Ones) had also received a prize. It always bothered me that the publication of Sandman in France is so irregular. The BD has won many awards (including one in Angouleme for Season of Mists ) but it took so long for the release comes to an end (I am not even sure The Wake be released).

buyers on Audible.com can vote for The Graveyard Book (if you wish) for the final.

Hello Neil,
Have you seen this?
http://www.dvdrama.com/imagescrit2/t/h/e/the_graves_1.jpg
It displays a film directed by Brian Pulido.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1203517/

A bientot

Fred

Yes, I've seen. I was really surprised and amused.


Hello Mr Neil.

Here is my question. You have lived most of your life in England but now live in the United States, is not it? Where you consider yourself "at home"? Definia and how you "home"?
I ask this because my mother died last January. I'm 17. I think I forgot what my "home". The concept of "home" to me sembe suddenly so distant.
I was hoping that someone who has lived in two different "home" can help me and explain in such a way that my brain can understand a fan of comics.

Thank

Chelsea

I remember a phrase from Richard Burton (the actor, not that of the Thousand and One Nights ) who said: "Home is where the books." And according to this principle, my "Homes" is the United States.

But even now, when I returned to England, I think "I'm coming home." And when I get home, I think the United States. This is probably why I never took the citoyeneté.

But ultimately I think the "home" is something you have built, not found. A place that is still left but we are always looking to find. This is a necessary of life, not the best.