the way where I am and what I do. And dogs. Tuesday 9 November 2010, 00:42 POSTED BY NEIL TO for just in case you're wondering where I am - something I am doing often - I'm in New Orleans for a little birthday round of my 50 , which is tomorrow. And for a performance by Amanda Palmer of Dresden Dolls
, who will be on Friday (it will be a special gig - a "spoiled by oil golf fund-raiser for
BTNEP, an organization are committed to preserving, protecting and restoring estuaries of Barataria and Terrebonne, Louisiana. (Here's a link to a picture of me
in my natural environment.)
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Because my dogs are not here and I miss her, I thought, I can give a short guide for distinguishing dogs.
Cabal is left, right, Lola.
Da. That was easy, right? Mm, maybe not. So ...
Here are two pictures of the Bird Chick, I have just stolen from
fuckyeahcabal .
Cabal looks handsome. Often he is also serious, so if he long Division complicated calculations in his head replaced and not to be disturbed. He has a pink nose. He likes to stay close to me and is still recovering from some back surgery and operations on the legs, but is now running again and even running sometimes. He is almost ah years old, so in dog years, some as old as I am now.
Lola would not even know handsome if it were sitting directly in front of their noses. She has a slightly pointed face and shamefaced grin and a black nose. She jumps up and down and it is impossible Černý is the chance it. It is about nine months and as a teenager. If I would leave things lying on the ground, they chewed on these around. She likes piles of leaves more than anything else in the world.
you are really good and has by and large Cabal happier since Lola is here, and Lola is a little quieter by him. We hope that they will eventually play with other dogs. (As a puppy she was sent from the daily dog care home with a poor assessment.)
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And The Price is on the first page of
http://www.kickstarter.com/ . You should look at the other great projects that can be supported by donations. And if you have the time to talk a lot about
The Price . It is now for less than a Week are funded kick start, and almost a third of the cost. It is a dream project of Christopher Salmon. I would have liked to see that he grabs it.
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It feels very odd to be 50th The last time I felt so funny legally, when I was 24th
I liked it, to be younger than 24. About all the cool things I did, people said, "and he is so young
," and that felt good. And then suddenly I was 24 and I felt I could no longer be a boy wonder and the world had come to a level with me.
feels to be 50 to like: I can not promising his young author more. Over the last decade, I hated it, to get awards for my life's work. Through her, I felt disgusting and intimidated, and now I'll, uh, I accept it with great grace.
But I'm happy to be an author. There are many professions that would be unmanageable in my old age. And I do not feel like I had already done everything.
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Hi Neil,
I have this morning an e-mail from the Sydney Opera House, stability in that you and Amanda on Australia Day, 26 January will perform together. http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/amanda_palmer_goes_down_under.aspx
I do not need to mention that my wife and I quickly bought cards (G25 and G26 if you want to beckon us).
Why is this not mentioned in your journal or in the Where's Neil? If you can already tell a bit about the concert?
Also: Will there be a book signing if you are in Sydney? I would be happy to sign my last two "Absolute Sandman" and I need the info in advance in so that I regularly work out in the gym. The two are really hard fact.
All the best, Chris Harcourt pardon, but the gig is Amanda's gig. And I wanted to wait until they self-talk about it and even if I thought that the Sydney Opera House this faster than expected from it will make public. She has published a quick blog entry
.
About signings me unfortunately unknown.
The reading of TRUTH IS A CAVE IN THE BLACK MOUNTAINS, I have in Sydney already held this year with the support of the
FourPlay String Quartet and the Art of Eddie Campbell, will give it again, on the MONA Festival in Hobart on 15 January - details below
http://www.mofo.net.au/MOFO_Highlights.pdf
Once again, in memory of the tea party that went wrong ones, and its actually much better story about it in the mail "a mess", it makes you not worry about that - even if the story is really charming - a smacks of nepotism and privilege privilege has convinced? I am sure that the young lady is quite wonderful, but it was very helpful of her mother that she had the 4,400 dollars for it, drink once for tea with you, this led to a meeting with Paul Levitz, this a practical . Not many children of the Cooper Union and RISD could $ 4400 for a tea , Or raise? It pays, therefore, to have money.
I want your stories of a mad tea party like much, but this gives me a rather bad feeling. I would like a different story from you to my inspiration for the Moth auction.
I know too many people who have won auctions and the like, to me it sometimes heartbreaking stories told of what they have done everything to pay for the auction. And do not count on it for granted or accept that someone (or mother) something like this can easily pay.
My attitude is, rather, that if you've won an auction for a good reason that I support something like
CBLDF or
The Moth or
Rainn , then I'll worry about you too well.
Fortunately the young lady had an interest in comics and told me that she would like to edit comics. Therefore, we took a taxi when we noticed that the afternoon, The Moth had planned for us, way out, ran and we drove to DC Comics, in the hope that I would meet someone to lets us into the building.
It would still have gone wrong in a hundred different ways. We were lucky that Paul Levitz closing time and had just walked through the corridors, to say goodbye. We were lucky that Paul is someone who thinks that knowledge should be shared and passed on to the new generation. And added that the young lady asked really smart questions and impressed him, so he suggested her to apply for an internship in the summer. And a few weeks ago I found - surprise quite friendly - found that they had applied for one and that it has so spent their summer.
But obviously (maybe not, so I mention it now) you do not need thousands for a charity organized by Moth Tee pay to get an internship at DC Comics, or Marvel or Dark Horse. You have to pay anything. All you have to do: Watch their website and apply on time and straight up like someone to sound like they do over the summer with her in office. (Here as an example of
internship application for MAD magazine from last year.)
And Concerning what me, the essence of the story is whenever I there for a tea party should be, I'll be there and drink tea. Moth has promised that the matter, as happened last year, will never walk again.
I secretly hope that it would propose a one-year SUSHI with Neil Gaiman for the Moth Award. Now it is tea again. Unless something goes wrong.
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Just as the FAQ-mail box works, come in many messages, thanks to me for my stories, but I post them here. Occasionally, however, affected me a message in a special way. Look, for example, that part of the notebook entry from 2005 ...
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2005/04/jetlag-morning.asp Read it. I'll still be here when you come back.
good. This was a just a continuation ...
2005 I wrote you once before about my son Jared. I am almost sure that you do not remember, but you get my message on 29 Posted on April 2005 in your Journal.
I was told that Jared, then five, visual and auditory processing in question, the problems and that he will never learn to read. We have been at a reading from you and then, years later, Jared recovered from you the signed edition of Coraline and decided to teach himself to read. And he did it!
He is now twelve and still learning always at home. He reads and understands at the college level. We have found that he "only" a visual processing disorder (VPD), has a slightly delayed motor processing disorder, but he is really talented. Because of the VPD he has no visual memory ... It can produce images in his head no. He describes it as "be empty".
We talked about his VPD and I asked him how he taught himself to read. He replied that he has been reminded of your reading and decided to find out how the strange squiggles on the page can be in sound, to which he can remember, "translated". (This explains the difficulties he at passing of reading aloud into the quiet was!)
I'm almost certain that he would not have done it if someone had tried to teach him to read. It seems as if you had given him an idea how he managed to overcome its limitations.
Over the years this has given him the confidence to take a variety of hurdles. He remembers just in himself, as he is reading taught once have told him several adults that he'd never managed, and he remembers how to read aloud and gave him the idea of written words into sounds to ... transfer and he thinks around the corner to find a way through his problems.
Like I said, he is now twelve reads and "Grey's Anatomy ', a medical text for the school, made fun of it! He decided to become a trauma surgeon.
I honestly think that his life would never lie as if we had not taken him to your reading.
So thanks again for writing, for reading and making sure you have changed the life of my child.
Heather (Hubbard) Conrad Thank you, Heather. Jared say that I'm a fan.
Hi Neil,
you know when the Vol 1 of Absolute Sandman will be reprinted? Will it ever happen?
It's sold out everywhere.
Thank Nat been reprinted and is now in boats coming across the water. I think they should arrive in January. I also have time to dream haven Books neilgaiman.net site viewed and
they have in stock .
When standing on the street (a la "Die Hard 3") with NEM sign "I am Hartz IV recipients," what do you think would be the reactions? 
Hangman: 
