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Source (by request): X-Men Origin: Jean Grey (2008) #1
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“I am the greatest swordsman that ever lived. Say, um, can I have some of that water?”
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In the paint booth working on this mappa burl snare.
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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
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keep calm and carry on. (by br0-mantic)
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Unemployed librarian employs herself by collecting donated books and setting up make-shift libraries around Brooklyn. Proving that you may need a...
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7 posts tagged Neil Gaiman
Make your best stab and keep stabbing.
“When we started we HAD no style, no understanding of ourselves or what we were doing. We had feelings, vague ones, a sense of what we liked, maybe, but no unified point of view, not even a real way to express our partnership. We fought constantly and expected to break up every other week. But we did have a few things, things I think you might profit from knowing:
We loved what we did. More than anything. More than sex. Absolutely.
We always felt as if every show was the most important thing in the world, but knew if we bombed, we’d live.
We did not start as friends, but as people who respected and admired each other. Crucial, absolutely crucial for a partnership. As soon as we could afford it, we ceased sharing lodgings. Equally crucial.
We made a solemn vow not to take any job outside of show business. We borrowed money from parents and friends, rather than take that lethal job waiting tables. This forced us to take any job offered to us. Anything. We once did a show in the middle of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia as part of a fashion show on a hot July night while all around our stage, a race-riot was fully underway. That’s how serious we were about our vow.
Get on stage. A lot. Try stuff. Make your best stab and keep stabbing. If it’s there in your heart, it will eventually find its way out. Or you will give up and have a prudent, contented life doing something else.”—
Teller, of Penn and Teller, in a letter at http://shwood.squarespace.com/news/2009/9/21/14-years-ago-the-day-teller-gave-me-the-secret-to-my-career.html
Strangely, advice as good for writers or musicians as it is for magicians.
This is incredibly good advice—not just for magicians and musicians and writers, but for anyone who has ever dreamed about doing anything.
I want to tattoo this inside my eyelids: “We always felt as if every show was the most important thing in the world, but knew if we bombed, we’d live.”
Fairness and Competition in Cheap!
Seeing that Barnes and Noble dropped the price of AMERICAN GODS 10th Anniversary Edition to $1.99, Amazon has just matched it for the Kindle. I don’t know how long it’ll be that price for, probably another 6 hours.
Here’s the link to the $1.99 (93% off) Amazon Kindle edition.
American Gods for $1.99? Yes, please. I love American Gods and have a signed first edition, but you better believe I just bought it for Kindle, too. Time to revisit Shadow and company.
The very, very funny Peter Cook, acting boring, which proves only to make him more funny, natch.
Oh, Jonathan Coulton, how you amuse. Neil posted this fun version of Coulton’s “Creepy Doll” featuring Paul and Storm and a mystery performer on ukulele to his journal. There’s also another video over there in which Neil actually reads the second verse of the song.
“Selma awake and pretending to be a book cover.” (via Neil Gaiman’s Journal: Hellboy 2 - The Golden Army…)
I just thought that was a terribly funny caption. Laughed out loud, I did.
“neil gaiman is working with me on the book that is going to accompany the record. he’s also writing some liner notes for the back of the album art, which is taking a bizarre turn into the 1960s.”
The Dresden Dolls Diary: celtic scramble brain pudding
!!! Amanda Palmer is working with Neil Gaiman.
“In the role of master of ceremonies, Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox, Hyperion) thanked everyone for coming at the unholy hour of 8:00 a.m. and pointed out that “if this were Ireland, there would be one person with a camcorder and we’d all watch it later.”
