The WELL: inkwell.vue.169: Neil Gaiman's Signal in the Noise

#1922: David Gans (tnf) Wed 9 Jun 04 00:19

Wed, 09 Jun 2004 00:19:00 PDT

Wolves in the Well it is! See you in <inkwell.vue.216> [Read entire topic]

#1921: Mary Roane (the-roane) Tue 8 Jun 04 15:47

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:47:00 PDT

It *was* Wolves in the Well, in post #1906, as a matter of fact. I'm so proud that my memory serves me so well, since it was *a whole 5 posts before my post*. <<sigh>> Old, I'm getting.

And I meant to say "Hi!" and "Wellcome!" to slf, but seem to have forgotten to do that.....where was I? Ah, yes. My memory. Works marvelously well, don't you think? It's a wonder I leave the house with shoes on, at this point.

Will now shove off to go do.....something. Oh, buggrit. [Read entire topic]

#1920: Mary Roane (the-roane) Tue 8 Jun 04 15:35

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:35:00 PDT

Neil--I've probably said it before, but there is a painting in your attic that looks like hell.

Mein Gott in Himmel, you look like a teenager in that picture. I think it's lovely that you have genes that allow you to look 10-15 years younger than your current age, even if it does mean that I have more grey hair than you <<ungrits teeth, relaxes, attempts to let go of extreme jealousy>>. I suppose healthy living helps. You're like a walking commercial for the benefits of eating raw, dead, fish 3 meals a day. ;-)

Mrs. Mousey--Yay! Kitty! What color? It's hard for me to think of Thing E as gigantic--I remember baby pictures of him not so very long ago.

I shall go back and look for tinymonster's brilliant idea, and report back. Does anybody else have any topic name suggestions?

Mary (who has too much poop to do as the end of school rush sets in) [Read entire topic]

#1919: the squeakinator (miss-mousey) Tue 8 Jun 04 12:14

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 12:14:00 PDT

Egads, Neil, you were just a little'un... odd aside that is actually kind of related - Knowing that they had a stash of Sandman #8 only a year earlier (it was 1998 at the time), I went back to go get one and they had finally gotten rid of their variant #8s a few months before I got there - DISCOUNTED. I had to pay a ridiculous amount for the one I finally found in decent shape at a WonderCon. grrr. But that's okay because I got the rest of my missing Sandmans quite reasonably from a very nice man who needed to make space for a nursery.

Still undecided about whether or not I want to see Harry Potter. I'm definitely curious, but I was so disappointed by the last one that I'm wary. I'm guessing it will be one of those 'rent on DVDs' movies for me.

Wolves in the Well is good. :)

And in completely unrelated news... the boy brought home a kitten on Friday. She's the smallest kitten I've seen in nearly forever (only 6 weeks old), and she's still standing up to the gigantic Thing e (sort of).

erk, off to work

-squeaks [Read entire topic]

#1918: Will Entrekin (willentrekin) Tue 8 Jun 04 06:29

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 06:29:00 PDT

ScaryTrousers used to be online somewhere. I may have a link on my computer at home, I'll look. Did you try Google?

Mary- that was the only flaw I had with the movie, actually, the lack of that backstory (I'm guessing it was there, but cut for time). It's a sad omission, yes, but perhaps necessary; I can't think of any other scene I'd be okay doing without (this one clocks in at fifteen minutes shorter than the first one; those fifteen minutes could've quite possibly been the Mooney backstory). I knew the backstory, though. I knew about those characters. So I didn't miss the backstory. My sister hadn't ever read the book, but she didn't miss the backstory, either. She loved it almost as much, if not more, than I did. I'll have to ask her about it specifically. Really, I don't think it was completely necessary. Sure, it's interesting to know about the animagi, and the history Black, Pettigrew, Potter, and Lupin had, but I don't think anything suffered for lack of it (although I've heard someone say he thought Lupin was a child molester. I'd blame that on the lack of the background, but I mentioned it to my sister, and she didn't think that, even a little bit).

Did it matter for the Patronus? I knew the background and smiled, but my sister didn't and she smiled anyway. I think reading the book and knowing the backstory makes it a more layered experience, but I don't think it's necessary. We'll see how strongly all those elements figure into the final two installments, but I'm thinking not a whole lot. [Read entire topic]

#1917: Not actually tofu... more like tofu-to-be (madman) Tue 8 Jun 04 00:18

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 00:18:00 PDT

Here's a random question- anyone have a copy of the video of Neil telling the Scary Trousers story? [Read entire topic]

#1916: Neil Gaiman (neilgaiman) Mon 7 Jun 04 22:15

Mon, 07 Jun 2004 22:15:00 PDT

Mary, that's not a baby picture.

This is a baby picture. http://www.comixexperience.com/ngaiman1.htm

(Notice how quiet and stress free the signing has been, and the way that we haven't got rid of all the Free copies of the variant edition of Sandman 8 that Brian Hibbs was giving away.) [Read entire topic]

#1915: David Gans (tnf) Mon 7 Jun 04 15:35

Mon, 07 Jun 2004 15:35:00 PDT

> Didn't tinymonster come up with something perfect recently? Wolves in the > Well or something?

I don't read every post in here, so I may have missed that. Should I go with that? [Read entire topic]

#1914: Mary Roane (the-roane) Mon 7 Jun 04 15:24

Mon, 07 Jun 2004 15:24:00 PDT

David--Didn't tinymonster come up with something perfect recently? Wolves in the Well or something?

Will--I liked it, too, but why didn't they tell who Padfoot, Mooney, Prongs & Wormtail were? It seemed odd. You never find out why Lupin can read the map. They never even tell you who all the animag....animaguses? animagi? are. So you don't get the connection of Harry's Patronus.

<<sigh>> Sirius Black. <<sigh>>

I think if I could marry any fictional character, it would be Sirius. I'd marry the Marquis de Carrabas, but the adorable scamp would indubitably trade me to someone horrible for a favor. He'd find it regrettable, but he'd sell me anyway.

Utterly charming, utterly amoral. My taste in men *sucks* ;-)

Neil--Congratulations, once again! And that picture of you on Steve's website isn't scary. It's just a baby picture ;-)

Mary (about to go home & watch Taxi Driver! Whoo-hoo!) [Read entire topic]

#1913: David Gans (tnf) Mon 7 Jun 04 12:34

Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:34:00 PDT

(This topic is going to need a rollover pretty soon. Y'all figure out what to call it and I''ll do the honors.) [Read entire topic]