2003–2006
1,470 posts
2006 289
December 2006
- argh. also oops.
- to be greeted by puddles of unusual size
- indeterminacy
- Ho, etc
- answers
- the frozen world
- For Your Enjoyment...
- On the interconnectedness of everything. Also, free stuff.
- Mailbags stuff and more librarythings
- Stardust Pictures!
- Extremely unsuggestive...
- On leaks and buttons
- coraline by line #3
- Coraline by Line part two
- CORALINE by line
- Santa thought
- CBLDF fundraisers...
- the lure of cheap fiction
- boy scout legends
- By Request...
- Sell your certainty and buy bewilderment...
- Small giftie taster thing
- Not quite so bloody really
- Bloody Final Draft
- closing tabs
- Replacing something that doesn't exist
November 2006
- it's a coffee percolator going "wheeee"
- Small copyright puzzle...
- The Good News! post.
- Dave Cockrum
- Stardust Movie news and Answers
- Sur(thanksgiving)realism
- bleary eyed and somewhat slightly travel-stained
- what I did today more or less
- what i did next
- San Jose reminder
- grey walls
- Suomeksi song of disgruntlement
- bits, oddments, and, you know, stuff...
- Pumpkin things mostly
- Dreaming of a White Birthday?
- squashed tomatoes and stew
- Stardust news
- Quick One
- born to trouble
- Spotted Jam Tentacles
- Evil and Goats
- miscellaneous stuff
- Last Night's Costume
October 2006
- Happies and creepies
- Important. And pass it on...
- The News from Earth-X
- the news from earth two
- old ghosts
- from audio to bats
- Wil, 3D Grendel, and Mike's memorial
- short short shorts
- blinking morning thoughts...
- A three pipe problem
- And she's not too sure about lighter-than-air travel, if it comes to that
- Much too long a post
- Seeing Old Friends
- peace and love and all that stuff...
- wet and puddly
- Short Theatrical Post
- Um. Er. Um. Tea...?
- buoyed by the what of a what?
- tabs? you want 'em, we got 'em.
- "Farewell, good blog readers"
- Eight and a Half.
- zoom. zoom. arg. zoom.
- brilliant...
- no jeans?
September 2006
- red suede shoes
- New York New York um
- quick one
- Ten Years Ago.
- Mostly Politics and Prose
- John M. Ford
- coolnesses
- from fantasycon
- voice recognition systems and stuff
- Where I am
- Masterminds
- Sunday Morning Cinema
- Charles L. Grant
- The closing of tabs...
- From the department of that nice Mr Tolkien revolving in his grave
- where am I and small publishers
- mi god you should have seen us
- Stardust news...
- dear your name here
- Ol' Blue Eyes is Back
- rapid morning post with grumpy cat photo
- Terrorism and my toothpaste
- Charles Vess's new blog and other stories
- Back to the mailbox
- exploring the penumbra
- What my deadlines look like
August 2006
- marauding packs of deadlines and Jason Flemyng naked
- Twelve
- Hugo words...
- my table in pictures
- not a scary leprechaun
- anansi cover
- WHICH John Hodgman?
- Fragile THings US events
- --about to launch its first attack!!
- post-wedding post
- You have luggage
- Gijon needless to say
- pear day
- Googling things mostly
- For your diaries. Well, if you live in Arkansas.
- What My Assistant Does
- fragile rutabagas
- Audio Thoughts
- commas matter
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Working well
- this blog entry has no title
- In Which The Author Is A Bit Mysterious
- the resen to bean author
July 2006
- the burning stage...
- sandpaper throat
- Good Fiction
- Reading Things
- Zombie Post
- Waxworks walk
- A word to the wise...
- Early Birthday Wishes
- the nun ate my homework
- Maddy's Addendum
- After These Messages We'll Be Right Back
- Twinkling and shining...
- resolving confusion
- Early FRAGILE THINGS reviews...
- Bet you thought I was dead.
- We Are Currently Not Here To Take Your Message
- Waiting to exhale...
- Stardust set report part one
- This is just to say
June 2006
- Quick morning soccer ponder
- why I am not a restaurant critic...
- Hmg
- Indisputedly, my dear Watson
- A quick shufty
- Alan on the radio...
- A midsummer afternoon's post
- Lost Girls redux
- What she said. They said. He said.
- Wild Ginger and Jimi Hendrix
- Sterilize yourself with fear
- what to do when you're crap at 23...
- Coraline Casting News
- small followup
- Sunday tabs etc....
- oops and nudity
- Still sick and in bed. Getting really bored of bei...
- in the wee small hours of the morning
- Damn. We should have done a big Good Omens ad today.
- Several Answers
- sunday morning again...
- podcasty thing
- Births, Eternals and Clean Bills of Health
May 2006
- Gremlin rules
- Like in the pepe le pew cartoons...
- ...brains... brains....
- Zoom
- sherbert lemons
- Quick Sydney Post
- a copy-editing sort of a down-under day
- Sydney and me
- my desktop and other animals
- Farewell MCI, an Epilogue
- Farewell MCI
- tabs. also mothers.
- Small Dr Who thoughts...
- bearsongs and eggshells
- Mailbag time...
- what bears do on the lawn
- on my own bed
- Several days of unposted mailbag...
- Eternals Sneak Peek
- Two from Bill
- Where do I get a mercury fountain anyway?
April 2006
- In which our author is a bit of a wet blanket
- Old friends...
- It's For Everybody. Like, er, Coca-Cola!
- Am I blue...?
- Merkins for Goats...
- tea break blogging
- Zoom (me arriving) Zoom (me leaving)
- helpful one
- Bits and bobs.
- Birds, Wolves, Bears, Cargo Cults
- Your mission, should you choose to accept it...
- How to Wake Up
- A Really Good Title
- Red mutant eyes gaze down on Hunger City...
- ping pong post
- Buy a Rat and Free Speech...
- Beowulf
- more wolfish reviews
- Weird prosecutor tricks?
- broken internal clock
- question and answer
- all the better to see you with...
- Poisson d'Avril, and other interesting dishes
March 2006
- wolf words
- Box of Delights
- What a difference a sleep makes....
- The wolves are running...
- The Dangers of Godwin's Law
- Mostly wolf-work...
- First Wolf thoughts...
- Hotel Internet.
- Where's Neil When You Need Him?
- Disappointingly not Dada at all...
- Mystery Dada Tomato Threats
- A Proper Post with Stuff In
- Odd
- Recce #3
- Tech Recce #2
- Technical Recce
- Snow thoughts from a brood
- An extremely not exciting day
- Home Thoughts from a Beard
- scribble. scribble. scribble.
- Why I won't do homework...
- hasty postings
- secrets revealed...
- Divine Extermination and Wolves, Wolves, Wolves
- "Bizarre, bonkers... rather brilliant"
- Why I Am Not Running A Cat Circus
- Polish Book Trailer Here
- Polish Book Trailers...
- mentioning lynd ward
February 2006
- Spear of Destiny -- now on eBay
- Octavia Butler...
- A pack of interviews...
- Small Stardust News
- Don't tell a soul...
- Still in Deadline World
- Another One Down...
- I am now an author with a huge painting in his bedroom....
- Long Underwear Land
- The nature of change...
- The new Good Omens photo...
- Absolute Sandman Request
- Trademark and Mailbag
- Small Valentine's Day Poem
- mostly links, really
- dreadlines
- Five years stuck on my eyes
- deadline packs
- Mostly useful things...
- deadline doom
- Public Safety Announcement
- stuff. you know, things.
- My adventures of the last couple of days
- Phone blog
- Looks around nervously...
January 2006
- This is just to say...
- Beowulf Bollocks the third
- A quick one from Bryn Mawr...
- Useful information
- No Cats Allowed
- more on cats, and our author wins an ALEX.
- warning contains feline
- inconsequentialities
- The Midnight Hour
- the mysteries of herot
- vanishing hotchiwitchis
- Selling Out. At last.
- the day the saucer landed...
- The Return of The Devil's Foot
- Temple info -- quick one
- Is this thing on?
- blogging for ghosts..
- Stardust Audio
- On balderdash, really...
- flotsam and jetsam
- Mostly Books and Beards
- Quick One
- January the 3rd
- Meat Machines
- pricise information
- I'm back, he said.
2005 319
December 2005
- A week off...
- true glue...
- Special Guest Blog
- ID
- bleagh.
- tab closing time
- Errata Silp
- A quick one from the NorthWest Lounge
- I saw a Golden Eagle today, on a fence
- Unlikely but true conversations
- sleep now maybe?
- out of limbo and onto Mastermind
- The Skippy Show
- Woman Allegedly Hires Hit Man for Cheese etc
- an early night...
- Oh Lore
- Walking in a winter whatserland
- Back in Blogger for a bit
- Being or becoming Harpo
- A whole post in Kupu
November 2005
- Not yet in Kupu
- The promise of snow
- balancing acts and Mithras
- Includes special guest review
- Poster Wall
- Waking and whiteness
- Thank you
- You can zap them (with your zapper)
- Wolf Heads and Walks
- Two things I forgot
- More on the news
- Why I left journalism....
- Happy Alan Moore's Birthday
- (that's enough song titles. ed.)
- Radio, Radio.
- Go Buddy Go
- I got your number (written on the back of my hand)
- teenage kicks
- Cool for Cats
- Hanging on the telephone
- Hangin' Around
- Safety In Numbers
- Neat Neat Neat
- In The City
- London Calling
- because you asked...
- Keeler etc (and even more Belfast)
- Belfast news, mostly
- A pandemonium...
- The hum of the gibbon, the music of the mice...
October 2005
- Mostly MirrorMask
- Deniable reporting
- mostly words
- a polite spoiler free post...
- Hello PEOPLE hello
- Belfast etc
- The Amazon Mystery -- solved!
- It was Twenty Years Ago Today...
- The Addams Thing
- Maddy decided that in the run-up to Hallowe'en she...
- How you know when it's done
- Some mailbag randomness
- The other one
- Seeing you asked...
- Dublin again, and lots of other things.
- Just me and Eve
- werewolf world
- Free song at end of post...
- FINALLY, Dublin
- Michael Zulli's last Daniel
- UK update
- End of Round One
- Home
- from the mailbag...
- Toronto News
- Good News for Bay Area Readers...
- still alive, and memo to self
- interim post
September 2005
- If this is thursday, where am I again?
- Jerry Juhl...
- Still smiling...
- There's a first time for everything...
- The biggest trouble with black clothes...
- scattershot
- Missing the Evil Marauders
- After the Book Festival...
- The Glamorous Life
- um
- What am I doing?
- leaving soon...
- New York, Apple, Today's Auctions
- Cheap rats, toronto, etc
- in which ingenuity charges a phone
- The Nature of Predictive SF...
- quick one
- Tour info: Toronto, Boston, CBGBs...
- Thought for the day
- In which the author realises that some analogies don't age...
- Bold as brass
- MirrorMask, Salsa, stuff....
- label ponders
- And the winner is....
- Number One in "Things"
- The Satanic Tomato
- From the Mailbag
- a post with a kitten in it
- TORONTO news
August 2005
- The signing tour -- Kepler's RIP...
- befuddled and bewildered, but home
- the author vanishes
- A post with lots of UK dates in it and one NY one
- cats in boxes etc
- Track one of fifty-six
- False or True...
- The Mysteries of Livejournal feeds
- A Quick One
- Special effects added later
- What you do when you imagine yourself unobserved
- art, newspaper genetics, dead celebrities
- The filling in of mystery initials
- Practically Arkham
- Probably the Tommies...
- Mr Punch; and the Maul...
- "any stick to beat a dog with..."
- Vancouver, addition
- Open the box...
- This September, Your Name Here...
- morning posts
- an intermission from printerworld...
- just a small handful of bits really
- Drive In ponders...
- from the mailbag...
- Kids! Win! Stuff! etc
- MORE ANANSI BOYS REVIEWS. Grendel. Lost lenses.
- Too long a post mostly about touring
- A footnote to a teacup
- a shadow of the post it should be
- the ghost of empire
- CDs or MP3s
July 2005
- storms and teacups
- Deja vu. Or anyway deja scrawled.
- Jet lag city
- slowly catching up
- Photographic evidence
- the whole mice and spaghetti question
- ...and it's goodbye from him
- Tokyo
- Hah! I'm done! It is over! (for 6 weeks anyway)
- penultimate day
- The Slough of Desmond
- Anansi in PW, and Manila links
- the incredible shrinking me
- tired but functional
- Continuum starts
- Blog times
- Australia. Edinburgh. Aristocrats.
- Melbourne and me
- Im in kuala lumpur airport where
- I go, farewell. Farewell, I go.
- Ten happy little fingers and they're mine all mine...
- "My friends are gone and my hair is grey..."
- In the Tent
- Open Secrets
- Welcome to Manila
- Where's Maddy?
- A scribbling machine
- Australian schedule...
- Another long day
- "Took off to the Land of Nod"
- in a singapore sling...
June 2005
- ting tht alm wrk
- Really Maddy should be blogging this one...
- blogging for joy
- A quick happy one
- Tales of the Neil World
- The last of motion capture etc
- mostly a pondering on motion capture
- The tour that is to come...
- Belles
- Reposted from Where's Neil
- Father's Day thoughts
- Harry Clarke and a small gift from the Universe...
- mid interview
- Bee-wolf
- Quick ones...
- MirrorMask exclusive
- Singapore Slings
- No longer A Day
- Morals and mustardseed
- A Day
- pronunciation and how to get your questions answered (or not)
- storm warnings
- The sigh of midnight trains in empty stations
- The wandering me
- temporary photographs
- "My heart was under lock and key, But somehow it got unhitched"
- the last tea post
- Optimism. Faith. English Breakfast.
- A note from the braindead...
- author sensitivity...
- An assortment of bits...
May 2005
- iffiness
- So you're going to a signing....
- A Small Sunday Number Ponder
- a really useful book
- Looking or listening...
- The Anansi Boys Question of the day
- News! News!
- Sheckley, CBLDF, bits
- Where I'll be signing ANANSI BOYS in the US
- More proud but bemused fatherhood
- A break from copy-editing
- Prouder than Punch
- Sheckley Update
- cows and crows and doing the SF trifecta
- Goodness!
- a miscellany...
- The Blue Tit Post
- O HELL
- Beagles, girls, movies
- About time
- The Post with the photo of me and Bob and Roger in it
- Video and Sheckley and Votes and Louie
- Waking up and catching up...
- Where is my Island?
- Maddy as Stephen Hawking etc...
- The Speech I Just Gave at the Nebulas
April 2005
- Three photographs
- Jetlag morning
- Demon Days
- more from the mailbag...
- Two Days...
- finishing things
- Hasty Post
- From the mail pile
- Roger Avary says Hi By The Way
- Rest easy
- Mush! Mush!
- Small Camel Head thought
- That's All He Wrote.
- ...and nail 'em to the wall...
- Be careful what you wish for...
- Chicago Location change
- small happy things
- quick ones
- HP sauce as a coin cleanser and so on
- mailbag stuff
March 2005
- One down
- Tea Break
- Anansi Excerpt
- from the mailbag
- Guns and Statues
- Author's Day
- This Was Not Dictated By A Neptunian Brain Slug.
- Blogger may drive me gently mad...
- Weirdnesses and coolnesses...
- four days.
- On Board the USS "Your Product's Name Here"...?
- I suppose I could always eBay the opportunity to title a Blog entry
- Michael Zulli's last Sandman painting, not to mention Chicago
- UK Anansi Boys cover, and libraries
- Spiders all the way...
- ANANSI BOYS: The hardback US cover
- good night moon
- "Fame is rot; daughters are the thing."
- Smoke and also Mirrors as well...
- Voices in my head...
- It's pretty, but is it art?
- Replacing one lost...
February 2005
- The Nook
- Almost forgot to post this...
- True glue
- mostly soup and sneezing at this end
- 25,000 words typed in 3 days, and my hand hurts
- Posters and whatnot...
- hi-ya! yo yo yo yiiiiiii-ha
- ...and saw Tibet.
- The Patron Saint of Drug Runners and other potential stories
- 9,368 waves
- Hippy pappy thuthd etc.
- Cake? Balloons?
- Kids! Free! Locus! (Normal conditions apply, offer void where prohibited.)
- Her first starred Publisher's Weekly review
- Gloomy Sunday
- More useful stuff. Nothing about being woken up by cats.
- An astonishingly useful and sensible post
- Waking up, blinking...
- Back into madly finishing things mode
January 2005
- more from apostrophe hell
- Aristocrats!
- The '05 model
- late night rambling
- that first day of school feeling
- The whole writer and director thing...
- Son and dance
- I'm Sundancing as fast as I can
- hurrah...
- running
- Mostly MirrorMask
- Quick one
- From Sundance
- An astonishingly professional post for once with barely any bats in it
- Bats and Cats
- Sundance Etiquette
- Gubbins and such
- cough. glare. repeat.
- Zoinks! Jinkies! Jeepers!
- From the House of Soup
- Time for a Quick One
- Everything you wanted to know about literary agents...
- Why automatic kissing machines are a bad idea etc
- Julie Schwartz Memorial Lecture
- ...find who cleft "the Devil's Foot"
- Before taking Maddy to school
- Late night blog...
- Sundries
- The Spirit Of Seventy Five
- Will Eisner, 1917-2005
- Happy Author
2004 275
December 2004
- Where I am
- From the Vaults
- reasons to be cheerful
- Home, not Alone. (Also Planes and Automobiles but no trains.)
- Home for the Holidays
- Scary Internet Magic etc
- Go fly a kite --
- in which you lot do all the work...
- in which i write six hundred perfectly good words before breakfast
- Some days the bear's on top...
- "You can't park here. Look, I don't make the rules, mate."
- Good writing times
- Radio Silence
- Urban Legends
- Different countries, different customs...
- If I only had a brain (reprise)
- Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest
- plugging conFusion
- world AIDS day post...
November 2004
- listening to unresolving
- Wolf Music
- News from the Dead Room
- probably not a gold watch
- Even more oddments
- What You Did
- art as a stew
- Oddments
- Back again, more or less...
- the true price of fame
- Politics, Portugal and no gumbo-limbo trees
- On the table
- Best. Fiddler's Green. Ever.
- At Fiddler's Green
- On the run
- Thank you and goodnight
- The last day of 43
- On the Road
- Gunpowder, treason and plot
- The Neil Gaiman iPod Special Edition Advert
- ...about us, and and they talk to some...
October 2004
- "On Hallowe'en the Old Ghosts Come..."
- "Whatever happened to... Sancho Panza?"
- A Short Film About John Bolton
- Once in a blue moon, or a red one
- When you wish upon a fruit bat.
- Because it's raining, the journal.
- Why I love being a writer by Neil Gaiman.
- Novelisting
- "I'll have 120mb of yellowtail, please."
- grumbles from paradise
- "An adventure is an inconvenience properly considered"
- Sage advice
- On leaving a fairytale cottage.
- Why I am a Tool of the Capitalist Machine And Other Stories
- ups and downs on a puddly day
- I think I'm somewhere in Pennsylvania
- Four Hours of Signing Later...
- One final post while the antivirus updates
- The only post until I get to Washington, probably
- Mirrormask Taster
- Before I get into the car...
- Socks and the Single Writer
September 2004
- Prague below...
- The Smile (more or less)
- "people need bridges"
- Ups and downs
- Red, white and black
- More Fry
- Rob Brydon and Dora Bryan
- A MirrorMask Moment
- Product placement
- Coincidence -- or something more sinister? (Coincidence actually.)
- De Gustibus, and how to reply to bad reviews
- A Quick One
- A Dictionary of Miracles
- Message Monkey...?
- beware of the bookmark
- Bearded, in my lair
- Coffins and shopping for Hugos
- Tapioca Calls
- from the mailbag (er, I won a Huck?)
- A sky full of leaves
- One Hundred and Ten Stories (and one convention)
- The Penny Drops
- one of those rare posts that's only about one thing
- "remember / the way we used to fall"
- Quiet sort of remembery day
- "It means cow in hebrew," he said.
- How Cheesy Popcorn got his (or possibly her) name
- Film news and stuff
- Going Underground...
- a jumble of con memories
- News from the Front...
- now! with shorter hair.
- Worldcon Correction
- Worldcon movements
- I am the Knight?
August 2004
- Pedantically speaking...
- Mysteries revealed and do it yourself postage stamps
- Father and daughter post. Hi peoples.
- After the Roadtrip
- Mobile
- Driving Miss Holly
- Last One...
- Helena's Dream
- Quality Time
- And this is spider or possibly spyder
- Dark Castle
- small useful post
- Q & A
- Forty Nine Doors and a Dead Walk?
- It's Alive!
- Postcard: From an Internet Tobacconist
- Italy
- late night post
- a small ponder about humour and the law
- Mirrormask stuff mostly...
- a Scorpio Rat, actually
- Sigh
- Chicken Soup and Ice Cream
- A Small Addendum
- Lewis and Clarke. Not to mention Snuff.
July 2004
- no distinguishing marks or features
- morning things mostly
- Shatner's Bassoon
- From San Diego. Still Alive.
- En route -- San Diego info
- 21 on the 21st
- Gahan Merritt?
- Cucking claptrap
- In which the author is briefly impersonated
- From the (Other) Mailbag...
- The Stardom of Lorraine...
- catching up...
- Goldfish Ad...
- Mirrormask panel in San Diego...?
- Maddy's molar
- In which an author goes on about a book in progress...
- One last post before intermittent vanishing
- rhubarb and cherries and fireworks, oh my...
- Puts his head out of the ground.
June 2004
- It's deja vu all over again. Or is it?
- The one where I mention Fiddler's Green and absolutely nothing else
- What I said at the Harveys
- One to be going on with
- wrap up
- Good News, Bad News...
- Morning catch-up...
- The Day I was Interviewed by Maddy
- write stuff
- Whales, beavers, unborn rabbits and barnacle geese, actually
- Small pre-Bloomsday Sigh
- After the Thunderstorms
- Remembering Kate.
- Metamorphosis....
- Your extra bonus post.
- One of those yesterdays...
- How to Survive a Collaboration.
- in which you lot do most of the work...
- In Which the author finally has The Conversation with his daughter...
May 2004
- Brains, books, murder, Kirby...
- From the Mailbag...
- The why I can't die before Hallowe'en photo...
- It looked moodier once the candles burned down a bit
- Things that Make you Blog part One: Avoidance...
- Wreckless Entry
- A fraud exposed, and a true thing...
- Toad Mating Balls. Who knew?
- Free stuff
- three things
- If this is Saturday it must be... where the hell am I anyway?
- Sorry again (I hope that's the last sorry for a bit)
- An apologetic horror host writes...
- Coffin, candles and skulls
- Night
- Quick Post and Run
- Happy Mother's Day
- From the Road...
- The Rudiments of Wisdom
- regaining my marbles
- No distinguishing marks or features
- roll up for the ghost train, non-stop through the city
- thought for today...
- Pens, Rules, Finishing Things and Why Stephin Merritt is not Grouchy.
- Considering the odds...
April 2004
- From the postbag...
- The one where I try to update iPod software
- heigh ho the glamorous life
- um....
- the requisite closings of tabs and windows
- Dangerous things to do with pickles, sparklers, gardens, etc.
- somewhat less sinister ducks
- No swearing in this one
- Skip this entire entry if you don't like swearing, especially by your elected Representatives.
- Quick News Item
- braindead, following auction
- Albatross and chips.
- complete and perfect spring
- Millions and billions and trillions and quadrillians: why you need the British kind.
- Lo!
- The Passion of The Easter Bunny
- Lots of probably quite dull song stuff, followed by spontaneous satanic electrical combustion.
- the sound of the tubas... the sound of the tubas must never stop....
- oddments. And oh, the white chocolate ribcage...
- Lemony Snicket, Scooby Doo, From Hell
- In which an author makes a deadline by the skin of his teeth...
March 2004
- Before you set out for the comic store
- So no change there, then.
- Includes your actual philosophical French
- Oh, gruntfuttocks...
- Good lord
- Sleeping the weekend away
- The snapshot that wasn't.
- putting wolves into your walls...
- I really ought to post this and get on with printing out my boarding card...
- the way the future wasn't
- It ain't easy being green
- What Alan said about Julie...
- Catching up. No mention of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head.
- Back in the snow...
- Why I will Not Be Here For A Week.
- Snow falling off cedars
- Setting the record straighter...
- "He wasn't going to leave Pat Benson alone that night, crabs or no crabs."
- Fast Food
- Happy Leap Day
February 2004
- oddments from the mailbag, and how YOU can WIN a FREE POSTCARD!!!
- Last Legal Post for a long time.
- In which an endless legal case is put to rest...
- Zooming through the Rain and Fog, there goes Martin Semmelrogge...
- OWL MOON II
- It's Only Time....
- I Wish I Had An Evil Twin, and fourteen other songs
- Protecting the hard of hearing from witchcraft and cartoons...
- Hasty Post
- "War is bad, peace is good, Never use plastic when you can use wood..."
- Happy Valentine's Day. Except in India, of course...
- is that it?
- Late Night Line Up
- Banana Shoes, mostly
- Crash. "Morning has broken..."
- Julie Schwartz, 1915-2004
- Concerning Music, the Newgate Chronicles, and the Unreliability of Long-Forgotten Blue Peter Annuals.
- Puzzles. And bits.
- more of an excuse for not posting, really
- On Writing
- Snow Day
- Or dead again, anyway
January 2004
- Zap, crackle and bop
- Talking Volumes
- Diamonds, bottled dragon, the Queen of Sheba's hairy legs, et cetera.
- Fred the Unlucky Black Cat part The Next
- Just me and some Olbas Oil and a copy of !Limekiller!
- More songs about buildings and stars
- Twenty Four
- bits. bobs. blobs. blits.
- Fred the Unlucky Black Cat
- How on Earth did this post get this long?
- You think they're cuddly, but I think they're sinister...
- Sneering and whispering and stealing your cars, Reading pornography, smoking cigars...
- Running forever through wolves and forests.
- infinitely late at night
- Hoping not to get a cold.
- Which Square?
- More questions answered, and Harry Stephen Keeler mentioned.
- And now a word from our sponsor. LSMFT etc.
- Small potatoes
- Some wonderful Pot Noodles
- Shorter hair and cleaner teeth.
- nebula zeugma firebird
- parody and front matter
- Presidential poems, copyright, and the dangers of dacoits....
- Legal arguments on the web.
- it is better to travel hopefully
- from a man with a scarf...
2003 587
December 2003
- Deja late. Also some nudity.
- lemurs and naked santas
- What are you doing the Day after Valentine's Day...?
- How did they lose time before computers?
- Tonight, Christmas Present (Ghost of). This morning, Christmas Presents (lots of).
- hmm. likewise, moo.
- A note from the president. No, the other one.
- Back home...
- The days are getting longer.
- Nothing is certain except rain and taxis.
- Jerry Springer and me and Dave McKean.
- Funny Headline In Cleveland Shock Horror.
- Anansi answer
- Anansi Question
- "Good morning," he exclaimed perceptively.
- Get well soon, Julie; and so on, and chutzpah.
- Mean, Mode, Median and More on Bramleys.
- Happy little pop songs about going to hell
- Finally, the photographic evidence...
- small things
- late night post
- a cheerful sort of lunchtime post
- My exciting night. Finally, The Tee Shirt Suggestions....
- two links, and boxes
- Manifestly not the post with the tee shirts in
- If I only had a brain...
- just stuff really
- the lovers, the dreamers, and death
- How many songs about hearses are there, anyway?
November 2003
- Writing a book; also what do you do with a signed tee shirt?
- Strange cool couple of interruptiony days...
- No, I'm not going to explain Old English Flavour Spangles here. You're on your own.
- It was 20 yrs ago today...
- me and the beastie
- it tasted a bit like heaven. I ought to have mentioned that bit.
- in which you learn that in comics L and I can run together, and not to give money to strangers
- stray links, mostly
- Posted from Hiding (or, Why is that Author disguised as a tree?)
- Still in Dublin.
- "Accidentally shot by a man in a diaper trying to kill a member of the Ku Klux Klan. That's not the epitaph I was hoping for."
- My Day. By Neil Gaiman (age 43 and 5 days)
- Saying goodnight, mostly.
- Very short one
- hasty useful post
- Posh hotel. Cold room. Very cold room.
- Is there a Meeravarice, Meerenvy, Meersloth?
- What a Few is. What to do in London for the next 3 weeks. Will this beard never die?
- The answer is not 42 any longer
- From the Mailbag...
- Jerry Springer The Opera etc
- UK signing times shifting...
- More denials at eleven.
- The Heliotrope Gamahaean Union
- Hasty useful post
- Remember, Remember The Fifth of November.
- What has it got in its pocketses?
- "The Adventure of the Orkney Werebot"
- An excuse to close some windows....
October 2003
- The Saga of Fred
- Concerning the small Scottish town of Gijon....
- Mark Twain -- a Pseudo-Dennis Thatcher?
- No pigeons were actually harmed in the composition of this journal entry
- In which I keep breathing...
- Two days of postings squidged together... (And thank you Lisa for the Titles secrets)
- WOLVES IN THE WALLS UK stuff.
- In which I make a slow start on the mailbox...
- Artists are bizarre...
- ow.
- throat thoughts
- now with added tonsils
- Zithromax and Me
- Now Sleep.
- Seeing you asked for them, a sampling...
- Frankfurt Bookfair: Day 112.
- "You were Peter Pan/Now You're Dorian Grey..."
- No Sleep Till Minneapolis
- Frankfurt signing for Saturday: a useful post...
- On not signing for 15 people a minute...
- "It used to be Distance, Now it's Just Miles...
- small experimental post to see if it's working now or not
- Frankfurt Day One... Ys and Zs, or vice versa
- From Zagreb to Book Fair.
- Not that most of you will care, most of you not being in Zagreb, but...
- Putting off packing for another ten minutes...
- A quick one...
- Where am I? And what am I doing in this handbasket?
- "I knew a boy who would not share his bike/oh but he let me go sailing"
September 2003
- In which I leave out the Alan Rickman televisual anecdote in favour of bed
- Am I wearing Eyeliner, and other important questions of the day
- Warming up slowly
- Small talk about a meal
- blinking at the daylight in helsinki
- I'd do the Vanishing into Finn Air gag here but actually I was flying KLM.
- Two Rules of Booktour.
- Rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit
- Hi Ho the Glamorous Life...
- In which our author types while braindead
- European Son
- In which I sort of lose track of the point but cover a lot of ground anyway
- "Isabel makes love upon national monuments..."
- miscellania
- On not missing Isabel
- Twas the Night Before Endless Nights was published...
- Golden loo-women, 1602 stuff, kitten-eating aliens, the usual
- University Challenge (post-Bambi)
- say goodnight gracie
- Late night Sunday Wittering, basically. (No Unman, no Zigo.)
- Falling a very long way....
- From the mailbag...
- Links and libraries. And... Where's Waldo?
- "And of course, Batgirl really was a librarian...."
- Going to Zagreb...
- Dressing as a Sandman character while Talking Like a Pirate?
- Your help requested...
- And I'm where? And it's when?
- Cheryl Morgan's Hugo Award Shock Horror and other stories
- Utterly unable to come up with a snappy title for this one
- all over the place...
- The post with the porridge recipe
- Slashdotted and it feels so good...
- apres moi les FAQs
- third time lucky
- Cheaper than J.G. Ballard! But probably not better value.
- Better value than Steve Martin! And still cheaper!
- Themeless in Gaza
- Obtaining Endless Nights Early, and other ponders
- The last word
- In which it is decided there are Some Things That Man Was Not Meant To Know
- Bits. Bobs. Squick.
- a small gallimaufry of things. Places the mind was not meant to go.
- The silence of the hamsters...
- Home
August 2003
- Mostly for people at Torcon
- En route to slumberland
- in Toronto; and the urge to annotate...
- Terry Pratchett and Lucy Anne
- The August the 28th post.
- "And I shan't get shirty when they say I look peculiar..."
- Toronto
- Nasally inserted wake-up kittens
- Phone blog test
- just watch the swan
- The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: Male!
- a couple of night things
- Why I won't climb out of a coffin this year
- People who talk loudly in comic-book stores....
- Mainly 1602 stuff, really.
- Police in Oxford Hunt Batman
- Two Lizzes a Jon and a Sandy.
- Includes grumble, review, recipes, etc.
- Blue Moon ice cream (Tasty world. Very Tasty...)
- And do not forget the colourist...
- Fair and Balanced. Well, fair anyway.
- Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire
- some thises and a small handful of thats
- Late night line-up....
- A Long Day
- My day.
- "No Mithter Bond -- I ecthpect you to die!"
- Clarification. Also why my iPod is attached to a plastic knife with a rubber band.
- The First Wolves in the Walls Review
- ... it's a wonderful town.
- Several readings coming up. The First Amendment. And The Bible (er, adult content).
- more on the CBLDF. Arr...
- hard news...
- Monday Morning stuff...
- The one that includes the repost of the Helpful Signing Rules
- Monologue morning
- (insert lots of apologetic swearing here)
- Sasquatch and the speed limit
- Mostly pondering about poetry and awards
- Radium parties
July 2003
- CBLDF auction (ends Aug 6th) mostly...
- Borders signing on the 8th of August...
- Pasties (not the nipple kind) and blogging from a phone.
- Alan Interview at Locus, and other things...
- A fistful of links
- Whether or not I know how old I am....
- Public Service Announcements. Also ping-pong puppetry....
- Home...
- Very Important Day
- sundries, dry goods, knick-knacks, and animation
- Preserve Us from the House of Clocks...
- Not waving but drowning. Well, waving a bit.
- Friday Night Fever.
- Friday on my mind
- San Diego Thursday
- "Well what I say is, dear, whatever gets you through the night."
- Borders signing info
- In San Diego
- Cry loony, and let slip the blogs of war
- Autograph times and Entertainment Weekly -- but which week?
- More tidbits: Roz Kaveney and the Extraordinary Gentlemen
- This Post Guaranteed Free of Wolves (this statement has not been verified...)
- copyright notes
- children, diseases, CDs, bestsellers, plays, links.
- Small oh well post
- PreSandiegan ramblings
- Several things I left off the previous list...
- More early questions
- up early answering questions
- CBLDF San Diego Events. (Win! Dinner! With me and Frank Miller and Will Eisner!)
- New York "Wolves in the Walls" Signing info
- Your cut out and keep San Diego guide. etc
- Actually it's called a Permanent Resident Card these days....
- Cheerfully shilling for MirrorMask. Naming explained.
- Home again home again joggetty jig
- continual peripatetic jaunting
- My little blue world
- Run ragged but still alive
June 2003
- still alive
- I also named Boston Brand's dog Pittsburgh, of course.
- Happy Birthday Holly. Also Comic-con....
- A test to see if Blog This! now works.... (it does)
- Test post to see if things are any better
- Not the post about the hair
- metaMORpho, metamorPHO, etc
- Biblical Dragons, Metamorpho theme, library filtering, crap rap.
- Superheroes of History. This thing seems to be working again.
- Still apologising hopefully.
- Argh. Also, as always, sorry...
- Continuing to test things on the New! Imporved! Bolgger!
- Neil ive just been talking to my
- Quick post for New Yorkers mostly
- sundries
- The Mysteries of Amazon. Nothing about Piccolos.
- Extraordinary piccolo players, and the madness of writers.
- In which you lot do most of the work
- oddments of all kinds
- Mostly Mirror Mask. Curiosity is satisfied. The word Supernacular is used.
- Macleod. Not Mccloud. Macleod. Not McCloud, 500 times...
- walking down the street naked, possibly with a mullet
- more on manuscripts and minis
- Tommy the Leprechaun dies. Organs are built.
- Small things, like puppets and minis and the spaces after full stops
- Cheap plugs for friends, mostly
- Rotting latex eyelids, and other sweet memories of Old London
- Neverwhere and Mirror Mask and the death of Takako Konishi
- Death, Coraline, and, oh, what's the word for it... Begins with an M...?
- some faintly bemusing things
- You must be this tall to ride this website...
- Telling Tales
- No discernable theme or pattern here really.
- What do Authors owe? Apart from the bar tab, of course.
- A short morning post...
- Sound and vision
- Posters to make people read books...
- The Miracles of Modern Technology
- not a poem
- Sorry
- tattoos in intimate places and an ear infection named Coconut
- Kill and Quell and Cull and Collect.
- Questions Answered. Neverwhere Commentated. Copyright law entangled.
- Good morning...
- Good news...
- just bits and bobs really.
- An eBay mystery solved
- An inordinately long post: questions are answered and you learn too much about Book Expo.
May 2003
- A major improvement on yesterday
- Time to kill; the driver. (Repunctuate as needed.)
- Please Help. Also an intimate, but authorised Mickey Mouse, Wallaroos, and Pynchon.
- A Genuinely Useful Post (unless you're not in or near Chicago or Los Angeles.)
- A blog with a footnote.
- "Therefore, please photo your cat lovelily with much trouble. "
- In the US edition, demons dance like a white band on Soul Train.
- Ducks, Drag Polo, Morels and the Wrong Kind of Mindless Crap
- Posting from home!
- A thousand dreams that would await me...
- Water flows uphill...
- keeping on keeping on
- A Mystery Solved. Ink purchased. Lunch eaten. Will the Excitement Never End?
- try reloading
- 1602 revelation. Barney and Torture. How Not to Interview Lou Reed. Etc.
- Concerning truth in labelling
- In the City, in the Rain (Again).
- Ways to Tell if You've Been On The Road Too Long.
- It's a very nice hotel room. But still...
- In Which Our Peripatetic Author Takes A Moment to Ponder Hypothetical Postcards
- Remembering the Concerned Mothers of America
- That is night-gab. How can he starch a tepid mouse?
- Least Gratuituous use of the word Belgium in this journal.
- Why else would they play the accordion? he says.
- Neil Bolognese
- Not a dream, not a hoax, not an imaginary story.
- "I'm a peer!" Splash. "You're a very short pier, Neddie."
- More on Translations
- The best-kept secret in Oslo
- From the Infinite Hall of Mirrors and Links
- Now with added Danegeld
- Damn
- Live, from Krakow.
- Now with a Title, and Even Better!
- More later
- From Next Door.
- WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN?
- "Do you have to?" "Yes I have to." "Oh." "Don't Get up."
- Save Our Slut. Er.
- "Where you going?" "Barcelona." "Oh." "Don't get up."
- Curiously, nothing at all in here about my antepenultimate day in Portugal...
- In which our author wanders all over the place while attempting to stick to the point.
- Almost definitely not nude faerie mud-wrestling
April 2003
- I could use this title line to write a poem, you know. But I'd have to compose it backwards.
- Awards and stuff
- And so to bed
- "Where d'you think you're going with that bonfire, son? We don't hold with book burnin' in these parts. New York is Book Country."
- Lisbon signing Information
- some thoughts on interviews
- Signings in Barcelona and Copenhagen. Await Instructions.
- Things Man Was Not Meant To Know And Other Stories
- More reflections on pointy ears, and some links to poems
- Castles and pointy ears and such
- in haste
- stealth signings and pantoums
- In the Port of Amsterdam...
- sock monkeys and travel plans
- No longer looking as much like a sheepdog...
- ...and what do you do with your Giant Puffballs?
- Coraline wins BSFA award. Author glows.
- Well, if I said "Fuck I got a Nebula" it was only in context of explaining that I was not saying "Fuck I got a Hugo." But I've got a Nebula. Fu--
- Rube Goldberg, Heath Robinson, Pedro, Hugo and me
- On the Road
- Just fyi it seems that people are
- sundry oddments, and then the road.
- Solar Frogspawn
- What strange and fearsome newfangled world is this?
- Dear neil will you be doing signing at
- Dear mr gaiman i just get program from
- Fascinating guardian article on way
- This in from mark askwith just so i am
- Todays cool trivia moment from
- More information will be posted as it
- Hi neil this might be funny thing to
- There
- Article from straits times in
- I missed fuss over concept of
- I cant think of anything to say about
- Hi neil this is not question but
- Dear neil national geographic also has
- Author yellow pages looks like really
- Image stolen from patrick nielsen
- Over at bloomsbury website they have
- Lets see
- If theres young person you know who
- About year ago at mark askwiths urging
- Something and someone worth knowing
- Bram stoker awards final ballot is up
- Californian fans of magnetic fields or
- Dear mr
- Just finished long mirror mask
- Another lovely review of nalo
- I spoke to jill thompson who wanted me
- Over at jill thompsons site is preview
- Second half of alan moore interview is
- Links from jonathan carroll arrive
- Hi neil as pedantic scientist i feel
- It can be very dangerous to offer
- Interesting article forwarded to me by
- Maddy wanted to go to seaworld so we
- Hi i have thing where i really like to
- Theres now fantasy blog shares market
- Ive reached walt disney world with two
- This isnt exactly faq since its not
- Please please please im doing project
- Howdy perhaps its just because i
- Several people have asked me to post
- Hey
- Since you are so approachable with
- Mail today included several letters
- Were currently at 50 universities 49
- Hello
- Dream project is online magazine
- Living in america one occasionally
- Holly points out that in entry about
- You said today in blog tuesday first
- Hey neil just quick not to let anyone
- Dear mr 01
- Lets see 01
- I think that everything would be
- So holly couldnt decide and she
March 2003
- Theres review of mojo conjure stories
- E mail waiting for me this morning
- Dear neil
- Lots of interesting comments and
- Ive started worrying that war is
- Science fiction foundation and british
- Neil just little note that i thought
- There used to be two piers in brighton
- Httpwww
- This came in from our ace webmistress
- Youve mentioned that neverwhere will
- For several months e mails to dc
- This is not question more of random
- Im glad to see you mention blackmask
- Hi neil found this review in irish
- Those of you on livejournal would
- Hi neil im bit confused by your
- There are over 11000 public domain
- Countries and dates of european tour
- Dear mr
- Httpwww 24
- This is great snapshot at scotts site
- In observer today httpwww
- Rule one of reading other peoples
- I realised i didnt know enough about
- Nalo hopkinsons anthology mojo conjure
- Phrase only write what you know is
- From sandman 50 in fables and
- Neil concerning question of
- Dear mr 21
- Dave mckeans cover for endless nights
- I turned on news
- And teresa nielsen hayden wrote to say
- Meanwhile over at this sandman fan
- Fascinating review of book on history
- Over at her journal teresa nielsen
- Httpbostonreview
- I think youll find this interesting
- Writers get freedom to drive sheep
- Dear neil i saw this article in japan
- Lots of people writing in to point out
- Gmzoe writes to say re purity test
- You know i should do photo gallery or
- Dear mr 14
- Your mention of miyazaki and howls
- I know that you said that archives
- Over at jonathan strahans blog at
- Hi neil i apologize if this isnt
- Morning began with e mail from oliver
- This in from rick mueller about film
- Darren mckeenan from gothic
- Other peoples problems with computers
- Hey neil glad salt lake city signing
- Neil i hate to cause trouble but on
- Im quoting this from us edition of
- Theres always onion isnt there not
- Fascinating article at httpbooks
- I stole this link from teresa nielsen
- Several why arent you coming to my
- Good lord you people are fast
- Looks like schedule for poland is up
- You know now that google has bought
- Just did reading for about 650 people
- Did you forget to mention books column
- Made it in to salt lake city okay
- Hi neil id just like to echo your
- On good side it looks like weve fixed
- Were on new server as of 4th of
- Dear neil i know youve been ill
- Meanwhile terri windlings wonderful
- And every time i read this strange
- Httpwww 05
- Patrick nielsen hayden writes to set
- Hi neil happy belated pancake tuesday
- One of sequences i really wanted to
- My editor at harper e mailled me to
- Almost forgot to mention i recommended
- I was there in cleveland in 1999 when
- Dont know how youll feel about this
- Several years ago i wound up getting
- I want to let your other readers know
- Umberto eco makes some fascinating
- I kind of feel that while ive been
- Over last few days ive been
- Greetings sire i love books
- From abas bookselling this week via
- I got sneak preview of my assistant
- Httpwww
- Also forgot to mention that my editor
- Httpwww 28
February 2003
- Lets see stuff from mailbag
- Hello neil why do you dislike signings
- One ring zero are doing cd of songs
- Dear neil i hope this info might cheer
- I made quiz for friend what sf writer
- Getting better day at time
- Both myself and tall friend of mine
- Httpwww 26
- Hi neil sorry to hear that it wasnt
- Turns out it wasnt flu after all so it
- While not yet hale and hearty im at
- Its somehow let down when you list
- So i was awarded most collectable
- I have this vague theory that money
- Dear neil you mentioned mentioned
- I went to radio shack few weeks ago
- Hello neil i am intending to attend
- Httpwww 17
- This just in from lance smith its
- Is lorraines band playing in duluth
- Not that shell read this for couple of
- Looks like somethings gone technically
- Happy valentines day
- Its been sort of interview at eleven
- Argh
- Dear mr
- Few people have written for details on
- Neil doesnt it suck news that eddie
- Was posting stan story merely to be
- In matsigenka also spelled machiguenga
- Stans caretaker and one of places he
- Okay faq line is working again
- Lets see first things first dont use
- So this journal is 2 years old today
- Seems bit odd nothing coming in on faq
- Barron storey story in endless nights
- Right
- Server move means that posts are
- According to this article im 30 more
- Faq line thingie seems to be down
- Theres nice laura miller review of
- Hah id managed to get day ahead
- Long bitty day of phone calls and e
- You know in grand list of things id
- You know i should know better than to
- Hall of mirrors moment heres link to
- Long occasionally frustrating
- Few years ago i was in florida driving
- My copy of satanic mill arrived today
- All plans for last night including
January 2003
- Mark askwith sent me this news article
- Dear mr
- Lets pick out more or less random grab
- Overheard in kitchen now i think its
- I know that at this time of
- Long long meeting today figuring out
- This in from dozens of you but gmzoe
- Dear mr 28
- So very small screening of john bolton
- Slept for long time
- Lets see
- In hotel room sick and resting and
- According to this article i got mock
- Dear neil should unpublished writers
- Well it was interesting seeing film on
- We deeply regret consequences of brmbs
- Just to remind people in angouleme
- I am typing this on train to angouleme
- Heres reading list from locus of best
- Spent day being interviewed except for
- Further to yesterdays post one about
- Writing sandman broke all my responses
- Normally when i get to foreign country
- In paris now
- In amsterdam airport en route to paris
- Httpwww
- First settlers arrived in 1865 aboard
- Terry gilliam talks about good omens
- Neil friend told me that he found out
- Just learned that peter tinniswood
- Had long chat with julia bannon
- I was delighted to see mention of
- For some reason probably having to do
- Every few years strange messages come
- I am bad person
- Just lost first post in ages
- I just got sent url for strangely
- Hi neil first i would just like to say
- There
- Just got nice e mail from robert
- Someone looking for further gaiman
- Blogging ecosystem stats for this
- You know i thought i posted this when
- Oliver morton pulls me up correctly on
- Neil innes was one of songwriting and
- Currently in with faq stuff im now
- Over at la times theres marvellous
- I hate being in final stages of story
- Hi directed to webmistress any chance
- Article in guardian on digital dark
- Have now started typing legends
- Bathroom reading book at present is
- David goldfarb writes to let me know
- Just heard that todd klein is going to
- Back in june i said here am currently
- Neil comment on your comments about
- Httpwww 07
- Im fascinated by this article
- Couple of people have asked me about
- Publishers weekly listed harperaudio
- Hah i knew that one day search thingie
- Over at httpwww
- Music going onto ipod is starting to
- Lots and lots of stuff coming in on
- There are bunch of very odd things
- Coraline is on bookbrowse
- Not quite right section to mention it
- Lets see 01