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The mayor talked about what's become ThinkChicago back during his campaign and launched it last year. Last week, he talked about how it's going to expand this year.
Young people who apply by Sept 7 may be able to participate in an extraordinary few days of seminars and meet-and-greets at some of the city's most innovative and exciting businesses: including Groupon, Grubhub, Accenture, 37 Signals, Excelerate Labs, Threadless, Coudal Partners, Google, Microsoft and Classified Ventures. Some founders and top execs of those companies will be on hand to answer questions and talk about why they chose to work in Chicago.
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Neil Gupta was one of last year's participants. A native of Silicon Valley, he had expected move back there after he graduated this spring. Instead, he's staying and starting a company here.
"Programs like ThinkChicago are encouraging more students to stay and build in Chicago. We have a high density of amazing universities and students here, who just needed to be fostered to innovate and build the next big thing," Gupta said.
Chicago badly needs a next big thing. Over the last 150 years, we've done transportation in the form of rail, waterways and airplanes; manufacturing innovative agricultural implements and others; and we've created new financial instruments and markets. But if we're going to remain a world-class city and grow, we need people like Neil Gupta to invent the McCormick Reaper of the 21st Century.
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DENVER -- Eric Young Jr. woke up on the right side of the bed Tuesday morning, answering a wakeup call from his Triple-A manager informing him that he'd finally gotten the callup to the big leagues he'd been waiting for throughout his six-year Minor League career."Stu Cole, my Triple-A manager, called me this morning right after I got out of bed," Young said. "He told me, 'Here's your call, you're going up.' He told me the game time and everything and said be up here ready to go." Young's callup comes as a result of an injury center fielder Dexter Fowler sustained when he fouled a pitch off the inside of his right knee in the 14th inning of Monday's dramatic, come-from-behind victory over the Giants. Fowler suffered a deep bruise, and although he was able to continue the at-bat after several agonizing moments on the ground, earn a walk and score a run in the winning rally, he was nevertheless placed on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday. Young followed in his father's fleet footsteps, leading off in this first game for the Rockies and hoping to add to the legacy of LoDo Magic his new teammates have rekindled. His father took the first at-bat in Rockies history in New York, trying unsuccessfully to bunt for a hit. Then, in the first at-bat by a Rockies player in Colorado, he launched a home run into the left-field seats at Mile High Stadium, a moment that many Rockies fans still recall as the franchise's most memorable. "It was a tremendous feeling, just to have my heart filled with happiness and joy to see him finally reach his dream," Young Sr. said. "And to play on the same field that I played on, you can't write a better script than that."
Young Jr. went 1-for-4 in his debut on Tuesday, collecting his first big league hit with a sharp single to left field in the fifth inning. He was picked off trying to steal second.
" ... For him to get that first hit out of the way, that's a lot of pressure, trying to get that first hit out of the way," Young Sr. said. "He knew Daddy was in the stands, so I'm sure he was trying to get that stolen base, too. It was great."
"I realize that this is a little bit of a baptism of fire in [Young's] case, but we have one guy [left fielder Carlos Gonzalez] that sustained a puncture wound in his hand, another guy that we've just had to put on the disabled list after he took a vicious foul ball off the inside of his right knee," manager Jim Tracy said. "I think you're at the point in time in the season where you find out about the depth of an organization."The switch-hitting Young, 24, hit .299 with seven homers, 10 triples, and 21 doubles in 119 games for Triple-A Colorado Springs this season. Young has 58 stolen bases and leads all Minor Leaguers with 118 runs scored. "It was just a matter of continuing what I was doing in years past as far as getting more disciplined at the plate and using my speed to my advantage," Young said of his first season at the Triple-A level. "Getting on base, causing havoc for the other team, and setting up my teammates for success. Down there the team's in first place, and we've been doing a good job of causing other teams problems." With Fowler and Gonzalez out of the lineup and the National League West-leading Dodgers in town with a mere three-game lead over the Rockies, it's a chance for Young to show the strength of the Rockies' system and his own ability to make an immediate impact. "He's quite an asset at the top of the lineup if he reaches base," Tracy said. "You'd be hard-pressed to come up with the name of a guy that's faster than he is. This kid has done a tremendous job in Triple-A, and he probably even prior to this has deserved an opportunity to become a Major League player, but because of the way that we've been performing the opportunity has not been there to bring him here." While Young is accustomed to hitting in the leadoff role, he is relatively new to center field, where he started Tuesday night. A natural second baseman, he began focusing on center field in the Arizona Fall League last year and has been playing center for the much of the past two weeks with Colorado Springs. "I feel good out there," Young said. "There's little things I can work on to make it a little smoother. If the ball's in the air I'm going to go get it." Young has worked hard to ensure that he can hold his own in center, working on his reads off the bat, dealing with his awareness of the wall, the wind and the twilight visibility issues. The work has paid off, and the report on his prowess in the outfield gives Tracy confidence to challenge Young with an instant start covering the expansive Coors Field acreage. "He was doing a very good job in center field, no question," Tracy said, eager to see what kind of effect Young can have on the big league stage. "This is a catalyst-type player, this is a high-energy-type player that can do some very special things in the lineup. But I also think part of being a good offensive player is feeling comfortable with what you're doing defensively. And I think that moving forward that's something that we're working on trying to completely sort out, and that is establishing that comfort for this young man as a defensive player. It's not something that's going to happen overnight." For Young, it's been more of a lifetime journey. He was 7 years old when his dad made his Major League debut with the Dodgers, and he remembers watching his father's efforts to succeed at the highest level. He saw many of his father's baseball accomplishments, including the first Rockies game and the legendary leadoff homer in the inaugural home opener. "I know how the fans treated him here," Young said. "They loved his playing style. Hopefully, I can bring more of the same. "The home run's not my biggest highlight," Young said of watching his father's career. "Just him being a Major Leaguer. I know how hard that is. Especially moreso now, I know how hard it is to get up there. That's my biggest highlight." On Tuesday night, Young Jr. adds his own chapter to the family highlight reel.
"Every achievement that he gets, everything that he achieves in the Major Leagues will be better than anything I did, because that's my son," Young Sr. said. "I want him to have more success, a better career and to enjoy the game more than I did."
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Lol good point, battle bridge is rarely ever used! Even in battle
What you are referring to in first contact was a hatch not a window Picard opened the hatch to show Lily the earth. The hatch had a force field keeping the air in.
The 1701D "Seperation" was originally intended to be used virtually every time the ship went into battle. (After all, got to keep all those civilian family members safe.) However, after they did it on "Encounter at Farpoint", they realized how expensive it was going to be to film the seperated models everytime they went into battle. So it was only done 3 times I believe during the entire 7 season run of TNG.
I have seen the darkness in my soul and shine brighter for it.
The battle bridge was located at the top-center of the saucer nub—the bit that was leftover after separation.
For it to be a window, Kirk would actually have to look into the bridge off axis. Remember in the TOS, the bridge is off axis from the turbo lift. This puts the view screen roughly 30 degrees towards starboard. The screen would have to be just that, a view screen. Otherwise the ship would always be traveling in a 30 degrees arc.
Hah! Your saucer separation comment reminded me of a little read and obscure review of TNG when it first started. I'm almost tempted to post it in full for posterity's sake. The review score it received was 2 stars which translated to: Don't bother.
The relevant section reads thus:
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As the pilot movie oozed out over a lengthy two (too many) hours, we began to wonder...
1. Why is the Enterprise sooo ugly? 2. Is it going to come apart every week? 3. Why does the bridge look like a cocktail lounge? 4. Why does the transporter effect look like a bucket of water being dumped on the floor (especially when the effect in the last couple of movies has been really cool. ILM is doing the effects, so what gives?)? 5. Why do the phasers look like sparkly moonbeams? The photon torpedoes are O.K., though. 6. Why does everyone look like they have the hots for everyone else? (except the kid and the android - and that changes for one of them later...) 7. What is that Klingon doing there? 8. Is he a traitor or are the Klingons and Earthers friends now? 9. Why do the uniforms look like Spandex P.J.'s? 10. Why is Data (the android) that sickly color? If he is so human-like, why not make him exactly like a human in appearance? Why isn't he stunningly handsome? Homely androids make no sense to us. 11. We understand the idea of putting women in positions of authority, but why do all the women they cast seem either brainless, unhappy, or a little too butch? Can't they be doing their jobs competently without so much agony? We would have preferred to see a woman First officer or Captain. 12. And perhaps most importantly, why does everyone walk around like they have an airhose up their butt?
<snip some more> (Answers to some of the questions posed already)
1. Still no excuse for the Enterprise, especially up against the much more graceful, if probably outdated Gagarin class research vessel (like the ill-fated Grissom from STIII). Love the way the nacelles stretch like putty when it accelerates, though 2. Guess it won't come apart every week, but young Wes had control of Engineering for most of the show, and he (being the most clever and interesting character) probably doesn't like it apart either. And it's still a piece of cake to control the ship from Engineering; you'd think they'd have fixed that by now... 3. Still no answer here, though those three (1st Officer Riker, the Captain and the seemingly purposeless Telepath) look uncomfortable sitting in their lounge chairs with nothing to do (maybe they're wondering what happened to the cocktail waitress). And someone give that Security girl (Yar) a chair; the poor thing spends all day running up and down the biggest console you ever saw (she must wonder what she did wrong in the Service, with those three dodos in front of her with about five buttons to push between them). 4. Again, no illumination here, just more water. 5. Still dunno, though the tractors and repulsors are little better. 6. Everyone's hormones go wild here, and we see who has the hots for whom; and let us tell you, it's pretty ugly. The uptight Security girl and the android? Ick! The old, bald Captain and the Medical officer? Barf! (that explains the baldness bit; it must be sexy now). The dull Telepath and even duller Riker? Yawn! Meanwhile poor blind LeVar Burton (Geordi) lies on a bed and sweats while the kid redesigns the Enterprise's entire circuit layout, just because the stodgy old Captain won't let him on the Bridge (we guess because poor Wes isn't of drinking age yet...) 7-8. Still no answers here, either (and do we care about those icky Klingons, anyway?). 9. The uniforms look like P.J.'s to show off everyone's absolutely incredible physiques (in contrast to the old crew of Kirk, Scotty, and Uhura, all of whom were looking a bit out of shape by the later movies). Obviously the only recreational equipment on ship besides the Holodeck is the 400 nautilus machines. Too bad nobody has a brain to match. 10. Still unanswered question, though it seems that Lt. Yar likes him that way, at least when she's drunk. 11. No answer here, though none of the women has convinced us otherwise than our first impressions. 12. Why do they walk like that? Especially Riker? Is his uniform too tight? Are his lines too silly? Is he really just a bad actor?
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Which part do the families go to during battle? I would guess the saucer part but why would the battle bridge need warp?
The bridge is located in a highly exposed position. It could be the Federation does this specifically to appear non-threatening.
I have seen the darkness in my soul and shine brighter for it.
The viewscreen was a viewscreen, allways.
Now, I have no clue what nutbrain in J.J.s team decided to change the screen into a window. Really, what are they supposed to see through that window? Considering the distances and speeds in space they would have to use a zoom. But, who knows, perhaps its a window with a magnifying effect.
Its so silly. On the other hand, now we have a window on the bridge we could invent a new class of villains:
I'm wondering if the viewscreen on the Enterprise is simply setup to look like a window, for pyschological reasons. It simply shows a camera view from the bridge dome as if there was a window there.
Of course, we shouldn't forget the fact that at times on Voyager, shuttle operators grabbed right through the windows when the ship was a rocking...unintentionally of course.
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It has been my observation that there is no requirement that laws be either logical or necessary. When you have a group of people whose job it is to create laws, you wind up with laws being created just to give the appearance of "doing something". At least that's the case here in the States. If it's different where you live, if all your laws make perfect sense, then either you are blessed or your current system of government has not been in place long enough for your lawmakers to start dreaming up totally idiotic ones.
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I think it absolutely retarded that I can NOT own an automatic knife or a balisong but can own a Ak 47 and a shotgun and can LEGALLY carry a .44 magnum or 21 shot 9mm Beretta. I do obey laws even if I dont agree with them but silly is as silly does.Many people have been killed with butcher knives and such so if a small auto or balisong is illegal it makes me think we need to change the laws.
I think this forum was good. I'm pretty new to Spyderco forum but have enjoyed it. This is the first one that I have read all the way through. As users we need to know at least the basic laws so we don't buy something that will get us or others in trouble with the law. If you do already have something illegal just DON'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT. Why is that so hard to do?
imo: WE ALL SHOULD BE ABLE TO OWN ANY KINFE WE WANT!!! Is the issue dealing with crime or safety? Switchblade knives, assisted opening knives and such are definately a little more unsafe than a normal folding knife. I tried someone's assisted opening knife and carelessly cut myself a little. I also put a scratch on a beautiful chair. This is done by not being careful as to how close the kinfe was to something else when I opened it. I now babysit my grandson and hate to think what might happen if he got hold of one (or any knife of course). The only difference in the assisted open blades is the force of the spring. Some are pretty strong. He can't walk yet but I've already thought about it. I also would be hesitant to loan an assisted opening knife to someone not familiar with them. Who hasn't had someone say "Can I borrow your knife"? That happened to me once in a bar by someone I didn't know. Drinking people and very sharp objects. Not the best combo. I said I didn't have one because I didn't know the guy or how much he had had to drink. I'm not going to get an assisted opening knife for those reasons. I understand "assisted opening knifes" are legal.
Guns fall into the same catagory as far as I'm concerned. Every single gun or knife is a tool. How it is used is the issue. If I rob a convenience store using a long screwdriver will I be charged the same as if I used a knife or gun? I do think that automatic guns are a bit extreme for the normal homeowner but that's just because I don't want one. A gun is not an everyday tool in the USA now except for a handful of people that hunt for food. I don't mean the hunter that eats what he kills. I mean someone that needs to hunt for food. Very few of those people left in America. Before I offend anyone I'm not against hunting. I've hunted myself. If someone eats what they kill there is nothing wrong with that imo. BUT, if you shoot something just for fun that shows a level of maturity that is really low. I said maturity because I don't know how many birds I killed with my pellet rifle as a kid. I regret that now.
I've strayed a little, back to knives only.
As a crime issue why can't the law change to something like this: If you use a deadly weapon to threaten someone with harm or death you will be charged as if you actually did harm or kill that person. Example: I, in a right state of mind, rob a bank with a switchblade knife. I could be charged with pre-meditated murder and subject to whatever sentence is possible for me as if I did kill someone even if I never touched or hurt anyone. The USE of the tool would be the issue, not the fact that it was manufactured legally and I bought and owned it legally. If that was the law the rest of us could continue to open boxes, cut string, work around the house or on the job using any kind of knife we want.
When I started typing this was going to be a really short post. Sorry.
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Fortunately I fall into the LEO catagory and can own any knife I want. Kansas where I'm from even includes EMS and a few other professions that are able to carry autos and bali's that have not been discussed here. (Not sure how that stands federally). I know I am a few years behind, however I was just introduced to the Spyderfly and would like to own one for work. I would like to know how to aquire one and how to get it to me. If you would rather not say on a forum due to any number of complications I can think of arrising, as an administrator you can send an email to me or ask me to call.
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All of the discusion on this forum regarding laws restricting or not restricting, and the exceptions to the rule; I have yet to see but a very few laws that do not have exceptions or that can be enforced by the pure black and white printing in the law books or a way around it. KaliGman has stated it several times, the one thing that the law cannot account for is what every single person has- an opinion. Someone out there will always disagree.
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Deacon, thanks for the info and I guess I'm left with, more than likely fruitless, effort of waiting for Spyderco to make a very similar knife in the future. Or settle for the smallfly. Thanks
If this is all true, how does a company like microtech exist? I dont know too many cops that want a $600 knife...
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I know this a little OT, but to the original poster who is, I think in law enforcement. How long until the feds redefine the legal definition of the switchblade to include assisted open knives. I would bet good money that's coming up next across the US not just in NY. You mentioned disposing of these illegal knives responsibly. Can you tell me how to do that? If the law is yet again redefined any chance we will see local buy back programs for folding knives?
There's no reason why a balisong should be banned. Why, I can open my Endura faster than most balisongs.... I think. Unfortunately, due to the genius of our lawmakers, I can't compare. However, a wave should be faster, IMO. Anyways, aside from that, a balisong is a knife. It's no more dangerous than another folding knife, just more flashy.
Maybe I can see switchblades, because they open too "fast", but still. Fixed blades open faster.
A knife is a knife, unless it's a ballistic knife. No reason to have special restrictions on certain types of knives. Honestly, I wish the second amendment could have been written better, to allow more freedom. But then again, I guess they didn't even think of knives then, since everyone who had pants had a knife.
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Obey the law, but make an effort to change it when it doesn't make sense.
CA banned open carry on the 1st of Jan 2011, which means since we're a shall not issue state a law abiding citizen can no longer carry a gun at all.
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I didn't know they banned carry in CA. That sucks. Some states like to follow CA. So this could be bad for everyone.
Personally, I blame the switchblade/bali laws on the actor Russ Tamblyn who waved a cheapo blade around during the rumble scene in West Side Story.
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For those of you who have been following the story of the man dubbed the "Miami Zombie," I've got some new information to share with you.
Ronald Poppo was reportedly conscious during the 18-minute attack that left him without 75 percent of his face, according to the Daily Mail.
Rudy Eugene, 31, was shot and killed by Miami police on Saturday after ignoring officers' warnings to stop eating the face of a man along the MacArthur Causeway near Miami Beach.
Eugene reportedly took off and scattered his clothes as he walked across the causeway.
Police later found his drivers license and clothes strewn from the beach to the mainland - before pouncing on the homeless man he found sleeping on the elevated train tracks.
A number of passers-by passed the two men while the attack took place.
Miami officer Jose Rivera shot Eugene shortly after he arrived.
He shouted at Eugene to stop, but he simply got up and growled with pieces of flesh in his mouth and continued eating at the man's face.
Police believe Eugene might have taken bath salts, known as the new "LSD".
Poppo, whose nose, mouth and eyes were torn off during the attack, is currently recovering at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital.
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Buffalo Bills
Crezdon Butler - #29 - CB
|6' 0"/ 191 lbs.
|Asheville, NC
|Years played
|2010, 5th round, 33rd pick by Steelers
Bills' new regime sees Edwards as 'salvageable'
When QB Trent Edwards was banished to the bench last season in favor of Ryan Fitzpatrick, the general belief was that his days in Buffalo were numbered. After all, he appeared to lose his confidence and struggled mightily during the ...
Bills electrify offense with addition of Spiller
The Bills passed on more pressing needs at quarterback and offensive tackle to give their ground game a spark with consensus No. 1 RB C.J. Spiller.
Bills still taking 'pass' on aerial upgrade
While their AFC East foes make blockbuster deals to improve their receiving corps, the Bills are set to enter 2010 with one of the worst wideout groups in the league.
Bills' secondary depth opens up trade possibilities
With such a quality collection of talent at defensive back, it opens up the possibility of Buffalo making a trade or two to add draft picks and, in turn, upgrade other positions.
Bills sign WR Jackson, re-sign CB Youboty
The Bills announced Wednesday that the team has signed free-agent WR Chad Jackson and re-signed CB Ashton Youboty, a restricted free agent.
Bills re-sign six free agents
The Bills announced Monday that they have re-signed restricted free agents DB George Wilson and LB Keith Ellison, exclusive rights free agents LB Jon Corto, DB Cary Harris and TE Jonathan Stupar and free agent WR Felton Huggins.
Bills content to replace T.O. with in-house WRs
With Terrell Owens on his way out of town and unrestricted free agent Josh Reed not being offered a contract, the Bills appear to be in serious need of help at the WR position. But instead of searching for starting ...
Bills add former Ravens DL Edwards
The Bills continued to re-shape their defense Wednesday, signing UFA DL Dwan Edwards. According to the Baltimore Sun, it's a four-year deal worth up to $18 million.
Report: Bills sign ex-Broncos ILB Davis
The Bills have made their first major move in their switch to a 3-4 defense, signing free-agent ILB Andra Davis to a two-year contract, according to Fox 31 in Denver.
New ORT Green likely to start in Buffalo
Despite a host of needs on both sides of the ball, the Bills have been one of the quieter teams in the early part of free agency. Their lone move thus far, however, could turn out to be an important ...
Report: Bills sign ex-Raiders OT Green
The Bills have made their first noise in free agency, signing UFA OT Cornell Green to a three-year, $9 million deal on Monday, according to NFL.com.
Bills add Favorite
The Bills announced Tuesday that they have signed DT Marlon Favorite. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
AFC East team needs
The Bills will be looking this offseason for a starting quarterback to replace Trent Edwards and Ryan Fitzpatrick. With the start of free agency and the NFL draft just around the corner, PFW examines the needs of each team, position ...
Bills won't offer contracts to Owens, Denney, Reed
The Bills have announced that they will not offer contracts to three of their unrestricted free agents: WR Terrell Owens, DE Ryan Denney and WR Josh Reed. The trio will be free to sign with any team in the league ...
Gailey: Bills will fit 3-4 to players
As more and more teams switch to the 3-4 defense, finding players to fit the alignment has become increasingly difficult. But that doesn't worry Bills head coach Chan Gailey, who has a plan of his own when it comes ...
The Bills signed Butler.||||||| Butler was signed off the Cardinals' practice squad after splitting time this season on the active rosters of Arizona and Washington. He's appeared in eight NFL games, and was selected in the fifth round of the 2010 draft by Pittsburgh.
The Arizona Cardinals have re-signed offensive tackle Pat McQuistan and released cornerback Crezdon Butler.||||||| The move gives the Cardinals another option on their struggling offensive line, which has given up 22 sacks in the past three games.The Cardinals had released McQuistan Sept. 25 after he was inactive the first three games of the season. The 6-foot-6, 317-pound lineman is in his seventh NFL season with stints in New Orleans, Miami and Dallas.
The Washington Redskins have signed cornerback David Jones and waived injured Crezdon Butler.||||||| Butler injured a hamstring in Sunday's 38-31 loss to the Bengals. He had played in two games since the Redskins claimed him off waivers on Sept. 1.
The Washington Redskins have filled the final spot on their roster by signing cornerback Crezdon Butler. Coach Mike Shanahan said Saturday that Butler will be the fifth cornerback on the team's 53-man roster.||||||| The Redskins cut their roster to 52 on Friday, leaving room to add one player. They went after Butler, who was released Friday by the Arizona Cardinals. Butler was a fifth-round draft from Clemson by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2010. He joined the Cardinals last year but hurt his ankle in the opening game and didn't play the rest of the season.
Butler is done for the year with a ankle injury.||||||| Butler played one game this season.


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Dinner: Kid Created and Under $15
April 16, 2010 | Posted By: Laura Smith
Lets just say its been one of those weeks, the bills keep trying to get my attention as I file them in the corner again, the laundry room and all my baskets are full of laundry (including my cape) and the refrigerator is empty.
Now its 5:00 p.m., work is done and Im going to pick up the kids while trying to figure out whats for dinner. The first challenge I face is Im tired, but I dont want to go through the drive-thru and get junk. My family is just getting over the feels like its been a month-long cold, and they need something nutritious. My 2nd challenge is I havent balanced the books and dont want to spend a whole lot of money. Third and most challenging challenge (like that?) is making something the kids will eat without a whole lot of dessert bribery and sucking the fun and effort out of dinner frustrations and persuasion. Final challenge is to make something quickly because everyone is hungry now!
I arrive with an idea and load my precious cargo (ages 5 and 2) into the car. While were driving, I tell the kids I have something very important that I need their help with. I ask them if they can each pick out an ingredient at the market for tonights supper. My goal is to pique their interest in eating dinner and boost those little egos by being a proud contributor to dinner. So, with my under $15 challenge, I walk into the local organic market, kids in tow.
Rileys pick: yellow corn & whole grain brown rice cakes. Hmmmmm, not sure what to do with it, but put it in the basket! He was very excited to find popcorn already popped in the bag. Next pick: jellybeans. I regretfully put back those magical, delicious sugary beans as we have enough treats at home. Taylors picks: apples, coconut water and colorful fusilli noodles.
We left the store and came out $6.22 lighter. Not bad, but still no clue what my random ingredients would amount to.
While I made dinner, the kids had rice cake appetizers (wasnt quite sure how I was going to fit that in!) Riley loved the rice cakes, and I think its partly because he picked them out. So thats one challenge overcome! Taylor preferred hers with a little peanut butter.
Next I boiled the noodles. I didnt have any veggies, as the produce pickings were slim, but was reassured by the beautiful red, yellow, green and orange fusilli noodles made with veggies. Then I found some leftover grilled chicken in the fridge (Score!) and sautéed in an olive oil sauce seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic and Parmesan.
The results:
Although not too fancy, dinner was made in about 15 minutes. I kept it simple, as my kids prefer plain noodles. They are also avid dippers so I gave them honey for dipping their chicken, along with a side of apples. The kids pretty much cleaned their plates, but they both requested something else to drink. Even though coconut water is very good for you, I couldnt blame them.
All in all, it was a success. We spent $10.22 (I guesstimated $4.00 for the chicken), bought local, tried something new, ate healthy and have uncooked noodles for another dish. What next? Maybe Ill wash my cape.
15 Minute, Market-Run Menu (kid-picked and mother-approved):
Appetizer: Rice Cakes
Dinner: Pasta and chicken in an olive oil-parmesan sauce
Side: Sliced apples
Condiment: Honey
Beverage: Coconut water (combined with some juice for tastiness)
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By Marjorie Nesin
Staff Writer
---- — Neighbors have seen Burnham's Field grow more safe and clean in recent years, and now city officials are ready to revitalize and revamp central Gloucester's largest green space, a backyard for many of urban Gloucester's residents.
About $345,000 in state grants will allow for various upgrades for the field, which saw its last major facelift in 1984, according to Stephen Winslow, a project manager for the city. But, with multiple possibilities, city officials are looking to residents to help guide the decisions.
"It's the people's neighborhood park, so we want to hear what they want to do to improve their neighborhood," Winslow said. "We want to spend this money in a way that makes this a better park. We want kids to play there and teens to hang there and have fun."
That is why Winslow, along with Mayor Carolyn Kirk, Ward 2 City Councilor Melissa Cox and Open Space and Recreation Committee member John McElhenny are inviting area residents to a formal brainstorming meeting at The Hive on Monday, beginning at 6 p.m.
"Obviously we would like as much involvement and input as possible, especially at the first meeting, to get people's ideas and a sense of what we can do to improve Burnham's Field," Winslow said.
Money for park improvements stems from two grants, according to Winslow. The state Department of Environmental Protection awarded $195,000 to the city for use on the park revitalization, and the remaining $150,000 comes from state community development block grants.
"It's a start," Winslow said. "With this much land, it's sort of just a downpayment on where we hope to go."
New lighting for the field and increased accessibility for handicapped people at entrance points are certain upcoming changes, Winslow said.
The community garden, wilted by frost, and the softball diamonds squishy with runoff, Burnham's Field saw few visitors on a chilly Thursday afternoon.
But Kaylee O'Neil, a 10-year-old fifth-grader at Veterans Elementary School, trudged through the mucky grass of Burnham's Field with her brother and the two family dogs, Tasha and Trisha.
"It's a nice place to walk your dogs," O'Neil said. "They like it down here."
Her brother Taylor Glidden, 21, said the two had resolved to daily walk their dogs the short distance from their Warner Street home to Burnham's Field. But Glidden said he only takes his sister and the dogs to the field during daylight.
"I wouldn't bring them down here at night," Glidden said. "Because of the sketchy stuff that goes on."
The field houses two softball diamonds, a community garden, two basketball courts, playground equipment and the remnants of a rusted swing set. It could be updated to include better lighting, new walking paths, new swings and playground equipment, or a water play area for children, said McElhenny, who lives in the neighborhood.
"It's like a backyard, a side yard and front yard for people who don't have a yard in Gloucester," McElhenny said.
One way to ensure the field stays clean and cared for after its revitalization, McElhenny said, is to pull together community members by giving them a stake in the park's future.
"The more people that take part in this process of improving the field, the more people who will enjoy the field afterward and feel like they're part of Burnham's Field, and the more people will take care of it when the paint brushes and tools are put away," McElhenny said.
Marjorie Nesin can be reached at 978-283-7000 x3451, or firstname.lastname@example.com.
If you go What: Burnham's Field Forum, hosted by the city. Why: City seeking input on how it should spend $345,000 to improve the park. When: 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14. Where: The Hive, 11 Pleasant St.


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These month to month fluctuations don't mean much, but the trend is clear: Microsoft is chipping a few tenths of a percentage point from Google's search market share every couple of months.
Those gains come at a huge cost, though.
In the fiscal year ended June 30, Microsoft's Online group lost $2.6 billion on revenue of only $2.5 billion. A lot of those losses were due to revenue guarantees for the Yahoo deal.
Here are the full ComScore market share numbers for U.S. explicit core search. This measures users who are actively conducting a search from the search pane, not stumbling into search results through links from other content.


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Residents claim house sales fallen through
Residents who claim to be prisoners in their own homes since the High speed rail route was announced, are demanding the Government brings forward the consultation process.
The group from Swillington, Oulton and Woodlesford say their house prices have plummeted and sales have fallen through since the announcement was made. No formal consultation has been planned until later this year.
Now Leeds City Council is hoping to meet with the people behind HS2 to discuss the problems. Here's Councillor Richard Lewis.


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News: Eve Gets Really "Bad Bad" After 10-Year Hiatus [Video]
Tuesday, Jan 8, 2013 1:00PM
Former Ruff Ryders rapper Eve is out to prove she is back with a vengeance, releasing her long-awaited first single "She Bad Bad" music video off the upcoming Lip Lock album.
Released today (January 8), E-v-e finally puts a visual to the amped party record.
Ruff Ryders' First Lady's much-much-much-delayed fourth studio album has gone through a few incarnations over the last decade, due to some drama with her label and a few underperforming singles; initially it was titled Here I Am, then Flirt and now, finally, it's been given the official (supposedly) name Lip Lock. The lead single, "She Bad Bad," dropped back in October, but today marks the release of the video, which is slick with rapid-fire cuts. Admittedly, Eve looks good -- although in some shots you could mistake her for Azealia Banks, which probably says something about how gracefully the entertainer is aging -- and the video's attention-deficit visual style compensates for what was likely a limited budget. It's a good buzzy tease, but we're guessing she'll need something radio-friendlier to capture the public attention once more. (Idolator)
A few days before Christmas, the Philadelphia-bred emcee teased fans with her video's sneak peek.
Eve is offering fans a clip of the music video for "She Bad Bad," the lead single from Lip Lock, her first studio album in nearly a decade. The full video for "She Bad Bad" will be released on January 8 via Vevo. The teaser of the black and white vid features E-V-E dancing in front of a wall and fingering piles of cash. Lip Lock is set to be released in April 2013. The album will include contributions from Timbaland, the Neptunes, Adam Levine, Dr. Dre,MSTRKRFT, Shakira, Lady Gaga, Swizz Beatz, Scott Storch, Chiddy Bang, Flo Rida and Alicia Keys. (RTT News)
Last month, she got spotted making promotional photos for the forthcoming LP.
Eve is finally ready to make her return. The Philly raptress shot the packaging for her first album in over a decade, Lip Lock, over the weekend with photographer Amarpaul Kalirai. She rocked several high-fashion looks including a ponytail and black Celine dress, bangs with a patterned catsuit, and blazer with a fedora. "Check the #stance!!! all my #sexy #fly #confident #strong #independent #intelligent #real # women stand up!!" tweeted E-V-E. (Rap-Up)
Late last year, Eve discussed her long-awaited follow-up to 2002's Eve-Olution.
"It was important for me to do this record for people that love me in the beginning. I think I took lyrically what people fell in love with me with Ruff Ryders and brought it to where I am now musically. I think when people hear it, they're gonna be like, 'Yo, that's my girl.' That's what I really wanted." ("The Angie Martinez Show")
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Why I am Smiling In This Picture
Labels: Azraq Camp, Refugees, Syria, UNHCR
Neil Gaiman
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Why I am Smiling In This Picture
Posted by Neil Gaiman at 2:36 AM
One of the reasons I'm smiling so widely in this picture is I'd just been talking to the people in Azraq camp who run the child friendly space it was taken in. They were mostly from UNICEF.
They had explained that when the kids arrived in the camp, only the previous week, they didn't talk or make noise. They were subdued. When they drew pictures, the pictures were of explosions, of severed body parts, of weapons and dead people.
The camp had only been open two weeks. The kids I saw and spoke to were kids – noisy, happy, curious, hilarious, and they showed us their drawings, of butterflies and children and mountains and animals and hearts.
That's what I'm smiling about. That room full of noisy kids was the best place in the world.
I spoke to some of these children, who told me about their lives in Syria during the troubles, about their escape ("there were rocks in the desert, and we had to turn on the headlights to see, but when they turned on the headlights of the car people would shoot at us, and my parents were frightened, but I wasn't..."). For some of them it had been three years since they last went to school.
I made the mistake of reading some of the comments in the Guardian article, and on Twitter, who seemed convinced that me talking about the kids in the camps was a sentimental attempt to take their attention from the real business at hand, which was supporting whichever side in the conflict you already supported loudly and vocally. Obviously, a political crisis that's bad enough to produce refugees is only going to be sorted out politically. But pretending that people hurt, displaced and fleeing are just a vague sort of irritant, that lives wasted or destroyed don't matter, in order to prove your ideological point, whatever it happens to be, is, to my mind, both lazy and foolish and very, very wrong.
(The Guardian article is at http://rfg.ee/x6Kon and the pictures and some extra material at http://rfg.ee/x6Kef)
Labels: Azraq Camp, Refugees, Syria, UNHCR
Thursday, May 22, 2014
How I discovered I had slipped into a parallel universe
Posted by Neil Gaiman at 10:10 AM
Here's things that people would probably like to know...
This is the poster for TRUTH IS A CAVE IN THE BLACK MOUNTAINS Reading Event at the Carnegie Hall (and it lists the other gigs too. I think there may still be a handful of Barbican tickets available on July 4th and 5th, I'm pretty sure the Warfield is Sold Out, although they may release a few closer to the date, and right now Usher Hall in Edinburgh, which was the last concert to go on sale, still has plenty of seats, and even has some in the Stalls).
Please feel free to spread it around...
If you can't afford to come, or feel like chancing your luck, there is a Facebook competition where you can win tickets, at the William Morrow Facebook page:
Enter for your chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to see Neil Gaiman live at Carnegie Hall with FourPlay String Quartet on June 27th! Prize package includes a meet & greet and photo opp with Neil himself.
More details, and to enter: http://a.pgtb.me/5W9dcb
(And, of course, you can order tickets for the Carnegie Hall on June 27th via http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2014/6/27/0800/PM/Neil-Gaiman-The-Truth-is-a-Cave-in-the-Black-Mountains/ - click through and you can decide where you would like to sit.)
The biggest publication news of recent weeks is that Hayley Campbell's book THE ART OF NEIL GAIMAN is out. You can learn who Hayley Campbell is, and all about the book and how it came to be, in this delicious Comic Beat interview. It's filled with glorious details. I like the bit about me and kids and Alan Moore and kids and Custard Creams vs. Bourbon biscuits best. Here she explains the interviewing process:
(Useful Warning. DO NOT CLICK ON THELINK AND READ HAYLEY'S INTERVIEW IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED BY SWEARING OR BY ANY DISCUSSION OF THE GREAT WALL OF VAGINA.)
I read the book a few months ago, and really liked it, as much as it's possible to like something where one is too embarrassed properly to relax and enjoy it. I was reading it to approve the text, but I loved the text and spent most of my time trying to fix the dates on the picture captions.
Hayley is a really funny writer. She's observant and interested. I'm really looking forward to her novel, when she writes it, and am also a little bit scared.
Salon has some hitherto unseen drawings by me (and a couple by Jill Thompson) up at http://www.salon.com/2014/05/20/the_fantastic_world_of_neil_gaiman_take_a_peek_into_the_authors_personal_archive/
And you can go and check it out at Amazon.com, where the poor guy whose entire reason for living seems to be giving everything on Amazon a one star review has already given it one star review. http://amzn.to/1vxTAYK
Hayley's going to be taking over the role of interviewer from her father, ace illustrator Eddie Campbell, for the Barbican and Edinburgh TRUTH IS A CAVE gigs on July 4th and 5th.
There's a really sweet little photo spread and interview in Boston Common magazine about Amanda and me in which they list us as one of Boston's most Stylish Couples.
Quite when I slipped into this parallel dimension in which I can be described as "stylish" without anyone in earshot actually sniggering, I do not know. But I am going to make the most of it while I'm here.
Labels: Eddie Campbell, fourplay, Hayley Campbell, The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains, what style is
Important. Please read this now.
Posted by Neil Gaiman at 5:30 AM
I haven't blogged for a while. I suspect that's partly because I'm back on Twitter, and I seem either to blog or to tweet, and partly because I've been exhausted. Tweeting time comes out of dead time, usually – time in taxis, or waiting in corridors. Blogging time usually comes out of sleeping time.
I should be writing, now, writing things people are waiting for. But I need to blog as well...
It's foggy where I am today, and I can't tell where the sky ends and the sea begins. In a few days I go to Norway, to Sweden and to Spain, for a slew of appearances and interviews. Looking over the schedule, I suspect that some of the signings may be hard, as very limited amounts of time are scheduled for them, and immediately afterwards I'm due at the next event or interview or thing.
Last week I was in Jordan, and then landed, still shaken up, and went straight to the British Library, where I talked about Sandman and Art and Life with Tori Amos, then got up on the stage and read some stories to an audience, then collapsed.
I went to Jordan, as I reported here, for the UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency, to visit the Syrian Refugee Camps and report on what I found.
Last year I wrote a short film for Georgina Chapman to direct, and we really liked each other, and she said yes when I asked if she'd like to come with me to Jordan. We had both planned to bring our spouses – I had expected that Amanda would be there but that Harvey Weinstein (to whom Georgina is married) would just get too busy, because Harvey is always busy. Instead, Amanda found herself dealing with a perfect storm of things, including health issues and, most importantly, an unfinished book, and could not come, and Harvey was there, showing a side I've not seen in the 20-odd years I've known him.
No Amanda made the Jordan trip easier, as I didn't have any attention on anyone else at any time I was in the camps, and much harder, as I really would have given the earth for a hand to squeeze at some points in the camps, or for someone to hold.
I would write about the Jordan trip here, but I wrote what would have been my blog already.
This is the link to the main article, which I wrote for the Guardian.
This is the link to the Guardianpictures – I wrote captions to the images, or UNHCR took them from my end of day video diary.
Here's a Buzzfeed article, following refugees into Azraq camp. http://www.buzzfeed.com/richardhjames/neil-gaiman-in-jordan (Yes, the headline is clickbait, but it's a good article nonetheless.)
And here's an interview I did with the BBC World Service, while I was out there. If I sound a little shaken, I am.
Everything is going to be collected at http://donate.unhcr.org/neilandgeorgina, which also gives information on the project and also on how to donate to UNHCR.
I came away from Jordan ashamed to be part of a race that treats its members so very badly, and simultaneously proud to be part of the same human race as it does its best to help the people who are hurt, who need refuge, safety and dignity. We are all part of a huge family, the family of humanity, and we look after our family.
Please share the links, especially the link to the main Guardian article at http://rfg.ee/x6Kon. Share them aggressively. Make people read them. It's important, and I'll be grateful. Thank you.
Monday, May 12, 2014
In Jordan
Posted by Neil Gaiman at 4:10 PM
I landed in Jordan late this afternoon. I'm in my hotel right now. I'll be up for a 6 am pick-up -- I need to be at the camp for bread distribution, first thing in the morning.
Since the start of the Syrian warfare, over two and a half million people have fled the fighting and gone somewhere else. Half a million of them have come to Jordan. The population of Jordan is a little over 6 million. By percentage of the population, that's what would happen if twenty five million people arrived as refugees in the US over a couple of years, or five million people sought refuge in the UK. It means lots and lots of people here have Syrian families living with them. It means that there are refugee camps -- small cities built in the desert, all temporary structures.
I was invited to come out here by UNHCR - the United Nations Refugee Agency - with the purpose of making one or more short films, telling stories and writing articles that draw attention to what's going on in refugee camps.
They've created a web page at http://donate.unhcr.org/neilgaiman so that people can follow on and see what's happening.
I packed for myself on this trip and, for various reasons, did a terrible job of packing and remembering what to bring. And every time I start getting grumpy for not having something, it occurs to me that the people I'm seeing tomorrow brought with only what they could carry for often hundreds of miles - and that included carrying children...
Thursday, May 01, 2014
What are you doing on June the 27th and other vital questions
Posted by Neil Gaiman at 1:57 PM
I'm back on social media from today. And my last class at Bard until Autumn is tomorrow night. I owe the world a big post on life and the things that go with it.
But first, this one is important:
There are many peculiar places in the world, places that can hold your mind and your soul tightly and will not let them go. Some of those places are exotic and unusual, some are mundane. The strangest of all of them, at least for me, is the Isle of Skye, off the west coast of Scotland. I know I am not alone in this. There are people who discover Skye and will not leave, and even for those of us who do leave, the misty island haunts us and holds us in its own way. It is where I am happiest and where I am most alone.
Otta F. Swire wrote books about the Hebrides and about Skye in particular, and she filled her books with strange and arcane knowledge. (Did you know May the 3rd was the day that the Devil was cast out of Heaven, and thus the day on which it is unpardonable to commit a crime? I learned that in her book on the myths of the Hebrides.) And in one of her books, she mentioned the cave in the black Cuillins, where you could go, if you were brave, and get gold, with no cost, but each visit you paid to the cave would make you more evil, would eat your soul.
And that cave, and its promise, began to haunt me.
I took several true stories (or stories that are said to be true, which is almost the same thing), and set them in a world that was almost, but not quite, ours, and told a story of revenge and of travel, of desire for gold and of secrets. Two men, one very small, are travelling west to find a cave said to be filled with gold.
I wrote most of the tale on the Isle of Skye. When it was done it was published in an anthology called STORIES, and it won the Shirley Jackson Award for best Novelette, and the Locus Award for Best Novelette, and I was very proud of it, my story.
Before it was published, I was set to appear on the stage of the Sydney Opera House, and was asked if I could do something with Australian string quartet FourPlay (they are the rock band of string quartets, an amazing, versatile bunch with a cult following): perhaps something with art that could be projected onto the stage. I listened to FourPlay's music, and, possibly once I heard their take on the Doctor Who theme and the Simpsons Theme, and a cover of Cry Me A River I liked nearly as much as Julie London's (and I like that so very much), I knew wanted to work with them.
I thought about "The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains": it would take about seventy minutes to read. I wondered what it would would happen if a string quartet created a moody and glorious soundtrack, as I told the story, as if it were a movie? And what if Scottish artist Eddie Campbell, the man who drew Alan Moore's FROM HELL, writer and artist of ALEC, my favourite comic, created illustrations for this most Scottish of my stories and projected them above me while I read?
I was scared, going out onto the stage of the Sydney Opera House, but the experience was amazing: the story was received with a standing ovation, and we followed it with an interview (artist Eddie Campbell was the interviewer) and a poem, also with FourPlay.
Six months later, we performed it again, with more paintings by Eddie, in Hobart, Tasmania, in front of 3,000 people, in a huge shed at a Festival, and again, they loved it; again, a standing ovation.
Now, we had a problem. The only people who had ever seen the show were in Australia. It seemed unfair, somehow. We needed an excuse to travel, to bring the FourPlay string quartet across the world (pop culture literate and brilliant musicians, they are: I fell in love with their work before I ever knew them).
Fortunately, Eddie Campbell had taken his paintings, and done many more, and then laid out the text into something halfway between an illustrated story and a graphic novel, and Harper Collins were publishing it in the US and Headline publishing it in the UK.
Mysterious promoter Jordan Verzar, who had put me and FourPlay together in the first place, saw his chance and struck, rather like an amiable Australian cobra, and before we knew it, everything was happening.
So we are doing the smallest tour in the world for this.
If you want to see me performing THE TRUTH IS A CAVE IN THE BLACK MOUNTAINS, with the amazing FourPlay string quartet, and see Eddie Campbell's art projected, the words and the music and the images combining in your head to make a movie that only you will ever experience in that way, a night with special guests, I wouldn't be surprised, and also surprises (including things nobody has every heard read), then the only places you can see it are San Francisco, at the Warfield, New York's Carnegie Hall on June 27th, then in London at The Barbican (two nights) and it ends in Edinburgh, in Usher Hall on July 6th. And then we'll be done.
Right now, the Warfield on June 25th is already SOLD OUT.
BUT the Carnegie Hall is by far the biggest venue we are doing, and there are still many seats available at the Carnegie Hall on June 27. (The Dress Circle's just sold out, though.)
If you've read down this far and you're interested in seeing a unique and amazing evening, and you are anywhere in the US, the Carnegie Hall is the one to come to (unless you want to fly to the UK). New York is nice in June.
The Carnegie Hall night will have special guests. It will be the only place I'm also going to read the whole of the new HANSEL AND GRETEL before it's published. There will be a LOT of signed books there, even if we can't work out a signing (we're trying to but logistics are hard). And it's going to be a night to remember...
The two Barbican concerts on July 4th and 5th are almost sold out (they have just released some seats, so there are a few seats left).
Usher Hall in Edinburgh was only just added, and tickets only just went on sale. There are lots of seats there, and very much hope the Scots are kind to my Scottish tale.
Do come. I know it may seem odd, an author and a string quartet. But trust me, you do not want to miss it.
I wanted to put in a huge plug here for the anti-bullying website, Bystander Revolution. They've done some amazing interviews with people, and have advice. Here are their films talking to me.
On Saturday, if you are in the UK, you can get a free copy of STARDUST with your Guardian newspaper, if you buy it from Sainsbury's. This is a good thing if you like Stardust and read the Guardian. More info at this link, along with a way to win one of the limited edition beautiful special copies of OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE. http://www.theguardian.com/books/competition/2014/apr/26/neil-gaiman-competition
Labels: Carnegie Hall, fourplay, Hansel and Gretel, The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains
Thursday, April 10, 2014
gal·li·mau·fry (noun) 1. a confused jumble or medley of things.
Posted by Neil Gaiman at 9:18 PM
I taught my first class at Bard on Tuesday night. It was slightly nerve wracking, but the 14 people who are listening to me burble about writing and fantasy seem very nice and relatively forgiving, and I'm looking forward to doing it again tomorrow night. Only, I hope, saying different things.
The Evening With Art Spiegelman and Me at Bard was wonderful. It was sold out, and became mostly an interview, with me asking Art things, although I read the first few pages of the version of Hansel and Gretel I've written that Lorenzo Mattotti has illustrated, which was rather wonderful. (You can see one of the marvelous Mattotti illustrations on the screen behind us in this photo by Gideon Lester.)
There aren't any more events in New York this year that there are tickets for, except for THE TRUTH IS A CAVE IN THE BLACK MOUNTAINS at Carnegie Hall. (At which I think I will also do the first reading of the whole of Hansel and Gretel as well.) Lots of people are asking if there will be a signing there... and I'm definitely considering it. The Ocean at the End of the Lane will have just come out in paperback, and The Truth is a Cave In The Black Mountains graphic novel will just have come out.... It's definitely possible.
Tickets and information at http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2014/6/27/0800/PM/Neil-Gaiman-The-Truth-is-a-Cave-in-the-Black-Mountains/
(And Where's Neil will tell you everywhere else I'll be until July, including San Francisco, London, Edinburgh, Barcelona and Madrid: http://www.neilgaiman.com/where/.)
Right now I'm in San Diego, just for the day, in order to see Amanda, who is out here where it is warm and she is working on her book. I'm not sure that spending a whole day flying out, and a day flying back, in order to spend a day together, makes the best sense, but I missed her and she missed me and I quite enjoy writing on planes...
The new house in the woods is wonderful, and I'm enjoying getting to know the whole new world of the Hudson Valley. And the old house back in the Midwest is still there, and it still has my books on the shelves and my art on the walls and my bed, and I suspect I'm going to wind up dividing my time between both places, as much as I succeed in living in any one place. I have a wife who also seems determined to have a bi-locational existence, only with Melbourne, Australia and New York City as her two places that she spends her life. We'll figure it out. As long as I get a desk to write at, and a view of trees, I'm happy.
Today, The Ocean at the End of the Lane came out in paperback in the UK. There's a moving version of the poster, which you can see here (needs Flash): http://www.teainteractive.com/clients/ocean/
And here are the Ocean posters that do not move, and I am extremely happy because I don't think I've ever had books that were posters before. They leave me faintly nervous: I hope that the kind of people who would like the book will find it, and that people who would simply not enjoy it do not succumb to the blandishments of advertising. (Goes and checks Amazon.co.uk to see if people are still enjoying it now it's out in paperback...) (And then puts up the Waterstones link, on noticing their name on the poster. Hello Waterstones!)
Let's see. I'll probably forget a few things I meant to mention here. I interviewed Stoya in the Oyster Magazine (she is seen here being Death at a Dr Sketchy's).
Biting Dog Press are releasing a limited print in June of 500 copies of my "8 Rules For Writing".
You can't buy them retail -- they will be going directly to bookshops -- but Dave of Biting Dog is releasing 50 of them to the public directly as incentives to fund his daughter Kayla's Elephant Sanctuary Volunteer Trip: details at http://www.bitingdogpress.com/Merchandise/orderpage.html.
I'm speaking in Syracuse, NY on April the 29th, as part of the Rosamund Gifford Lecture series. I will talk, and I will read, and it will be interesting. Details at http://www.dailyorange.com/2014/04/author-of-coraline-to-speak-at-crouse-hinds-theater-this-month/
I was thrilled to see that James Herbert will have a horror writing prize named after him. Jim is much missed, and this can only help to make sure that his name remains in people's minds.
Locus, the Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy field, does an annual poll and survey: you have another five days to make your votes heard, and to tell them who you are. The poll closes on April 15th: http://www.locusmag.com/Magazine/2014/PollAndSurvey.html
A photo Amanda took of me last night. She calls it "Schrödinger's Door."
This blog post, forwarded to me by artist-genius Lisa Snellings, about the knock-on effects that my story "Harlequin Valentine" had, broke my heart and opened it wide: http://www.grinsekatz.com/harlequin-valentine
Finally, congratulations to Stephen Colbert on becoming the next David Letterman. I loved my time on the Colbert Report, rumpled funeral suit attire and all, but liked the man Colbert much more than the persona Colbert (and loved that he broke character while interviewing me). I'm really hoping that the Late Night show will be hosted by the man. (In case you missed it, here's the video of the interview from 2009.)
Labels: 8 Rules for Writing, Advertising and its drawbacks, bard, Carnegie Hall, It's pretty but is it art spiegelman, lisa snellings, Locus poll, Lorenzo Mattotti, Stoya, The Ocean At The End of the Lane
Thursday, April 03, 2014
Two New UK Book Covers, and a Small Philosophical Thought
Posted by Neil Gaiman at 12:26 PM
Bloomsbury just sent me the cover for their paperback of FORTUNATELY, THE MILK. It is coming out in the UK on June 5th, 2014. I love the cover, and was impressed by the Children's Book of the Year tag, as I had forgotten. (It's been a mad year. There are too many things to remember.)
...which is a photo I stole from Sam Eades's Twitter Feed. (So I think we can safely assume the aquamarine nail-varnished thumbnail is Sam's.) Sam was the publicist at Headline all through Ocean. She's amazing -- cheerful, sensible, a delight to be around, and the kind of person who can come up with a mad idea like getting a road named after a book and just make it happen while being on a signing tour like no other, and still getting the author fed.
(She's just left Headline for Pan MacMillan, and she will make authors there very happy and I miss her already.)
It's the UK paperback cover of THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE. The paperback comes out in a week.
And it was only when I looked at them both, I realised I've got two books coming out in the UK with, actually and honestly, "Book of the Year" on the cover. And I thought, I'll probably never have that again. It's really unusual for me to have two books out, one for adults and one for all ages, in the same span of time. And lightning doesn't strike twice. For a moment I started feeling glum, finding myself worrying about backlashes and things that probably don't ever happen again and the nature of time and life...
And then I thought, I should remember what Stephen King told me, something I put into the Make Good Art talk and book. I should enjoy this.
So, contrary to my vaguely worried nature, I am doing my very best to enjoy it. Book of the Year, twice, for two books. That's pretty good, isn't it?
It's Art Spiegelman Week. Not only will Art and I find ourselves in conversation at Bard tomorrow night, but there is more Spiegelmanny wonderfulness in New York this weekend, some of it accompanied by Ditch artist Joost Swarte. You can read all about it here, at the Drawn and Quarterly blog: http://drawnandquarterly.blogspot.com/2014/03/its-art-spiegelman-week-in-new-york.html
The coolest bit of all might be this Sunday Morning, when you get to see a stained glass mural...
Sunday, April 6th: PRIVATE VIEWING & BREAKFAST WITH ART SPIEGELMAN
Manhattan, NY: A rare chance to join Art Spiegelman (class of '65) for coffee, carbs, and juice as he gives a personal guided tour of the 50' x 8' two-sided glass mural he designed for the school. Secrets-literally-behind the window will be revealed!
And he'll have special guest Joost Swarte on hand, showing slides of his own stained glass windows in the Netherlands!
The tour begins Sunday, April 6th, at 10:30 am, at the High School of Art and Design cafeteria, 5th floor. That's 245 East 56th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues.Get your tickets here now! Tickets are $20, but $15 for those of you with a MoCCA pass, and free for current A&D students! Proceeds go to the Alumni Association to benefit the students of Art and Design.
St Mark's Bookshop in New York has slowly become one of my favourite bookshops around, I think because it's so well curated. I never walk in there and think "So many books are being published. Why don't people just stop making new books and read the ones that are already out there?" which I sometimes find myself thinking on walking into huge chain bookshops. Instead I just walk around going "I didn't know that existed. I'll have that, and that, and that, and I'll get that for a friend...".
They are doing an Indiegogo fundraiser to help crowdfund their move. Support it, if you can. (I'm going to donate a hand-annotated book or two to their rewards.) https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/st-mark-s-bookshop-on-the-move
Reminder: the Symphony Space "Selected Shorts" evening has sold out.
The only remaining event on the East Coast this year is the Carnegie Hall TRUTH IS A CAVE IN THE BLACK MOUNTAINS reading, with the FourPlay String Quartet and Eddie Campbell paintings and all, on June 27th. It's happening at the same time that THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is coming out in the US in paperback. (Amazing things will be happening on that that night: trust me. This is the big one...)
Tickets at http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2014/6/27/0800/PM/Neil-Gaiman-The-Truth-is-a-Cave-in-the-Black-Mountains/
Labels: Book of the Year, Carnegie Hall, Fortunately the Milk, It's pretty but is it art spiegelman, The Ocean At The End of the Lane, What does Book Of The Year mean anyway?, What Stephen King said
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
House thoughts, and some unanswered questions on art and commerce
Posted by Neil Gaiman at 12:06 AM
It's a very strange process, moving into a new house. In my case, the worst of the moving in has been done. Now all that remains is details, hundreds upon hundreds of details. Details and details and details and, occasionally, small disasters. Yesterday, the heating stopped working. The heating stopped working because there was two inches of water in the cellar, because a water treatment pump could not keep up with the combination of rain and snowmelt that was already filling all the drains, and so backed up. I have good friends and they made everything okay, with pumps and knowledge of fixing things.
(I do not really have a lot of fixing things knowledge. And while you may want to read a book by me, you do not want me to put up your shelves. Trust me on this.)
I went into New York overnight, finished writing a very much overdue introduction in my hotel room, emailed it off moments before I fell asleep, had a Really Cool Secret Meeting this morning, and am typing this on the train back, the Hudson river grey and, on the far bank, distant leafless hills and cliffs. I want Spring to begin.
I'm currently pondering whether or not to write a short story for a company. They've asked me to write one. I can write whatever I like, as long as I put their product in it and do not show their product killing people horribly, or even nicely. It would be a fun, interesting project that would pay well. To make things more interesting, I've already mentioned their product in a novel, I like their product, and I can see where the story would go.
But I'm not sure. I'm going back and forth on it.
I loved doing last year's project for BlackBerry, mostly because it felt like they were a patron of the arts. They gave me a very open brief ("What would you like to do on social media?") and let me go off and do it. They gave me a BlackBerry, and I promised I'd use it for a year. They made short films which I loved, about writing and inspiration and creation.
(And I just noticed that the BlackBerry Keep Moving videos have become unlisted on YouTube, so here they all are, in case anyone needs them. The fourth is my favourite.)
(As a note here: when the year was up, I wanted to stay with BlackBerry as a phone platform. I really liked it, and kept finding myself frustrated when I'd use iPhones or Android phones, but I was grumpy about the lack of apps. They gave me a Z30. It's a wonderful phone (here's the USA Today write up.) But y'know, like they said in the USA Today review, no Yelp and no Netflix.
But then, a couple of weeks after I got the Z30, they released the latest operating system, 10.2.1, which also now natively runs Android apps. I archived on my old Android phone any Android apps I wanted on the Z30, bluetoothed them over to the BlackBerry, installed them, and now use Yelp and Netflix and Audible and such on the BlackBerry with abandon.)
But the BlackBerry project, while it was done for and with the assistance of BlackBerry, never meant I had to put a BlackBerry into a story. Which made me happy. Now I'm trying to figure out why that would have felt like crossing a line in the way that the Nokia phone (which, if I were writing it today, would be an iPhone) in the first chapter of American Gods does not. And what that line is. And why it troubles me.
Getting ready for the Art Speigelman conversation at Bard on Friday. We plan to talk a whole lot.
The Symphony Space "Selected Shorts" night on May 7th has now sold out. The only other event I'll be doing in New York this year is the Big One -- the Carnegie Hall event on June 27th. (You do not want to miss this: it's the same thing that sold out Sydney Opera House, with FourPlay String Quartet and me).
Which reminds me. One final TRUTH IS A CAVE.. night has been added to the world. Edinburgh, Sunday July 6th. As they say on their website:
Created for Sydney's renowned Graphic festival, this haunting tale of adventure, revenge and treasure, told as a hybrid between a storyteller, an artists and an Australian string quartet is playing five performances only - Carnegie Hall in New York, the Warfield in San Francisco, two sold-out shows at London's Barbican, all leading up to this very special night at Usher Hall.
Here's the Usher Hall tickets link.
Ayelet Waldman asked me if I could mention that she has a new book out, and I will, and not just because I have not yet written my speech for her daughter Rosie's Bat-Mitzvah: It is called Love and Treasure. That's the Amazon link, and here's the Indiebound.
oops. This sat on my computer for 36 hours. In the meantime, Spring has definitely sprung. Deer are frisking through the woods and platoons of wild turkeys are self-importantly strutwaddling up and down the drive. I hope Spring heard me grumbling, and decided it was time to turn up.
Labels: art, Blackberry, cellars, commerce, Keep moving, New York
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Happiness in a new old house
Posted by Neil Gaiman at 12:36 AM
Tonight I can think
of nothing more perfect
than to read a new book,
as the log fire burns
and the rain beats down
Sunday, March 09, 2014
Look! A quick one with bargains in it.
Posted by Neil Gaiman at 2:28 PM
A Quick One -- over at Amazon they have a Gold Box Special on for Books that Inspired Our Passion For Reading. It's only for today.
They have American Gods in it, and Coraline, but I'm plugging this as they have 36 books altogether, all for under $2.99 and most for $1.99, which are pretty much all books that you'd want on your virtual shelves. Click here to see the full list.
Right. Off to be interviewed.
While I'm gone, enjoy learning what the most popular book is in each of the 50 American States, and ponder what it tells us about the state in question...
Labels: cheap books, Kindle, states of mystery
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