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The graceful arc of the Milky Way

embonpoint: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

[Dec. 25th, 2009|12:00 am]

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embonpoint: plumpness of person.

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Gamma Cas and Friends

[Dec. 25th, 2009|05:14 am]

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Gamma Cas and Friends

lambent: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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[Dec. 24th, 2009|12:00 am]

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lambent: playing on the surface; flickering.

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December Sunrise, Cape Sounion

[Dec. 24th, 2009|05:32 am]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091223.html

The Sun is a

clinquant: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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[Dec. 23rd, 2009|12:00 am]

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clinquant: glittering; tinsel-like; also, tinsel.

Planetary Systems Now Forming in Orion

[Dec. 23rd, 2009|06:08 am]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091222.html

How do planets form?

Why all the lettering is getting smaller...

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[Dec. 22nd, 2009|06:34 pm]

officialgaiman

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posted by Neil

I'm flying out tonight to the UK. I'll hole up in the middle of nowhere with my children and ex-wife and my mother as well, and probably be off-the-internet the whole time. There will be no TV in the middle of nowhere, so I will miss Doctor Who and miss "Statuesque" on Sky1 (10 pm Christmas Day).

Then I fly from the UK to Boston in time for Amanda's New Year's Eve gig with the Boston Pops. It looks like an amazing evening, and "Statuesque" will get its American premiere on a big screen as one of the evening's many entertainments (here's the Boston Pops page listing all the stuff that'll be happening that night).

Trying to deal with the last things I have to do before I get out of here. (Also realised very late last night that the problems I've had reading comics for the next Year's Best American Comics that I'm guest editing has nothing to do with losing my love for comics and everything to do with the fact that somewhere in the last year I must have started needing reading glasses for small print and had not realised this. I found a pair of reading glasses and the world became one with good, easy-to-read comics in it once again... I suppose more things like this will happen as I age. How odd.)

I leave you with a handful of links...

Edgar Oliver was on the Moth bill with me a few years ago. This week's Moth podcast is The Secret Origin of Edgar Oliver. (http://www.themoth.org/podcast is the Moth's Podcast page. It's a fine thing to have on your podcast list: strange, true stories that arrive weekly into your world.)

A reminder that I'll be narrating a performance of Peter and the Wolf in New York on January the 16th. (Details at http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/cgi-bin/Go.cgi?q_id=1004&q_category=1)

The McNally-Robinson blog entry on my trip to Winnipeg: http://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/editorial-1366/Neil-Gaiman-in-Winnipeg

And, for a heartwarming story, go to Cheryl Morgan's blog at http://www.cheryl-morgan.com/?p=7272 Then follow the link.

Okay. Back to last-minute things...

Labels: edgar Oliver, will you still be sending me a valentine/birthday greetings/bottle of wine?, Boston Pops New Year's Eve

collude: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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[Dec. 22nd, 2009|12:00 am]

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collude: to act in concert; to conspire.

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[Dec. 22nd, 2009|12:00 am]

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Star Cluster R136 Bursts Out

[Dec. 22nd, 2009|05:39 am]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091221.html

In the center of star-forming region

dolorous: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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[Dec. 21st, 2009|12:00 am]

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dolorous: marked by, causing, or expressing grief or sorrow.

Tutulemma: Solar Eclipse Analemma

[Dec. 21st, 2009|06:22 am]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091220.html

If you went outside at exactly the same time every day and took a

Nakedly Commercial Post Sweetened By A Dog Photo

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[Dec. 20th, 2009|11:02 pm]

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Just a quick post to let those interested know that both Amazon and Barnes and Noble are doing extreme Christmassy discounts on ODD AND THE FROST GIANTS. It's available for 50% of the cover price...

The Amazon.com link is http://www.amazon.com/Odd-Frost-Giants-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0061671738

The Barnes and Noble link is at http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Odd-and-the-Frost-Giants/Neil-Gaiman/e/9780061671739

...

There's a lovely New York Times article that says that CORALINE is one of the best films of the year; a great UK Sunday Times roundup of the best childrens' books of the year, that lists Crazy Hair:

There are few picturebook-makers as cool as Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman, and their latest collaboration, Crazy Hair (Bloomsbury £11.99), for 3-6s, is wild. It’s about a father whose hair is so big it contains tigers, pirate ships and carousels. Distortions and magnifications make the images strange and dark, rivalling the text for energy and verve.

I got to amaze and impress my daughter Maddy the other day, using http://us.akinator.com. You may enjoy impressing someone with it. Or perhaps just learn to demonstrate your telekinetic skill (I wish I'd known how to do this when I was twelve. I would have conquered the world with it).

Here's a Czech literary scandal I found fascinating, featuring a non-existent 19 year old Vietnamese girl: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/reports/200912/The-literary-scandal-that-rocked-the-Czech-Republic-884057/.

And in case any of you need photos of worried or screaming children sitting on the laps of Santas who go from inert to terrifying: http://www.sketchysantas.com

Labels: half-price books, Coraline, dog photograph, Crazy Hair

iota: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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[Dec. 20th, 2009|12:00 am]