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Tatsuya Ishida
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(by an Adherent of the Repeated Meme)
11 November 2009 @ 01:00 pm
11 November 2009 @ 12:00 am
11 November 2009 @ 07:32 am
10 November 2009 @ 09:00 am
10 November 2009 @ 05:49 pm
posted by Neil
The editor at CBS Sunday Morning asked if I had any photos of my son Mike back at the period when I first had the idea for The Graveyard Book - late 1985. I looked. We really didn't have any. I wandered next door and asked Mary (his mum, my former wife and for these last five years my friend and next-door neighbour) if she had any photos from back then. "No," she said. Then, "Do you mean those transparencies? I have them in an envelope somewhere." She vanished and came back with a large manila envelope from a long time ago. "Here."Half a lifetime ago -- literally -- I was nearly 25, and working for magazines. Henry Fikret, who photographed a lot of the interviews I did, volunteered to take some photos of me and my family, and he did.A week later the envelope arrived, and I realised that everything he shot was on colour transparencies -- like huge slides -- and I was never sure what do with them, other than being fairly sure I couldn't take them down to Boots the Chemist and have prints knocked out. So they stayed in their envelope, and they kept their secrets, and were forgotten.
Yesterday I had the transparencies scanned, and finally got to see lots of pictures I had never actually seen before of Holly as a baby, Mike at the time that I would have watched him riding his tricycle around the graveyard, and me... at exactly half my age: A young journalist who had sold a very small handful of short stories and two non-fiction books, with dreams of writing fiction and comics. At the time I was dressing in grey, but was getting tired of the way that you would buy something grey and take it home and discover that it was a blueish grey or a brownish grey, and wondering if I'd have the same problem if I just started to dress in black.
And half a lifetime on, it seemed like it might be good to put one up here. I checked, and Mary didn't mind. What odd clothes we wore back then. What big glasses. And look, my hair is practically normal.
So long ago, and it went like the blink of an eye.
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Birthday wishes are flooding in from around the globe. I wish I could reply to everyone personally, but it would take the next 365 days... so thank you. Thank you all.
And a particular thank you to Garrison Keillor, who announced my birthday on NPR and who also told me that on my thirteenth birthday they burned Slaughterhouse 5, and that on my ninth birthday Sesame Street was born. The Writers Almanac is a marvellous thing.
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In January I will be part of a free concert for all ages on January 16, 2010, at 7pm, in the World Financial Center Winter Garden, New York. I'll be the narrator for the performance of Peter and the Wolf, performed by the http://www.knickerbocker-orchestra.org (whose website you should visit to get details).
In January I will be part of a free concert for all ages on January 16, 2010, at 7pm, in the World Financial Center Winter Garden, New York. I'll be the narrator for the performance of Peter and the Wolf, performed by the http://www.knickerbocker-orchestra.org (whose website you should visit to get details).
Kissing is about spreading germs (and this is a good thing), a scientist says.
Alan Moore is leaping aboard the Underground magazine bandwagon. Following the success of IT and OZ, Alan's Dodgem Logic is coming out. There's a great interview with Alan at http://www.mustardweb.org/dodgemlogic/
(And enormous congratulations to Alan, who is now a grandfather, and to Leah and John, who are now parents, and Edward Alec Moore-Reppion, who is now, um, born. A Scorpio, like his grandfather and his whatever-exactly-I am, sort of honorary great-uncle or something. Not that we Scorpios believe in that sort of thing, of course.)
10 November 2009 @ 03:07 pm
Location: Tempe, Arizona, USA
Dr. Zombie is our rescue kitty. He’s extremely spoiled and knows it.
10 November 2009 @ 01:00 pm
10 November 2009 @ 11:32 am
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10 November 2009 @ 12:00 am
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09 November 2009 @ 05:53 pm
09 November 2009 @ 06:57 pm
Today was much better (MUCH better than Saturday). I had a good day at (secretary) work.
I didn't have to see the doctor either. . which was kindof good and also bad. It was due to a mix-up wherein her appointments got rescheduled and somehow I got (apparently) rebooked without being aware/remembering. Although my mom must have got half of the message, because today AND the later date were both marked on her fridge-posted calendar (and I looked at it the other day and was all confused "no, it's the 9th not the 17th. It's in my day planner.") Oh sillyness. Anyway, not a big deal. I didn't MISS it this time! and I was able to reschedule /again/ so that I don't miss it due to being somewheres out on the prairies at the time or something.
I just had to wait around for 50 minutes at the hospital because I hadn't wanted to drive myself. o-o; But THANKFULLY I had brought my DS like a typical little kid and was able to sit and play while I waited for my mom to finish the errands she was running in the meantime. Also on the plus side: the car didn't end up making a trip out there for nothing on my behalf.
. . When I came home I went on the internet and got caught up for a while, but I managed to get myself outside again in time to walk for an hour as the sun set. The town looked pretty. And the clouds. And there was a raainbow.
Then I actually cooked some food (something I was meaning to do for a while).
I really hope I can sleep well tonight.
I didn't have to see the doctor either. . which was kindof good and also bad. It was due to a mix-up wherein her appointments got rescheduled and somehow I got (apparently) rebooked without being aware/remembering. Although my mom must have got half of the message, because today AND the later date were both marked on her fridge-posted calendar (and I looked at it the other day and was all confused "no, it's the 9th not the 17th. It's in my day planner.") Oh sillyness. Anyway, not a big deal. I didn't MISS it this time! and I was able to reschedule /again/ so that I don't miss it due to being somewheres out on the prairies at the time or something.
I just had to wait around for 50 minutes at the hospital because I hadn't wanted to drive myself. o-o; But THANKFULLY I had brought my DS like a typical little kid and was able to sit and play while I waited for my mom to finish the errands she was running in the meantime. Also on the plus side: the car didn't end up making a trip out there for nothing on my behalf.
. . When I came home I went on the internet and got caught up for a while, but I managed to get myself outside again in time to walk for an hour as the sun set. The town looked pretty. And the clouds. And there was a raainbow.
Then I actually cooked some food (something I was meaning to do for a while).
I really hope I can sleep well tonight.
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