You can listen to it soon: http://smodcast.bandcamp.com is where it'll go live (for a 90 cent donation for all of the three chunks - or more, if you are feeling affluent, all of which goes to The Wayne Foundation) (this is The Wayne Foundation's Mission Statement).
(Photos by Allan Amato)
This is Amanda at soundcheck.
And once that was done I felt like I was off-duty and stopped taking photographs, so the adventures that followed are pretty much unrecorded, photographically. I saw lots of friends, travelled by train (Christopher Salmon's film of The Price got its kickstarter funding as I was having breakfast on the train from Los Angeles to Santa Fe. 2001 of us funded it. You are all awesome), played the melodica with Amanda's three-year old nephew Ronan, rewrote a film script, and copy-edited the American Gods Tenth Anniversary edition.
I meant to blog about NPR's Science Friday Broadcast of the 2010 Ig-Nobel Awards, (as described at http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2010/09/banned-books-and-ig-nobels.html) at http://www.npr.org/2010/11/26/131608853/silly-science-honored-with-ig-nobel-prizes (you can download the evening in podcast form here).
Then I got home, in a snowstorm, to find a Weeping Angel in a jar of honey. (A photograph and explanation of sorts can be read in http://www.birdchick.com/wp/2010/12/lets-get-weird-with-honey/).
I've spent most of the last day on deadlines. But sometimes I've walked the dogs. (I love this photo. It's so hard to get them both looking in the right place.)
Cabal is walking better each day.
The whole Snow thing is completely new to Lola, who tends to walk with her tongue out, licking as she goes.
The white dogs tend to vanish in the snow when I'm walking them, especially at dusk. Really vanish. From the front you have noses and eyes. From the rear, they're invisible...
These photos above were all taken with my Nexus 1 phone, using the Vignette camera app. (I talked about it on NPR at http://www.publicradio.org/columns/marketplace/tech-report/2010/12/neil-gaimans-favorite-photography-app-vignette-for-android.html)
The one below was taken with a real film camera - a Lomo LC-A+. The Lomo people have just done an interview with me (you can read the questions here at http://www.lomography.com/magazine/competitions/2010/12/02/lomoamigo-neil-gaiman-interview-rumble-winner-announcement) and offered any of my blog/Facebook/Twitter followers a 15% discount on anything from the Lomo shop (here's the US one) if you put in NEILHIMSELF as your checkout code.
Right. Tomorrow, more bloggage. And not just a list of stuff I meant to tell you...
Labels: blue ribbon honey, dog photograph, Ig Nobels, kevin smith, lola's tongue, lomography, weeping angels