When I posted the #Kony2012 link on Twitter, a LOT of people sent me this. I’d already felt uncomfortable RTing something that called for direct military action, and this solidified my discomfort.
For those asking what you can do to help, please link to…
Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
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Neil Gaiman’s SFX Awards 2012 Acceptance speech video is one of the greatest acceptance speech videos of all time.
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Of all time.
Hello. I’m Neil Gaiman, I’m a multi-award-winning author of lots and lots and lots of different things, lots of awards. So when I heard that I won the SFX Screenwriting Award for Excellence for my Doctor Who episode The Doctor’s Wife, my reaction was just…
Actually, what I was really just trying to say, was, Thank You. So much.For Noah
In which I demonstrate why I have never been hired to advertise any kind of product whatsoever anywhere.
Douglas Adams and me, October 1983, back when I was a 22-year old Journalist. This was a test Polaroid that Henry the photographer gave me, taken while he was testing shots. I’m glad I still have it.
(This was back when I wore colourful clothes and also back when I smoked. And I wore tinted glasses because I thought they made me look older.)
Douglas is playing Marvin the Paranoid Android’s “How I Hate The Night” song on the guitar, but you can no longer hear him singing. It was too long ago.
Seminar’s going on and I’m being ADD as usual. It is not humanly possible to make me sit and listen for as long as one hour. Even with the most entertaining speaker in the world. Thus I shall take pictures of my restless self- as you can see, I overtly proclaim that I’m a Whovian (TARDIS bracelet) and a Gaimanian (ankh necklace twisted around my wrist in tribute of Death of the Endless and well, other little things like immortality).
Neil: On a train. It is late. Bored enough to experiment with new Vignette App settings. This is Whiteboard. Opinions seem to be divided on whether I should use this as a profile picture, or join a-ha.
