Aggregate Twitterage

• 04:16 @feimaotheevil as you can see, I really did. Thank you. #
• 04:36 @MissMallory2u sorry about that. Would you like your ten minutes back? #
• 04:37 @ronskanky technically, I don't think so. They have to get your permission if it's an unreleased song by you, but after they just pay you. #
• 04:48 @MissMallory2u Great. As soon as we receive your original receipt for the minutes you wasted reading the blog, we'll process the refund. #
• 04:50 There. Mysterious CBLDF thing done. Now, bed. And tomorrow I finish the Misty Isle story and Dennis's introduction. #
• 04:52 @MissMallory2u You didn't actually keep your receipt, did you? #
• 11:28 @YKantRedSpel sorry. #
• 15:18 RT it's amazing... @fantagraphics: Two Gahan Wilson box set previews! 25-page free PDF + the introduction by Neil Gaiman: is.gd/4ZRS5 #
• 15:19 @zaren the link's to a facebook login page only I'm afraid. #
• 15:20 @PelesBeekeeper just started listening to it. I think I will start liking it lots more in a couple of weeks when I feel more Christmassy. #
• 15:21 RT yes! @neverwear: new @neilhimself & @jimlee00 print available! "100 words" twitpic.com/q8z7kget it here: neverwear.net #
• 15:22 @YKantRedSpel worry not. It's only twitter. #
• 16:01 @AliceHasWords that's wonderful. #
• 16:23 Proabably worth mentioning that the ltd edn @jimlee000 print at bit.ly/6ccplW is $35 for the next 24 hours then goes up to $45 #
• 19:43 Just read the Guardian Bad Sex Award contenders at bit.ly/2IOvuQ. I may never write a sex scene ever again. O Roth. O Banville. Argh. #
• 19:44 @diveabout @mauidrilon. CONGRATULATIONS on your 1st Anniversary. Glad I could help. #
• 19:57 @jeremyallan normally, no: bit.ly/4gcCNJ #
• 20:03 @JackViolet really? I thoug ht it was amazingly inoccuous: you have to know what's going on to know that anything's going on. #
• 20:06 @christof36 @thezomeister Glad I once met John Banville. Won't have to fight the urge to say "So. Fish-slime and sawdust?" on 1st meeting. #
• 20:10 @juliangough I'm not sure that it's an honour, any longer. Although I'd take Nick Cave off that list... #
• 22:05 The party that is bringing me to Decatur, GA: bit.ly/6dCHYy #
• 22:17 @lemonpassion still on the MyTouch #
• 22:51 @TeawithGodzilla agreed. #
• 22:55 @emeganboggs nice things i hope. #
• 23:09 Re: The bad Sex Awards. No, I don't think that the Nick Cave should have been there either. The last line made it. But yes to the rest. #
• 23:53 @RavenTweetTweet they are the same person. #
• 23:57 @thejillthompson HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I will give you four huge Spanish Black Orchid Books, that you drew, sent to me i n error. #
• 00:03 @ThatGirlLil I think I'll be signing until very late that night... #
• 00:11 @thejillthompson are you sure you don't want them? You could build a house out of them. #
• 01:50 @thejillthompson you should have a contest among spanish-speaking fans to win copies! #
• 02:49 @cdibona that was funny. #
• 02:52 RT: (to remember) @rozkaveney: My trans day of remembrance post and a new p oem for the occasion bit.ly/2hMewF #tdor #
• 02:54 @amandapalmer goodnight. I love you very much, although I am not a state. Or anything geographical, really. (Except a town in Patagonia.) #
• 02:55 @allisonjanine here you go bit.ly/7U6u9Y #
• 03:13 @fingersandtoes I'm not sure. It seems to go in waves, such that we used to have a #neildream hashtag when it was really bad. #
• 03:25 @joaoerbetta it is true . I am a welsh town in Patagonia. bit.ly/6Kjr2d for proof. #
• 03:32 RT amazing. @thebookslut: "Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen: The Movie" 45 minute doc online is.gd/50dUS #
• 03:57 @JSCarroll it's a heineken ad about drinking responsibly bit.ly/35tIT4 #

Aggregate Twitterage

• 09:46 RT @doctorow: Leaked secret UK plan to create Pirate Finder General w power to form militias, write laws tinyurl.com/yfbh9l2 HUGE #
• 13:21 @GreatBigNerd you're welcome #
• 13:58 @DaveMcKean hang on. I gave you one pound fifty and half a Bounty bar not to tell ANYONE about the squirrel. #
• 14:26 @MerrileeHeifetz you were so right. Would you like me to find a square picture of you that you can upload as your pic? #
• 14:45 @mistressmousey it made my day. #
• 15:10 @VoVat actually, what @amandapalmer says is that she hasn't read ALL of Sandman. It's 2000+ pages. #
• 15:10 @tabor330 nope. But anything I do has an audience, which is different. #
• 15:42 I messed up the link. If you want to bid on an afternoon of tea and chat with me at the @mothstories auction it's at bit.ly/dle5 #
• 16:01 @Kylar I expect so. Depends on schedules. #
• 16:16 @nataliefisher I've got a tweetdeck column of hers. Mostly I check it to see how a gig is going and when she's likely to be free. #
• 16:27 So @mrtonylee sent me a link to the story of How Pudsey saved his life. You should read it. bit.ly/4uJj2S #
• 16:29 @bruhinb I'll suggest to her that she might want to subsitute "finished" for "read". She wrote the intro to ABSOLUTE DEATH... #
• 16:29 @everythingnerdy yes #
• 16:47 @MotleyHippie you know, if I could have, I would've. As it was getting it down to two was a stretch. #
• 16:48 @eleraama the trouble with a #neilwebfail is mostly, a few thousand people look at a blank screen and then click away... #
• 16:50 @bruhinb A moment right up there with mine when @amandapalmer played COIN OPERATED BOY and the person next to me said "So that's you, now." #
• 17:28 @docsax wonderful, wonderful book. #
• 17:30 RT sorry, a #neilwebfail there. Here you go... @vesper_dbs: Luckily, he's got a livejournal: bit.ly/1O9TSy #
• 17:33 Here's the Mcnally-Robinson video showing their Graveyard Book party... bit.ly/1xwiGZ! #
• 18:16 @mrtonylee sorry Tony. Sometimes I forget me own strength. Er. #
• 18:54 @finallykyle twitpic.com/q5czg - I already wrote congratulating @luckycharms216 last night, Kyle. #
• 18:55 Why I will be in Chicago in February: bit.ly/1h1gfZ #
• 19:07 @ClaireLeah do you think any of them still exist anywhere? #
• 19:08 @maureenjohnson don't touch anything. Especially not the Helmic regulator or the Zeus plugs. #
• 19:38 @Fontia_Sprocket I've lived in the US for 17 years... #
• 19:40 @dashjperiod dunno. Depends on too many things right now, including whether I can manage bilocation. #
• 19:43 @meltinghalo I never mind. She's a wonderful kisser. ( Alas, I, being English, am too easily embarrassed to snog my readers.) #
• 19:43 @britnlind Oh, we planned it like that. #
• 19:47 @Fontia_Sprocket oh, that's where they got to. I've been waiting for them for years. Send the drummers my way when they turn up. #
• 20:18 @scoutfinch2271 if you're in Chicago, it's not in Chicago. If you're not in Chicago, it's in Chicago. #
• 20:28 @scoutfinch2271 oh good. And you should come and say hi when I'm in Naperville. #
• 20:29 @lukewigand in person I'm about 5 10. On Youtube I'm about two inches tall. #
• 20:33 @DrWicked apart from bit.ly/2grwZR and bit.ly/pGqp8 of course. #
• 21:05 @scoutfinch2271 I'll be all like, "Hullo. I'm Neil Gaiman." #
• 21:32 @tabor330 I'm English: Most American towns were recently fields, woods or prairie. #
• 22:49 i love my da ughter maddy, she's the best. sometimes throughout the day i stop writing and think about how great she is. just being honest :) #
• 22:54 Please remind me not to leave computers running twitter open in houses containing @maddyg44. Although she is wonderful. #
• 22:55 @hollyherself MWA HA HA HA HA! IT IS I, MADDY! i don't think anyone figured it out :D #
• 22:55 @hollyherself That was Maddy, O Best Daughter Over 20. I got tweetjacked. #
• 22:58 Someone is rolling around on a sofa gigglling helplessly, going "you weren't supposed to come in yet. How did you know ?" Someone=@maddyg44. #
• 23:00 You know the funny thing. I do stop working sometimes and think about how amazing @maddyg44 is and how ridiculously lucky I am to be a dad. #
• 23:04 @YaleLawyer it's really "at mutual convenience". I'm normally in NY 4 or 5 times a year. #
• 23:06 @KaptainKrude I think I'll be going where I'm sent by Naperville Reads. You must ask them. #
• 23:13 Let's see. Seeing everyone is asking: 1) Yes, this is me again. 2) @maddyg44 is 15. 3) Yes, she's that cute/funny in real life too. #
• 23:24 twitpic.com/q6vfg - If you see a girl who looks like this, it may be @maddyg44. Lock your computers, just in case. #
• 23:27 @AprilynnePike best kind! (Hi Aprilynne.) #
• 23:28 @vampandora I wish I had any kind of sensible advice about parenting. Mostly I just love them and figure things will work out, and they do. #
• 00:06 @Manukau_Libs I do not know. But the Festival will be in charge of all my movements. #
• 00:07 @Rocky_Hynes Lud in the Mist? Jonathan Strnage and Mr Norrell? #
• 00:09 @MichaelStefano will do. #
• 00:27 @hmaure Maure, if someone dropped a bomb on Naperville, the rest of the world would talk about the Chicago area Tragedy. #
• 00:34 @RandomFyre I think @maddyg44 knows exactly how public she wants to be, and is that public and no more. #
• 03:58 Blog entry up: "Blood! Blood in unimaginable quantities!": posted by Neil I'm happy to say that I've not won any m... bit.ly/1jMrrT #

Aggregate Twitterage

• 09:41 RT Thank you! @Booktrust: Congrats to @neilhimself. Won the 2009 Booktrust Teenage Prize for 'The Graveyard Book'! bit.ly/4eAYST #
• 09:43 That is a wonderful sort of a way to start a morning, with an amazing award. Thank you @booktrust judges and all at @bloomsburybooks #
• 09:57 RT The hair. In the photo. @alisonflood: Great interview by @michellepauli with me winning the Booktrust prize: tinyurl.com/yfkqvgv #
• 10:24 Elise Howard's Graveyard Book amazing Pecan Pie Recipe: bit.ly/3e7iQ4 #
• 10:26 @treith But Twitter have said they will get all clients to use their new RT method. #
• 10:55 @nenegirl888 Carrie and Salem's Lot. #
• 10:57 According to the BBC I am best known fas a movie writer and wrote Beowulf and Stardust films. Lazy, lazy journalism. bit.ly/2jXGfJ #
• 10:59 @catsdontsmile It goes through phases, depending on what's happening and if I'm by a computer. But you should unfollow if you don't like it. #
• 11:03 I take it back. The article's fine. But the first para & the headlin e were written by someone not paying attention bit.ly/2jXGfJ #
• 11:15 @HughePaul it's definitely not a great photo. #
• 11:15 @muskrat_john it was one reason I stopped being a journalist. #
• 11:17 @orangeviolet er, no. None at all. But I read the body of the article and realised the subeditor was the idiot, not the writer. #
• 11:20 @offormerfame well, I didn't write the script for Stardust movie. And I'm best known for writing books and comic s. #
• 11:38 @indeciSEAN as long as there's a splash of orange in hers we'll be fine. #
• 11:39 @docbrite surely Robin was the one who laid the egg. No? #
• 11:54 @gliovampire she is at bit.ly/1TEpXd #
• 11:55 @spkr4thedead51 alas, no. #
• 11:59 The internet: a place where you can google "Batman smells variants" and obtain instant academic annotations bit.ly/2Sr3Kb #
• 17:11 @lmirani someone offered to fly me to Bombay and I said no? #
• 17:20 Bless the BBC. They've rewritten the article at bit.ly/2jXGfJ so I am now a novelist and not a movie writer. #
• 17:24 RT if you enjoy the Audiobooks of Terry Pratchett or me @AudioFileMag did 4 great interviews with our narrators bit.ly/26SIX5 #
• 17:36 @emiliokun I know. One day I will come and see them in #Chile #
• 17:55 Slightly odd Telegraph interview at bit.ly/1N9IW. (So far the @GuardianNews comes out way ahead.) #
• 17:56 @fan_of_film yes. Check google cache. #
• 18:29 If you're in Philadelphia area, there are still 200 tickets for the @amandapalmer gig at TLA tonight. I won't be there, but she will. #
• 19:27 @G_Alvim John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. #
• 19:28 @michellepauli oops. I did, I did. Mea astonishingly culpa. #
• 19:28 @Bishkebab Happy Birthday. Have a great year. And you share a birthday with Alan Moore... #
• 19:30 @EvelynNAlfred did they enjoy it? #
• 20:43 @thesarahcoleman I could be a doorman! #
• 20:43 @EvelynNAlfred how old are they? #
• 20:45 @KatWithSword aww. I LIKE my Croup and Vandemar voices. #
• 21:17 @EvelynNAlfred that's a good thing to hear. M is for Magic, I assume...? #
• 21:24 Partly for Dr @Katwithsword: Messrs Croup and Vandemar on the upcoming Russian cover of Neverwhere twitpic.com/q22dx #
• 21:29 @SuzieRo I read the first three. I know Steve wrote more after that. #
• 21:33 @EvelynNAlfred I like putting words kids didn't know in books for kids. The people who tell me off for it are never kids. Kids like words. #
• 23:18 @rubyxxcube honestly it depends w hat kind of things you like. #
• 23:27 Blog entry up: LOCAL MAN IN HATE MAIL OUTRAGE SHOCK FIASCO: posted by Neil Anything I say about it would sound lik... bit.ly/16dZH7 #
• 23:29 @rayvyn2k I guess. It was nice about Sandman but I thought it was astoundingly patronising about the readers. #
• 23:41 @luckycharms216 easily my favourite way of spending time. #
• 00:32 @mahlemedved When I do count the clock that tells the time #
• 00:32 @MaylarROFL really? where was this? #
• 01:06 @Morgul essentially, high-cream milk. #
• 01:51 @AnneBillson it seems to stem from a desire on Twitter's part to tidy up something messy and useful into something tidy and stupid. #
• 02:24 @JessMGardiner it is indeed hers, but it makes me happy to know Neverwhere brought you joy. #
• 03:42 I'm a "demonic entity in human form who poisons youth with its twisted and lascivious stories" per twitpic.com/q30my Feel so proud. #
• 03:44 Right, off to bed. Have to get up early tomorrow t o take daughter to school, then a busy day of youth-poisoning and lascivious writing. #
• 03:44 @MaylarROFL awesome! Thank you! #

Aggregate Twitterage

• 08:49 @timminchin "the poor man's" because we poor folk cannot afford music-free humour and have to take our comedy how it comes. #
• 08:55 @Marjorie73 personal, I am afraid. I will eat Turkey and open presents. #
• 08:56 @mbdrake a copy is sitting on the table beside me, and I cannot watch it until Maddy comes home from school tonight. #
• 09:47 RT @cigamerisedi: @neilhimself Did you see this grown up Coraline sketch by Adam Hughes?? Incredible! tinyurl.com/yfrukbg #
• 09:48 @Valkyrie_NYC soonish, I think. There will be one anyway, Claudia Gonson says. #
• 13:35 @lomawood right #
• 13:35 @lomawood well, technically Watson was the killer. #
• 13:36 @LizaPotts the slash continuum embraces all. #
• 13:36 @Valkyrie_NYC Maddy saw it a couple of months ago in NY and loved it. I wonder if she knew that was Jane. #
• < em>14:31 @danguyf was that you? The Jews' harp, the shaker shaker eggs and the spoons? #
• 14:49 Blog entry up: Revealed! The Rulers of the Darkness of This World: posted by Neil So about 40 bookshops had Gravey... bit.ly/2TpSp8 #
• 15:29 @danguyf I will.. learn to play the egg and spoons... #
• 15:30 @Maudelynn bee-day. YOU WERE MAKING A JOKE ALL THE TIME. Also, 1939 was a very good year for beekeeping. Thank you. #
• 16:38 @MrBillyBones is it working okay now? #
• 16:51 If you're having problems getting the blog entry for today (in which my evil is proven) to load here's the LJ feed link: bit.ly/yuiKu #
• 17:13 @realtomg a;as, no. I wish I could, but stories don't write themselves. #
• 17:50 @houseofprince never. #
• 18:00 @TheBloggess have you got a date for the funeral service yet, so I can get it in the calendar? #
• 20:13 @KatArt i know that. #
• 20:24 As they say in the Arabian Nights, "If Allah wills it." That's certainly the plan. anyway. #
• 20:4 3 @almojadidi @Negro_Joe I know. But I didn't assume the person I was tweeting did. #
• 20:43 @PanicBooks check my blog where all is explained. #
• 20:49 Right. Maddy and I are settling down to watch the DR Who special THE WATERS OF MARS now. Do not disturb. Or send spoilers. #
• 22:03 RT the ultimate all-purpose spoiler, really @doktordee: rosebud was his tardis. #
• 22:05 Much better than the last one. Really looking forward to the final two specials. Nice to see a Doctor prepare to leave the stage well. #
• 22:09 @Milo1313 but you would be wrong. I have a shady and mysterious Dr Who Dealer, and salve my conscience by buying DVD sets for friends. #
• 22:18 @4evermore not unless you count Peter cushing. #
• 22:29 @ayeletw you are Good Parents, Ayelet. Having seen the drum kit in your lounge, you may be the Best Parents Ever. #
• 22:30 @PaganBarista it could be worse. You could be the Todd McFarlane of Neil Gaiman slash fiction. #
• 22:30 @Entity001 I trust Moffat utterly. #
• 22:31 @juliangough I think life would be easier if there were sofas to hide behind, sometimes. #
• 22:32 @foresthouse you're welcome. I was about to roll up my sleeves and write and then saw you'd done all the work for me already. #
• 22:49 @juliangough "I understand the importance of this trial, m'lud. I just want to watch it from behind my sofa which I have with me." #
• 22:59 @foresthouse I recommend The Juniper Tree. Or Hansel and Gretel. #
• 23:11 @foresthouse forwarded it to Charles B and Miss Kendra too. #
• 23:20 @amandapalmer wish I could be there. #
• 23:43 @sxipshirey Nope. Still David Tennant until the end of the year. #
• 23:46 Pondering changing my Twitter icon to this, a gift from a young lady in Singapore; bit.ly/3TZLte #
• 23:49 @barrylyga my assistant looked puzzled when GGR arrived from Amazon. She hit the tub of books & moments later handed me the copy from you. #
• 23:55 @rikibeth the hair #
• 00:15 @barrylyga I can regift the one I bought, so all is not lost. #
• 00:16 Right. New Icon in place. Truthfully, it may be too small, and may not last long. But it makes me smile. #
• 00:37 @kbeilz I once told Diana WJ that Chrestomanci reminded me of Psmith. She said, "Possibly, but in Lives of C Chant, he was based on you." #
• 00:38 @cherylcolan that was very like my first attempt, and it was just too small. #
• 00:40 @AtlantaJones dec #
• 00:40 @vzin right #
• 00:48 Oh. Dear Twitter, I don't like the clever new way of Retweeting that means you can't comment or explain as you retweet. #
• 01:00 @trainerr is there a website/ news site? #
• 02:13 @briolson give them my love. #
• 02:17 Yes, everyone-who-wrote. I DO understand I can RT the oldfashioned way, or Tweeetdeck etc. I'm just saying: not a fan of the new Twitter RT. #
• 02:19 Happy Birthday for yesterday @wossy. It was him what sucked me into the madness of Twitter, and he will always be a week younger than me. #
• 02:21 And Happy Birthday to Alan Moore, Grand Wizard of Englandshire, famed ballroom dancer and classic beauty. He only twitters with his brain. #
• 02:23 @Tahrialah it is a Beta rollout and does not yet do it for everyone. #
• 02:25 @briolson just don't do that rhythmic naked hugging thing, and you'll be fine. #
• 02:52 YouTube Treasures: Punkpoet John Cooper Clarke's sort-of-song "I don't want to be nice" on OGWT 78 bit.ly/1fEJEp Instant happiness #

Aggregate Twitterage

• 05:43 @bostonbabydolls you know, when I get angry I turn bright green and grow really big. It's true. Look, you're reading it on the internet. #
• 05:44 @bostonbabydolls and the word "gullible" isn't actually in the dictionary. #
• 05:44 @JonahCorvus of course #
• 11:29 @sam_eggleston I'll be in the UK and Boston that week. #
• 19:21 @IntNorbertCon terrifyingly, I see what you me an. #
• 19:24 @bostonbabydolls there's definitely a fund. I think it's based in a Chilis in new jersey. ;) #
• 19:29 Fascinated by new "the meter's not working, pay what you like" NY taxis. Taxi to the airport tonight said it's to avoid credit cards. Why? #
• 19:32 Also will blog it tonight but there were TWO first prize winners as I couldn't choose between them. So will sign in winipeg and decatur ga. #

Aggregate Twitterage

• 14:10 @bostonbabydolls ...er, what? #
• 17:05 At wintuk cirque show with @amandapalmer and @gofackadawg. Should be fun #
• 18:07 @bostonbabydolls plausible? Really? Would you like to buy the Brooklyn bridge? Cheap? #
• 19:10 Miss gofackadawg is actually now @digbyflick, she tells me. Which sounds like Flixton Slick the famous detective. #
• 19:11 @ABWaite mm. I learned a lot from it. #
• 19:12 @CynthVonBuhler thank you! It was great to meet you too! #
• 21:39 @ABWaite the low ceiling was so odd. Worried the balance beam guys would hit the lights. #
• 21:41 Dessert in bubby's in tribeca. Rock&roll suicide on the jukebox. And PIE. #
• 22:02 @yidboy it is Bubby's. It says so on the menu. #
• 22:03 Since everyone asked, I had apple pie and they had pumpkin and pecan. And it was amazing. #

Aggregate Twitterage

• 11:19 @ansonandmarley read subsequent tweets and links. #
• 12:31 @lyzardly read the paper while waiting for lunch. Really enjoyed it. #
• 19:31 Thanks for well wishes. Lady went into back of us on expressway in the rain. Cars a bit dented, people in them a bit shaken but no one hurt. #
• 19:33 @boanas finish things. #
• 19:35 @CallMeGoldie we're good. Will we see you tonight? #
< li>19:35 @gralinnaea all good #
• 19:41 @travisking that's amazing. Of course he's right. I do endorse gay marriage and other things he sees as scary, like thinking for oneself... #
• 19:43 @slushpilehero ah. Glad to help. #
• 19:46 @mazzieemoo American Gods probably if you like King #
• 19:48 @mgaiman me too. Thanks Mike #
• 02:22 @thesarahcoleman I have no plans to be deaded. Promise. #
• 02:26 @CallMeGoldie you should've called me. I would've got you in. Next time. #