From Twitter 08-14-2009
- 01:16:56: @cdibona brilliant! thanks.
- 01:30:57: @BeatGirl alas no, I will be on a plane crossing the atlantic.
- 01:37:39: @amandapalmer can we send him away while we're eating?
- 01:51:02: Played John Wesley Harding's "Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead" all the way home, as lightning burned the sky. Best song about Lucifer ever.
- 02:13:59: @lunanola brilliant. I'm now following him.
- 02:15:18: @MissMallory2u this one's called "My Favourite Angel" and it's a lovesong from God to fallen Lucifer. Much more interesting than the Stones
- 02:36:51: @MissMallory2u de gustibus non est disputandum
- 02:54:40: @lxnmlepapa Penelope Houston's TONGUE Thea Gilmore's HOLDING YOUR HAND and Elvis Costello's astounding I WANT YOU.
- 03:00:54: The population of Detroit is 916,952. People: we could take them in a fair fight. I'm just saying.
- 03:06:35: @Grrlstar I dunno. Many of the twitter followers are packing heat & have access to nuclear weapons, nanotech robots & sharp pointy things
- 03:09:10: I'm hesitant to point to this award nomination for fear of bleary looks and justified mutters of "not another". Sorry. http://bit.ly/11r837
- 03:11:35: No, I'm not really sure what we'd do with Detroit either. Probably best nobly to end this war before it begins. (We SO coulda taken them.)
- 03:25:17: @ianshepherd I don't think any of us will persuade people who do not believe in the NHS over to #welovetheNHS in 140 eloquent characters.
- 03:36:58: @SoCalRamen they're both in SMOKE AND MIRRORS. (And in a small press volume called Angels & Visitations.)
- 03:40:21: Just learned that the post-event Edinburgh Book Festival signings are open to everyone, ticketed or not.
- 11:55:29: @Neko_Anastasia I've signed limes, yes. But the original was a nutmeg.
- 12:05:33: @amandapalmer did I just wake up to find you discussing my hair & whether you can get me into a lycra bodysuit on Twitter? I'm asleep, yes?
- 12:11:43: @amandapalmer it's going to be tambourines all over again.
- 12:28:02: @amandapalmer My old grandmother used to say, "People who love people don't ask people to wear lycra bodystockings."
- 13:40:28: Just spent an hour talking to @amandapalmer on Skype. I may have been talked into things I will regret forever. She's a force of nature.
- 14:09:17: @sfstagewalker I don't think anybody does.
- 14:17:56: @foodieguide the food's amazing, for a start....
- 15:17:26: @chelliemo @lauriepink: please tell me I did not just see that.
- 15:20:23: @amandapalmer it'll be like tambourines all over again. Also, I think my offer was better. But yes, you win, love. Why am I not surprised?
- 15:51:44: @aekiefer you can watch me read the whole thing online at mousecircus.com for free, you know.
- 16:30:28: @MeteoriteMen congratulations! You Meteorite Men you.
- 16:38:13: RT even more INSTRUCTIONS art. @IreneGallo: An Charles Vess art explosion on @neilhimself 's Instructions : http://bit.ly/MHRuM
- 17:28:14: @renothegirl just that the @neilhimself follower numbers are exactly the population of Detroit.
- 17:31:16: @EllenKushner yes. You may.
- 17:31:39: @tyflyshooter thank you very much.
- 18:55:58: Off to airport in 90 mins. Time for an unhurried dog-wander to see bees. My #followfriday picks: @donttrythis @badastronomer, @meteoritemen
- 18:58:07: @NovelFriend of course not! go for it.
- 18:59:37: RT @itsthatlady: @paul_cornell saying your audience turned into renaissance painting post reading. http://bit.ly/1a58XN
- 19:03:54: You can win 250 quid's worth of Book Tokens by picking your favourite Audiobook. Even if it's not the Graveyard Book. http://bit.ly/HVice
- 19:05:38: @erikthedane well, being in love with @amandapalmer's definitely no walk in the park. Except when we actually walk in the park, of course.
- 19:09:50: Possible #neilwebfail on that last tweet. Oops. Well, it LOOKED so robust.
- 19:10:32: @AreUaHeartless twitter, and my website at neilgaiman.com
- 19:13:50: @DerrenBrown it seems to have happened automatically.
- 19:32:05: @Machrider Oh yes: http://hashtags.org/tag/neilwebfail/accounts
- 19:41:15: @EllenKushner brilliant. I think a lot of people had the same idea at the same time (steam engine time as Fort said).
- 20:06:03: @pnume207 more or less. I stood in a closet and read the lines. I assume it's me under the voice treatment, but cannot be certain.
- 20:29:28: Blog entry up: Your Instructions, should you choose to accept them...: posted by Neil When Blueber.. http://bit.ly/scvfb
- 21:01:48: @maddyg44 how did that happen?
- 21:02:50: @maddyg44 want me to bring my old one for you to swap? ?
- 21:16:00: @maddyg44 bringing it.
- 22:21:48: @Undented oh-oh. I'll unleash the werewolf hordes, then.
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