Neil Gaiman's Journal  -
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//spandiv style="text-align: center;"span style="font-size:78%;"A CBLDF T-shirt. You can buy it and
wear it. It will love you and tell the world that you like the First Amendment./spanbr //divbr /A
deluge of mail this morning. So far there's about 300 messages saying "Yes, thank you," and "Oh. I
get it," and precisely one chiding me for defending the distasteful and saying they 'agreed with
Jess'. Jess, on the on the other hand, wrote back to say "span style="font-style: italic;"Thank
you/span," and, "span style="font-style: italic;"...donate I will. Believe it or not, I actually
own Lost Girls, and plenty of other things that could've, at one point, gotten me bitten by
obscenity law... I needed an external prod, and you helped. Off I go to donate.../span" Which made
me happy.br /br /The CBLDF website is at a href="http://www.cbldf.org/"http://www.cbldf.org//a. You
can buy a basic membership a
href="http://www.cbldf.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=mbrshp_c1"here/a, or go and explore the
things that they'll give you if you make a donation. Signed a
href="http://www.cbldf.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=39"Frank Miller books/a make great gifts. They
havea href="http://www.cbldf.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=38" books signed by me/a as well. Also a
href="http://www.cbldf.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=24"Prints,/a and a
href="http://www.cbldf.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=23"tee shirts/a...br /br /div style="text-align:
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Party invitation. I've never really been sure about that logo myself.br //span/divbr /a
href="http://www.cbldf.org/articles/archives/000364.shtml"...and, I've just realised, a party/a. If
you're in New York on Friday night (the 5th), you could go. There will be comics people there. Door
prizes. Talking fish. Giveaway gift bags.a
href="http://www.cbldf.org/articles/archives/000364.shtml" It's at the Village Pourhouse in NYC on
64 3rd Ave at 11th Street, and is free for all current year CBLDF members./abr /br /div
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style="font-family: arial;"Another CBLDF tee shirt. It has Hellboy on it. Mike Mignola drew it. It
is for sale. Wear this tee shirt and you will be King of Awesomeness./spanbr //span/divbr /There
are span style="font-style: italic;"Entertainment Weekly/span photographers out here at the house.
I thought they were shooting my work spaces, but they seem to want me in the photos, so a handful
of links and then I will run out and be photographed:br /br /span style="font-style:
italic;"Sandman's Twentieth Anniversary./spanbr /br /Thespan style="font-style: italic;" LA Times
/spaninterviews me starting at a
href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/12/dream-a-little.html"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/12/dream-a-little.html/abr
/continuing atbr /a
href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/12/neil-gaiman-ala.html"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/12/neil-gaiman-ala.html/abr
/br /And there's a little interview at a
href="http://www.metrobostonnews.com/us/article/2008/12/02/01/4156-66/index.xml"http://www.metrobostonnews.com/us/article/2008/12/02/01/4156-66/index.xml/abr
/br /...br /br /There. Photos done. I was just handed a
href="http://www.elsewhere.org/tarot/vertigo/"a reissue of the Vertigo Tarot/a, celebrating
Sandman's 20th, and was pleased, on checking, to discover that the cards were finally on heavier
stock... (People have been complaining for fourteen years that their cards crumpled and faded with
use.)br /br /a
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/12/03/boaudio103.xml"The Daily
Telegraph lists the Graveyard Book audiobook/a on their list of Christmas Audiobooks, and it says
"span style="font-style: italic;"should raise Gaiman from cult to classic status/span" which gave
me pause. I think I span style="font-style: italic;"like/span being a cult author. Classic authors
should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines. The Graveyard Book gets a
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gift-giving plug on the YALSA blog/a as well, which is good, because we love librarians here. div
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