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I've got dozens of tabs opened right now with Stardust reviews in them, most of them astonishingly positive, but I think it's time to let Rotten Tomatoes be the place the reviews get posted. If any particularly interesting ones cross the transom I may post them here, but not otherwise.

(One oddness, for whatever it's worth: audiences, and most of the people-just-posting-about-how-they-saw-a-preview, really like, and make a point of mentioning how much they like, De Niro. They like Michelle Pfeiffer, but they love De Niro. Professional film reviewers, on the other hand, adore Michelle Pfeiffer while most of them seem uncomfortable with De Niro.)

So.... last year there were Neil Gaiman shop and product discussions, started initially by the fact that people were already making their own tee shirts, mugs, mousepads and suchlike on Cafe Press. Many of you sent in suggestions.

And now, in a small way, we've started the thing up. We're already talking about the next wave of stuff, but right now there are two tee shirts: a limited elegant grey Anansi Boys shirt drawn and designed by Dagmara Matuszak, and an unlimited black "Scary Trousers" shirt designed by Kendra Stout. (I look very grumpy on this one.)

For some reason blogger isn't uploading pictures, so you will have to go to http://www.neverwear.net/ and check them out for yourself.

I was sure the Stardust Movie website would have gone live by now, but it's still a holding page. In the meantime, I was just sent a link to a Russian (I assume) site with a bunch of stills on it -- some seem scanned from magazines, but there are a few I wonder how they got their hands on... http://kino-express.ru/stills/stardust

I've grabbed one of the witch-queen's first meeting with Ditchwater Sal...



And one of our heroes dining airborne with Robert De Niro...

This is going to seem a stupid question but where are you when you write your blog? I don't have a mental picture, and I wish I did. Can you describe it? Lynn.

It depends. Sometimes I'm in bed, or at least on the bed, sometimes I'm in the downstairs office (that's where I am right now) sometimes I'm on the road and then I could be anywhere. Recently I've mostly been posting from the TV room upstairs, where I set up while we were moving the office around.

(Photos taken today by Mystery Aide. This is how I look when someone says "Are you writing?" when I am...)

And this next one was a bit more posed, because we need some current photos. (Look! Now I do not look grumpy!) Not sure how long the beard has to live right now. Probably a couple more weeks...

I've had the sushi pillows for two years now. They've held up well (except for one of the shrimps, which had to be sewn up) and I recently went back and got their yellowtail and edamame). (Their website: http://www.theoriginalsushipillow.com/.)