posted by Dan Guy
Good evening. Your humble web goblin here, back in the saddle. Mr. G has turned back over the reins of the blog for the next three weeks while he is in China.
A little birdie sent me this concept still from
Neil Gaiman's "The Price" (a Christopher Salmon film).
I have it on good authority that Salmon will be updating the Video Production Blog on Monday afternoon with its first post, so keep an eye out for that.
The last time I guested in this space, I made a joke,
later elaborated upon, about always wearing a knit goblin-ears cap when working for Mr. G. Since that time, due to the kindness of his readership, I have been sent not one but two goblin-ears caps!
I've been wearing them all winter, and before that to the
A Low Key Gathering at the House on the Rock.
Our month-long Decade Retrospective has not yet drawn to a close, and one of my favorites has not yet seen the spotlight.
from
Wednesday, April 10, 2002:
Reading your blog on fan fiction, you mentioned 'slash' fiction - what in the world is that? Shalene
Figuring that someone out there had probably put it better than I had, I typed
What is slash? into google, and found an instant essay for you.
For those in too much of a hurry to click, slash fiction is basically erotic fan fiction, normally TV series based, pairing off two (er or more I suppose) members of the same sex who don't normally couple for the cameras. From the "/" mark in the middle of "Kirk/Spock" or "K/S" fiction, which is where it all started. ("But Spock," said Kirk, huskily, realising, finally, irrevocably, what his true self had been trying to tell him ever since the beginning of season one, "it's so huge. And it's green." "And it would be logical for you to... touch it, Captain," said Spock. And so on. It's normally written by extremely nice ladies. I have several very sane, respected, and respectable friends who write slash fi
posted by Neil
Pssst. This is now up and running. It's very skeletal right now. I suggested it, the webgoblin and the former webelf collaborated, I wrote some FAQs based on things people had asked on Twitter, Facebook or here, and we threw it up, figuring it was more important to get something up (two days before Hallowe'en) than to get it right.
Over the next year we'll make it perfect, and by the time for the run-up to next Hallowe'en I hope it'll be a real resource.
For now, it's a work in progress. But better than nothing.
Two book-buying days before Hallowe'en...
Thank you Dan Guy. Thank you Olga.
posted by Dan Guy
Greetings from your humble web goblin!
While Mr. G is busy meeting deadlines and fulfilling obligations, I will be posting pictures of Cabal and re-posting Cabal-centric entries.
(NOTE: "Cabal Week" is not actually scheduled to be a week long. As mapped out, it will run for a fortnight, covering a single narrative arc I like to think of as "Cabal: Year One".)Neverwear ran a contest earlier this year to create a graphic depiction of Cabal. I liked
the nominees so much, I decided to create a new set of journal sidebar images, which will randomly rotate for the duration.
photo most likely by Kyle Cassidy
reprinted from Some animal thoughts... (Monday, April 30, 2007)On the way home from the recording, driving through the rain, just as I pulled off the freeway to head home, I saw a large, pale dog on the side of the sliproad. I went in a couple of seconds from a first glance thought of "Oh, he's just wandering around and knows exactly what he's doing," to, on a second glance, "He's absolutely terrified and if he isn't actually lost he's really scared of all the cars and in danger of bolting onto the freeway."
I pulled over, crossed the road and hurried across to where he was. He backed away, skittish and nervous, then came over to me, shaking. No collar or information, just a choke chain. And big. And very wet and very muddy. With cars going past, I decided the wisest thing to do was to put him into my car while I figured out what to do. The car was the Mini. I opened the door and he clambered in. The dog took up most of the Mini that I wasn't in and a fair amount of the Mini that I was in. Big dog, small car.
I phoned my assistant Lorraine, and asked her to let the local Humane Society (really nice people with a no kill policy) know we'd be coming in soon with a dog, then I drove home, narrowly avoiding death on the way (it's amazing how much you can't see when a huge dog fills the car and your field of vision). I ran around the garden with Dog until he'd tired me out. (I really hope he'd just got lost, and his family are looking for him; it would be hard to imagine someone abandoning a dog that cool.) Then I put him into the back of a car much bigger than the Mini and took him to the Humane Society, where they fawned all over him. ("I think he's a husky-wolf cross," said the Humane lady who took him, and she could be right.)
I think he's probably a survivor too.
I've decided this year that I'm going to be more grateful and appreciate others. I started to really focus on this last year but want to be even more aware of it this year. One thing I thought off in the fall was a way to give back to those who have linked to me. I started off with
this post and never got around to getting the domain and making a site for it until the end of the year. Nothing like last minute write-offs to get you moving on something! Anyway, check out the
site and see if you want to join the campaign. Here's some of my link back love for today:
Creative Mom Podcast |
Artsy Teapot |
Red Dog and Jude |
Tam Ainslie |
Mamas Doodles |
Hanna's Life is Cool |
Demarco DesignsThanks so much to everyone linking to me. It's a great encouragement to know that what I do is appreciated so much that you want to share it with others :)
