Nothing Girl
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(2/7/03 10:18 pm)
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In an effort to revive some interest in this site I'm starting a series of surveys.

The first question is; who is your favorite Neil Gaiman character?

I think my current fave would have to be Shadow, he is just so self contained I find him facinating.




Rorschach
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(2/10/03 4:11 am)
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Favourite Characters Delerium. She has it all, she can make you laugh or break your heart. Barnabus is also pretty funny. I like that pic towards the end of The Kindly Ones where they find each other.
Anybody read any of Alan Moore's Top Ten? I just discovered it a couple of weeks ago and am itching to talk about it with somone




Nothing Girl
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(2/27/03 3:21 am)
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you can be me when I'm gone Never heard of it what is it?

Also my current fave has changed its now the Corinthian but the new less homicidal version...no idea why really...

Oh P.S. has anyone one else seen "The rules of Attraction" yet? I really liked it... who knew dawson could act?




darkhairedboy
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(3/3/03 11:07 am)
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Fox magic At the moment, the Monk and the Fox, a romantic pair from an elegant story




Rorschach
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(3/4/03 3:31 pm)
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Fox in box with locks and stocks and lots of clocks Something foxy about that fox. Is that wrong?
Dawson can act? I was always more of a 'Pacey' man myself.
NG - it's a tremedous series about a police force keeping order in a city populated exclusively by superheroes.
What makes it unique (apart from Alan Moore just being braw as always) is the fact that almost every sinlge panel has famous sci-fi characters from every medium over the last 100 years skulking about in the background. It's like a radioactive Where's Wally. Kinda like old Dreamy's funeral only more so.
Highly, highly recommended.




Nothing Girl
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(3/19/03 3:29 pm)
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You said braw! That sounds cool ror, by the by have you ever read "Oor Wullie"? My scottish aunt and uncle gave me a collected edition that they'ed had for years when I visited them in Jan.

DHB I agree hon I finally got a copy of the dream hunters and it was just beautiful.

Hey guess who has a real job that pays money and everything?




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(3/20/03 11:25 am)
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I did and I stand by that... 'Lo all
Congratulations NG! (Hugs) Beers are on you then! What are you doing?
Yes, I have read 'Oor Wullie', it's deeply disconcerting isn't it?
How is everyone? Holidays start tomorrow. I love the world! :rollin




darkhairedboy
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(3/21/03 10:47 am)
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The weather is here...wish you were beautiful Spring finally! Gods i need a vacation




Nothing Girl
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(3/22/03 1:35 am)
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Welcome to Telstra Mobile This is Palila! My job consists of being perky and connecting people's mobile (cell) phones, Its deeply challenging.

Sooooo DHB I hear there is a DHBette is this true or just a nasty rumour? I hopes she's lovely hon you deserve it.




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(3/24/03 3:12 am)
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Love - like veLo only different She'd be darkhairedgirl!
Spring is sprung, the grass is ris, I wonder where the birdies is?
Good one NG, I needs a job but bad
Maybe I should - uh, I dunno - look for one or something




darkhairedboy
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(3/25/03 6:55 pm)
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enough about me, let's talk about ....anything There is, she's amazing and last week she became a ballroom dance champion. Things have been getting much brighter and much warmer around here, in fact, all the little sticks in the yard suddenly have delicate colorful things sticking out of them. I'm a little worried. I randomly made friends with two cell phone girls recently they abducted me the other night and dragged me to a club which turned out to be a giant video arcade for drunken college students. lots of fun, they got sloshed and I beat them at pool. Best of luck in the new job NG




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(3/26/03 3:45 am)
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Four posts in a week?! My Lord...
Yay! She won! How was the trip DBH? And where are my pages? I PROMISE not to mistakenly delete them again!




darkhairedboy
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(3/27/03 7:26 pm)
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welcome to springfield, colony for the jaundiced It was a sterling vacation, we couldn't follow the map, took about six wrong turns and managed to cut what should have been a four hour drive down to a two and a half one. We arrived in Springfield where disappointingly everyone was not yellow. Found the pool, stared at it, decided we weren't really pool people, found the hot tub..full of old men, decided old man soup didn't sound tasty and found a really cool restaurant in the middle of a Celtic folklore festival. Next day she danced,won, we found the hot tub again filtered out the old man hair but couldn't bring ourselves to actually climb inside, went to the fancy dinner thing. Got up ridiculously early, checked out and blared Sinatra's greatest hits the whole ride home. And sorry Ror. apparently i've made a mess of my computer, have a genius coming to look at the poor guy tomorrow so soon as i can i'll re-send them



Nothing Girl
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(4/4/03 4:46 am)
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to cool for school Congrats hun, sounds like a fun trip but as I have done nothing very interesting I've got nothing else to say




darkhairedboy
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(4/10/03 10:12 am)
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and we were doing so well Everyone's gone again! been busy myself, working and writing when i'm not doing that. Anyone here pick up smoke and mirrors? i find myself sitting here really wishing i'd thought to pick up a copy




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(4/13/03 4:40 am)
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Blame it on the weatherman Hullo all, forgive my inactivity of late.
I have been busy as a badger finding a job, trying to read lots etc etc also I have absolutely nothing exciting to tell ya's.
I got it DHB, there are some great stories in it, it's well worth picking up. Besides - if you do read it you can explain some of the weirder bits to me




Nothing Girl
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(5/3/03 7:30 pm)
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witless banality I loved smoke and mirrors, it actually amkes you read with your whole brain




darkhairedboy
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(5/17/03 8:56 pm)
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there really is more in plymouth than just a rock Barnabus wins this week.... it would be really cool to have a dog put you in your place

sat down witha lovely woman and planned my summer. Absolutley none of it to be spent in my own country. Gods....this is going to be fun




Nothing Girl
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(5/24/03 8:09 am)
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Green doesn't suit me I am deeply envious of your out of country plans DHB, but I'll try to be happy for you I swear

I've said it before and I'll say it again; why do I have to live in a country so far from everywhere else!! Its not fair!!!

Anyway I'll live and I'm currently on a Bret Easton Ellis jag so my new non-neil fave charactor is Victor Ward... who knew a himbo could be interesting?

I really want to tell you guys about something but I'm deathly afraid of jinxing it, so just be aware that I may have something to tell you soon.

Enough ranting from me it is now time to return you to your regularly scheduled lunatic. Bu-bye now




darkhairedboy
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(5/28/03 6:47 pm)
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congratulations on your something bored bored bored bored bored...i'd rather punch bears for a living




Nothing Girl
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(6/2/03 7:15 pm)
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Why thank ye kindly Still resizing rings? If it helps any I say the exact same thing about 50 times a day, sometimes I find my self sayin ti in the middle of a conversation.."Welcome to telsra mobile, this is Palila"...there see what I mean?

Chin up precious mindless optimisim is good thing

Besides the bears never did anything to you did they?




Rorschach
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(6/15/03 4:01 pm)
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Deja vu You wouldn't want to trust them around pic-a-nic baskets though...




Nothing Girl
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(7/10/03 3:15 pm)
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insomnia is a bad bad thing sleep, sleep, must sleep.
just wanted to drop by and let you know I'm still here. My brain is frozen by fatigue so I'll go answer some phones now.
love to love ya




SilverCatInTheMirror
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(2/23/04 7:45 am)
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favourite characters hello,
I am quite new to this game, so I am playing it safe by choosing a site that isn't exactly swamped. (feeling shy, even though none of you can see me). I do hope this site is still alive, because, well, some of my all time favourite characters are Neil Gaiman creations.

The topranking one is Galadriel, created by Tolkien, whom I knew, I hasten to add, long before the films were made. Galadriel has always been a favourite with me (think of that hair, mixing the colours of Telperion and Laurelin etc etc), but now she is played by Cate Blanchett, who just happens to be my favourite actress (think of 'Elizbeth' and of her great introduction for 'the Fellowship of the Ring')

A very close second is mr. Gaiman's Death. She is so cool and pretty and despite being Death, quite optimistic and funny. I like her best in the drawings for 'the kindly ones' when she comes to take Morpheus to the Sunless Lands.

Other Sandman characters I like are Nuala, Desire and the Corinthian. Eve is quite fascinating, too. I must add that I also like Hypolita Hall (despite the things she does), especially when that threeheaded serpent tells her the various meanings of her name ('Hypolita is an amazon queen, seduced by Hercules', says one head. 'Lyta, for short, means not as heavy', adds a second head. 'Hall, a place between places', concludes the third head. Would mr. Gaiman have thought of all this when he introduced us to Hypolita Hall so many pages before?)

The 'kind ladies' are also dear to me, even if it were only for this conversation (which drives my mother wild if I quote it out loud): 'where is the baby's finger?' 'I've got it here.' 'It is very small...' 'It was a very small baby!' 'Ditchdelivered?' 'And birthstrangled, just like it says in the recipe!' Hmmm, now that I type it out here I see its morbidity more clearly: usually I 'perform' it as a little show, which is perhaps disrespectful of those babies and their mothers...that might be what drives my mother wild...




Nothing Girl
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(3/5/04 2:14 am)
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character? I've got character coming out the wazoo Hey peoples

welcome silver cat nice to hear from you.
This week my fave character is Delirium I think i've been dipping in and out of her relm recently.

My fave non-neil character is zaphod breezlebrox mainly because sam rockwell is supposed to be playing him in an upcoming movie. Can you think of a better choice?




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(3/5/04 2:39 am)
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character? nice meeting you. since I know neither the comicbook character, nor the actor you refer to Nothing Girl, I can hardly express an opinion. I do find, however that adaptions rarely work out. Have you seen Adaptation with Nicolas Cage and MEryl Streep? I rest my case...
Some adaptations are works of art in their own right. I am thinking mainly of The Hours here, although the book was mmuch much more... An older quite successful adaptation was Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?, with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

What really yeks me though is the adaptation of films into books. they do it generally quite lamely; 'her red dress was splendid', what are they talking about? An entire visual language is reduced to five words without any consequence at all.




Nothing Girl
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(3/6/04 8:03 am)
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adaptation I agree that MANY adaptions are shoddy and some are just completely disrepectful to the original vision of the writer.You wonder why they bought the film rights if they were only going to keep the title.

The best ones seem to be true to the spirit or feel of the novel rather than slaves to it.

Nothing annoys fans more than changing things for no reason, cutting things out for time can be ok as long as they aren't major.

You are right about film to book adaption being generally awful I avoid them on principle.




darkhairedboy
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(3/19/04 9:51 pm)
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life, the universe and everything I picked up "salmon of doubt" a few days ago and 've been reading it on planes. I think everyone has one of those quite mental lists somewhere back among the dust and cobwebs of the top, i don't know, let's say five people they wish they could meet (um..mine
john lennon, Ghandi, jim henson, tim burton) and hope maybe a one day standing at baggage check "hey aren't you.."sort of thing will happen. reading the introductions to adams collection you really feel he is someone the world should miss. . ugh, so tired. One of the last segments of salmon is an interview with douglas in which he discusses his excitement about the latest attempt to get hitchhikers on screen and mentions his frustration at not being more involved in its production, it was something he was fighting for just before his heart attack. I know theres a biography of adams somewhere out there neil is the author...yet another hint at the interconncetivity of all things dirk gently might suggest who is ,at the moment, my favorite litterary character



Nothing Girl
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(3/27/04 1:31 am)
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hey baby-cake hey dhb long time no talk. I read the slamon of doubt a while ago and I have to agree it makes you realise what a loss his passing is.

My current fave charactor is currently Despair mainly because she is so cute in "At death's door." I know that cute isn't normally the first thing despair makes you think of but she and del make a great team.




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(3/27/04 11:53 pm)
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Booya! im still all for croup and vandemar :evil
wahehehe. hey how's everybody? andybody miss me? oh guess not. DHB, though long overdue, congratulations to the DHBette.
i just moved out of my tropical-paradise homeland of the philippines to frigid Chicago. Where the hell is spring??? bah.
peacelovejustice everyone




Nothing Girl
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(4/6/04 4:33 am)
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big time moving wow thats a huge move what promted that?

Hey guess what guys!? I'm a cildrens writer! I just finished my first book, I can't wait to get my first rejection letter!

In honor of that my fve character is my own little milton.

(sorry about the bragging guys but I couldn't resist.




hokuto kitakaze
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(4/10/04 11:35 pm)
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BOOYAH! hey NG! I'd love to illustrate for you. Care to send me a message? im over at www.geocities.com/reyvns_roost





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(1/13/06 11:14 am)
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work hey Nothing girl,

did it work out with the book you wrote? Did it actually get published?

Three more nights and I start work. Finally all grown up, graduated, moving out into the real world...

Well, the physical moving out will have to wait a bit, since I haven't got enough resources yet. But it will come, some day soon i hope.

I hope that your book works too!