#Cabal contest

I got so many good canine quotes, real & imagined, that i'd like to put them to a vote...
you can vote as a comment on here or retweet to @Neverwear with a #Cabal hashtag--
(I will ask @Neilhimself, but i know he prefers to not judge these things--)
here are my favorites:

@becaolivetree
"A man's soul can be judged by the way he treats his dog." - Charles Doran

@yunalasca
"A man may smile and bid you hail Yet wish you to the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level" ~Anon

@beezerbub
"Dogs love company. They place it first in their short list of needs." ~J.R. Ackerley

@Campion7
Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the leash.

@momentofjen
"No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich." - Louis Sabin

@mccartyl
@neverwear twitpic.com/4hdbvj - "Let me be the person my dog thinks I am."

@prgrmr42
"all knowledge, the totalty of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog" -- Kafka

@PixieThief
"He cannot be a gentleman that loveth not a dog." - Old English Proverb

@ENYMPH
"channel your inner big dog" – me
(this big dog quote just makes me happy, i love this one and the one below...)

@jamdftba
"Fooey, I'ma sleep where I want" -our dog Rue upon jumping on my roommate's bed and ignoring the bed we put on the floor for her.

special mention goes to a lone haiku writer:
@WaiJing_Haiku

Dog barks at something/he imagined, yet which seems/very real to him

will leave the voting up for a day, and tomorrow night, will see who gets a lovely new Cabal tee.
NEVERWEAR.

The Trevor treasure chest...opening soon.

Anyone who has ever read Neil's blog owes a small token of gratitude to Mister Trevor Valle.
Trevor is the one who, years ago, bought the domain NeilGaiman.com and held it for Neil until which time he was ready to take it over.
For decades, Trevor has accumulated other Neil-related treasures, and here he is telling you why he is now in a position that he has to sell some of them off.
In the next week, I will be posting many of them for Trevor, over on ebay, things that just can't be found anymore, things that a real value can't be hung upon. Neil may even add to some of the descriptions, (if he has the time!) because some of these things even I have never seen....

meanwhile, I am putting the SuperCabal tees on sale for October! taking ten bucks right off the top for this handsome 100% cotton tee. I have girly sizes and all unisex sizes available--
here's Trevor modelling one (and holding a vintage silkscreened print from the Neil/CBLDF Last Angel tour ---yes, this is one of the treasures to come!)

so...Help Trevor out, be generous and know that these artifacts he's unearthing will not see the light of day again any time soon. I put up a donation button as well, that will go straight into Trevor's paypal account, if you just want to help him out. Stay tuned!

Robot carnival ride: REAL STEEL

The REAL STEEL screening was packed, we were almost shut out. But! we prevailed and were sent in to our seats with our free popcorn (oh meow!) just before the film started.

Basing on the Richard Matheson story, "Steel", director Shawn Levy uses gorgeous driving scenes to drop us into a near future with hints of things to come, (fantastic holographic phones) but also a recent, very relatable past of glitter-dust carnivals and junk yard fights.
I was in the movie from the first Ferris wheel shot.
Hugh Jackman, that terrifically crusty Wolverine, showed us who we are meant to believe he is right away, tripping over his empty Bud bottles in his robot-like transport vehicle, trying to charge the local kids for photos with his 'bot.

This film is not just boxing robots (Noisy Boy, may be the best robot name ever)-- it's got a wildly beating heart. I do hope that the marketing campaign of big shiny metal objects pummeling eachother doesn't mask the true father & son relationship story. Even if it does, it will be a word-of-mouth sleeper hit.

Dakota Goyo as Max is a show stopper, as a rule I am pained (often extremely pained) by child actors, I really believed this young actor. He won me over, the cliff scene is better than it had to be...and yes, i want more robot dancing please.

Karl Yune (younger brother of Rick, a damn good-looking family) was perfectly cast as hardball/high roller Tak Mashido. The Kardashianesque Russian Barbie doll was a bold move, as well... and who was that Will Smith look-alike, he stole all his scenes...
I never did get around to watching Lost, but was charmed by E. Lilly, who did a fine job with her mostly thankless role of girl-on-standby.

The Danny Elfman soundtrack (Eminem! BBoys! Foos!) brings it home, people all around me were tearing up (including my 6'6" hulk of a tough-guy husband)...and at the end, cheers rang wide throughout the packed house.

I bought it all, and it did what I want my movies to do for me, yank me out of my daily reality and put me somewhere else for two hours...somewhere else better.
Bravo Mr. Murphy & Mlle. Susan Montford, you got a contender!
film comes out October 7th...
SEE REAL STEEL TRAILER HERE

two tours and a Neil visit...

September, you mad, mad month,
I have been running to stand still.
Did the Kills tour,
it was a mini-run, up and down the west coast.
...much like what Neil and AFP are about to do come Halloween time, check out their Kickstarter project HERE.

Straight from that tour, i flew east to do the big metal show at Yankee Stadium...I posted photos over at FurryTiger road blog...

the day after I flew back from New York, Neil arrived for a whirlwind LA trip.
He had wall-to-wall meetings, all very exciting things in the future of our author.

Pop Tart Gallery had a showing of Allan Amato's beautiful Illuminate series, shining a light on the true nature of Parkinson's.

Neil, Kevin Smith, Fairuza Balk, Terry Gilliam, Grant Morrison and more, all giving their time to this worthy cause.
Find out more here.

Neil takes a moment to sign Allan's gorgeous giclee print of the American Gods book jacket author shot.

I have only 25 of these available, and that is it, signed by both Neil and Allan. Fine art available for a very reasonable price....

Get yours here.

Neil took me to a sushi bar that had the best sign outside...

we had a breakfast with Trevor, Trevor who has long been in the Sandman universe, and who has recently hit some troubled times. I know he will weather the course, but he is going to be selling some of his most amazing treasure trove of Neil historical memorabilia...stay tuned for more info on that...his homework is to photograph and archive what he has.

we parked under the big Kermit, see Ghosty looking so very sweet and little.

I just got a new shipment of print tubes, which miss Selina Kyle oversees...

meanwhile...I feel Halloween in the air...

this new sticker will come with any Neverwear purchase until Halloween...

now we are off to a press screening of the new Hugh Jackman fighting robot film REAL STEEL...thank you, mister Murphy!

death & dreams.

the mails brought me a package full of death and dreams.

photo by the generous & gorgeous Nathalie Boisard-Beudin.
(she challenged me to spell her name correctly, fingers crossed.)

this package came to me from Cyn in Seattle.
where I will be next week on my new tour.
at Bumbershoot festival with The Kills, a dynamite little band.
this will be a quick run,
just a few dates on the west coast, but i asked the universe to put me back on a tour bus,
and so it did.

if you want this kind of power over the universe, go HERE for one of Cyn's pendants...
fair warning, they will go fast.

post-tour and new Neil mailbox...

Got home from the summer Zombie/Slayer tour to a huge pile of mail, much of it for Neil.
I, of course, had very little time to blog in Europe and even less on the Canadian/US run.
it was a beautiful summer, full of festival dates & new people...

my wallet was full of many monies & Zombie guitar picks...

I flew into LAX from Brussels at 10 pm on Monday night and Tuesday morning had me in a car service to meet Neil back at LAX at 10 am. Not much decompression time. Neil was coming off his AMERICAN GODS tour and he was a sight for sore eyes. This boss of mine has been on a health kick and he looked amazing. We had only to remove the beard, and *wolf whistle...

The mails brought a Dr. Who gift from the BBC:

and this game from Eloy & Third Eye Games in Fla:

Valerie sent in her gorgeous FairyTaleTrilogy as a thank-you to Neil who twittered her New York Times piece:

this watercolor came from Kathryn in New Hampshire, a certain treasure:

Tony from the Southside Aces in Minn. sent in this jazz CD:

scary things also come out of these boxes...

Matt from Oakland parcelled off this "ravenous rabbit",
a member of the Gashly Crumb Tentacles Monster Adoption Society, you can find more about them HERE.

Neil's appearances in town included a turn on the Craig Ferguson show...

(they were adorable together...)

and Patton Oswalt and miss Zelda Williams welcomed him to the Saban Theatre:

the event was put on by Tyson and the Rare Bird Lit crew...
just look at these tickets!

Boss signed all these books and many more:

next morning found us over at the Nerdist podcast, where I had to drag him out of the almost-unbreakable bond that formed on air.

why did i drag him out? to get him to his NPR interview on time:



Neil draws on their hallowed walls:

then we went to tape his voice-over work for THE PRICE over at the luscious Green Street Studios run by cool cat Rob King.

Christopher finally meets Neil this LA visit...

For director Christopher Salmon's (way more complete) blog on it, click here.


meanwhile @ Neverwear, we got the Allan Amato posters in!!

JUST ANNOUNCED AND DEBUTED AT COMICON 2011!!!

a limited edition 18" x 24" poster of our Dream King, mister Neil Gaiman.
we only have 500 of these...
Photograph by ALLAN AMATO, premiere photographer to the stars, this is the very same photo that graces the slip cover of the new edition of AMERICAN GODS. I love this photo of Neil, looking straight out of Deadwood or some other antique past...he will watch me from my wall...
and perhaps murmur writing or cooking advice in my ear while I sleep...

each poster is hand-stamped with the official Neverwear seal.
It will arrive to your shipping address cloaked in magic and heavy on the intrigue.
People will want to talk to you.....
GET YOURS HERE!


here's Drew rolling a batch of them to go out:

here is one way to get to the posters, scan it via bar-code reader.
that advanced techno-devil Neil dared me to get one
(ok, actually Husband got the bar-code generator, but my new phone can actually read!:

and...this post is reaching epic proportions, Quiche always told me, not so long...do i listen?

JUST IN: a new NEIL/ALLAN AMATO poster...!

JUST ANNOUNCED AND DEBUTED AT COMICON 2011!!!

a limited edition 18" x 24" poster of our Dream King, mister Neil Gaiman.
we only have 500 of these...
Photograph by ALLAN AMATO, premiere photographer to the stars, this is the very same photo that graces the slip cover of the new edition of AMERICAN GODS. I love this photo of Neil, looking straight out of Deadwood or some other antique past...he will watch me from my wall...
and perhaps murmur writing or cooking advice in my ear while I sleep...

each poster is hand-stamped with the official Neverwear seal.
It will arrive to your shipping address cloaked in magic and heavy on the intrigue.
People will want to talk to you.....
GET YOURS HERE!