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Correspondent Serena Altschul visits author Neil Gaiman -- the tender-hearted master of the macabre -- whose books, including Coraline and The Graveyard Book have topped best-seller lists for 25 years.

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2. to make a request (provide links, please).
3. to ask any questions you might have.


(Middle photo of the amazing bubble by Miss Holly Gaiman. Who is fundraising.)

Interlude II: A Letter from Home
The inspiration: "Giles is up in Andrew's room. They've got pizza and Eric Clapton music and Giles was pacing back and forth calling Bruce Wayne a sanctimonious bastard and he'd trained you guys the best he could without a damned penny he didn't have billions of dollars and limitless resources. On and on about how he'd done the best he could and how dare some bloody wanker that runs around in a Kevlar Batsuit dare make assumptions that he'd purposely hoped something bad would happen to any of us." from "A Zeppo In Gotham--Interlude I: The 'Haven" by Lisa Roquin
Summary: Giles, Andrew, and Sirius get together to send a howler to Batman.
Caveats and Disclaimers: I’ve seen the early Batman TV show, the early Batman movie, Super Friends, the older cartoon, the semi-older cartoon, and at least 4 of the newer movies. I’m not promising any of this is compliant with any of them. I will say I at least attempted to fit the time line as much as I could in keeping with Lisa’s original work and Batman’s latest cannon. I do not own Lisa’s “A Zeppo in Gotham ” series or Batman in any way, shape or form. I was just inspired by them and as such: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. No money is being made from this work. No copyright infringement is intended. This is just sincere admiration and wanting to say ‘Thank you for your work.’
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Between the hours of 11pm on Friday October 30th and 11pm Sunday November 1st, 15 bookstores will be hosting Graveyard Book Halloween parties. Mr. G would like to visit as many as he can in these four hours. Assume you can model these bookstores as a connected graph G(V,E) where each vertex v corresponds to a bookstore. Positive edge weights w(u,v) denote the time (in minutes) it takes to travel between bookstores u and v.
a. Give an algorithm to calculate the maximum number of bookstores Mr. G can visit in four hours by traveling along the edges of this graph.
b. Give the run time of this algorithm.
c. Assume each bookstore also has a weight B(v) which tells you how long you can stay at that bookstore. Mr. G does not want to play favorites so on a given path p of n bookstores, he will stay k minutes at each bookstore where k = min(B(v1),B(v2),...,B(vn)). Given this constraint, give an algorithm to determine how many bookstores Mr. G can visit in four hours.
Hi Lorraine!
I just wanted to say thanks for the link to BDFAR in Durham! I've lived in the area my whole life, but somehow how I had never heard of it. I am G-mapping directions there as we speak and now have a fruitful occupation for my afternoon.
Any chance of you posting a photo of yourself before you hand the reins back? I'm sure the ladies would appreciate seeing another staggeringly good-looking, funny, and smart gentleman over whom they can swoon. :)



I haven't a question, more a spot of praise for Dreamhaven Books that I'd like to share with you, if I might be so bold.
Some time ago, Neil told us that Dreamhaven had a new batch of signed stock. I was looking for a special gift for my honorary neiece and so ordered a signed copy of Blueberry Girl, feeling slightly apprehensive about having it shipped to the UK. But, it arrived wonderfully packaged, very quickly and for a modest shipping fee. Thank you Dreamhaven.
How did you first get into Neil Gaiman's work?
Are you enjoying your time updating Neil's blog?
"goblin ears knit cap" ???
photographic evidence please. thank you.
I should love to see a picture posted of you wearing your goblin ears knit cap.



