amatty65 asked:
Gosh…. things I want you to know….
All of them are so SO passionate about the book and the show. Like, extraordinarily so. It’s so great to see, and you get caught up I. Their enthusiasm.
Struggling to pin down a favourite moment from last night… Michael’s story about being asked if he was wearing a fat suit to play Aziraphale is up against David Tennant pretending to be drunkenly unconscious. And we saw a secret clip!!
I wish I could watch it and be there all over again….
It was amazing, last night, how many people were there for Terry… Every time someone said his name we all cheered and applauded, and Almost every audience question was about Terry
Oh! Neil told us a great story…. If someone took Terry a copy of Good Omens to sign, and there was no Neil sig, he’d say “if you see Neil, give him a message from me” …. And it would be like…. “The Staircase Only Appears At Night”
Or “The Oboe is not What It Seems”
So Neil would, over the years, get a lot of weird cryptic messages from their joint fans and he’d just have to nod and say Yes, I Know What He Means
It was just the best night ever, and I spent so much of it making heart eyes at them all
Crowley & Aziraphale’s New Year’s Wishes
From http://www.harpercollins.com/author/AuthorExtra.aspx?displayType=essay&authorID=3417
Crowley:
Resolution #1: I must accept that Super-Gluing valuable coins to the sidewalk and then watching events from a nearby café is not proper demonic activity.
Resolution #2: The same applies to rearranging the letters on wayside pulpits.
Resolution #3: Try to come up with something as good as cell phone ringtones, following one last stab at convincing Downstairs that cell phone ringtones are right up there in the whole Human Misery stakes. And iPods. Has anybody Down There even said thank you for iPods? Or “Googling yourself?” Frankly, I deserve some kind of award for “Googling yourself.”
Resolution #4: I must encourage greedy people to use the term, “Low-hanging fruit,” because that’s just like old times.
Resolution #5: This year, I will get a desk near the window.
Resolution #6: I will try to understand why Hell is a no-smoking area. I just think it’s ridiculous having to stand around outside the gates, that’s all.
Resolution #7: On the orders of Head Office I will encourage the belief in Intelligent Design, because it upsets everyone.
Resolution #8: Stop Googling myself.
Aziraphale:
Resolution #1: Spread peace and love and glad tidings of great joy throughout the world. Also try to get out more.
Resolution #2: I will be charitable to people who use the term “core values,” however difficult this may be.
Resolution #3: Notwithstanding Resolution #2 (above), I will redouble my efforts to have the utterance of the phrase “core values” classified as a deadly sin. I believe Himself is with me on this one.
Resolution #4: I will try to be nicer to the customers. They want to buy books; I want to sell them. It can’t be that hard. (Memo to self: Regular opening hours? Mark prices on books?)
Resolution #5: I will try to be polite to Gabriel, no matter what the provocation.
Resolution #6: Find out exactly what an “Internet” is.
Resolution #7: Really must resume dancing lessons. Learn the “Galloping Major,” the “Gay Gordons,” the “Mashed Potatoes.” Possibly even the “Twist”?
Resolution #8: Thwart Infernal Wiles (ongoing).
Resolution #9: I will try to understand why Heaven is a non-smoking area.
Resolution #10: On the orders of Head Office I will encourage the belief in Intelligent Design – despite the fact that the human airway crosses the digestive tract. Who thought that was intelligent?
Resolution #11: Feed the ducks.
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PS: If you are a person who wrote Good Omens, do not EVER look at the Tumblr Aziraphale tag to find a nice picture of Crowley and Aziraphale to put into a New Year’s blog. There are things you can never unsee.
There are 17 of them altogether. I’d give a prize to anyone who could correctly identify which are mine and which are Terry’s, except there are a few I can’t remember.
(Thinks. Goes and finds the original email chain. It’s from December 2005.)
Ah. Terry wrote 4 Crowleys and 2 Aziraphales. Then I wrote 2 Crowleys and 6 Aziraphales. Then Terry added another 2 Crowleys and another 3 Aziraphales, including one I would have sworn was mine.
So now I know.
If anyone can correctly identify whose are whose (and I’ve done a fair bit of the work for you in the numbers above) post it here, and if I notice a correct one, I’ll find something fun and Good Omens related from the edit suite to send you.
(This is definitely not the sort of official contest that needs rules and stuff. It’s not the kind of thing you can “win” by picking every combination and posting it, because I’m going to be checking the replies to this, and that’s just going to irritate me. It’s more of a vague curiosity stop.)
Artwork above by mizzkatonic
I don’t know how long ago you started this thread, Mr Gaiman, but will you post the answers to this at any point? I’m itching to know (and love the resolutions!). @neil-gaiman
Not until someone gets it right. (Nobody has so far.)
And it’s a nice feeling to have this post as somewhere to send anyone who suggests to me that only very stupid people can’t tell immediately exactly who wrote what in Good Omens.
Who wants to go to Chicago with me to Garfield Park Conservatory see the 25+ ft bloom stalk on their Agave americana that they have now literally had to remove glass roof tiles to allow to grow through the top of the conservatory?
Look at how utterly ridiculous this bloom is going to be. Agave are related to asparagus so right now yeah it just looks like a very very tall asparagus
For the first time in Saint Louis Zoo history, a cheetah has given birth to 8 cheetah cubs .
Awww look at their faces! I want to cuddle them!!
But I wont.
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Yikes: Patient Reports 1.5 Liters of Urine Input
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