amanda palmer's open poem to jonathan chait (and other crimes)

if he took her up on the offer, would she be willing to work for hugs & beer?

http://i.imgur.com/njqAXHO.jpg

deal with it.

ehem thats a photograph not music we know the difference lady

So a friend had a little fun

http://peachfuzz.tumblr.com/post/49188098374

Ha that's awesome.

Total Fucking Win.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=XSY98rBOca0

@cthagod 15 Jan
I threaten chicks with fake eyebrows daily. All you gotta say is "Don't make me lick my thumb and wipe your eyebrow off."

http://features.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1457218/ask-neil-gaiman-and-amber-benson-about-their-kickstarter-vampire-movie?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

I would chip in $5 not to ask Neil Gaiman and Amber Benson about their Kickstarter Vampire Movie.

lol @ wario

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Jesus, there must be one decrepit picture in Weird Al's attic.

hahaa dying at

Steve Flack ‏@VitaminSteve 24m
@maura Hopefully it's just "A Poem for Mallomar

omg

Weird Al truly knows the meaning of charity!

Weird al knows that you shouldn't throw stones in a house filled with accordions

my maria decided not to go to her 25th wesleyan reunion otherwise she would have been in for a treat:

9:00 PM
Amanda Palmer '98 and Bestselling Author Neil Gaiman
A Concert and Conversation to Benefit Financial Aid

amanda's gonna pass the hat for financial aid...

maria went to school with johnny temple, a fine upstanding indie rock role-model if there ever was one.

Can't stop won't stop

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/afpsalon

The Amanda Fucking Palmer Salon
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DON'T YOU WANT AN AMANDA KISSED POSTER

Amanda, it's "take the money and run"

The Amanda Fucking Palmer Salmon
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a free 25 dollar event yay!

ok this doesn't bother me. its free and they're asking for ppl to give money, and in return they will receive goods. this is totally average.

I am laughing at the kissed poster

chewed poster would have gotten a reaction

shat poster

VG u have made me lol so many times today ty

:D

shat poster

You're daaaaamn right.

Sad/scary thing is it would've ginned up so many more contributions

Neil Gaiman's piece in the Guardian following the death of Iain Banks takes a leaf out of the Palmer textbook for self-promotion in deeply inappropriate circumstances.

The subhead is "Author Neil Gaiman forgoes publicity for his new book to remember his 'brilliant, funny, smart' friend, the late Iain Banks" and the opening line begins "I should be blogging about The Ocean at the End of the Lane, because it comes out in 9 days and the reviews and articles are starting..." What a dick.

uh dude that was on his own blog on his website

The Guardian is just Neil Gaiman's blog?

No, but it's not above reprinting his blog without making it clear - I am hoping that the subhead is snarky sabotage.

Hmm, didn't realise the Guardian had taken the piece from Gaiman's website. Even discounting the subhead as subversion from the Guardian, it's a total dick move to start a reminiscence with a not-a-plug plug for your new book.

Yeah, surely everyone who writes a piece like that (or any piece in fact) has other things they could be doing instead.

It is his first novel since 2006, and it's on his blog - I'd assume there's an awareness of it and an expectation that he'd talk about it. The dick move was leaving it in for the Guardian.

oh come on; I'm not an apologist but this is a major stretch. the "I should be talking about ____ but instead I'll talk about ____" is a fairly common lead, and a mass-market author's new book is a fairly obvious choice for blank number one.

(I would tend to doubt most publications do any editing of their syndicated articles.)

the dick move was being neil gaiman tbh

The idea that a professional writer and frequent blogger might deal with the death of a friend by writing something is maybe not so outlandish as to merit an opening paragraph. Don't most people interrupt their working day (if they can) immediately after a friend dies? This is a bit too much like, well I've got major shit to do because I'm kind of a big deal but that's not important right now because #feelings.

perhaps, as with the accordion, an otherwise obnoxious instrument will be put to good use on weird al's forthcoming record

wtf accordions are great.

^

could be

http://vimeo.com/9373087

It really couldn't, but thank you for lolravingamericans.