They’re unusual people in an unlikely alliance. About 1,000 miles separate the twain, who shocked and delighted their rabid fan bases when they officially merged forces at the start of this year. But Gaiman, 50, was at home in Wisconsin, where the English native has lived for many years Palmer, 35, who lives in Boston, was in New York, working working working. The charming and conversational couple spoke in successive phone calls. “The tour’s kind of a product of trying to figure out how Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman have a relationship without stopping their lives and cutting off their identities. “I’m the happiest when I’m performing and hanging out with big groups of people,” Palmer says. (Enter Sandman?) For the newlyweds, this will be a rare chance to spend some quality time together - in front of their “family” of fans. The writer of “Coraline” will read the singer of the Dresden Dolls will play ukulele. Their gentle date is now the hot ticket for a hipster Halloween. So it seemed like a glorious excuse, working and also having a holiday in each other’s company.” “We love each other, and the nature of our lives right now is that we are apart as much as we are together. “This was meant to be us doing a gentle road trip, having a chance to be together,” Gaiman says.

The sold-out trek launches Monday at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre. That’s how much money the gothic author and indie-cabaret musician raised at to fund recording of their five-date West Coast tour together. (Sept.If recently wed alternative power couple Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer were looking for public affirmation of their unconventional troth, they got it: to the sum of $133,341. , this enjoyable story should appeal to Gaiman's younger fans. The gods and the giant, though powerful, come across as self-involved and vaguely simpleminded, clearly in need of a resourceful young fellow like Odd to help set things straight.

She shouts louder than a giantess when she's angry. Showing great ingenuity, Odd figures out how to reach Asgard and then convinces the Frost Giant that ruling Asgard isn't so great (after all, admits the giant, his prize, the beautiful goddess Freya, “only comes up to the top of my foot. The gods, having previously tricked and bested the Frost Giants, are now receiving some of their own medicine. Odd befriends the Norse gods Odin, Thor and Loki, who have been transformed into animals and exiled from Asgard. ) introduces Odd, a boy with an injured leg whose Viking father died at sea. In this simple but well-done tale, Newbery Medal–winner Gaiman ( The Graveyard Book

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