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Zoe & Amanda Respond

  From: Amanda Palmer Subject: Re: Palmer & Gaiman hey bob thanks for Getting It. you know, i had such struggles marrying neil because of just this kind of imagined criticism freaking me out. love won in the end, and i’ve actually grown so much as a person getting over all that fear of people […]

Alicia Keys To Blackberry

  “BlackBerry goes glam, enlists Alicia Keys” This is the problem with taking a corporate check. It undermines your CREDIBILITY! And next to your music, credibility is the most important thing you’ve got. The manager can get a new client. The salesman can switch products. But the artist is stuck with him or herself. Screw […]

Palmer & Gaiman

That’s a PERK! My inbox is blowing up with the sour grapes people complaining that Amanda Palmer owes her success to her “millionaire” husband Neil Gaiman. As if she courted him from infancy and rode his coattails to notoriety and riches. To quote a Who song you probably don’t know, and should, “it don’t really […]

Amanda Palmer

Is a modern day star. How did Amanda Palmer get to where she is now? By working all the time. By networking. By putting her fans first. By maintaining her fan relationship 24/7. Amanda Palmer is not for everybody. Just for her fans. But that’s enough for her to raise a million dollars on Kickstarter. […]