I’m Back!

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Hey, everyone! Justine and I are back from the west-coast leg of the How to Ditch Your Fairy tour. (Here are the dates for the rest of the tour, by the way.)

Firstly, I’d like to give my thanks to Robin for her efforts as guest-blogger, and to all of you for being such good hosts in my absence.

Secondly, I’d like to say . . . hoverboard!

This awesome remote-controlled hovertoy was spotted by our own Kenzie-la. It’s from Think Geek—and yes, it actually hovers! You can even control the altitude. (And the attitude, presumably.)

As Kenzie-la pointed out in her email, the only problem is that the “hoverboy” doesn’t come with interchangeable Tally, Shay, David, and Zane figures. Think Geek, are you listening?

(Also, it doesn’t use magnetic levitation, so it’s actually a Special Circumstances hoverboard. But that’s a technical point.)

Stick around, because I’ll be posting frequently this week. There are many interesting revelations just ahead!

75 thoughts on “I’m Back!”

  3. lol awesome im gonna get it!! but yeah they should have all the characters tally,shay,zane,david,and maybe even fuasto ps idk if i spelled that right!

  5. shweet-ness! haha, i wanna discover the future in our present and be featured in one of scott-sama’s posts. nice going, kenzie-sensei!

    Because I’ll totally make the Top 100 😉

  6. lol i just read the caption on the team david t shirt

    Your dude lived. Rub it in the other team’s face!

    even though mine is the dude who died thats halarious!!

    – Team Zane

  11. nice find Kenzie-la! ..that is a fawesome hoverboard!!!! and glad to have you back Scott-la!! 🙂

    ow.. i hope your mouth feels better lotti-wa!!

    i am so excited! 😀 i got info on the national journalism conference today! 😀 it’s gonna be so awesome i’ll get to fly out to Phoenix for 4 days with my new family(i love my staff! they are pretty much the coolest people ever… besides you guys of course! hehe.) it’s not till April. but still, i can’t wait! 😀

  14. Fawesome! I would get that…but my mom doesn’t really like me ordering stuff off the internet. I guess I’ll just have to try and get Danielle (my bestest friend) to give me one of hers (sheplayed around with hoverboards for her science fair expirement).

    Hey Scott-la!

  18. I am in the library at school right now and of course the first website I had to go on is scottwesterfeld.com…

  19. Yay Scoot-la you are back great to have news from u and tahnks for the picture of teh hovertoy it so kol know that someone have the greate idea of invent that i wish it could be more bigger for real persons can hang otu with it yay

  20. DUDE.
    Hoverboard!
    I want it:D
    I totally have to look into this one. I’m sure it’ll only cost one of my arms, maybe part of a leg:P

    And you should totally blog again today. I had to stay home from school sick, and I’d enjoy the entertainment:D

  21. Ah, same here Sydner. Today and yesterday… bleh.
    I want one, too, but I don’t really have $80… I have $52, and I’m spending that on books… and more books… and a CD…

    Oh wait, I forgot… I’m saving for an iPod… crap it. Anyone wanna send me an iPod Nano?

  23. wow. i really want one of these! and i totally think that they should make tally, shay, david, & zane figures!!

    lol i get so excited when i see anything Uglies related.
    its just such a great trilogy… series..? trilogy + 1..? yeah
    that works haha. now all we need is some flash tattoos.

  25. Yaaaaaayyy, Scott-la! 😀 You’re back!

    Ugh, Sydner, I feel for you, I had to stay home yesterday AND today cuz of this stupid cold. I’m getting over it tho’. Although all this coughing is giving me a headache. X-P

    Hoverboard! Cool I want it! Awesome! 😀

  28. Ah Rosie-Wa, I’m so uber-jealous! I fell in love with How to Ditch Your Fairy the moment I read about it and saw it at the bookstore… but I can’t buy it until october 21, so I know I have enough money for Bogus to Bubbly! RAWR!

    Oh, adn I don’t mean to sound rude at all, but Draco-la, would you mind rereading your post before saying it? You had way too many grammar issues for me to go without saying anything -.-

  30. WOW!!! totally awesome! but it’s a TOY for crying out loud!!!! ya it hovers but i mean so do those toy remote control helicopters let’s not forget that the Special hoverboards were just like helicopters only in board form. it’s cool but i only want to know when they come out with boards my size and that hover on magnetic levitation AND rotating fans. soooo it’s cool but not the greatest thing and besides its $80.00!!! if its that much for the toy i can only imagine a real hoverboard (imagines and has a heart attack) OK im done dissing the little hoverboard toy (sorry if anyones offended)

    GREAT TO HAVE U BACK SCOTT!!!!!!!

    btw i’m going to the philly book signing tomorrow SOOOOO excited. can’t believe my mom’s actually taking me!!! YAY!!

    – a quick question: does anyone know wat is going on with the UGLIES MOVIE??? it’s driving me crazy!!! seriously if u know tell me!
    -another question: i think i have a good song for the movie it’s “16” by Green Day im posting the lyrics here, read them and tell me wat u think.

    “16”

    Every night I dream the same dream
    Of getting older all the time
    I ask you now, what does this mean?
    Are these problems just in my mind?
    Things are easy when you’re a child
    But now these pressures have dropped on my head
    The length I’ve gone are just long miles
    Would they be shorter if I were dead

    Every time I look in my past
    I always wish I was there
    I wish my youth would forever last
    Why are these times so unfair

    Look at my friends and see what they’ve done
    Ask myself why they had to change
    I like them better when they were young
    Now all these times are rearranged
    I look down and stand there and cry
    Nothing ever will be the same
    The sun is rising, now I ask why?
    The clouds now fall and here comes the rain

    Every time I look in my past
    I always wish I was there
    I wish my youth would forever last
    Why are these times so unfair

    Every night I dream the same dream
    Of getting older all the time
    I ask you now, what does this mean?
    Are these problems just in my mind?
    Things are easy when you’re a child
    But now these pressures have dropped on my head
    The length I’ve gone are just long miles
    Would they be shorter if I were dead

    Every time I look in my past
    I always wish I was there
    I wish my youth would forever last
    Why are these times so unfair

  31. Hmmm…. I see your point TYC Leader. It would probably cost as much for a real one as it would to go on one of those spaceship hotel things they’re making… And I saw that when you recharge it for 50 minutes, you can play with it for the large amount of… drumroll please… 10 WHOLE MINUTES! YAY!!!!
    DOWN WITH THE UGLIES MOVIE!
    K, had to say it…

  32. you say that a lot…lol…but there are perks if there was a movie…more peole would hear about the books and then they would read them….see? i can be optimistic when i feel like it!!! yeah…my friends sometimes called me “emo in baby-blue”…because apparently i’m sometimes very pessimistic on days when i don’t have band class….but seriously, one more french class and i swear i will need counsoling….i mean, they were throwing GIANT OVER-SIZED PENCILS DURING CLASS AT EACHOTHER!!! NOT fun. I mean, those pencils almost hit me! and these aren’t your ordinary number 2 pencil…these are the kind that are as big as spears!

  33. Thats awsome! I still really wish I had a hoverboard

    @TYC Leader: that’s an awsome song

    @Andrea-la: my friends say I’m pessimistic and grumpy when i don’t have choir class. With out music school just isn’t worth going to sometimes.

  34. hmm i though hover board where supposed to be like 1.5 times as long a skate board tht looks like it would be longer than a person but its pretty cool isuppose…if only i had a hover board diagram…

    i dont want an uglies movie the book was too good. some of my friends think im emo too just because i wear skiny jeans and band t’s (gosh i only have 3) i was more emo before when i was actualy depressed. but im a pessimist too and overly sarcastic i guess. like i say ya im totaly high and there like omg really and i just say no and laugh they always think im telling the truth when i say i did something drug related. i dont do drugs that would just be dumb

  35. yeah…school without music sucks. But I only have choir 1/3 days, so that’s not worth getting worked up about…I love choir though…but I sing soprano, so now I’m gonna try to break the stupid soprano stereotype. Yeah…

  36. Oh my god, that is so awesome! That has got to be the most awesome thing I have ever seen. I’m seeing awesome product ideas here. It would be the best thing ever! Unless you started making Midnighters products… In which case it would probably tie.

  37. @ Andrea-la I have choir three days a week. I’m an alto but I can sing 2nd soprano. I always have my i-pod in. My friends rag on me for always listening to music. But it’s how I stay happy.
    @ Haddy-la I’m a little overly sarcastic too.

  38. lol….I always listen to my music “way too loud”…my friends always say that i’m gonna be deaf by the age of 20…and last year i sang alto, but this year i’m singing 1st soprano, so I’m all, “what the heck just happened?”…

  39. Okay that is probably the most fawesome thing I’ve seen all day! Kenzie-sama rocks! And omg I am going to NewYork with my school’s stupid art club. Even though I hate art and failed it four times (yes, it’s possible) I just joined for the trip, but yeah super psyched! Oh, and I ordered HTDYF and it still hasn’t come in. UGH! Has anyone read Fast Food Nation? My AP English class is reading it and I seriously think someone wrote down all of their ranting about McDonalds and then changed every word of it with a thesaurs. And one last thing TYC Leader, that song rocks and would totally fit in the Uglies movie, if there ever is one. Remember what Scott-Sensei said about not wanting to make it a movie just to find out that he stinks at making movies. (In the blog interviewing Lauren)

  41. oh my gosh, this is SUCH a mean oboe joke…
    Q: How do you make an oboist play a sustained A-flat?
    A: Steal his batteries.

    One, it assumes that oboists are guys…yeah, i’ve never met a male oboist. Also, I can play a perfect A without going flat even if i’m not looking at my tuner! and I’m just a beginner oboist!

  42. That song was pretty amazing (though it was by Green Day, so what’d you expect?)
    And if they did make a move, maybe it should be animated like Ratatoullie
    ’cause it MIGHT me hoky otherwise.
    And I completely understand the whole music class thing,
    my friend plays the bassoon(??) and when she has to play the saxaphone, its best to avoid her.

    I hate it when the art teacher MAKES you do it their way.
    Its like No.
    No thank you.
    And New York sounds awesome.
    Except, secretly, I think that they experiment on the people there…

  44. Bassoon? COOL! Was she taught by pizza-flying aliens? Does she like tea? Cuz I’m working on a theory. Yeah, I’m an oboist, so I get the whole double reed thing!!!! DOULBE REEDS SHALL RULE THE EARTH NO MATTER WHAT THE BARI SAX PLAYER SAYS!

  45. I always picuted the hoverboard differently. I wish I had one. =(
    They should really make these for people that would be so totally amazing.
    <3 Nicole-la

  46. Your back! Coolness. Frequent blogs this week…YEAH!

    Thats cool. The whole hover board. It really brings the series to life. It makes you wonder what they will have next. And this is so true. I mean, how could a hover board come without the crew? That is totally NOT a complete set!!!!!! They should give refunds for that.

  50. You know what? I’m so tired of going to listen to a song and watching the music video and all you see if like half-naked people! I mean yeah they had bathing suits on but they were rather revealing! Our world can be so, just, rude! It makes me mad! Very mad! I refuse to watch such….RIDICULOUS things.

    I just thought i would say that.

  51. @Andrea-la yeah my musics loud too. I tend to make the floor shake at my house but I blame my dad for getting a surround sound stereo.

    I actually play piano. I’m not the best at it but I really like it.

    I pictured the hoverboards different too. More sleek…

  52. yeah… i never watch music videos. i usually just look up the song on youtube and then minimize the box. 🙂

    hey Bran-la have you read Revelation yet??? i’m dying to get it!!! i reread all of the Private Series and i was all ready to read Revelation but then my mom forgot to order it for me and they went on a business trip pretty much all of last week so i couldn’t get it. and then my mom was suppose to pick it up today and she forgot. so she promised that she would get it tomorrow so i could bring it with me to Colorado on friday. 🙂 can’t wait!

  56. ok i am soooooooooooooo excited right now coz in like 1 hour im leave to go to Philly for Justine’s tour. i can’t believe im gonna like see her in person and meet her (hopefully Scott will be there too, i think he said he would). im just soo excited i can’t wait!!!
    thanx to all of u who said the song, “16” by Green Day, was a good choice and a good song. Jay-wa thanx for saying that the song was pretty amazing coz it was by Green Day. no one ever agrees with me that GREEN DAY is a good band. all my friends are like “Ewww… GReen Day!!” of course wat would u expect from a bunch of JoBro lovers (if u don’t know wat JoBro stands for well… u are either out of the loop or, like me, u aren’t a Jonas Brothers fan). i figured though that everyone here would appreciate the song seeing as almost everyone here is musically talented (i play the drums. anyone wanna start a band??)
    as for people being stereotyped as emo, don’t worry i feel ur pain. it’s like u get depressed once for about a week and all ur friends think ur some depressing, dark, scary kid. i mean i get the whole thing about being dark coz i am totallly a pessimist and my thoughts are sometimes sick, but now alot of my friends and family members think it’s funny to joke about me getting depressed(yes they are all cruel, at least to me, except my mom, she loves me) well i don’t think it’s very funny and neither would they if they knew how it felt to be depressed (probably why my mom doesn’t make fun of me) Needless to say u shouldn’t be upset if ur friends stereotype u into being like emo or depressed coz they have no idea wat it’s like (i think there’s some connection all Scott Westerfeld fans have coz i feel the same way some of u do. anyone else think that too??)
    sorry for the long post…again but there’s sooo much to say, you know how it is.

  58. I HATE EVERYTHING TO DO WITH DISNEY CHANNEL!!!! MAKE HANNAH MONTANNA, THE JONAS BROTHERS AND HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL ALL. JUST. GO. AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

    ugh, I hate being stereotyped as emo. In this day and age, you cannot live unless you are pessimistic. And black is good for the soul. It does not make you automatically emo

  59. I agree with TYC Leader, Haddy-la and lotti-wa on all counts.

    I reckon the only good thing about the Jonas Bros is that Nick Jonas is type 1 diabetic. It’s good to know other people with type 1 diabetes cos I am myself.

    BTW does anyone here know the Living End, they’re a band and they’re AWESOME.

    Oh, hey Andrea-la, I KNOW A MALE OBOIST! (Or is it oboeist?!?!) His name is Gage (yeh yeh weird name but cool guy).

    Anyways, BACK TO THE HOVERBOARD and it is sparkeh! (My new word for awesome, cool, etc is SPARKY or different forms of it). If only they had a lifesize then I could use it and rule the world! MUAHAHAHAHA!
    UH … mad world dominance craving moment over …

  60. I forget who posted it, but “16” by Green Day is perfect for Uglies. Than again, I just love Green Day in general (Why can’t they tour anymore?!), lol.
    The Jonas Brothers? What, they have to polute Scott-la’s blog, too? The minds of half of the teen population isn’t enough?! Lol, dramatic, but they annoy the crap out of me. A lot of Disney things do. They’re a good source of mindless-entertainment, but all their previously devoted viewers are getting older and moving on, and by trying to combat that, I think they’re pushing some farther away. Do they REALLY expect us to believe that JB, Demi Lovato, HM, etc. are talented rock musicians? It just seems like everything on there’s the same.
    Who ever was talking about the emo steriotypes, I totally agree. I wore a black shirt with all these skulls on it ONE DAY and suddenly all these popular chicks were coming up to me to compliment me on my “cool top.” The sugary fake-niceness was enough to put someone into diabetic shock. I mean, so what if some people don’t exactly fit into one exact steriotype? It doesn’t mean that they should be slammed into one the moment they do something that falls under that catergory.
    Oh, and really sick (how can I use this as a positive adjective with a garbage full of used Kleenex next to me?) hoverboard. I disagree though–the only thing wrong with it is that it isn’t LIFESIZE! Now THAT would be sick!

  61. that is sooo cool u all agree with me that GREEN DAY is an amazing band! i also agree that anything disney related should be banned coz it soils the minds of our youth (except Hercules. i like that movie even if it is disney. that movie is wat i watch when i want to get away from the suckiness of our world. i use it to regress.) ya sooo everything disney related EXCEPT Hercules should be banned.

    -PrettyxMindedxRusty: i agree 100%. WHy can’t GREEN DAY tour anymore?? (only i think they might but only smaller venues and u can only buy 2 tix a person. sooo basically that’s not touring. but watever i still love them) also ewwwww with the whole trash can full of used tissues. could that be more disgusting?!?!

  62. I also agree, PrettyxMindedxRusty. Green Day is totally fawesome. In general, Disney music isn’t TERRIABLE- like, when you get to the classics like The Lion King, Mulan, Hercules (I Won’t Say I’m In Love= BEST SONG EVER!) , and Fantasia, you’ll find some great songs. The Mulan OST (Original Sound Track) is amazing, and same for the Lion King. The Circle of Life is an AMAZING song, probably one of my all-time favorite Disney songs. But the new Disney Channel stuff isn’t even close to the stuff from the movies I mentioned.

  63. totally agree with u winter-la! i just watched Hercules yesterday and Sunday and i have one of the songs in my head right now! (i also like I Won’t Say im in Love. i love the that girls voice. it gives me chills.ooooo) i feel like a kid again when i watch Hercules, but when i watch the new show on DC i just feel like im at skool (a really bad day at skool) or like im being totured into watching the same episode with the same BAD acting again and again. that’s why i like to read so then it’s something new every time (unless of course i read one of Scott’s books…again. only they never get old. actually they’re better every time i read them. weird)
    GREEN DAY IS AWESOME!!!!!!! im sooo glad everyone agrees!!! *sigh* if only my friends did. sometimes i wonder why we’re even friends. i mean they always say things that piss me off and they always act different when they’re around other people but when they’re around me they act like themselves (i wonder if they find the whole putting on an image thing tiring?) needless to say my friends bug me sometimes but…hmmmm… i can’t find anything to say… i guess at the end of the day i like them coz they make me laugh and they listen to me rant AND some of them have read Scott’s books and liked them soooo i guess that’s wat our friendships are based on.

  64. Yeah, TYC Leader, I always feel like a kid again when I watch Mulan or The Lion King. But it brings back nice memories, doesn’t it? Watching the Disney classics with your family. That’s why I love Kingdom Hearts- you get to fight alongside your childhood favorites, Mulan, Simba, Ariel, Jack Skellington (one of my new favorites), and Aladin.

  65. Mulan and Fantasia are the most awesome Disney movies eva. I still like watching them 🙂 But I reckon that most of Disney’s work recently has just been speeding downhill.
    Umm … what is diabetic shock? I neva understood what that meant, even being diabetic. Altho I am type 1 and don’t kno much about type 2 so …
    And with all the emo stuff, I love all that stuff but I’m definitely not emo. I just happen to like it.

  66. Green Day! Green Day! Green Day!!!!!!!!

    hahahahaha!!!!!!!!! XD

    I be hypery

    because it be teh last day of term

    can i gets a woot?

    WOOT!!!!!!!!

    most of Disneys work has been speeding downhill. but Pirates of teh Carribbean is fawesome!!!!! (especially teh third one)

  67. I havent seen P of C. I really want to but i havent been able to yet.

    Yeh last day of term is cool!

    Hey i gotta new Xbox game! 🙂 Ill play it soon 🙂 its hard to get xbox games cos of 360. wish i had a 360, id be able to play halo 3 …

    Neways im goona play 🙂

  68. that has got to be the absolute FAWESOMEST thing i have EVER seen!

    ive gotta start babysitting again so i can have the cash to get one!

    *shuffles away to make babysitting flyers*.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😮

  69. TYC:
    I actually quite enjoy a lot of the classic Disney movies. When I was in camp this summer our councelour showed us a REALLY old Disney Channel Movie, and it was actually great. It didn’t feel like they were trying to shield us from the world, so I guess some old disney stuff is good. New stuff? Ew. I didn’t even know they did that much. Two tickets per person? Do they WANT to scare us away?! Lol. By “trashcan”, I don’t mean a fullsized one. I have a tiny one in my room, and even grocery bags are too big for it. As for the tissues part, blame the cold going around my school. Also, bout the friends thing, I know a million girls like that. The ones who have, like, ten different personalities they put on for all these different people. The sad thing is, these are still the girls who seem to come out on top. Karma sucks.

    Winter-la:
    You better not be thinking what I THINK YOU’RE THINKING with the “I Wont Say I’m In Love” referance, lol.

    Sonja:
    Um…actually, I don’t know, lol. I guess I just typed it ’cause I’ve heard it and it seemed fitting. And thank goodness! I was starting to think I was the ONLY person left on the planet who hasn’t seen/ fallen in love with Pirates of the Carribbean

  70. Sonja-
    Couldn’t agree more.

    PrettyxMindedxRusty-
    Don’t worry, I’m not. It’s just a fawesome song. ^^

  71. PrettyxMindedxRusty: ok the smaller trashcan does make the image less disgusting and im sorry about the cold that sucks. the thing about only two tix per person for GREEN DAY sucks too, but it’s better than them not touring at all…i guess. i agree the old disney stuff is good but the new stuff…not soo much except Pirates of the Carribbean those movies are amazing. also i agree with the sucky karma it’s a b**** (except when it works in ur favor which rarely happens for me. *SIGH*)

    I LOVE GREEN DAY!!!!!!!! <3
    (sorry random but i do love them!) <3

  72. I hereby declare you, Sir Scott Westerfield, PSYCHIC. o-o
    RAISE YOUR HANDS IF YOU THINK SCOTT UNKNOWINGLY PREDICTED THE FUTURE OF MANKIND IN THE UGLIES BOOKS.
    *everyone with a brain raises their hand*

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  75. I was wondering, are you going to make a movie about Uglies? and when are the human sized hoverboards coming out in stores?

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