http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackalope
This joke was employed by Ronald Reagan to reporters in 1980 during a tour of his California ranch. Reagan had a rabbit head with antlers, which he referred to as a "jackalope", mounted on his wall. Reagan liked to claim that he had caught the animal himself.
― thomp, Sunday, 6 September 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
but er that looks like daylight, so i guess he's moved?
No, the windows are clearly at ground level, on the top of fairly high walls = the shelves are all underground. On his blog today he laments that the upstairs library where all the cool reference books live isn’t shown.
I know he’s looking at moving back to Britain in the next few years, will probably have to book an entire ship if and when.
― Young Scott Young (sic), Monday, 7 September 2009 06:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i did wonder about that. it's sort of insufficiently basementy for my liking. although i guess it's a much more ecological way of having a basement library.
― thomp, Monday, 7 September 2009 10:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Longish article on Gaiman in the New Yorker. I had no idea that he was mixed up in Scientology.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, that's for sure. Very interesting.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe one day Suri Cruise will become a famous author.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Great article - thanks for the link.
― Bill A, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
He's marrying Amanda Palmer, though I suppose thats old news now?
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
!! News to me! I just found out a couple of weeks ago that he and mary were divorced. I need to keep up.
― the architecture of horniness (askance johnson), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I think they only publically admitted they were even dating about a month back.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah that was the other thing I was all ORLY about. Engagement via Sharpie, hm.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
So do you think amanda palmer was a gaiman fangirl as a youth and now she has grown up to fulfill her teenage fantasies (as well as those of thousands of similar girls)?
― the architecture of horniness (askance johnson), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
gaiman is surrogate for robert smith obv
― Do the english boil pizza? (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― the architecture of horniness (askance johnson), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
One thing's for sure: She enjoys nekkid antics on the red carpet
― Snake Effect Low (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I tried having a crush on Neil Gaiman in high school and it never really worked.
― sedentary lacrimation (Abbott), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I just wasn't goth enough to get worked up over him.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
i enjoyed sandman up until i realized neil gaiman ends all of his complex multi-issue storylines with the same damn whimpering deus ex machina non-ending every time out. i'd still probably rate a couple of the short story issues. (i haven't dared approach his novels for this very reason vis a vis time-investment.)
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not very goth and don't care about Gaiman's writing but I would fuckin' wreck that.
― ctrl-s, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I only know anything about either Gaiman or Palmer because of my friends going on and on about either/both all the time. I've only ever read one Gaiman book (the one he did with Pratchett) and I'm no Dresden Dolls fan at all.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm a sentimental fool and all but the neil gaiman & amanda palmer thing delights me so much-- they are such a power couple!
― lords of hyrule (c sharp major), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 00:49 (fourteen years ago) link
At Worldcon, the international science-fiction convention, where he was the guest of honor in August, people walked around wearing pins that read “Neil Gaiman! Squeeeeeee!”—an expression of hysterical enthusiasm.
Ian R-M has so much to answer for.
― WmC, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 04:57 (fourteen years ago) link
"Squeee" has been around a lot longer than our young mr cuddlestein. God, I hate that word.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Fair to blame Jhonen Vasquez for that one. Wonder what he's been up to, post-Invader Zim?
― Kylie is a vacant Phifer (kingkongvsgodzilla), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 11:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Have we mentioned his non-fiction biography of Douglas Adams, written in an annoying faux-Adams styleeee?
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 12:48 (fourteen years ago) link
The NYer link notes the faux-Adamsness. (Americans should beware, their editions are often heavily revised by other hands.)
― Your Sinclair magazine (sic), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Wonder what he's been up to, post-Invader Zim?
Apparently he's working on a (presumably animated - fuck, I hope so) movie version of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac! I was no fan at all of Zim, but THAT as a dark, scribbly animated movie could potentially be freaking awesome.
It could also be hideous. Please don't anyone let Tim Burton touch it.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
okay this is weird, i found out today that one of my close associates is his son, which was very strange as most of our other associates operate on a vastly different arts/culture platform and have no idea who NG is. son and dad are quite, quite different afaict.
― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 21 March 2010 04:42 (fourteen years ago) link
you work at g00gl3?
yeah he's said that he doesn't understand half of what his son tells him about his job, and usually just smiles and says "That's brilliant."
― Roz, Sunday, 21 March 2010 07:09 (fourteen years ago) link
no, not a work association. but i will say his son is really, really talented in quite a few different ways.
― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 22 March 2010 04:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't know if I ever posted this, a 2006 interview:
http://www.citypages.com/2006-11-29/news/enter-sandman/all
― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 22 March 2010 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
http://io9.com/5628181/neil-gaimans-sandman-coming-to-tv-at-last?skyline=true&s=i
Would watch. A way better idea than a movie.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 3 September 2010 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow. Sandman could actually make a really great series, esp if it's on HBO or something.
― Falkor Johnson (askance johnson), Friday, 3 September 2010 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
that nyer profile of him last year was pretty great - kinda let him hang himself with his own rope
― real s1ock (s1ocki), Friday, 3 September 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I think this would work only if it was traditonal animation. No way do I want to see a CGI Sandman.
― Tuomas, Friday, 3 September 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Who said anything about animation?
― Donovan Dagnabbit (WmC), Friday, 3 September 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I did. I said that this would work only if it was traditional animation. If they're gonna make it in live action, it will look awful.
― Tuomas, Friday, 3 September 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, you know best.
― Donovan Dagnabbit (WmC), Friday, 3 September 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
He pioneered the author-as-internet-celebrity trend, right? So, dud.
― Blau, Friday, 3 September 2010 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Doesn't have to be CG Tuomas, just a decent actor with white make-up, a wig and a big black cloak.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 4 September 2010 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
will watch. I saw some Supernatural and it was alright. just glad someone got in before Tim Burton.
― CharlieS, Saturday, 4 September 2010 01:52 (thirteen years ago) link
the right wig is key
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Saturday, 4 September 2010 02:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait, what?
― blood and organs, cruelty and decay (kenan), Saturday, 4 September 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
He has had a blog for like ten years, and I think it's pretty popular. Not sure if he really pioneered it, or if he's totally a celebrity though.
― Falkor Johnson (askance johnson), Saturday, 4 September 2010 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
It's not a bad blog, really.
― blood and organs, cruelty and decay (kenan), Saturday, 4 September 2010 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway, rumor has it he's still trying to make a movie of "Death: The High Cost of Living", and that he plans to (ulp) direct it. Oh ffs, let Del Toro do it.
― blood and organs, cruelty and decay (kenan), Saturday, 4 September 2010 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
"let"
― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Saturday, 4 September 2010 03:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Like he wouldn't.
― blood and organs, cruelty and decay (kenan), Saturday, 4 September 2010 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
He got married last night in Berkeley.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm sure goth girls are rending their garments on livejournal at this very moment.
― not the sort of person who would wind up in a landfill (Nicole), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link