Happy belated birthday, Micole!
I don't fancy spending the next month trying to get librarian out of the carpet.
Spike ,'Chosen'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DavidS - Feb 10, 2004 8:35:37 am PST #752 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Steph L. - Feb 10, 2004 3:41:47 pm PST #753 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Finished American Gods. Good stuff. I liked it a lot.
Now....someone please jog my memory -- wasn't there some controversy or brouhaha after the novel came out because it led to some kind of crime? And if so, what? Because I can't imagine a person reading the books and deciding to just become Vishnu.
Anne W. - Feb 10, 2004 4:27:54 pm PST #754 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Now....someone please jog my memory -- wasn't there some controversy or brouhaha after the novel came out because it led to some kind of crime?
American Gods? That would make zero sense.
American Psycho, on the other hand...
deborah grabien - Feb 10, 2004 5:02:10 pm PST #755 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Boy, talk about two writers not in the same league.....
juliana - Feb 11, 2004 4:58:51 am PST #756 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
wasn't there some controversy or brouhaha after the novel came out because it led to some kind of crime? And if so, what? Because I can't imagine a person reading the books and deciding to just become Vishnu.
I don't remember if it led to it, but the [whitefont] storing of the body in the trunk of the car out in the middle of the lake was taken from something that actually happened somewhere in Wisconsin. Or MN. Or MI. One of our northern midwestern states. But probably WI. I also could be memfaulting all over the place. This is not uncommon.
justkim - Feb 11, 2004 5:35:12 am PST #757 of 10002
Another social casualty...
Steph, I rememberd something being mentioned on Gaiman's blog awhile back, so I did a search. Turns out that all the links that mention the story are dead (this was from back in September 2002).
I did find this one tiny little blurb:
Crime Imitates Art
One of the most successful passages in Neil Gaiman's 2001 novel American Gods describes the MO of a conman who stages a fake payroll drop. According to Canada.com, a literate crook in Canada took note, cleaning out 48 businesses in a Winnipeg shopping center.
The link to Canada.com is dead.
Wolfram - Feb 11, 2004 5:56:26 am PST #758 of 10002
Visilurking
I remember thinking that was a really clever scam. But that's as far as it went. Honest.
Steph L. - Feb 11, 2004 8:26:12 am PST #759 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Okay, not so much a brouhaha as a ha. At least I remembered correctly.
Micole - Feb 11, 2004 8:51:07 am PST #760 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
Thank you, David! It was a very pleasant birthday, involving lots of food and ending with obscene puppets.
Consuela - Feb 11, 2004 8:52:13 am PST #761 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Micole, you are going to do a writeup about the puppets, right?
(One of the several reasons I have in mind for going to NYC for a weekend at some point this year is to see this play.)
(Yes, I'm shallow. Deal with it.)