The names Coraline and Mazikeen. Other than that I don't think I've had much effect on language.
That being said, he may well have popularised it. There's a huge jump starting around 1940, when the strip was at its height.
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That's what I get for trusting a book. Here's a fun article -- gardenandgun.com/articles/roy... that claims it's Mark Twain's. Al Capp lied about himself and I suspect his Hogwash creation is another fib.
Oh dear.
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I was in the Compass bookstore at the United terminal at SFO and peeked to see if you’d crypto-signed any books. When I mentioned this to a clerk, she became slightly alarmed and said “has he done it again!?” Seemed frustrated/exasperated by the problem 😆
Exciting!!
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Hi Neil, here are two more long-lost Jake Thackray songs I found while researching his biography. These and six others are on my CD, Playing with Nadine. youtu.be/OCQqOsXc2mM?...
Paul Thompson (guitar) and Mark Wainwright (bass) performing 'God Bless Newcastle Fest' and 'You and Your Child' on Radio Warrington. These are songs Jake Th...
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Very different, yes.
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I didn’t know this. I just learned how many things I thought were just things Americans said were invented by Al Capp for the Lil Abner strip, including “hogwash” and “going bananas”.
Though one thing I've known for a long time, perhaps not as embedded but still fun, is that Stephen Sondheim invented the phrase "everything's coming up roses." It was not a thing people said; it was a thing he devised.
If I can I will. I don’t know how the organisers will want things to happen.
But the King of Elfland's Daughter was one of the most beautiful things to arrive in this house in the last year. I love what you did.
Funny you should ask…
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I was asked about the line in the original UK edition of GOOD OMENS about Demons dancing like the British Group on the Eurovision Song Contest. I meant something like this:www.tumblr.com/neil-gaiman/...
It's still me, I have another question,
In your book you say that demons danced as well as a British band during the Eurovision song contest. I'm very curious but I don't really have any British ref…
I've found some new ones to love.
What's the best cover version of Bridge over Troubled Water?
And then I realized she came from Cherryvale Kansas, like the "bloody" Bender family.
I loved her book of essays. I'd never heard of her and then I was sent a copy of Lulu On Hollywood, and I fell in love with the writing. Then i discovered what she had looked like, which was like she existed now.
To be fair Numbers doesn't say kill strangers close to a church. It says kill anyone who isn't of the tribe of Levi who approaches the Tabernacle.
This was my copy too. It had Usher II in it, which plunged me into Poe.
"The old Martian names were names of water and air and hills. They were the names of snows that emptied south in stone canals to fill the empty seas. And the names of sealed and buried sorcerers and towers and obelisks. And the rockets struck at the names like hammers..."
And I didn't intend for this to be dismissive.
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I don't think they got it wrong. I think i should have done a better job of making it clear in 1991, or envisioning a different audience to the primarily cis male readers of comics at the time. At the time I ran it past trans friends to read who approved and encouraged.
bsky.app/profile/neil... acknowledged the trauma of the commenter and apologized, didn't it?
The first ever Hugo award is up for auction
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I don't think they got it wrong. I think i should have done a better job of making it clear in 1991, or envisioning a different audience to the primarily cis male readers of comics at the time. At the time I ran it past trans friends to read who approved and encouraged.
That was the reaction, back in 1990, that drove me to write the book.
Caitlin Keirnan (a trans writer) wrote The Dreaming and The Girl Who Was Death, and created Echo in about 1997, who became an important character to their Dreaming stories.