"Ineffable, which means not capable, obviously, of being effed, is the kind of word that you actually can build a book around, because the mysterious ways of god that are not capable of being understood by mortal man are incredibly useful when you're writing a book."
Neil Gaiman, interviewed by The Guardian

Charles Rowland in Sandman #24 was pretty much me (although he wasn't me when he teamed up with Edwin Paine and became a Dead Boy Detective, afterwards). Other than that, there are a lot of me-characters in the short stories; Richard Grey in "One Life Furnished in Early Moorcock" is me; and lots of characters who aren't me in short stories still ( Read more... )

"Hmm. Has to be "Fuck". It's multipurpose, effective, and it feels good in the mouth ( Read more... )

First there was this story:
A 6-foot-tall, 275-pound bearded man crashed a children's birthday party in Oak Forest, identified himself as "vengeance," then helped himself to a piece of cake, police said ( Read more... )

Just because I thought it was really funny and because ... Neil Gaiman. :b Yeah.

This is all from his blog.

[Someone sent this message to him:] Y halo thar buttsekcs!1! LOLOL! You bought an N-Gage didn't you Neil.. PWNz0r3d ( Read more... )

"When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmare's still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. 'It's all right' we whisper, 'I'm here, I love you.' and we lie: 'I'll never leave you.' For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad ( Read more... )