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04-16-2008, 07:52 PM
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Let's see. So Maddy read my blog post of yesterday and said, "No, Dad, what you told me to tell them was that I was swordfighting with Spiderman."
Spiderman? That left me puzzled.
I mean, D'Artagnan I could have understood. But Spiderman doesn't have a sword. So I puzzled over what I could have told a five year old that she would have heard or remembered eight years later as Spiderman, given the kind of thing I was likely to say. Such as, "Tell them it's a duelling scar. And you got it fighting a duel in..."
Heidelberg. Oh. Right. How cool.
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I don't think I was very clear yesterday, so, yes, I did actually know about the quest to make coloured bubbles before I wrote Orange.
(http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2005/11/balancing-acts-and-mithras.html)
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Over on Kitty's blog, she has photos up of people in their Neverwhere tee-shirts (http://kittysneverwear.blogspot.com/2008/04/wearing-nverwear.html). Which I mention here for the curious, who want to see what the site's Webgoblin looks like. He's the first tee shirt. (The now-retired-but-occasionally-nipping-out-of-retirement-to-fix-things WebElf looks like this (http://www.myspace.com/olganunes).)
(Original Post) (http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/04/eyes-have-it.html)
Let's see. So Maddy read my blog post of yesterday and said, "No, Dad, what you told me to tell them was that I was swordfighting with Spiderman."
Spiderman? That left me puzzled.
I mean, D'Artagnan I could have understood. But Spiderman doesn't have a sword. So I puzzled over what I could have told a five year old that she would have heard or remembered eight years later as Spiderman, given the kind of thing I was likely to say. Such as, "Tell them it's a duelling scar. And you got it fighting a duel in..."
Heidelberg. Oh. Right. How cool.
...
I don't think I was very clear yesterday, so, yes, I did actually know about the quest to make coloured bubbles before I wrote Orange.
(http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2005/11/balancing-acts-and-mithras.html)
...
Over on Kitty's blog, she has photos up of people in their Neverwhere tee-shirts (http://kittysneverwear.blogspot.com/2008/04/wearing-nverwear.html). Which I mention here for the curious, who want to see what the site's Webgoblin looks like. He's the first tee shirt. (The now-retired-but-occasionally-nipping-out-of-retirement-to-fix-things WebElf looks like this (http://www.myspace.com/olganunes).)
(Original Post) (http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/04/eyes-have-it.html)