Scary trousers
Clotilde
This is awful I know. I've been a fan a long time. I've been to inkwell and
in here and Neil's journal. Thing is...
I just have not found where the origin of the scary trousers thing is. Can
anyone give me a history lesson?
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… is akin to dropping rose petals into the Grand Canyon and waiting to hear the boom.
-Neil Gaiman
Ladymisstree
>
> This is awful I know. I've been a fan a long time. I've been to inkwell and
> in here and Neil's journal. Thing is...
>
> I just have not found where the origin of the scary trousers thing is. Can
> anyone give me a history lesson?
A quick googling reveals the story as told by Mr Alan Moore himself:
"Neil and some other friends were visiting me in Northampton, and we all
went out to dinner. We hadn't seen each other for a while, so we spent
the meal catching up on what each of us had been doing. When it was my
turn, I began telling everyone about the story I was doing for From
Hell, my comic about Jack the Ripper. I'm a man who loves his work, and
I do tend to give all I've got when I'm describing a scene.
"So I was just describing a ritual disembowelment of a women in London
and the almost supernatural aura surrounding it, and Neil suddenly got
up and said, 'Excuse me, I'm just going to go outside a minute.' And he
went outside, overcome by the sheer demonic power of my presentation.
"When he came back in, I forgot which organ was being removed at that
point in my narrative; but Neil caught a few words, did a complete
U-turn, and walked straight back out.
"When we went searching for him later, Neil was sitting in the gutter
outside the restaurant, head in his hands, looking absolutely wretched.
And he was being mothered by a bag lady. It was a very Neil Gaiman
moment; the lady almost could've been Mad Hettie from his Sandman
stories emerged to persecute him.
"I remember looking down, with no sympathy for him whatsoever, and just
chuckling and saying, 'Neil Scary Trousers Gaiman, Master of Modern
Terror.'"
If I could find the link to the movie of Neil telling the story himself
at the Book Soup American Gods signing a couple of years ago, I would.
Can anyone help?
Lady Miss Tree
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These are not my scary trousers.
squeakeasy
"Ladymisstree" <m...@ladymisstree.com> wrote in message
news:3EC99F28...@ladymisstree.com...
> Clotilde wrote:
> >
> > This is awful I know. I've been a fan a long time. I've been to inkwell
and
> > in here and Neil's journal. Thing is...
> >
> > I just have not found where the origin of the scary trousers thing is.
Can
> > anyone give me a history lesson?
>
> A quick googling reveals the story as told by Mr Alan Moore himself:
>
> If I could find the link to the movie of Neil telling the story himself
> at the Book Soup American Gods signing a couple of years ago, I would.
> Can anyone help?
Whatever happened to that video bit that West had up for a while? It had
Neil telling the story on it, I thought.
Anyone still touch base with West?
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MM & the ^mşe^
who is taking much longer to check posts than intended.
O..O
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"And you may say to yourself, 'These are not my scary trousers'..."
-Elise Matthesen, WELL discussion #144
Maria Siu-Lee
should FAQ him at the journal and get him to relate his side of it
there (is that an evil thought?)
On Tue, 20 May 2003 13:21:13 +1000, Ladymisstree <m...@ladymisstree.com>
wrote:
Maria Siu-Lee
Clotilde
Thaqt's great. And I actually did read that story just last night in the
Sandman Compendium but I must admit I missed the scary trouser thing at the
end or didn't "see" it and go AHA!
Chris
declared:
>Hehe, I was wondering too, and I am so glad I know now. Maybe we
>should FAQ him at the journal and get him to relate his side of it
>there (is that an evil thought?)
When people ask him, he usually tells them to buy King Bacchus for
his favourite retelling of the incident.