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“Weird Al” Yankovic, Neil Gaiman, and George R.R. Martin… all three together in one epic image!
I should make this the wallpaper image of my iPad, since I have all of Gaiman’s Sandman series and Martin’s complete (thus far) Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire books loaded on it.  To say nothing of practically every song and video that Weird Al has produced throughout his career.
Seriously, that is a very, very cool picture.  Oh, to be a fly on the wall when those three geniuses came together…
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It’s been three days since “Nightmare in Silver” – this season’s much-anticipated episode of Doctor Who penned by Neil Gaiman – aired and the thing I still can’t get out of my head is how fast that Cyberman was.

Look, it takes an awful lot for a TV show or a movie to scare the ever-living crap out of me.  But when the girlfriend and I saw that one Cyberman arrive at the barracks and then do that…

Think back to the first time you watched “Remembrance of the Daleks”, the big story that marked Doctor Who‘s 25th anniversary in 1988.  And that numb-struck look of terror on The Doctor’s face as that Dalek did something no Dalek had ever done before: it climbed the stairs during its hellbent pursuit.

Well, that high-speed Cyberman scared me worse than that!  I was literally screaming “HOLY SH-T!!” (and other stuff) ...

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Neil Gaiman, in the opinion of a very many people, is one of the greatest and most masterful writers of our modern age. Lately I’ve found myself re-reading his classic Sandman series and found myself enjoying it just as much today as I did when I first discovered it years ago… if not more so.

Well if you also appreciate Gaiman’s work, you’ll be pleased to know that according to his Twitter page, Neil Gaiman will be the focus of a segment this weekend on CBS Sunday Morning…

Looks like the CBS Sunday Morning profile of me goes out this Sunday. In the morning. Barring natural disasters or breaking news of course.

Very cool! I’m a way longtime viewer of CBS Sunday Morning and have always enjoyed its stories and unique pace. Somehow, a feature on Neil Gaiman seems just perfect.

(By the way, have I ...

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