{"id":1136,"date":"2007-08-24T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T13:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2007-08-24T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T13:53:12","slug":"hotw-true-things-or-what-is-alan-moore-doing-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"HotW: TRUE THINGS or &quot;What is Alan Moore doing these days ?&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is something spectacular, no, WONDERFUL lurking on a <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/scans_daily\/3895760.html\">Mr Neil Gaiman&#8217;s livejournal page<\/a>. It is a two page comic that he and Mark Buckingham did for Alan Moore&#8217;s 50th birthday.  The two page comic seems to have orignated in a book named &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=AEnVgVDd8m0C&#038;dq=the+extraordinary+works+of+alan+moore&#038;printsec=frontcover&#038;source=web&#038;ots=shsRCd5f88&#038;sig=Yb5pmRFpicPNhVUSh7qRxReB2ng#PPA174,M1\">The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore<\/a>.&#8221; A book I have set my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Extraordinary-Works-Alan-Moore\/dp\/1893905241\">sights on owning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am not going to repost the images as that seems wrong to do. Don&#8217;t ask my why. (Although if you did ask me why, after disregarding my request not to, I&#8217;d be forced to say that prepping an image that would end up unreadable on this page and you&#8217;d have to click through anyway seemed like a waste of our mutal time. So I cut short the middle man.) I will share the link with a smallish panel and you, gentle reader, can step into Alan Moore&#8217;s ideaspace on a whim.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/scans_daily\/3895760.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"alanmooretalkstoskulls.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/main\/images\/alanmooretalkstoskulls.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"263\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/scans_daily\/3895760.html\"><strong>What is Alan Moore doing these days?<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thank you, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2007\/08\/chengdu-and-elsewhere.html\">Scans Daily<\/a> for sharing Mr Gaiman writings and Mr Buckingham&#8217;s drawings for all to see.<\/p>\n<p>I have a hope, a dream even, that someone writes\/draws a thing this spectacular about me on my 50th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>If I dare live that long.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I find myself considering using a rather elagant walking cane, wearing a refined vintage suit, and walking about the streets of Huntsville spelling out the fates of the locals. Only if they ask me to, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Having the skull of a Buddhist monk might not be a bad idea either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something spectacular, no, WONDERFUL lurking on a Mr Neil Gaiman&#8217;s livejournal page. It is a two page comic that he and Mark Buckingham did for Alan Moore&#8217;s 50th birthday. The two page comic seems to have orignated in a book named &#8220;The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore.&#8221; A book I have set my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hero-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}