Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Secrets and lice

Took the Dr to see Neil Gaiman last night, in the same venue as we saw him last year. Rather than being interviewed by a sleb acquaintance, he cracked on with a reading from his new Fragile Things.

"The day the saucers came" is a fun little poem, while "How to talk to girls at parties" took me back to my own sorry soirees as a teen in Southampton and Romsey. Both are a bit weird (the stories that is, not the bastides of Hampshoire.)

Questions were then asked and we are sworn to secrecy on the details of his project with Penn Gillette. But cor and golly and woo.

There was also some good-natured stuff about how Gilliam can have the rights to Good Omens for a groat - because that's the smallest amount that allows a 10% agent's fee. They've already sourced a farthing from eBay.

Nina Sosanya was in the audience. The couple next to me haggled about what they had seen her in and concluded it was one of the Matrices.

Now I am going to shave my head, which is the nearest I can get to justifying today's headline.

3 comments:

Nimbos said...

but but but...

A farthing (¼ penny) is a sixteenth of a groat (fourpence) which makes it 6¼ percent.

So the smallest fee which would allow a 10% commission (of one farthing) is 10 farthings or tuppence ha'penny

0tralala said...

I merely report what the man himself said.

Anonymous said...

he said "A groat each". Eightpence.