34 Comments on “Neil and the Bear: Perhaps Not a Children’s Book After All”

1. Well, technically you *were* writing. Just not paychecky stuff.

2. Now we need a song from Paul and Storm begging that Neil Gaiman not be eaten by a bear but admitting in one verse that he isn’t our bitch.

3. I thought the chipmunks (second in the series) would get him.

4. That bear just wanted to get his copy of The Ocean at the End of the Lane signed.

5. FX just optioned The Bear Who Ate Neil as a limited series.

6. I’ve always thought of Neil as the type to be devoured by a mountain lion… just saying.

7. Some idiot on the internet will think this means you’re in favor of bestiality

8. I’m not responsible for what stupid people who are not me do with their brains.

9. Now, if it were not a bear but a dragon on dark shadow night, that would be different. But no, I don’t want Neil eaten by a bear either. In fact, let me courageously come out against bears eating people in general. There. I’ve said it.

10. “I’m not responsible for what stupid people who are not me do with their brains”
    new tshirt slogan?

11. The Bear Who Didn’t Eat Neil. Picture book market, here we come!

12. (And, no, I didn’t see the title of the post until after.)

13. @Mhteas said, “In fact, let me courageously come out against bears eating people in general.”

    The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of bears being able to eat people (and other bears, and vice versa) in 2002, Lawrence v. Texas.

    Oh, you mean *bears*, not “bears”.

    Okay, never mind.

14. John, the shadowy thing behind your comment made me think my laptop screen was dirty and I tried to clean it and it didn’t work and I thought wow that really looks like a person’s face how weird and then I realized it WAS a person’s face and it was all very confusing and took about two minutes out of my day.
    Just sayin’. I would have liked to have some time looking out the window or something, too.

15. Hope Neil enjoys the rest of his stay at Camp Granada.

16. The best defense against bears is a good guy with a bear.

17. And, it’s a good thing I’m not in Oregon or I would REALLY be able to admi… I mean, I would’ve REALLY been confused.

18. I mean, I don’t know why it’s a good thing, um, ……..shoot. Can I edit my post, please?????
    ;)

19. Hello Tori, Hello Haley,
    In my cabin, writing daily,
    nosy neighbors, won’t disturb me,
    deer and chipmunks steal my ARCs but won’t perturb me.

    You remember that John Scalzi?
    Don’t know when he got so ballsy.
    Sent an actor in a fur suit
    Don’t know where he found some one so very hirsute

    Take me home, my dear Amanda
    Take me home, its not a panda
    Don’t leave me in this place
    where I might be eaten by a bear

20. Number One Threat to America Neil Gaiman: Bears!

21. At least there were tweets from Neil shortly after the picture unlike the time Kevin Hearne tweeted a picture of a bear from his car and then didn’t tweet anything else for a couple of days.

22. Thanks to @brucearthurs for the memory and to @johnstick for the update. Made me laugh out loud at work.

23. Bravo, johnstick!

24. Greg came close, but I am mildly shocked that nobody has made a “right to bear arms” joke about this yet. Oh, wait, is Neil’s writing cabin NOT in the USofA? Because the US is where we have deer, chipmunks and bears. The UK has badgers, hedgehogs and foxes… I’d be less surprised if he’d spotted a Dalek outside his cabin.

25. Really? That’s what I do when I’m supposed to be EDITING.

    …so, at least there is symmetry.

26. Now I’ll be singing that darn song in my head for the rest of the night. Thank you johnstick, you gave me a big laugh.

27. Adding my applause to the johnstick approvals. Well done!

28. There’s a checkbox on the twitter embed to turn off the replied-to tweet so we don’t have to read everything twice – change < blockquote to < blockquote data-conversation="none"

29. Bravo to @johnstick!

30. My first two thoughts:

    (1) Man, I want a writing cabin.
    (2) Wait, how can anyone get any writing done in a cabin that has Internet access?

31. I saw that. Scalzi killed a bear. Did he throw a trident?

32. I think if Neil is going to be devoured by any kind of wild animal it should be Wolves.
    If by domesticated animals, then cats.

    But n the whole I think I come down on the side of him*not* being devoured unless he really, really, wants to be.

33. The question is which is to be master–that;s all. Who decides? Neil, or the critters?

34. This gave me a much-needed laugh. Thanks!