{"id":1376,"date":"2006-10-04T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/10\/04\/but-which-one-is-the-superhero\/"},"modified":"2006-10-04T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T18:17:00","slug":"but-which-one-is-the-superhero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/10\/04\/but-which-one-is-the-superhero\/","title":{"rendered":"But which one is the superhero?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I attended a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/\">Neil Gaiman<\/a> event (my third in two days, but that&#8217;s another story) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keplers.com\/\">Kepler&#8217;s<\/a> bookstore in Menlo Park.  During the Q&#038;A, someone asked how Neil&#8217;s Jewish heritage and upbringing had affected his writing, if at all.  He said he wasn&#8217;t sure, but told a good joke about a rabbi and his driver.<\/p>\n<p>Later, as I watched Neil brushing his mop of dark hair back, it occurred to me&#8211; Jewish?  Storyteller?  Likes to wear black clothes and sunglasses?  Wry sense of humor?  And the face, fully revealed in that brief moment, seemed awfully similar to another one I&#8217;d seen elsewhere&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A Google image search this morning provided the photographic evidence, confirming my suspicions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/NeilGaiman-776626.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/NeilGaiman-765946.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Neil Gaiman\" title=\"Neil Gaiman\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/RichardLewis-727270.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/RichardLewis-713399.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Richard Lewis\" title=\"Richard Lewis\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I mean, think about it.  <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Have you ever seen the two of them together at the same time?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I attended a Neil Gaiman event (my third in two days, but that&#8217;s another story) at Kepler&#8217;s bookstore in Menlo Park. During the Q&#038;A, someone asked how Neil&#8217;s Jewish heritage and upbringing had affected his writing, if at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}