So, I'm currently tearing my way through the most recent Neil Gaiman novel. I was holding out for paperback, but my mom mailed me a copy, which was awesome. Anyway, that got me poking around online, and I found a remarkable reference for American Gods. The entries for Shadow and Mike Ainsel are particularly interesting.

Update: Speaking of Neil Gaiman. One of these days I should point out that his blog is often pretty entertaining. He's very generous about answering questions from fans, which is nice, but not always compelling. Better are the more bloggy posts, such as this, concerning a bear that has been tearing up his garden:

Lacking bear pepper-spray, I walked home across the garden last night singing very loud bear songs, which went something along the lines of, "Lalala, I am singing very loudly to alert the bear to my presence, Lalala because most of the websites I've found talk about making noise and giving bears lots of time to get away, Lalala also I do not want to startle a bear at all because according to everything I've read on the subject bears do not like being startled." You don't have to worry about rhymes with bears. They don't mind about rhymes. Or tunes. Or scansion. Frankly, hypothetical bears are a very easy sort of audience.

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