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Grant Morrison in Kathmandu

 
 
Warewullf
22:16 / 27.08.03
And if you've never heard of Grant Morrison, then you're really on the wrong forum...
 
 
Tryphena Absent
22:30 / 27.08.03
though of course you might have wandered in here on a whim and liked it without knowing who Morrison is and if so than you're very welcome.
 
 
w1rebaby
22:40 / 27.08.03
Who's Grant Morrison?

Doesn't he write comic books or something?
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:11 / 27.08.03
Jim Morrisons lesser known brother.
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
00:00 / 28.08.03
He's the fictionsuit Charles Xaiver currently wears.
 
 
Foust is SO authentic
00:43 / 28.08.03
Who's Charles Xavier?
 
 
Lionheart
00:49 / 28.08.03
Do I have to explain this all over again?!!

Grant Morrison was a famous New Yorker who started the infamous "Gold Rush of Staten Island" when, in 1869, he claimed to have struck gold while digging in the pits left over from the old iron mines on Todt Hill. This "discovery" led to a population boom on, what was then known as, the "Forgotten Borough." The gold turned out to be nothing more than gold plated iron and thus Grant Morrison was publically hanged, by a lynch mob, in one of New York's last public hangings. The charge? Of being a trickster and a charlatan.

Oh, and then there was all this stuff when he claimed to have been contacted by "other beings" when he was looking for work in the East.
 
 
SMS
02:54 / 28.08.03
And Barbelith was once something of a Grant Morrison fansite, filled with fictionsuits claiming that the goldfind was real and would be discovered as such some time in late in 2012. But it's really changed a lot since then.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
07:33 / 28.08.03
According to his piece in Hotel Fortune it's a stupa (which I assume means temple) in Kathmandu called Swayambhunath. Possibly in a valley, GM's a bit vague on the location, but it seems important enough that if you check a Rough Guide or Lonely Planet for Kathmandu it might well mention it.
 
 
No star here laces
08:31 / 28.08.03
I hope this thread gets onto googlism.
 
 
pachinko droog
15:20 / 28.08.03
And in ten years, Grant Morrison will be a game about everything.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
16:42 / 28.08.03
He looks purdy as a girl...
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
16:44 / 28.08.03
Most boys do....
 
 
mixmage
16:49 / 28.08.03
The Official GM Backstory here
 
  
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