house on the rock that is.. wow i just finished AG.. a wonderful book i was really amazed to find that it took place so close to where i live its very acurate, right down to the gas stations shadow visits
its kind of funny because one of my friends swore that he saw NG at a tourist attraction in spring green, wi and no one believed him
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House on the Rock is a really cool Frank Lloyd Wright house, which is kinda creepy because I think his attempt was to make the house seem like his spirit after his death. It has a lot of different things in it, different rooms, like the Carosel room that was in "AG" and some other really neat places. I haven't been there since I was little, I still have the map from it though and I think about it fondly.
Funny, I live in Chicago, and regularly vacation in Hayward, WI and pass by there several times a year. I have never had any desire to see it until I read AG. I'll get there someday.
Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with something bigger and heavier.
When I was young, my stepfather would always take us up to the Wisconsin dells in the summer. One summer when I was ten I begged and pleaded that we see this attraction was posted on billboards everywhere. I remember that it was a long drive from where we were staying, when you are ten any drive other than to go to McDonalds seemed long. As soon as I was in there I was caught up in the place, there were so many sights and sounds, strange things to look at everything turned into a blur. I remember my legs shaking as I walked out to the infinity room. In my head, it would only take my 60lbs to make the needle of the house snap off and take me down with it, landing like a lawn dart with me wedged in to the tip of the needle and stuck forever. I remember seeing the penny machines, but not the one mentioned in The book. What really got me was the carousel, the animals the music the mermaids with their breasts bare and my budding hormones reacting. Maybe it was the long drive, the fact my feet hurt from walking or something else. Something happened to my emotions, I started to cry I wanted to stay forever but I knew that I had to leave that place now. I probably started some scene. I fled for the exit and left my family inside. A few minutes later they came out, I had collected myself and was immediately ashamed and wanted to go back inside, but it was too late. We were packed up into the Suburban and I had to endure a long shameful ride back to where we were staying, my stepfather making sure to tell me how much money I had wasted for him and how weird of a kid I was. Time went by and I grew up and didn’t think of the place again until I read AG and it all flooded back to me. It’s been 16 years since I’ve been there and now I desperately want to go back. I think that the little boy in me wants to go there and find the gods from the story, but the adult in me is terrified that I will.
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