Of course, the most brilliant part of it was Neil Gaiman giving the title "Poisson d'Avril" (= April fish) to the journal entry in which he introduced the link to the Glassman journal.
Posted by a random person at April 1, 2006 11:25 AM
Indeed. Whether he was actually fooled or not, he was an awfully good sport about the whole thing. Best possible outcome.
Posted by Rats at April 1, 2006 11:27 AM
Some of us knew what you were doing, and it was delightfully evil!
Posted by Richard at April 1, 2006 05:44 PM
Howard lives!! That is unless you ARE actually Howard and he's been pretending to be Socar. What kind of a freaking name is Socrates for a girl anyway? Has to be a fake.
If Howard must die, I suggest you have him eat himself.
Posted by jk at April 1, 2006 08:34 PM
No American male would ever spell complete, "compleat." I smell a rat.
Posted by Joseph Francis at April 1, 2006 08:57 PM
Congratulations. What a superbly executed prank :D Will you be leaving it up for a while?
Posted by Camilla at April 1, 2006 11:14 PM
Absolute genius. Congratulations on the success!
Posted by Scient at April 2, 2006 01:59 AM
Very good prank. I found out about it through Neil's journal, when the whole prank had already been fooled. Didn't know it was you until I read your DA journal entry, though. I thought it might be when you wrote on the fake blog that you're Socar, but since you also wrote that you're nobody and since I thought there must be more than one Socar on the internet I dismissed that idea.
Fun! :D
Posted by Manuela at April 2, 2006 03:32 AM
Yeah, you got me and it was hilarious. Though the Jim stuff should have been the tip-off. Jesus.
As I said last night, good job. You provided me with some much needed laughter.
Richard, who the f*ck do you think you are kidding. You had no idea about anything -- you get all of your info stalking my blog. Go play somewhere else.
Posted by Robin at April 2, 2006 06:25 AM
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/P10/
Posted by jk at April 2, 2006 09:51 AM
jk - Gotta love the Museum of Hoaxes. One day, perhaps, one of my jokes will make their list.
Robin - Ha, glad to be of service! I thought the whole Jim story arc might've been pushing it a bit, but I figured entertainment was more important than deception, in this case. Oddly, though, quite a few people still went for it!
Manuela - Hey, the world needs nobodies. It's a very big responsibility, being a nobody. If nobody was nobody, how would we know who was somebody? (Ha, ha.)
Scient - Thank you! Thank you very much.
Camilla - Yes, Howard's blog will be staying where it is. Obviously, it will no longer be updated, but (barring a giant TypePad crash), it's not going anywhere.
Joseph Francis - Terribly sorry. I MEANT to take a shower.
jk - Ha, you got me. I'm really a very effeminate-looking male senior citizen...from America. (Really?)
Richard - Glad you enjoyed it!
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Posted by Rats at April 2, 2006 04:56 PM
I wondered where you'd been! Superb as usual, Socar. You and Virge really know how to ring in April.
Posted by Mike at April 3, 2006 07:33 AM