I'm kinda in the same boat on Gaiman. His fiction is readable, but skippable, with the exception of Sandman, which is incredible and the reason everyone remembers him (justifiably, he deserves fame for that thing).

To mention another writer, who works in a totally different genre and has nothing to do with him except I forget their books in similar ways, he reminds me of Nick Hornby (About a Boy, High Fidelity). Must be a British thing, England isn't really a source of quality literature.

Yesterday at, like, two in the afternoon, one of my co-workers ran up to a group of us and was like, "Did you hear Osama's been killed!?" I guess someone's always the last to know!