Neil Gaiman posted an exchange between Christopher Hitchens and an audience member at an English literary festival. It’s a funny little bit. Someone then wrote Gaiman to take him to task for “apparently sympathizing with Hitchens’s derisive and arrogant treatment of a fan.” Gaiman then rereads the entry, says he still thinks it’s pretty funny, and then adds:
(This post should not be seen as in any way condoning smoking, smoking on stage, appearing on panels, using the phrase “If anyone doesn’t like it they can kiss my ass,” Christopher Hitchens, behaving like Christopher Hitchens, literary festivals, the Guardian, or rudeness to people in the audience who are dying for a ciggie.)
I didn’t laugh out loud at the Hitchens anecdote, but this disclaimer did it.