I dunno if Steven Brill meets your definition of 'major' but he concocted an entire fictional team that somehow became real. Washington Irving could never.
Something else to love about the Knicks, perennially: they're named for a fictional character by a major writer; does any other team anywhere have such a literary pedigree?
I'm also just realizing that I've now seen Les Claypool with:
Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frock Brigade
The Claypool Lennon Delirium
Les Claypool's Bastard Jazz
and Oysterhead
But never Primus. Is that weird?
The sign said 'for sale,' so I think I simply have to move here, live in the second floor, sell wine & cigarettes out of the first floor, and let out the third floor to strangers. I mean, right? How hard can it be, it pays for itself, no?
Would probably need to start an LLC here in America first, but I assume the rest is just permits & paperwork. Plus it's probably a union thing (will google the politics of it later). I figure if I get to keep the sign in place, I'm already like a third of the way there already.
I can assure you, you do not want to know what I actually think, but sure, blame the entire collapse of the modern print and digital media industries on me cause I'm witty, that's cool.