Warren Ellis's Blog, page 107
August 8, 2011
Research Gem Of The Day
I was looking for something else entirely, and happened upon this, from 2009:
Police in Australia have released an X-ray photograph showing the 35 nails that were shot into a man's skull in a brutal murder last year…
I don't know if they ever caught the killer. Matching nails to a single nail gun must be nigh on impossible.
Rachel Goodyear
(via Suzanne Gerber)
Every time I look a...
Rachel Goodyear
(via Suzanne Gerber)
Every time I look at Marian Churchland's blog lately, I just don't even
Via English Russia, you may start your Dieselpunk Blade Runner engines now:
Via Kevin Slavin:
The day after the market saw 844 stocks trigger short-sale restrictions (meaning they dropped more than 10% in one day), not even the robots were able to pull a rabbit out of a hat and at least 21 stocks ended up flash crashing for a millisecond or much longer during today's trading session. Below are the charts of the 21 identified victims of overzealous ask-side (algorithms)…
Or, put another way, this is the picture of an otherwise invisible hailstorm of Stock Exchange micro-transactions failing at lightspeed.
Also, Todd Lappin saw this happen:
Good morning. This is warren ellis dot com.
August 7, 2011
I have signed three boxes of signature sheets for the las...
I have signed three boxes of signature sheets for the last FREAKANGELS limited edition hardcover. Also:
Kim Boekbinder successfully reinvented the way she does shows, and illustrated a new path for working musicians in the process. Now she's applying that to the tour. A ten-date Oct/Nov American tour where each show is pre-sold, and the level at which it is pre-sold determines the nature of the show. It's quite fascinating to me. Click through and take a look. Maybe she's playing your city. And Molly Crabapple is doing a unique poster for each date.
Impossible Girl #2 by Kim Boekbinder
Also, I do like me some drums. And this was working for me in the early hours of the morning. Blawan:
I may rig the site for a spate of more regular posting tomorrow.
August 6, 2011
It once occurred to me that, sooner rather than later, th...
It once occurred to me that, sooner rather than later, the only way London coders will be able to access government computers will be to spray machine-readable code on walls in view of CCTV cameras.
And then Matt Jones wrote The Robot-Readable World.
DEATH BAR
Also I wish I was going to this, in Brighton, on Thursday, because High Wolf is playing, whom I love, and also The Wyrding Module, whom I've just discovered tonight. If you can get to Brighton, you should go.
Also Katie West took this photo below, and I wish I were there, too. But I have a DEATH BAR to battle.
DEATH BAR I hate you.
August 5, 2011
FREAKANGELS 0144
sent from [device: spacebook]
August 2, 2011
Until I'd broken the back of this damned thing, I...
Until I'd broken the back of this damned thing, I needed to put all my focus on it. In any case, this site has been pretty relentless for the last several years in curating and filing the world I see through the screen. I imagine everyone was probably due a break by now.
Even in this somewhat dubious report on the SDCC panel about that damned documentary they're making about me, mentions of this are made.
Ellis' huge nexus of contacts was never understated
And also "a query was made about how Ellis does not seem to relate to the comics community anymore." (Wanna read about just one of the reasons why?) Which of course just brings me back to this thing I wrote the other week. That query's got some truth to it, obviously (another example is that I hand the Whitechapel message board over to Si Spurrier this Friday), although I do still monkey around with a few things behind the scenes, consultation and the like. And I can still send people a bit of traffic from time to time.
But I've reached the point in the novel now where I've emptied out a chunk of my headspace into it, and earmarked the other barrels in the back of my skull that'll be tipped into the pit of the novel over the next several weeks, and my brain is registering clear areas. Which it doesn't like, as it is a greedy organ trained to hoover up whatever is in front of it. It wants to make new connections and process new things. And making new connections does bring me moments of delight like this:
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And, yes, surprisingly, it turned out that she did not think I was the Australian musician Warren Ellis. (Whom I haven't heard from since Nick Cave suggested on French television that he put a hit out on me. Hm.) The email conversation that followed just made my afternoon, and this evening has put me to thinking. About the nature of engagement, even as I continue to disengage from so many things.
I tell you now: I never feel like I don't have a whole career's worth of work left to achieve. There is still so much to do.
DEATH BAAAAARRRRR DEATHBAR
(to the tune of "Stingray")
...
DEATH BAAAAARRRRR DEATHBAR
(to the tune of "Stingray")
"The elevator doors opened again to reveal a very large man brandishing a blood-stained antique phone receiver in a plastic bag and proclaiming 'I found this up him!'"
(For those just joining us, the DEATH BAR monitors my word count on GUN MACHINE, the novel I'm writing for Mulholland Books, set for release in autumn 2012.)
July 28, 2011
DEATH BAR
As my agent observed today, jumpstarting the t...
DEATH BAR
As my agent observed today, jumpstarting the thing again was always going to be an absolute bugger. Much of this has been written and rewritten and written again. Note revised total. Right now, it feels like the thing will be directly told in 80K words. In revision I will go back and see what I left untold. Which will bring the count over 90K.
"Jim Rosato was recently married, to a Greek nurse. Rosato was half Irish and half Italian, and there was a pool on at the 1st as to which of them would arrive at work wearing the other's skin as a hat within the year."
July 25, 2011
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