Warren Ellis's Blog, page 270
April 1, 2010
Oh No, Not Today You Don't
I'm staying off the internet today. April Fool's is always a scumfuck magnet.
Have a pretty picture by Cassandra Melena instead.
March 31, 2010
Morgan Murphy On The Jimmy Fallon Show
Which she actually writes for, too. But they let her actually go on stage and frighten people, the other night. She's a monstrous human being, but god help me she makes me laugh.
Teabonics
"Pargon" on Flickr: the "Teabonics" set:
These are signs seen primarily at Tea Party Protests. They all feature "creative" spelling or grammar. This new dialect of the English language shall be known as "Teabonics."
March 30, 2010
Night Music: Bending Dream
"Bending Dream" by Eluvium, from the album SIMILES.
G'night, spooklettes.
Whooshing Sound
The next 48-72 hours are deadline-intensive horrors. Wrapping up three major projects. I fully expect to be walking toasted vegetation by Friday.
Due to lots of people whining at me, I've set up an Official Warren Ellis Compound on that Facebook thing I hate. I've sterilised my personal page there, so this will be the page to find me on the Facebook thing I hate. It's bare-bones right now, due to being in deadline lockdown, but soonishly Ariana and I will start piping stuff in there to...
Links for 2010-03-29
"Lulu, and in fact any manufacturing process hooked up to the internet, has made the creation of physical things really rather simple. If you can think of it, you can probably get it made to your own designs in a way that used to be limited to specialised craftspeople ? what I call the Internet as Cornucopia Machine. Real things in the real world have a different (different, not +ve or -ve) value to digital assets...
received goods 30mar10
John Twells put me on to this. Tristram Cary was an interesting man. Looking forward to putting it on tonight. (More electronic music, yes: imagine him as parallel to the Radiophonic Workshop, maybe (he did also produce incidental music for DOCTOR WHO) – and in fact created equipment the Workshop would later use.)
notebook 30mar10
* I love the idea that Owen Hatherley's writing a new book called A GUIDE TO THE NEW RUINS OF GREAT BRITAIN
* local people trying to build a realtime "social GPS" map of Southend — more internet-to-hyperlocal
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* http://www.iamamiwhoami.com/ continues to fascinate – there's something here worth mining out
* The directorial brand. Who could do this/get away with this today?
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