Warren Ellis's Blog, page 277

Natural Snow Buildings: THE CENTAURI AGENT

A new double album by one of my favourite discoveries of the past couple of years, made available as a free download at this link right here. Looking forward to giving this a listen tonight.

This release comes from Vulpiano Records, who announce it here (with further details):

VULP-0013 is Natural Snow Buildings' first release of 2010, the free-for-download double LP The Centauri Agent! On part one, the 41 minute "Our man from Centauri" sets the stage, a cosmic, sprawling opener with themes...

Peter Watts Convicted

"Toronto author Peter Watts has been found guilty of assaulting, resisting and obstructing a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer."

FREAKANGELS 0090

In which there is a ruck.

Station Ident: You're My Wife Now

Ben Templesmith is making new friends on tour.

Good morning. This is warren ellis dot com.

Night Music: Untold

"Just For You." G'night.

He May Have A Razor On Him

First he broadcast the white-faced puppet Stooky Bill — a "stookie," in Glaswegian, is a plaster cast — and then grabbed a kid called Bill Taynton and put him in front of the machine. I like to think that Taynton got a look at Stooky Bill and felt a shot of the Fear, because the light and heat of the machine had blasted it into a cracked yellow ember of its former self. Perhaps the master of the machine, John Logie Baird himself, thought of the day when the Trinidadians of the Santa Cruz...

DO ANYTHING: 28 April 2010

DO ANYTHING: Jack Kirby Ripped My Flesh, collecting the first run of the eponymous column at bleedingcool.com, will be on sale from 28 April. In the first instance, you're probably only going to find it in comics stores, so call your local and ask if they've ordered it. If they don't, I believe you'll find it available for pre-order by the usual online suspects.

This is the solicitation text:

From Warren Ellis, the award-winning author, comics creator and popular columnist (and who is...

Whitechapel 18mar10

At my internet cave today:

* New Comics Talk (17mar10)

* ECTOPLASMOSIS: We Hunger for Fresh Blood (gimme writers)

* Life After Death Magazine

* CHINESE WHISPERS UCHRONAL COVER REMODEL: Amazing Adult Fantasy #15

VIRTUOSO

A new webcomic by Jon Munger and Krista Brennan:

Virtuoso is an alternate history of an Africa that never existed, one run by steel and springs, commanded by vast matriarchies and past the height of its culture.

Virtuoso is the story of Jnembi Osse, a professional weapons manufacturer for the most powerful empire in the world, and how her private rebellion becomes a full scale international incident.

Links for 2010-03-18

First quantum effects seen in visible object – physics-math – 17 March 2010 – New Scientist
"The first ever quantum superposition in an object visible to the naked eye has been observed."
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