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Night Music: A Wonderful World

I'm sure I've played this here before, but what the hell, it makes me smile. Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan doing "What A Wonderful World."

G'night, people.

Bloody Facebook

All right. I give up. There is no escape from Facebook. So: I will approve any and all friend requests, whether you're human or not, and I will simply trust you to help me break Facebook and give it the pain it deserves.  Help me make it whimper and die and leave me alone. It's here. Go nuts. Please.

Links for 2009-10-13

Venezuela folk religion seen in secretive rituals
"Thousands of Venezuelans congregated for candlelit rituals on a remote mountainside where adherents make an annual pilgrimage to pay homage to an indigenous goddess known as Maria Lionza. Some calling themselves the ?Vikings? pricked their tongues with razor blades, drawing blood that ran down their chins and chests. They said they could not reveal the esoteric secrets that govern their traditions…"
(tags:culture )Unreleased tracks and demos...

Forthcoming: SHIVERING SANDS

For the last several months, Ariana and I have been picking at the great volume of stuff I've written for the internet over the last seven years or so, on this site and elsewhere. And we've hacked and hammered and crammed until it fills about a hundred and seventy pages of your actual printed paper.

It will be available for ordering soon. But I'm so pleased with the cover Ariana built that I wanted to show it off in advance.

Optical "Black Hole" Created

It uses meta-materials, previously applied to the "invisibility cloak" technology:

An electromagnetic "black hole" that sucks in surrounding light has been built for the first time. The device, which works at microwave frequencies, may soon be extended to trap visible light, leading to an entirely new way of harvesting solar energy to generate electricity.

Huv A Wee Pad Aboot

"The firm said, so far, 30 people had applied for the positions - some of them in
Glaswegian."

The Autumn Interrogation Of Warren 2009

It's the season to sit indoors at the bloody computer all bloody day with gallons of coffee to stave off death, and therefore it's time (god help me) for the annual Autumn Interrogation Of Warren at my message board, where I'll try to attempt to answer any question that isn't already covered in the first post. Or lie outrageously in a vain stab at making you go away.

The Autumn Interrogation thread.

NOT At Wizard World Toronto Comic Con 2010

Apparently Wizard are running ads in their magazines like this one, which a friend found in Toy Fare today:

The strong implication, of course, being that I'm going to be a guest at this convention.

First I've fucking heard of it.

I'm presuming this is some kind of impossibly convoluted but innocent mistake, as opposed to "well, if we just SAY Warren Ellis is showing up, then he'll HAVE to." But I've had no contact from Wizard World about this or any other show, so, god knows what actually...

Station Ident: All Right All Right I'm Awake Fuck Your Eyes

Yes yes god damnit the constant fucking ringing of the doorbell and the constant fucking ringing of the phone means I'm awake after basically no fucking sleep at all this is Warren Ellis Dot Com fuck you all to hell

Oh. Wait. Pupcake wants everyone at her Washington comics store to know that ANNA MERCURY 2 #2 is out today. What with the delays as Avatar switched printers, I'd forgotten that myself. How lovely.

Night Music: Slow Motion

stupid last.fm won't let you embed their stupid last.fm player grumble mutter fuckit

To an old bloke like me, there's a certain fond familiarity to the new record by The Medusa Snare, that puts me back in my bedsit in 1988. But, my god, "Slow Motion" is the pure strain. I mean, you can conjure up the influences as easily as I can — Velvets, seen through the fuzzed-out Spector of post-PSYCHOCANDY Jesus And Mary Chain and the autumnal rock romance of The House Of Love, etc etc — but the great ...