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An excellent night last night. Today I am suffering a bit from having discovered an organic ale of my liking available on tap at the Reliance.

Katie West brings the joy.

This is Warren Ellis dot com, broadcasting until 3am UK time. Hello.

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I'm off to London in a bit to see Schulze and Webb and Jones and Etc. Will be all quiet here until midnight or so.

(pic via xplanes)

KING CITY

Preview of the new release of KING CITY by the brilliant, inspired and inspirational Brandon Graham.  Just click and go.

FRANKENSTEIN'S WOMB Hardcover

For reasons that frankly escape my understanding, Avatar are releasing a hardcover edition of FRANKENSTEIN'S WOMB this week. Apparently it's seventeen American dollars. It has no extra material I'm aware of. If you want one, you're probably nuts. One guy on Whitechapel says he's getting one so he can lend his paperback version out. He's probably nuts too.

Nice cover by book artist Marek Oleksicki, though.

God Trumps

So my daughter has insisted I buy a subscription to NEW HUMANIST magazine. I bought a copy while shopping at Housmans in London the other week. The July/August issue came with a free gift: half a pack of "God Trumps." And now she must have the other half of the pack, appearing with the next issue. And grudgingly admits that she really liked some of the articles too, and if I could buy a subscription and then just let her have the magazines when they arrive…

Anyway, I'm amused to note that NH has

Throwing Them To Lions Was Probably More Fun

Three news stories within a couple of days of each other, as captured by Religion News Blog, caught my eye.

Somalia Islamic Militants Behead Four Christian Orphanage Workers. India Hindu Militants Attack Christian Training Meeting. And Rash of Attacks on Christians Reported in Sri Lanka.

The latter headline doesn't mention the antagonist religion involved. Turns out the attacks in Sri Lanka have probably been orchestrated by… Buddhist monks.

I'm sure it's just a fluke… or, perhaps, just a topslice

Grinding

The techartculture group curation blog spun off from DOKTOR SLEEPLESS is still going, you know.  Go and look.

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On Pop Art, Jack Kirby and the formative days of Alan Moore:

That wheezing, groaning noise? It's the sound of a set of keys being dragged across the strings of a broken piano and processed by the mad science of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. This sound, the sound of the TARDIS, accompanies the manifestation of a weird throne whose surface cycles between metal and stone. It is occupied by a man who is mostly hair, armour rings and eyes that look like they can see into your soul and are fairly di

The Jura Malt Whisky Writer Retreat

God, what a lovely idea.

Scottish Book Trust and Isle of Jura Single Malt Whisky are working together to offer writers the opportunity to spend a month living and writing on the idyllic island of Jura. Each selected writer receives a month's exclusive use of the luxurious distillery lodge, a bursary and travel expenses.

Is there perhaps some kind of pipe that runs from the distillery into the lodge that dispenses the fine falling-down water that they make there? And if not, DON'T YOU THINK THE

This Can Only End Well, Obviously

Okay, so my friend the writer Matt Fraction has to drive from Kansas City MO to Portland Oregon. He's been making noises about having to "prepare" for the drive. I assumed he meant, you know, food, water, beads to trade with the locals on route, a gun with a single bullet in the chamber…

He meant something else. His preparation for this trip is actually, um…

…yeah.

Kelly Sue's currently shouting DO NOT GETT ARRESTED at him on twitter.