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Oh, Terrific. They Know I'm Going To San Diego

Giant Carnivorous Squid off the San Diego coast.

You wait. They'll grow fucking legs.

PLANETARY #27: The Cover

By my friend John Cassaday, taking us out in magnificent style.  Click.

Conan! What Is Best In Life?

"A relaxing cigarette."

(Actually, this is quite interesting.)

Jesus Was A Transvestite

This is kind of sad. Ten years ago, David Shayler blew the whistle on sinister goings-on in the British intelligence services. (Wonderfully, when he fled the country, the French refused to extradite him back to Britain.) Sadly, he appears to have gone completely mad.

His former girlfriend, Annie Machon, who also worked for MI5, believes his long
fight with the intelligence services has led him to suffer a breakdown.

It's an interesting read. Terrible black humour in the fact that he's now so

FREAKANGELS 0062

It's Friday, it's free, it's here: FREAKANGELS 0062.

Station Ident: Oh Shit, It's

Warren Ellis Dot Com. Good morning, sinners.

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COILHOUSE #3: Here It Is

And the ladies of COILHOUSE provide a full tour of the contents, even.

I'm delighted to see the marvellous Jess Nevins in there:

And Xeni:

And there's an interview with Ron Moore that I'm interested in, and what looks like an excellent photo essay about Kowloon, and, hell, go and look, just a shitload of stuff, buy a copy and leave me alone…

THE WIRE, #306

I wrote the back-page "Epiphanies" essay for this issue of the fine music magazine, out this week:

Graphic novelist Warren Ellis on musical communion with a sense of place with Sigur Rós and Julian Cope

It's really kind of nice to be asked to write something for a magazine you've been reading for years. Especially when it's a music magazine and you're no kind of music journalist.

Trixie Bedlam In The Loop

1. fireworks, 2. keep your eyes on the road, 3. do something for me., 4. I don't say it enough

Weird Fishes

Jamaica Dyer's wonderful new graphic novel is almost here. Pre-order it at this link direct from the publisher. Read a bunch of her work here. I wrote a quote for it:

The only explanation for Jamaica Dyer is that she was built by aliens and dropped here to show us all how crap we are compared to her.