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Your July PLANETARY #27 Update

I've now seen the complete lettered book. I'm told it's scheduled for release in October.

I've mentioned that there's extra pages in this one, right? It's a longer-than-normal episode?

Knockturns

A new Kemper Norton EP, available for free download. Probably best classified as Night Music, so grab it down and play it later (unless you're on the other side of the world, of course, in which case, download the bugger).

Massively, spooktronically atmospheric. Very good.

Station Ident: This Is Warren Ellis Dot Com

And that's my longtime friend, translator/writer/model Cristina, whom I owe about three emails to, so I'm doing this instead. Good morning. I'm off to the pub.

San Diego Comic-Con 2009

Okay, the word got out a while ago, and I'm being drowned in emails tonight, so let's get this done. By the power of contractual obligation, I am appearing at the San Diego Comic-Con 2009 under the exclusive aegis of Sony, Madhouse and Marvel Anime. I am in San Diego for something less than 36 hours. This is my only appearance at San Diego. Here's the press release.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Marvel Entertainment Inc. and Madhouse Present an Exclusive Sneak Peek at the Re-imagining of Marvel's Leg

Shipping Broken

As a coda to the previous post, Jamais Cascio notes how the touchscreen generation interacts with a Kindle:

They try to "turn the page" by flicking a finger across the screen. But the Kindle doesn't have a touch screen….Which means that the second thing that people checking out my Kindle do is get a funny confused look — why doesn't it work?…

I did exactly the same thing the first time I handled one, funnily enough. I'm not iPhone-entrained, I'm Palm-entrained…

A Sony Walkman, By God

My poor ancient Archos Jukebox FM Receiver is old and suffering now, and is being retired from the field and given pride of place as desktop storage. Which put me in the market for a new mp3 player.

Amazingly, I find myself once again in possession of a Sony Walkman.

Of all the things to once again possess. I've just written something for The Wire music magazine about personal soundtracks, and the Sony Walkman is what started it. I don't think, holding my original tape-playing Walkman in my ha

BREW DOG: Zeitgeist (PLUS CHEAPNESS)

I recently took delivery of another crate of beer from the magnificent Brew Dog. This beer is called Zeitgeist, and it's a black lager. I think the womb creatures I live with are going to finish the crate before I get anymore: its handfuls of berries, malt and hops have been greeted with unanimous praise at Ellis Castle, and one of them proclaimed it their new favourite. I frankly love it, and have a bottle open right now.

BUT! yesterday I got an email from Brew Dog themselves, and in the interes

Station Ident: We All Gonna Die

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(Matt Jones)

Comics And Time: Dundee, 28 June 2009

This is the bones of the talk I gave at Dundee University last month. Didn't have time to write a full formal paper. I get massively extemporaneous when I do these things, moving in and out of the notes, so this isn't everything I said. But what the hell. I was writing on the assumption of a mostly academic audience, so I recapitulated some old thoughts and re-used the old Harvey Pekar line I'm so fond of trotting out. Also, this was all written in pencil, in my hideous chickenscratch, in a note

I Declare This "Rocket Porn Month"