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Si Spurrier's SHORT AND CURLIES

Writer Si Spurrier is not a real man because he'd rather watch LABYRINTH than THE GODFATHER, but we like him nonetheless, and would like to announce that he is launching a new weekly column at bleedingcool called SHORT AND CURLIES.

This is the first edition, which he's calling #0 because he can't fucking count. The same kind of mental disability that leads to watching LABYRINTH and cooing over David Bowie's wig rather than watching THE GODFATHER like a real man.

Whenever my fiancée catches me glo

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The Greatest Story Ever Told

Thanks to Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, comics writer Mark Waid finally tells in public what is possibly The Greatest Story About Insane Comics Fans Ever Told. Scroll about halfway down the page here, you'll find it. It begins like this:

Several years ago, I had done an over-the-phone college radio interview with a couple of guys in Vermont. Chat went fine, I remembered to mention what a genius Alex Ross is the requisite nine times, and we probably moved some trade paperbacks in the process

Off To The Pub!

Via xplanes, this is a Gyrodyne Model GCA-55 :

And, obviously, I need one. See to it.

Ellen Rogers

The work of Ellen Rogers (which to me haunts a similar space to the Ghost Box record label, Moon Wiring Club, detourned library musics and spooky 70s childrens tv) continues to fascinate me:

A Little Light Reading

From Enemy Combatant:

Provided For Balance

And, for every item of good news about a book, there's something like this, from my friend, the nonpareil scholar of Weird Shit, Jess Nevins:

For entirely understandable reasons, MonkeyBrain has decided that they won't be able to publish my Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes.

So I'm looking for a new publisher. I expect the book will be picked up by someone, somewhere.

Bah.

BLDGBLOG Book

I got to flip through a copy of Geoff Manaugh's THE BLDGBLOG BOOK, print annex to the fine BLDGBLOG, the other month while at the Architecture Association.

I shall be at the launch party at the Architecture Association in London on July 7 to buy my copy from the AA shop downstairs. But you needn't wait. You need this book. Geoff Manaugh writes and thinks like some unholy hybrid of Umberto Eco, Paul Morley, William Gibson and an unhinged ayahuascero dressed only in pages from a furniture catalo

Entrepreneurial Religious Terror

Really interesting short article by John Robb this morning concretises the nature of Taliban structure in a way I'd heretofore been unable to pin down:

Most people consider the "Taliban" an ideologically and hierarchically cohesive movement ala 20th Century insurgency. It's not. Instead, it's fragmented, highly entrepreneurial, tribally cohesive at a local level, and open source in structure.

I know I've recommended reading Robb before, and he appears on the sidebar of People Much Cleverer Th

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