(Ignore the published byline, it’s me, the editor was in a mad rush due to his going on holiday and the internet not working properly all fucking day)

I walk around the corner to see a man tied up and locked into an ornate glass box bearing a golden plaque reading “Prisoner.” All of a sudden, pings start appearing on my minimap radar. People are jumping on to the island…and it’s starting to look a little like I’m surrounded. Yes, I think it’s time to go.

Via Jack Babalon: Prepare to lose your entire day to LP Cover Lover: The world’s greatest LP album covers (45s too.)

“Bookspan, acquired just six weeks ago by Bertelsmann, will cut 280 positions and close some of its book clubs, which include Book-of-the-Month, Doubleday and The Literary Guild. It looks as if the 54-year-old Science Fiction Book Club, which offers a selection of graphic novels and comic novelizations, will be among the casualties…”

Comments are open for this. I’m just starting my annual survey of the remaining sf magazines with web presences, and it seems that DNA Publications has died. When did that happen? Details, anyone?

Another score by Jess Nevins, who explains:

The poster to the tragically-unmade Hammer film Zeppelin v Pterodactyls.

…”The story was along the lines of THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT, with a German Zeppelin being blown off-course during a bombing raid on London and winding up at a “lost continent”-type place.”

(on Flickr)

Warren Ellis: uuurrgggghhh

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“TOMORROW: Something funny happened to me at Starbucks and I shall tell you about it.

“There were many deaths.”

Warren Ellis: is not begging for a pegging.

Warren Ellis: What in the name of god AM I doing?

Warren Ellis: checking account validity

If he ain’t getting none, nobody’s getting none:

(No ModBlog? No comment.)

(.NAGI NODA.)

(Just the cover for a new printing. Though, if you’d like to do yourself some mild brain damage today, consider an adaption of GRAVITY’S RAINBOW by Frank Miller…!)

(Via Book Covers)

Yes, we’re flattered that Houston is called the Rodney Dangerfield of U.S. cities

Originally uploaded by tetheredto.

Zoetica Ebb has a message for you:

• It’s amazing how many people still live in fear of Deerman.
  As we explained last week to Gus and the rest of our readers, the legend of Deerman began in the early 1960s in a column in this newspaper called “Mostly Malarkey,” written by editor and publisher Jerry Moriarity..
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• Strange alien world made of ‘hot ice’ – space – 16 May 2007 – New Scientist Space
  A bizarre world of scorching hot ice shrouded in a steamy atmosphere may have been found,
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This appears to have been produced by someone as a graphic design course assignment. It’s one of Spider Jerusalem’s rants from TRANSMETROPOLITAN:

Thank you, Milwaukee:

If Chuck Palahniuk was kidnapped, Raymond Chandler was resurrected, their DNA was spliced together, and the mad scientists responsible for those events wanted something to read on lonely nights in the lab, Crooked Little Vein would be the result…