“The Riff” – The Phantom Band

This looks excellent: an mp3 store that seems like it’ll fill the gap between Emusic and Bleep/Rough Trade for me.

(7Digital/recordstore.co.uk are way too spotty and unreliable for me.)

“It’s a museum in St. Petersburg. It’s a really strange place, was founded by Russian Tsar Peter the First. He collected different weird stuff all over the Russia to this museum: freaky people and animals preserved in alcohol, torture instruments, strange paintings and much more. Here are photos from that place.”

Warren Ellis: Smoking-in-pubs ban starts tomorrow. I am not going to the pub today. In DEFIANCE! And denial. Lots and lots of denial.

“Even if you’re just renting a house or apartment in your town, there’s no law or condition that gives a stranger the inalienable privilege to walk in and rub a dead badger over the walls, after all. Nor to burn a dead hobo on your lawn while yelling that your house is painted the wrong colour.”

The Feast

(on Flickr)

Via Heidi Mac:

HARLAN ELLISON
- Thursday, June 28 2007 20:31:57
RE: ELLISON v. FANTAGRAPHICS, INC., et al:

THE LITIGATION BETWEEN THE PARTIES HAS BEEN RESOLVED.
THE PARTIES ARE NOT AT LIBERTY TO DISCUSS THE TERMS OF THE RESOLUTION. AT THIS TIME.

Yr. Pal, Harlan

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Originally uploaded by Kristamas°.

Warren Ellis: doesn’t want an iPhone, and you cannot fucking make me.

Warren Ellis: oh god why am I awaaaake

By The Devil And Mouse:

Authorities evidently released details to newspapers as a public warning. Because, I guess, in Cambodia you need government warnings against filling your knob with hair products:

Cambodian officials on Tuesday warned the public against home penis enlargement plans after a coroner found a man who had repeatedly self-injected his member with hair tonic had taken his own life to end the painful side effects.

Coroner Vieng Vannarith concluded that a 35-year-old construction worker had hanged himself last week after the hair tonic remedy which advertised it gave thicker and more lustrous locks failed to have the same effect when injected into his penis.

“It is the business of the future to be dangerous.”

– Alfred North Whitehead

• 5 days in the mud – Glastonbury 2007 – a photoset on Flickr
  Dave Bushe’s Glasto photojournal
  (tags: photography)

“On the subject of things certain characters would never do, Bendis joked we would never see a comic in which Spider-Man ‘kills a man with his bare hands just to get an erection.’”

(hands free)

(There’s a story to this, yes)

Warren Ellis: tending to the vegetables. Not a euphemism.

I’m the new Sunday columnist at suicidegirls.com. Once a week, they will be paying me actual money to write The Sunday Hangover, wherein I will basically be emptying my brain on to the screen. Which, frankly, may be just as disgusting as it sounds.

I’ll run the full press release from SG later. I start July 1.

Hope Larson bought a bound sketchbook that she intended to turn into a “kiss book” — and then those other terrible comics artist people got hold of it.

“The first supercomputer capable of crunching through a thousand trillion mathematical operations every second has been announced by IBM. This is roughly equivalent to the combined processing power of a 2.4-kilometre-high pile of laptop computers.”