Which she actually writes for, too. But they let her actually go on stage and frighten people, the other night. She’s a monstrous human being, but god help me she makes me laugh.

"Pargon" on Flickr: the "Teabonics" set:

These are signs seen primarily at Tea Party Protests. They all feature "creative" spelling or grammar. This new dialect of the English language shall be known as "Teabonics."

This is warren ellis dot com. Good morning.

(via)

"Bending Dream" by Eluvium, from the album SIMILES.

G’night, spooklettes.

The next 48-72 hours are deadline-intensive horrors. Wrapping up three major projects. I fully expect to be walking toasted vegetation by Friday.

Due to lots of people whining at me, I’ve set up an Official Warren Ellis Compound on that Facebook thing I hate. I’ve sterilised my personal page there, so this will be the page to find me on the Facebook thing I hate. It’s bare-bones right now, due to being in deadline lockdown, but soonishly Ariana and I will start piping stuff in there to make it mostly self-supporting.

(It also means that I don’t really have to use the Facebook, which I hate.)

Many things floating in head. I want to do more with print-on-demand. I also have a bunch of notebook pages on comics design that I’m ruminating on in my hahaha spare time. And I think I might have finally broken ground on a new novel to replace the lost-in-absurd-computer-death LISTENER.

Onward.

• Maps, Books, Spimes, Paper: Post-Digital Media Design at SXSW | booktwo.org
  "Lulu, and in fact any manufacturing process hooked up to the internet, has made the creation of physical things really rather simple. If you can think of it, you can probably get it made to your own designs in a way that used to be limited to specialised craftspeople ? what I call the Internet as Cornucopia Machine. Real things in the real world have a different (different, not +ve or -ve) value to digital assets, and have a different capacity to surprise and delight. And physical instantiations of the digital can be both archives and souvenirs (you can?t really have digital souvenirs ? a thought I?m going to unpack a bit more at a later date)…"
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  "What?s so special about a ?special? exhibition? For us, MoMA?s graphic designers, they?re special enough to require their own unique graphic identity, and oftentimes a unique identity is all in the letters. For two very different shows now on view at MoMA, Tim Burton and Marina Abramovi?: The Artist Is Present, we created two very different title typefaces…"
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John Twells put me on to this. Tristram Cary was an interesting man. Looking forward to putting it on tonight. (More electronic music, yes: imagine him as parallel to the Radiophonic Workshop, maybe (he did also produce incidental music for DOCTOR WHO) – and in fact created equipment the Workshop would later use.)

* I love the idea that Owen Hatherley’s writing a new book called A GUIDE TO THE NEW RUINS OF GREAT BRITAIN

* local people trying to build a realtime "social GPS" map of Southend — more internet-to-hyperlocal

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* http://www.iamamiwhoami.com/ continues to fascinate – there’s something here worth mining out

* The directorial brand. Who could do this/get away with this today?

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"Spiders," by Spiders, on Brain Math. Probably should have saved it for Night Music, but I’m unlikely to have much memory left by 3am…

The new issue of horror magazine NECROTIC TISSUE features my friend MontiLee Stormer, who says:

It’s got my tale, Flytrap – which somehow managed to wrangle Editor’s Pick. Probably because it has boobies that eat people.

Good morning. If the rain stops and this blinding allergy attack stops I will leave the house. In the meantime, this.

warrenellisdotcom, making no sense since 1998

The sainted Danielle Dax. To my mind, probably the best thing off the troubled, too-slick BLAST THE HUMAN FLOWER album.

G’night.

Drop your Tumblr ID in comments. Give everyone something to read.

TOTW is basically a joke that Ariana and I pull each week in our joint guise as the International Electrophonic Unit. Basically, we take some of the stupider things I’ve said on Twitter and elsewhere, often in a state of extreme alcoholic refreshment or severe sleep deprivation, and put them on a t-shirt. Ariana set up a Cafe Press store (because this is a joke and engaging with a serious maker of t-shirts would be less funny to us), and… well, once a week, here we are.

Through this website and this Cafe Press store, we’re going to release one t-shirt a week. It’ll go live on Monday… and it’ll die Sunday night — midnight UK time, more often than not. Each one lives for a week, and then it’s replaced by the next week’s shirt. Until I either run out of dumb ideas or Ariana’s brain explodes.

So, every Monday, I’ll post the new shirt here, and you can peer at it more at http://www.cafepress.com/electrophonic.

Anyway. I present to you T-Shirt Of The Week #016: COCKTAIL RECIPE:

We also offer several perennial items, including the new BRAIN BLEACH mug:

(And also a MAN COOK MEAT WITH FIRE "splatter-shield", because Ariana’s crazy)

Thank you for your kind attention.

Diana McCarthy. Full images here.

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Just noticed this. I did a special limited edition of CROOKED LITTLE VEIN with Subterranean Press, sporting a frankly brilliant photo cover by Clayton Cubitt. The edition did sell out, I was told. And then, this:

Tim’s been into the bowels of SubPress storage again, and come out with a goodly number of copies of the Signed Lettered Edition of Warren Ellis’s novel, Crooked Little Vein.

There’s one hitch, however, which is why the books have been packed away for a good long while. When they were getting ready to send books out to customers, our shippers accidentally numbered the lettered copies. These lettered copies (at $100, a good $300 off the original price of $400) have the incorrect number on the signature page crossed out, and the proper letter written in. They’re perfect in all other ways, so are a bargain for Ellis fans wanting the most limited state the novel.

Here’s the link.

this is warrenellis dotcom and i just woke up and no i have no idea what this is

Christian Fennesz. See you on the other side.