This is odd. Buried in Dean Haspiel’s account of how he received his greatly-deserved Emmy is this aside:

…I met and spoke to Stana Katic, star of TV show, CASTLE, and told her how much I loved her in Frank Miller’s SPIRIT movie [she was my favorite part of the movie]… …Stana told me she was in the midst of creating a new comic book and was in talks to act in a movie version of Warren Ellis’ THE AUTHORITY.

I don’t own THE AUTHORITY, and DC are certainly not compelled to tell me about anything regarding the book.

What an odd thing.

Of course, as Fraction commented the other day, overheard at every comics convention/BarCon from now on will be "I’m sorry, I meant to say ’Emmy-Award winner Dean Haspiel, please put your clothes back on.’”  Congrats, Dino.

There is an untapped audience for SF magazines: excellent guest post by Will Ellwood on Damien Walter’s site, very lively comments section with a fine entry by Jeff VanderMeer, some less constructive notes by me.

The Ghostlight Project. The guy running this site, Jim Batt, tells me the Project was inspired by my ROTOR post from a ways back.

The Ghostlight Project is a group of five artists working together to uncover fragments of old silent films that never existed. Every week begins with a film fragment, each artist then bringing a new aspect of the story to light on the days that follow, taking inspiration from the previous elements in a work of ongoing improvised collaboration. Until the week ends, and a new film is discovered.

Ghostlight Project – Film Fragment #11 from Jim Batt on Vimeo.

My name’s Warren Ellis. I write comics, graphic novels, journalism and anything else that people pay money for. I live in south-east England.

I’m the writer of the graphic novel RED, the film version of which (starring Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman & Helen Mirren) is out in October. I’m the writer of the GRAVEL graphic novels, under development for film by Legendary Pictures. I also wrote the novel CROOKED LITTLE VEIN. I extrude a monthly column for WIRED UK magazine.

I write here almost every day. A collection of the writing I’ve done here and elsewhere on the internet, SHIVERING SANDS, was published last year.

Quick links: Whitechapel (message board) – Twitter – MySpace account – an Official Warren Ellis Page on that Facebook thing – a store of Things at CafePress.

(I do have a personal page on that Facebook thing, but I only add people I know, really)

For people wanting to send me to their sites, wanting to email stuff or tell me about new music or send me tips or whatever, I’ve set up a Gmail account that I check once every day or so: warrenellis@gmail.com. This isn’t, I stress, my main email account, and it’s not for asking me when some comic’s coming out (there’s a FAQ for that). Always interested in new music, new art, new connections, dirty pictures, madness etc.

If you need to contact me about writing for print or web, please contact my agent Lydia Wills using the link in the righthand menu bar.

If you need to contact me about anything involving film, tv, games or other things that move, please contact my agent Angela Cheng Caplan using the link in the righthand menu bar.

If you (for god knows what reason) wanted to send me something physical… um, well, you can’t, right now. My book agent has gotten flooded with stuff of late, and I feel terrible about drowning them in things like that. So I’m going to sort myself out a PO Box here in the UK soonish. (Bit busy right now.)

I admit, I didn’t see maggoty-zombie-cock dildoes coming. But then, I really wasn’t thinking about it that hard. These people were.

Author TA Pratt did a donor-funded online serialisation of a novel, the fifth instalment of a sequence whose first four books were published by Bantam Spectra. The postmortem numbers are very interesting.

Image by Jeremy Petravicz, who explains:

This is a picture of a brain slice from one of the genetically modified mice I work with. They are a cell type called astrocytes, which are actually about 80% of your brain. The astrocytes in this mouse are expressing a protein that fluoresces green at certain wavelengths of light, called GFP. It originally comes from jelly fish, but since we’re scientist we like to stick the damn protein into everything.

The Y shaped thing near the middle is actually a blood vessel, which astrocytes extensively contact in the brain.

And, through the magic of Bandcamp, here is the recording described in the previous post, for your streaming audio pleasure.

All quiet here today, as I’m in the middle of many things. Twitter’s off too. Back Monday.

I’m finding this absolutely fascinating tonight. Head of Wantastiquet, recorded live at Ecstatic Yod in September 2009.

Herr Direktor Funranium is offering 10% off the cost of his scientific super-coffee, The Black Blood Of The Earth, for a limited period.  Because Herr Direktor Funranium is mad.

Maybe you’ll think twice about going to public animal-torture events in future.

Video found for me by Ryan Keely, thanks.

EDITED TO ADD: While it apparently may not have been a “traditional” bullfight (the bull is only tormented by fuckwits in this particular event, people say), “the animal was removed using a crane and later killed.”

November 30, says Amazon.com.

Via Bruce Sterling:

"The Earth together with the Moon, as seen from the Messenger spacecraft to Mercury, May 2010."