Coming Later This Year…
April 22nd, 2009 | Work
I had a slight sort of terrible brain seizure one day, and when I came out of it I found I had written this:
I apologise in advance.
April 22nd, 2009 | Work
I had a slight sort of terrible brain seizure one day, and when I came out of it I found I had written this:
I apologise in advance.
WARREN ELLIS is the award-winning creator of graphic novels such as FELL
, MINISTRY OF SPACE
, PLANETARY
, and TRANSMETROPOLITAN
, and the author of “underground classic” CROOKED LITTLE VEIN
.
Coilhouse - 20 Nov 09
This one goes out to Nadya, Zo, and especially Courtney Riot, our beloved creative director. Hang in there, babies.
Post tags: Coilhouse, Serious Business
Coilhouse - 20 Nov 09
Well hello there!

Do you lack healthy boundaries? Are you guilty of the compulsive overshare? All-too-eager to share gory, palpating details with complete strangers that no one besides your own mother and/or proctologist would ever want to know?
Non-consensual rape anecdote telling. Tactical uterus hurling in lieu of real intimate contact. The “I wasn’t breast fed enough so now I need to publicly air my personal anguish to feel properly nurtured and validated” power point presentation. “Cry For Help” cutting (across the street, not down the road). Cloaking references to life-shattering trauma in Obfuscating Yet Ominous Faerie Singsong? (patented by Tori Amos). “Fuck You Daddy, I’m a Suicide Girl Now!” blog posts. Spontaneous primal scream therapy in the supermarket. If you have ever attempted one or more of these maneuvers, chance are, you’re a TMI Avenger.
Relax. You’re among friends. And you’re gonna loooove Body Memories. A squirm-inducing, low budget indie film directed by the same fella who brought us one of the most fabulous independent documentaries of the decade, Body Memories is…
…one man’s journey inward to find meaning in his life. He becomes an archeologist of the soul, digging through the layers of his past. Evocative images blend with a riveting performance that uncovers family secrets and buried traumas.
Enjoy.
(More clips under the cut.)
Read the rest of “I’m bad… I’m a man… I HATE my penis.”
Post tags: Crackpot Visionary, Culture, Film, Gender, Sexuality, Silly-looking types, Surreal, Testing your faith
Coilhouse - 20 Nov 09
Every time an issue of the magazine goes to print, things somehow turn Highly Inappropriate here at Coilhouse. This is apparent to anyone who was there on Twitter during the hours of our final revision deadline last night. And it’s only going to get worse before Issue 04’s out. So to celebrate, a video of Miss Piggy singing “Fuck the Pain Away” by Peaches. It’s that kind of day.
[via Shannon]
Brian Wood - 20 Nov 09

Will Blanche, ?The Newly Constructed Towers of the World Trade Center Seen From the South Side on West Street, May, 1973? (via These Americans)
See also: Mitch Epstein, ?West Side Highway, New York City? [looking towards World Trade Center] 1977
Kung Fu Monkey - 20 Nov 09
John Robb - 20 Nov 09
Short Answer: divide it.
It's long been my contention that Iraq was stabilized at an acceptable level of controlled chaos due to a happy accident by al Qaeda (in an attempt to expand/lead the loose insurgency in a new direction). What did they do? They blew up the Golden Mosque in Samara in 2006. This act of symbolic terrorism did indeed disrupt social networks as anticipated, however the consequences were ultimately disastrous for the Iraqi open source insurgency.
The reason for this is it broke the dynamics of the open source insurgency in ways the US and Iraqi government's COIN efforts could not. First, it created a permanent split between Sunni and Shiite insurgent groups/militias. Coopetition ended. Second, it motivated large Shiite militias to start an ethnic cleansing of Sunni areas. This put acute pressure on Sunni guerrilla groups who were too small (by design to avoid US counter-pressure) to defend themselves against large militias operating in the open. The result was an opening, very close to the one I described in my 2005 NYTimes OpEd, that allowed the US to convert Sunni guerrilla groups into militias that were not loyal to the central government (in direct contradiction to its COIN manual).
It's a nice example of the dynamics of many to many conflict, social network disruption, and the development open source counterinsurgency.
See this excellent description at the blog, "Musings on Iraq" for more detail on the ethnic cleansing operations. It also includes this money quote: "the majority of the Sunni insurgency gave up and switched sides to align with the Americans rather than face annihilation at the hands of the Shiite militias, Al Qaeda in Iraq, or the United States."
NOTE: it's pretty clear from the above that social network disruption (either through attacks on symbolic targets or blood and guts terrorism) is like playing horseshoes with live hand grenades. It's ultimately a losing strategy for advancing an open source insurgency. Social network disruption is very likely to break standing order 6: don't fork the insurgency.
Girl Farts - 20 Nov 09
John Robb - 20 Nov 09
Some random items of interest:
Jean Snow - 20 Nov 09

Beautiful (and simple) site design featuring the illustrative work of Yorifuji Bunpei. Via Paul Baron.
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Is that the name of your biography by any chance?
oh god.
Why apologize? I finally have a visual that sums off my irrational belief that my story will one day rise up like a living thing, pop the knots of ill-logic from itself with a feline flex, and bound out into the world to slit the throats of all other thought-forms with talons of epistemological perfection. I am pleased.
Adam, don’t you mean oh supergod?
This sounds brilliant from the title alone. Looking forward to the reserve-coupon-thingy (you are gonna do one, right?).
oh gosh. i want.
So there IS a second webcomic coming…
I’d better work fast.
I just heard that you have a second webcomic forthcoming…?
SUPERGOD…
……
Will Supergod battle God-Jesus?
http://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/17/god-jesus-toy-robot/
If the title refers to a particular character and he/she/it speaks with a Texas drawl, I am going to start laughing uncontrollably.
Is this any type of reference to the Jim Croce song “Lover’s Cross”?
Is it a buddha
is it jahveh
No It’s SUPERGOD
Sorry
Alex, Col.Purple -
Not a second webcomic coming…
A SECOND COMING of WEBCOMICS…
S U P E R G O D
However, the Earth has been blown off its axis, and in a
most dramatic and dangerous and expensive sequence, it spins off into
space. There are appallingly expensive scenes of devastation and horror
and the find incredibly expensive climax is reached as thousands of ape
monsters in very expensive costumes descend from the sky onto these,
plug up a whole city which has to be specially built and fling them all
into the sea very expensively…
This makes me unreasonably happy.
Supergod: the God that Can’t Be Stopped.
This made a great impression on my daughter. As far as she understood from the religion classes, God is this very powerful creature who watches everyone and smacks down those he doesn’t like - a concept that appeals to her to the point of asking me if she can be one when she grows up.
When I showed her a Supergod is coming she started drooling.
The mind boggles at the delightfully frightening possible ways that something entitled “Supergod” could go…
Brilliant! You can have my money!
this makes me think of Morrison’s Viderama for some reason. Or more obviously Kirkman’s Battlepope.
Very excited.