Warren Ellis's Blog, page 360

"Well… it’s not quite as good as having eyes in the back of your head, but…"

On my internet timewastyhole tonight:

* The Weekly Listening Thread (22jun09)

* REMAKE/REMODEL: The Ghost Exterminator - always fun to watch, these. I call out an old character from comics or pulps and have the artistic types reinterpret it for the 21st Century. Anyone can play. Don’t get depressed when Pia Guerra comes in and owns everyone.

* Patrick Farley resurfaces: Visualizing the Gay Marriage Debate - bloody hell, the man from E-Sheep is back.

* Thea Gilmore’s Business Model - interesting stu

Whitechapel, as I imagine most of you know, is my online community, created in support of the FREAKANGELS webcomic. Every couple of months, Ariana and I get around to looking at traffic on the site, and this time she generated this infographic. Sometimes a bit of transparency about numbers can be interesting, so:

That’s two months’ worth of traffic. I think (and I’ll correct this later if need be) the big number at the top is mostly people who’ve deeplinked in to access a particular page from a

Lex Machina Photography is having a print sale. Her prints will never be this cheap again. Details at the link.

Via xplanes:

Isn’t that a beautiful thing?

Although, really, it’s a close-run thing. Anna Petterson (MCM Expo Comics Village organiser) and I were out drinking in town last night, and this huge fucking tank of a thing pulled up over the road. If you imagine something like the movie-version DAMNATION ALLEY landcruiser below, with a flat front, regular (but huge) wheels, a bit longer, painted army-olive, minus the rocketlauncher but clearly possessing a topside port to mount it on, you’re on your w

Directed by Jasmin Jodry, music by Kode9 & The Spaceape:

Got woken up by a phone call from the school saying that Lili was ill and needed to be taken home. Her friends have told her to tell everyone she has the Swine Flu so that the school gets shut down. Broadcasting may be light until tonight.

Ariana found this and wants you to look at it.

Finally announced. Follow link for full article, details, Phil saying nice things about me because there was someone in my pay with a gun in the room:

…artist Phil Jimenez will jump aboard ASTONISHING X-MEN, joining current writer Warren Ellis for a five-issue story arc beginning this fall….

Broadcasting resumes tonight, as I will be venerated during the hours of light for The Day Of The Father (by which I mean I will mostly be insulted by my evil girlspawn) and then I have to go and get someone drunk tonight.