Tribe.net. Local Connections nibbles http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/51010f86-7957-4493-a901-802b5fdfa2ff 2008-05-31T18:43:02Z 2005-01-07T15:54:05Z

<div>The TV news lead with footage shot on the White House lawn before dawn. <br/>The Vice President was caught prowling the grounds like some ancient bald werewolf, naked from the waist down, bits of rusted clockwork falling out of his ass like rabbit droppings. He'd ripped open the front of his shirt and unsealed a blood-encrusted hatch in his chest. The Vice President was holding his own heart in his left hand, a grey and withered thing, and was repeatedly punching it with his right hand. After eight or nine blows, it started twitching. Satisfied, he re-installed the near-terminal meat in his chest. It was only then that he noticed the camera. The Vice President snarled, "Of COURSE I'm still fit to lead the country!" <br/> <br/>The news kindly glossed over the apparent error in his comment. <br/> <br/> <br/>[Warren Ellis, meta: fastfiction]</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 1 reply </div>

nibbles 2005-01-07T15:54:05Z Dr-JAE http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/6564a1dd-4a46-423f-9485-3e6758eb8eb3 2008-01-17T07:54:57Z 2008-01-06T20:06:33Z

<div>Hello all. It doesn't look like there's been much action in this tribe for a couple of years or so. <br/> <br/>If, by chance anyone still reads this, does anyone know if the Ellis/Templesmith collaboration "Fell" is indefinitely suspended or whether we'll see new issues?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 1 reply </div>

Dr-JAE 2008-01-06T20:06:33Z chiv http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/40b5ac4c-4c05-40e5-be37-bec37734e440 2005-07-15T22:44:28Z 2005-06-03T14:38:46Z

<div>ok..all you bastards on the bad signal read about the GF pilot floating around the intarweb. whos got it..fess up..i wanna see hands. really, i've had winmx on a 30 min refresh for about a month and no sight of it, so if anyone has it please share :D </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 8 replies </div>

chiv 2005-06-03T14:38:46Z http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/bf00ba1f-35ef-4479-825a-e097eafe3f06 2005-06-14T17:06:39Z 2005-04-11T21:50:02Z

<div>http://www.warrenellis.com/index.php?p=580 <br/>I reopened my tribe.net membership a few months back, so’s I could follow a few music tribes on there. I never remember to check it, and weeks go by between visits. <br/> <br/>It is absolutely fucking dead over there. I mean, everyone saw it just devolve last year into a Craigslist for the polyfucker/playa-crustie Bay Area community, but it feels like there’s tumbleweed blowing through there now. (I think it’s also a huge shame that each new iteration of tribe.net seems to have subtracted more of its original simplicity and elegance.) <br/> <br/>Is anyone still over there and doing anything? Is there anything worth reading on there now? <br/> <br/>– W </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 13 replies </div>

2005-04-11T21:50:02Z MichaelKwiatkowski http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/1bf60583-3fd5-41f9-a83b-8ae252b1f3f7 2005-02-21T23:53:01Z 2005-02-21T23:53:01Z

<div>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=/latimests/20050221/ts_latimes/gonzojournalistthompsonkillsself <br/> <br/>'Gonzo' Journalist Thompson Kills Self <br/> <br/>Mon Feb 21, 7:55 AM ET <br/> <br/>DENVER — Hunter S. Thompson, the counterculture literary figure who rode with the Hells Angels, famously chronicled the Nixon-McGovern presidential race and coined the term "gonzo journalism," committed suicide Sunday night at his secluded home outside Aspen, Colo., his son said. Thompson was 67. <br/> <br/> <br/>"Hunter Thompson took his life with a gunshot to the head at his fortified compound in Woody Creek," Juan Thompson said in a statement. "Hunter prized his privacy and we ask his friends and admirers to respect that privacy as well as that of his family." <br/> <br/> <br/>Pitkin County sheriff's officials confirmed Sunday that Thompson died of a gunshot wound, saying they received a call from his home about 6 p.m. <br/> <br/> <br/>Friends and neighbors said late Sunday that they were shocked by Thompson's suicide, but knew he had his demons. <br/> <br/> <br/>"We don't know anything about the circumstances surrounding his death, but he was a volatile person," said Troy Hooper, associate editor of the Aspen Daily News and a longtime friend of the writer. "I was at his house last week and there was nothing in his behavior that was different. He was no more distraught than usual; he was often either up or down." <br/> <br/> <br/>Hooper said Thompson had been in pain from back surgery and an artificial hip. And he had broken his leg on a recent trip to Hawaii. <br/> <br/> <br/>"He said he was executing a hairpin turn at the minibar when he broke it," said Hooper, who said he was acting as the family's spokesman. "Hunter was one of the literary giants of the 20th century. We are all just shocked." <br/> <br/> <br/>Thompson, whose works included "Hell's Angels," "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72," which chronicled the race between Richard Nixon and George McGovern, was a well-known firearms aficionado who took frequent target practice in his backyard. In 2000, he slightly wounded an assistant while trying to shoot a bear on his property. <br/> <br/> <br/>Woody Creek, a small town about eight miles northwest of Aspen, is home to a number of celebrities including the TV actor Don Johnson and John Oates of the singing duo Hall and Oates. Thompson spent much of his time socializing at the Woody Creek Tavern. <br/> <br/> <br/>"We're letting it rest for tonight," said a woman who answered the phone Sunday at the tavern, where Thompson ate lunch most days. <br/> <br/> <br/>Buddy Ortega, 62, a real estate broker and ski instructor, met Thompson in the 1960s at a party. The pair socialized over the years, and Ortega supported Thompson's quixotic run for sheriff — though he figured it was a longshot when he saw campaign posters with pictures of hallucinogenic peyote buds. <br/> <br/> <br/>In recent years, Ortega said, the hard-living journalist had become more reclusive, hanging out at the home he called his "compound" and taking advantage of open space to fire his automatic weapons. <br/> <br/> <br/>But Ortega hadn't seen anything out of the ordinary recently. He said he last saw Thompson two days ago at Woody Creek's post office, and everything seemed fine. <br/> <br/> <br/>"We all have demons," Ortega said. "Who knows, man? You sit down, have a few cocktails or maybe nothing — maybe you have a cup of green tea — and maybe nothing seems right. He was a little more complex than most of us, so maybe some of those demons surfaced and he didn't like what he saw." <br/> <br/> <br/>Hunter Stockton Thompson was born July 18, 1937, in Louisville, Ky. His father, Jack, was an insurance agent. <br/> <br/> <br/>In 1963, he married Sandra Dawn, the mother of his son Juan. <br/> <br/> <br/>He served two years in the Air Force in Florida, where he was a newspaper sports editor. He was the Caribbean correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune in 1959, and worked as a South American correspondent for the New York-based National Observer from 1961 to 1963. <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/>But he earned his outsized reputation for his work in Rolling Stone magazine. <br/> <br/>Thompson was the flip side of American novelist Tom Wolfe. Both established themselves as brand names in the literary journalism movement that sought to capture the strife and youthful boldness of the 1960s. Thompson was the wild man who embraced the chaos, while Wolfe was often portrayed as the buttoned-down neutral observer. <br/> <br/>Thompson called what he did "gonzo journalism," differentiating it from mainstream reporting by aggressively injecting himself into the story and giving up any pretense of objectivity. <br/> <br/>Thompson's style of journalism — well-armed, well-drugged and wildly iconoclastic — made him a counterculture figure of rare longevity. <br/> <br/>"I hate to advocate weird chemicals, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone … but they've always worked for me," Thompson said. <br/> <br/>His irascible and volatile persona seemed to outsize the books and essays he wrote. Twice his life was brought to the screen — once by Bill Murray in 1980's "Where the Buffalo Roam," and again in the 1998 Terry Gilliam film "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," in which Johnny Depp took his turn as Thompson. Both actors remained friends with Thompson. <br/> <br/>Thompson also triumphed on the comics page — ensuring that the most maverick journalist of his generation could get a spot in the mainstream newspapers that would never dare print his profanity-laced essays. The character of "Uncle" Duke in the "Doonesbury" strip has for decades been a thinly disguised and always mercenary caricature of Thompson. <br/> <br/>William McKeen, a University of Florida professor who wrote the 1991 critical biography "Hunter S. Thompson," kept in touch with the journalist. <br/> <br/>"He had clearly been amid a great renaissance in recent years where the public had rediscovered his value and their interest in him," McKeen said Sunday night. "The news is stunning."</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

MichaelKwiatkowski 2005-02-21T23:53:01Z http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/4b47ada0-22f5-4a4b-ab35-da846c999c16 2005-02-13T08:45:30Z 2005-02-10T14:32:49Z

<div> <br/>Chaos magic is how our government controls us and through other means of course, but there is a lot going on right now. <br/> <br/>You should look into what's gone down, so too know what's going down now. <br/>Add it up to subtract it down. <br/>Becoming a zombie is not a thing just for the movie ’s or for crack heads. <br/>It ’s something much worse. <br/>And it is wicked and it is coming our way. <br/> <br/>Read Morals and Dogma, the last chapter is quite interesting to how our future is being directed. <br/>What is this book? <br/>It ’s what our president is reading or has already read …I think we ’ll continue to have one up on him on that one, but a lot of the other people you see sitting behind him and a lot of the one you don ’t see behind him are very much old 33 ’s and they know the book and live it ’s life, congress passed a doomsday bill 2 days ago did you know that? <br/> <br/>When you become a thirty third mason this book is given to you to read, it claims to have all the truths of the world, I ’ve read it and can say it make a lot of sense, it make a lot of the question about history disappear, I feel much more clear headed, this is a book for a private club of rich people who run the world. <br/>This is something you should be aware of. <br/>It truly is, a sad and beautiful world. <br/>But if it ends like the book says then well it was great knowing you … <br/> <br/>Want to do something? <br/> <br/>Read Talk Learn <br/> <br/>Shit that ’s as easy as 3 2 1 <br/> <br/>http://lovechao.tribe.net <br/> <br/>Love and Conquer, <br/>James <br/> <br/>ps. sorry if you liked history the way it was lied to you. <br/>pss. ordo ab chao+ HAARP = DECEMBER 26th <br/> <br/>Look into the date December 26th find out what’s gone on that day <br/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_26th <br/> <br/> <br/>sorry about cross posting this a disscussion that pertains to you. <br/>i am not joking. <br/>this is about not hating each other, we need to help each other out of this chaos they have set up for us. <br/>we know we can change the future. </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 1 reply </div>

2005-02-10T14:32:49Z touguy http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/41319679-d209-4ac5-8750-9743ed0fda7e 2005-01-15T14:44:29Z 2004-12-08T18:10:08Z

<div>Hey there, "Warren Ellis Tribal Net " members-- <br/> <br/>This Tribe doesn't have a moderator, but as a matter of policy, Tribe.net likes all groups to have a leader. <br/>Could you collectively choose someone to moderate your Tribe? <br/> <br/>When you've reached consensus, have the new moderator send a note to help@tribe.net, letting us know that you've selected a new leader. <br/> <br/>Thanks, <br/>-- TOU (Terms of Use) Guy</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 16 replies </div>

touguy 2004-12-08T18:10:08Z nibbles http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/364c6252-ca41-4d4e-9faf-23041bc6762e 2005-01-07T17:01:53Z 2005-01-07T17:01:53Z

<div>My girlfriend read on the internet that apomorphine works as a female Viagra, and overnight she transformed from a sweet young girl who let me put my penis inside her into a crazed vaginalist who could make any man's scrotum turn inside-out with a flick of her cervix. <br/> <br/>I wanted her back, so I went on the internet, and the internet said that taking drugs was cool. It didn't say which drugs. So I took all our drugs. Even the yellowy bottle in the back of the medicine cabinet with the pills that had little mushrooms growing on them. Then I went out at night and bought some drugs from a man who had three teeth. I told him I was buying his drugs to get my girlfriend back and he laughed a lot which is how I could count his teeth. He laughed and laughed until he shat himself. I know he shat himself because he was naked from the waist down. I asked him why he was naked from the waist down and he said the night air was good for his leg pipes. I asked him if he'd read that on the internet and he said he hadn't so I hit him in the face until he died. Which made me a bit upset so I went home and took all the drugs. <br/> <br/>I didn't feel very cool so I went on the internet and it said body modification is cool and had pictures and descriptions and everything so I sort of cut my penis in half a bit. With one of those box cutter things. It didn't seem very useful. The two halves kind of flopped to one side, like strips of banana peel. I tried putting some batteries into the sections to make it hard, but it stung and was also quite cold. But I thought it was cool that I needed two hands to masturbate. One for each half, sure. But still. <br/> <br/>My girlfriend did not think it was very cool. <br/> <br/>The internet said my girlfriend had had sex with Lemmy from Motorhead until he cried. <br/> <br/>I hated the internet and told it that if it had a face I would hit it in the face until it died. <br/> <br/>The internet called me a dogfucker and said that girls like babies in their bellies. <br/> <br/>Babies really really don't fit up girls. I tried. Quite a lot. <br/> <br/>I thought it was very lucky that the hospital had so many babies in that room, because trial and error was using them up quite fast. <br/> <br/>When I got out of prison, I found out that the guy in the next apartment had done something to our computer that meant he controlled everything we read on the internet. He was living with my girlfriend now. <br/> <br/>I am a man with two bits of a penis and drug-induced brain lesions and a murder conviction and a weak wrist from trying to push babies back up nurses. <br/> <br/>I blame the internet. <br/> <br/> <br/>[Warren Ellis, meta: fastfiction]</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

nibbles 2005-01-07T17:01:53Z fchornik http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/7f7438e0-7fb4-47da-9776-dd0c46768a3a 2004-11-29T17:05:50Z 2004-11-04T04:13:23Z

<div>He wrote a four panel piece that was about a robot woman a while back. I'm trying to find it. If it's in DPH it's further back than I imagine. Haven't started on Mr Sleepless yet. <br/>Any help would be appreciated, thanks! <br/> <br/>Clay</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 3 replies </div>

fchornik 2004-11-04T04:13:23Z chiv http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/3defffaf-dcf1-4785-bc64-c361b0629102 2004-11-05T23:38:21Z 2004-11-04T20:44:06Z

<div>frequencysite.com seems to think the WB may have passed on GF.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 7 replies </div>

chiv 2004-11-04T20:44:06Z MichaelKwiatkowski http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/5aa95507-0d71-4e98-8b6b-f470ebcae35a 2004-10-24T23:45:45Z 2004-10-24T22:35:19Z

<div>Haven't had a chance to check lately, with my job taking up so much of my time. What is Warren working on currently?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 2 replies </div>

MichaelKwiatkowski 2004-10-24T22:35:19Z MichaelKwiatkowski http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/4eec5969-eec6-4424-b4cc-3a8cfc4b6cbd 2004-10-24T22:34:09Z 2004-08-13T12:48:05Z

<div>I have recently begun an indie news site for the Cleveland, OH area, and I was wondering if I could get some critiques/advice for it please. <br/> <br/>http://www.geocities.com/clevelandfreepress <br/> <br/>I know, geocities site, sucks ass, but my financial situation right now doesn't allow for anything along the lines of a paid domain name (although that will--with any luck--soon change). I plan on getting advertising revenue so I can upgrade to a domain name, probably via banner sites (as one person has already suggested, though I'm not 100% sure what he meant; what exactly is a 'banner site' anyway?). <br/> <br/>So, what do you think? Does it have potential, or should I focus more effort on my day job?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 3 replies </div>

MichaelKwiatkowski 2004-08-13T12:48:05Z Unsubscribed http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/1b60505c-2bed-4552-927a-614eddb4be95 2004-10-08T07:12:58Z 2003-12-28T18:34:30Z

<div>A test image created by Sony Interactive for an abortive TRANSMETROPOLITAN online project: Patrick Stewart as Spider Jerusalem. <br/> <br/>http://www.diepunyhumans.com/stuff/patrick_against_bg02.jpg</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 50 replies </div>

Unsubscribed 2003-12-28T18:34:30Z Travis http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/db5df04f-4e7b-493f-b189-1cb4e10fc7da 2004-09-21T19:40:58Z 2004-09-21T19:40:58Z

<div>OPi8.com, if you haven't heard of it, is a promotion site for artists offering exclusive web comics, stories, artist interviews, reviews, editorial columns, and soon to be music and sound sculptures. If it's dark, depraved, disturbing, viceral, violent, or raunchy it's place is on this site. <br/> <br/>Early in 2003 OPi8.com experienced a serious dry spell that is only recently being lifted. The site is in the midst of an overhaul, but new comics, art, and/or articles are put up every week. <br/> <br/>Jump over there, take a look. There's bound to be something there you like. You might want to see your own work up there. Hell, you might already have something on there. <br/> <br/>I'm just the fucking messenger, shoot me. <br/>http://opi8.com/</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

Travis 2004-09-21T19:40:58Z chronovore http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/bbf523a1-6168-45cd-806a-14ce7c091dac 2004-09-19T15:32:25Z 2004-09-19T15:32:25Z

<div>Probably my favorit-est moment in webdom from past couple weeks: <br/> <br/>http://www.diepunyhumans.com/archives/000736.html <br/>"Watching Batmen practising their grimaces on the corner outside the hotel? <br/>Watching Stormtroopers spank scrawny girls in bad lingerie? Trying not to <br/>smack an in-character faux-Jack Sparrow in the face just on principle? <br/>Well, that's just a convention." <br/> <br/>Followed up with: <br/>http://www.livejournal.com/users/mistersleepless/31614.html?thread=2478206 <br/> <br/>The hideous cackling that ensued worried passers-by.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

chronovore 2004-09-19T15:32:25Z Unsubscribed http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/ac6a294d-8c0b-4d49-8477-b2fdc8e9f17e 2004-08-28T17:06:01Z 2004-08-28T17:06:01Z

<div>Schedule posted on http://www.warrenellis.com <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

Unsubscribed 2004-08-28T17:06:01Z Unsubscribed http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/2166e588-2aad-4bed-b066-0b4fdd4037ad 2004-08-23T22:36:31Z 2004-08-23T22:36:31Z

<div>On http://www.diepunyhumans.com , beginning August 11 and up to August 21 approx.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

Unsubscribed 2004-08-23T22:36:31Z burner_rodent http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/0e3f32e9-3803-41b0-a4ac-5135cab6121b 2004-08-11T19:56:50Z 2004-07-20T22:34:36Z

<div>Somewhere someone posted a link to a Moon Hoax Evidence parody and I can't fucking find it. <br/> <br/>Since it's the Apollo 11, 35th anniversity... <br/> <br/>--- <br/>rodent (putting the eek in geek)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 1 reply </div>

burner_rodent 2004-07-20T22:34:36Z http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/309f12c3-519d-4a20-b5d1-7c048715a410 2004-08-04T21:06:32Z 2004-07-26T22:25:01Z

<div>So is the rumor true that Mr.Ellis is doing Iron Man.I sure hope so,becasue I have always loved that charater when I was younger,but they haven't a good story line since T.Stark was a drunk in the 80's...</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 2 replies </div>

2004-07-26T22:25:01Z kostika http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/d1e88194-074c-4e7a-91ab-0268e9854147 2004-08-04T01:05:28Z 2004-07-26T21:54:51Z

<div>He let me do it. Haven't a clue why. Maybe it's my charisma or my incessant bugging him. Or maybe I jsut entertain him. Either way he let me do it. <br/> <br/>http://store.99dogs.com/stuffandthings</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 3 replies </div>

kostika 2004-07-26T21:54:51Z burner_rodent http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/ecb487db-5725-432b-8504-6fb5b23e0ef2 2004-07-24T18:51:46Z 2004-06-12T16:45:06Z

<div>http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=3752 <br/> <br/>Thanks to http://www.aintitcool.com for the link. <br/> <br/>--- <br/>rodent (putting the eek in geek)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 8 replies </div>

burner_rodent 2004-06-12T16:45:06Z Jesse James http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/c73e70ea-cd1e-48f2-b240-8e2772d78e16 2004-07-21T18:20:48Z 2004-06-12T05:34:07Z

<div>Went to my local shop in Wed (6/9/04) and they didn't have it. I assumed it might have been held up? Should be #12 I think? <br/> <br/>Did I miss it? Is it out? Anyone know? Warren?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 5 replies </div>

Jesse James 2004-06-12T05:34:07Z tjcrowley http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/52ea78f9-cc97-43d1-8571-6d50c29f530d 2004-07-02T18:42:27Z 2004-07-02T18:42:27Z

<div>SPOOKYCON is Halloween weekend, and a weekend pass at the door is $50. The cutoff date WAS July 1st to get the weekend pass for $40, but I have extended that through July 5th. So, visit http://www.spookycon.com if you haven't gotten your membership, and get $10 off until Monday! <br/> <br/>Want more details? Want to vend? Visit the website! We're San Francisco's only horror and dark fantasy convention! </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

tjcrowley 2004-07-02T18:42:27Z Unsubscribed http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/78a42d6b-0982-49c2-ade4-476829475c2e 2004-06-30T18:07:26Z 2004-04-16T18:53:26Z

<div>Written for a magazine, pulled it from them over rights issues. Someone might as well see it.) <br/> <br/> <br/>FUTURE UNDERGROUND <br/> <br/>Tracking the future. <br/> <br/>Susannah Breslin, mildly dislocated by jetlag, perversion and the London chill, grimaces at the elderly Vauxhall Bridge Road locals staggering around the smoky little pub in beer-smeared football-fan facepaint. Susannah's a writer, over here in her occasional role as a presenter for the Playboy Channel's SEXCETERA to cover an English bukkake shoot. Bukkake is a Japanese innovation in porn video wherein groups of men masturbate en masse over a single girl. A successful bukkake concludes with one brain-damaged woman looking like she's had a bucket of cake icing upended over her head. It transpires that most of the male participants pay to attend. Ninety pounds sterling to jerk off like an ugly ape in humping season along with a dozen other fellow middle-aged married businessmen who've probably all told the wife that they're off on a salesman training course in Slough. Bukkake made it to America a few years ago, and now it's here in Britain; the cutting edge in depersonalised, heartless, gutless sex. Which is why it fascinates Susannah. But Susannah tracks the future of commodified sex. In her head, she's already moved on. <br/> <br/>She gleefully tells me of Rob Black, an American pornographer already in trouble with the law and facing an obscenity charge. He was apparently instructed by his lawyers to keep a low profile and behave himself. But he's a second-generation porno guy, and has the family honour to uphold. He has therefore invented what is termed The Ass Milkshake. This involves several men ejaculating into one woman's rectum, and then introducing milk and cream into the cavity with the aid of a speculum. The mixture is then decanted out of her backside into a glass, and presented for her to drink. <br/> <br/>And you know that, somewhere, Rob Black is wondering how he's going to top that before his court case. <br/> <br/>In Japan, of course, bukkake is history. Susannah describes to me the new fetish video craze there, which I can only term Dizzy Girl Spinning Eye Movies. A girl is set to spinning around on the spot in a bedroom. Around and around. Soon, she's too dizzy to stand up. She falls down on a bed. And the camera zooms in hard on her eyes, to see her eyeballs spinning around in their sockets, circles within circles. That's the money shot, in porn terms. Spinning eyeballs. <br/> <br/>Susannah grins and takes another sip of German beer. <br/> <br/>In Germany, of course, courts were coming to the conclusion that inviting cannibalism fetishists to your home, killing them and eating them does not constitute murder. Armin Miewes got an eight-year sentence for picking up a man on the internet with seductive enticements to (quoting from his Usenet posts) "eat your horny flesh." The victim came to Miewe's home, where Miewes hacked his penis off. They ate it together. And then the meal got into a warm bath and waited to bleed to death while Miewes sat in the kitchen and read a Star Trek novel. After a while, Miewes decided dinner wasnt dying quickly enough. So he stabbed the silly bastard in the neck and ate him. <br/> <br/>"Eat Your Horny Flesh" is going to be a band name inside three years, I swear. <br/> <br/>Sometime after Miewes decided it'd be too much like hard work to grind dead boy's bones into flour, the police came to visit. Being German, they came right out with it, and asked him directly if he had eaten human flesh. Miewes gave the classic answer: "I might have done." <br/> <br/>Turns out that if you want to be eaten, the diner is, at best, guilty of manslaughter. And will be out on the street in four years, tops. <br/> <br/>Welcome to the future. It's the world you're living in. <br/> <br/>People are disappointed with the future they're living in. Since 2001, the refrain has gone up, louder year by year: "This is the future. Where's my flying car? Where's my fucking jet pack?" Pre-millennium, we were living in an unprecedented density of imagined futures, and we assumed it was all waiting for us around the corner. And here we are, around the corner, and none of it is standing here. <br/> <br/>All that means, of course, is that 98% of our predictions have failed us. Which shouldn't have come as much surprise. We treat science fiction as predictive fiction, which it isn't and should never have been. William Gibson's NEUROMANCER loses none of its fictive power for failing, as Gibson himself recently said, to predict mobile phones. Mobile telephony has proved a technology of massive change -- not least of which has been in the field of fiction itself. Possession of a tri-band handset makes about a hundred years' worth of thriller plotting irrelevant. My own GLOBAL FREQUENCY graphic novel has fallen foul of the future. It's currently being adapted for American television, and we've run into an unexpected problem. When I developed the mobile phones that the members of the Global Frequency extreme rescue service carry, I was working at the hard edge of available technology -- two years ago. Today, a Treo 600 smartphone from Palmspring does pretty much everything the GF Phone does. So I'm having to consult with a futurist at Nokia to ensure the TV version of the phone does more than something you can pick up at the supermarket. <br/> <br/>It's not the future we expected, being able to shoot video with a telephone and wirelessly beam it into someone's hand on the other side of the world. I don't know that anyone predicted that people could be driven to orgasm by images of a girl's spinning eyes. Evan Batailles would have looked twice at the Ass Milkshake. Somewhere, there's a mouse with a human ear growing out of its back, and a rat that produces monkey sperm. Mars is being explored by two motorised skateboards. Wernher Von Braun, who designed a Mars expedition for a crew of two hundred using available technology in the 1950s, would have shat blood in anger. Space, in his conception, was a heaven to be reached with power and glory. He would have sneered at the rocket sticks the rovers were launched on -- where were his mighty chariots, to shake the ground in their passing? -- and blanched to discover that his great machines and two hundred heroes had been dropped to make way for a couple of glorified rollerskates. He would have concluded that something evil had happened, and that this was not his future. <br/> <br/>No nuclear space arks, no jetpacks. Robot skateboards and butterflies that glow green. <br/> <br/>We all forgot that the future is yet to be written. No-one knows how it's going to turn out. The best we can do is track the future as it happens, and use our fiction as a tool with which to understand where we are. <br/> <br/>By the time you read this, everything in it will be history. The future's a moving target. That's why it needs tracking. <br/> <br/>Warren Ellis <br/>Southend, England <br/>March 15 2004 <br/> <br/>© Warren Ellis 2004</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 20 replies </div>

Unsubscribed 2004-04-16T18:53:26Z MichaelKwiatkowski http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/b36ba8fb-6403-4129-b448-5f2bdadb364e 2004-06-23T14:45:14Z 2004-06-10T21:16:00Z

<div>With all the corporate-owned media outlets out there today, what place does true, get-at-the-truth journalism have anymore? Does it even still exist? What are your thoughts?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 8 replies </div>

MichaelKwiatkowski 2004-06-10T21:16:00Z youkovich http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/11de661b-d999-48af-9986-4bbfeb24bd63 2004-06-22T20:09:01Z 2004-06-22T20:09:01Z

<div>i know, i know, I didn't knew that the claim for help on the mailing list I did a few minutes ago was gonna pop up like this on the featured topics... <br/>I'm still on win95... <br/> <br/>yes, heresy. <br/> <br/>Sorry to all.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

youkovich 2004-06-22T20:09:01Z MichaelKwiatkowski http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/d23ca63a-641d-426f-adbf-cff5382c3d19 2004-06-21T22:48:13Z 2004-06-21T22:48:13Z

<div>http://www.tribe.net/tribe/servlet/template/pub%2Ctribes%2CViewThread.vm?threadid=90b9c0ff-2db8-4624-9f16-134ee9b088d8&amp;_message_resource=info.post.created&amp;tribeid=ffb363f1-15e8-4e2e-b13c-31509a6d3d23 <br/> <br/>Found this thread that has links to Guardian columns by none other than former Monty Python player Terry Jones. Guy can really write.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

MichaelKwiatkowski 2004-06-21T22:48:13Z Unsubscribed http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/c82c2bb4-4695-4cd8-82c2-6abd16da51e5 2004-06-19T00:15:20Z 2004-04-24T16:51:54Z

<div>Father Christmas bounces a dour little child on his knee. "Ho ho ho," he beams. "Isn't this the most wonderful, magical time of year? What would you like for Christmas, you good little boy, you?" <br/> <br/>"I want to be in a coma. Like my dad." <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/>(Previously a Bad Signal)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 6 replies </div>

Unsubscribed 2004-04-24T16:51:54Z chiv http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/a5390f09-4eda-414d-87c2-dc0de51ec69f 2004-06-11T18:49:50Z 2004-06-10T22:18:11Z

<div>so it occurs to me..with all the Xfiles orphans out there.the show coming out soon.and the GF symbol bieng so simple that there will be a flood of little black sun tattoos soon.... <br/>it was just a thought...i dont have too many so..there it is </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 1 reply </div>

chiv 2004-06-10T22:18:11Z Unsubscribed http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/8dba4376-a538-494a-8589-ff8838e376c1 2004-06-10T08:03:06Z 2004-04-24T16:53:06Z

<div>In the Old Testament, God was a carnivore. No-one ever sacrificed plants to him. No-one whacked a turnip on a slab and said, I'll have its roots off for you, Jehovah old son. Oh no. God likes meat. None of that "fruits of the earth" shit for God. Get a juicy lamb under that knife or it's plague and blackened dangly bits for you, tiny human. <br/> <br/>In the vast majority of cases, carnivores are predators. <br/> <br/>And top predators became top predators because they understood how to think like prey. They internalise the behavior of their meaty targets. <br/> <br/>Or, perhaps: scavengers wait for us to die and then eat our rotting meat. Maybe, thousands of years back, someone somewhere was thinking: those lambs are pretty good, but a ripened and air-cured human body, now that's the stuff... <br/> <br/>(Or even one that's been buried for a while, like lutefisk.) <br/> <br/>Food Of The Gods, ha ha. <br/> <br/>I'm going to bed. <br/> <br/> <br/>(Previously a Bad Signal)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 10 replies </div>

Unsubscribed 2004-04-24T16:53:06Z fchornik http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/034a22c7-4792-4b40-8085-06ab4bb6f4b7 2004-05-17T03:40:47Z 2004-05-17T03:40:47Z

<div>A friend of mine's going to Israel soon and he asked if there was anything we wanted brought back; of course, I asked him to see if there were any Hebrew versions of Planetary or Global Frequency. It occurred to me I should check here first. That would probably simplify things for him... and if there are such editions, does anyone know where I could send him to find them? <br/>Thanks! <br/> <br/>C.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

fchornik 2004-05-17T03:40:47Z rone http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/d5485e8e-d665-4774-8622-163b5e3826f3 2004-05-07T18:22:33Z 2004-05-06T20:26:48Z

<div>He hasn't gotten around to it here, so i'll preempt him... www.spookycon.com he'll be there Oct 30 &amp; 31. Bring offerings for our bibulous writer.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 5 replies </div>

rone 2004-05-06T20:26:48Z Unsubscribed http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/50398ef5-5099-4e96-873d-6c6cbdd1cb41 2004-04-26T18:41:20Z 2004-04-14T15:21:30Z

<div>I still get asked with appalling regularity "where my ideas come from." <br/> <br/>Here's the deal. I flood my poor ageing head with information. Any information. Lots of it. And I let it all slosh around in the back of my brain, in the part normal people use for remembering bills, thinking about sex and making appointments to wash the dishes. <br/> <br/>Eventually, you get a critical mass of information. Datum 1 plugs into Datum 3 which connects to Datum 3 and Data 4 and 5 stick to it and you've got a chain reaction. A bunch of stuff knits together and lights up and you've got what's called "an idea". <br/> <br/>And for that brief moment where it's all flaring and welding together, you are Holy. You can't be touched. Something impossible and brilliant has happened and suddenly you understand what it would be like if Einstein's brain was placed into the body of a young tyrannosaur, stuffed full of amphetamines and suffused with Sex Radiation. <br/> <br/>That is what has happened to me tonight. I am beaming Sex Rays across the world and my brain is all lit up with Holy Fire. If I felt like it, I could shag a million nuns and destroy their faith in Christ. <br/> <br/>FROM MY CHAIR. <br/> <br/>See, this is the good bit about writing. It's what keeps you going. It's the wild rush of "shit, did I think of that?" with all kinds of weird chemicals shunting around your brain and ideas and images and moments and storyforms all opening up snapsnapsnap in your mind, a mass of new and unrealised possibilities. <br/> <br/>It's ten past two in the morning, and I'm completely wired, caught up in the new thing, shivering and laughing and glowing in the dark. Just as well it's the middle of the night. No-one would be safe from me right now. I could read their minds and take over their heartbeats with a glare. <br/> <br/>Faster than the speed of anyone. <br/> <br/>That's how it works. <br/> <br/>-- W <br/> <br/>(Previously a Bad Signal)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 11 replies </div>

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<div>"You keep that up and I'm going to confiscate your <br/>arms and legs." <br/> <br/>"Shut up or you and all your little friends are going to prison." <br/> <br/>"I can have Santa Claus killed by old gangsters in Shoebury <br/>for less than your goddamn Barbies cost, so don't fuck with me." <br/> <br/>"When we were in Lapland, I ate Rudolph." <br/> <br/>"I don't care what words Uncle Alan taught you in the LEAGUE <br/>OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN book he gave you -- call <br/>me an afterbirth again and I'm putting you in the washing machine." <br/> <br/>"I know where your Death Nerve is. So behave yourself." <br/> <br/>"No, you can't have a puppy." <br/> <br/>"Oxygen is a privilege, not a right." <br/> <br/>"I see a puppy in this house and I'm microwaving the fucker." <br/> <br/>"I can slap the life clean out of your little body." <br/> <br/>"Go and tell your mother that you want to be a 'retroactive abortion'. <br/>Here, let me write it down for you." <br/> <br/>"Ask your mother what 'fucker' means. Tell her I called her one too." <br/> <br/>"Eat your dinner or I'm going to liquidise it and inject it into your <br/>neck while you're asleep." <br/> <br/>"No, you can't have a kitten. You know the fluffy gloves you <br/>wear in winter? They used to be kittens. We're not allowed <br/>to have them now." <br/> <br/>"Put your toys away or I'm going to wee in your bed." <br/> <br/>"I can hide your body where no-one will find it. Do your fucking <br/>homework." <br/> <br/>"You know, your mother says there was a mix-up at the hospital <br/>and she brought the wrong child home. I just think my sperm <br/>rotted in her booze-poisoned womb." <br/> <br/>"I can sell you to chimney sweeps. They put you on the end of <br/>a stick and shove you up fireplaces. Well, do your fucking homework <br/>then." <br/> <br/>"No, you can't have a tiger. You want to know why? Go ask <br/>Siegfried and fucking Roy." <br/> <br/>-- W <br/> <br/>(previously a Bad Signal)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 11 replies </div>

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<div>CSI is exerting an unnatural fascination for me at the moment. Both CSI and CSI MIAMI. Because they're both the same. Both feature gifted actors who don't really have a lot to act with. Their characters exist as names, one or two background notes -- he's an ex-gambler, she used to date snipers -- and one or if you're really fucking lucky two recurring personality traits. Poor old George Eads in CSI only has one background note. His character's from Texas. That's it. He's got a name and a state. <br/> <br/>But it doesn't matter. This is what I hooked into with AUTHORITY. Sometimes, it just doesn't matter. <br/> <br/>CSI is about invincible robots hunting you down with implacable determination from the analysis of the faded and ephemeral fart you released at the crime scene. <br/> <br/>Doesn't matter if you committed your crime while swaddled in eight metres of bubblewrap. Someone will have coughed on that bubblewrap before it was sold to you, and the nanoscopic degraded remains of their sputum will inevitably connect you to the crime. <br/> <br/>William Petersen is studying the shape of your fart in a three-dimensional volume of air -- and he knows you had a pint of lager on Sunday. <br/> <br/>And broccoli in your Sunday lunch. <br/> <br/>They have no personalities. Their interpersonal relationships are so vestigial as to be pointless, and ultimately could be faked by a couple of computers. In the world of CSI, you cannot escape them. Piss in the wrong place and in ten minutes Jorja Fox will be sticking a Q-tip up your willy and connecting you with the infamous bloke-who-took-a-slash-up-the-side-of-The-Luxor case... <br/> <br/>They'd be the new Sweeney (http://www.thesweeney.co.uk), if they had personalities and guns. But no. They are faceless and you cannot reason with them and they will not stop and they will not sleep until they have used the great machine of Police and amazing technology that JPL keyboard monkeys jerk off over before bedtime to hunt you down and stick you in prison. <br/> <br/>Behave, or David Caruso and his creepy monotone will get you. <br/> <br/>-- W <br/> <br/>(Previously a Bad Signal)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 11 replies </div>

Unsubscribed 2004-04-15T22:07:24Z Unsubscribed http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/e3db0492-1684-4933-bc40-3692bd6c6446 2004-04-15T22:11:32Z 2004-04-15T22:11:32Z

<div>From the forthcoming comics series DESOLATION JONES: <br/> <br/>"I understand you have a problem, Colonel." <br/> <br/>"Oh, I have many problems, Mr Jones. The aftermath of a lifetime as a soldier and a world-class sexual adventurer. For fifty years, the fleshpots of earth were my fingerbowl. And now you witness the fruit of my labors. I am possessed of over seventy seperate diseases, my every organ worked to failure in pursuit of the beast with two backs. Indeed, on one memorable occasion, forty-eight backs. But now, Mr Jones, my pleasures are simple, and my penis is somewhere in Bombay." <br/> <br/>###</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

Unsubscribed 2004-04-15T22:11:32Z Unsubscribed http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/f079f12c-6ea9-435a-88c1-835e1c6cecd5 2004-04-15T22:08:46Z 2004-04-15T22:08:46Z

<div>Was hunting around for "webisodes" again the other day; which is what we used to call serialised animated stories done in Flash animation, back in the dot.boom days. Pretty much nothing left anymore. They do come with a certain expense, after all -- an animation team, voice actors, music, all that. Even if someone wanted to make a Flashed serial -- and I think people still do -- it's difficult to do alone, and whatever cash you may see from it won't match your outlay. And that sort of thing is hard to do for free. <br/> <br/>And then LA JETEE occurred to me. <br/> <br/>It's a film made up of stills. I think there's maybe one instance of motion image in the whole thing -- it's been a few years since I last saw it. And since the bugger's in French, <br/>the only way I can follow it is in subtitles. <br/> <br/>And then I thought; wouldn't it be interesting to do a narrative in Flash using only still photography? With either a voice-over monologue or music and subtitles? <br/> <br/>56K can pull down a meg every five minutes. A webisode done like this would probably take as long to download as it would to watch. Which isn't bad. And you could get some interesting narrative out of Flash again. <br/> <br/>I wish I understood my copy of Flash, I really do. <br/> <br/>-- W <br/> <br/>(Previously a Bad Signal)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

Unsubscribed 2004-04-15T22:08:46Z Unsubscribed http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/a9da2f6e-525e-47d8-b3a7-3442188c6dfe 2004-04-14T15:34:27Z 2004-04-14T15:34:27Z

<div>Drinky Bill, who drank until the front of his brain died and wears grey 1978 slacks with shitstains on the arse, is standing in the middle of the pub with an Iceland Frozen Foods carrier bag. It reads: "We've banned all artificial colours and flavours." The draught lager in his other hand glints a funny yellow in the weak sunlight. <br/> <br/>There's a move in the US to make it so goods labelled organic don't actually have to be organic. A factory- farm chicken company is reportedly behind it. <br/> <br/>Rebellion is only part of the system because it's allowed to be. The sk8er boy rocks up MTV only because his video is deemed straight and disinfected enough for the masses; he's allowed a career and is programmed to fall in love because it gives him something to lose. Instructions on how to grow up in a SafePersona and know your station in life. <br/> <br/>Big geezer with cuts all over his face and scabby knuckles nods demurely and looks at his feet as the cops talk to him outside on the junction. This is how FightPersona works; giving it some and keeping people on his patch scared until Blue Daddy tells him enough. <br/> <br/>People move around the junction in prescribed paths -- the alleys no-one takes,the shops no-one stops at, the people no-one pause for. Lagrange supertracks, trails of low gravity, the tides they travel. A shitfaced man in a bad baseball cap lays half in, half out of the road, deep in his own gravity well, everything skipping past his sphere of influence. <br/> <br/>The cogs of the world go crunch. <br/> <br/>### <br/> <br/>(Previously a Bad Signal)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

Unsubscribed 2004-04-14T15:34:27Z Unsubscribed http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/c9dbb62c-c1ed-4618-b140-e8e715d7d9ff 2004-04-14T15:30:51Z 2004-04-14T15:30:51Z

<div>At Bruce Sterling's house in Austin,Texas, Howard Waldrop beams Cory Doctorow an mp3 of some swampy old rock'n'roll from the dawn of time. The next day, across town, his powerbook scorching the flesh off his legs, he beams it over to me in England. I put it up on a private server for Fraction in Kansas City and Laurenn in San Francisco, while reading the first few chapters of Cory's new book, which he sent to me from an airport a few days before, squatting by the power outlet next <br/>to the public toilets. I put down Charlie Stross' next book for this, shot down the phone from Scotland, presumably before he had to go out with his spear to hunt dinner. Make a note to send the mp3 to Deon Maas in South Africa. Bára sends photos from her balcony in Reykjavik while Andy Cosby threatens my screenplay with substance-challenged 80s TV stars from LA. Jean-Pierre Dionnet says hello from somewhere in Asia, which reminds me I need to speak to Olivier Dahan, who by now is probably in the depths of France, shooting a film with Jean Reno. M Shakti, somewhere between 2003 America and 1920 Paris, lets me know she has audio-blogs up at anaiscam.com. Cory's document goes in the file with the short story Kenji Siratori sent me from Tokyo. <br/> <br/>In 1988, I was living in a room that was six feet long and six feet wide, with no phone, nothing but a record player with tape deck and a portable manual typewriter. <br/> <br/>I remember waking up one afternoon and reaching for my last cigarette, that a girl had written "Good Morning" on with a biro before leaving, and thinking: Christ, the world's got to be bigger than this. <br/> <br/>I also remember thinking she was trying to poison me with biro ink. <br/> <br/>-- W <br/> <br/>(Previously a Bad Signal)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

Unsubscribed 2004-04-14T15:30:51Z Unsubscribed http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/fba8afd2-1a0c-440e-a2ba-72c882bd5186 2004-04-14T15:28:45Z 2004-04-14T15:28:45Z

<div>Turnaround is a writing exercise I use to warm up for certain kinds of jobs. TRANSMET is full of them. It's simple. Pick a real-world news story and stand it on its head. <br/> <br/>Guy walks into a video rental store and says: "I'd like some more of the baby snuff porn, please." <br/> <br/>See, in Utah, there are these dingbats who illegally cut Hollywood movies into "family-friendly" form. Lawsuit's going on right now. <br/> <br/>"Excuse me, sir?" <br/> <br/>"Well, obviously, they're not real babies. You can see they're dolls. But still. It's very good. Do you have more?" <br/> <br/>The video store clerk discovers, with rising horror, that every movie in the store has been replaced with a recut version featuring faked baby snuff porn. <br/> <br/>"It's funny, but, as gifted an actress as she is, I never imagined Meryl Streep would work so well in a baby snuff porn movie." <br/> <br/>In BEACHES, Bette Midler, a strap-on added digitally, hunches over a toy baby smeared with tomato ketchup. <br/> <br/>"And it has to be said, U.S. MARSHALS is a much better movie with the baby snuff porn." <br/> <br/>Overnight, someone has replaced all the movies in the store. The in-store TV screen shows Gwyneth Paltrow in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, brushing her teeth with a plastic baby arm. <br/> <br/>The video store clerk is alone in the store. Looks around frantically. Walls of video sleeves loom, each one an appalling cultural bomb of disgusting potential. <br/> <br/>"Um... how many would you like to rent, sir?" <br/> <br/>Try it. Subvert your own instincts about realism and fiction. It's analogous to the cut-up technique -- it lets the future leak in a little. <br/> <br/>But for Christ's sake don't send them to me. I get into enough trouble with this as it is. <br/> <br/>-- W <br/> <br/>(Previously a Bad Signal)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

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<div>(opening/ident/fragment) <br/> <br/>In the white room, there is a white cable and a white plug, and a white power socket. The only other colour is red. Blood leaks from the power socket's fistulas, down three inches of slick white wall, to pool on the floor. There's been a rupture in the bioelectric packeting behind the wall. A broken heart in the interstitial net of veins and wires that makes our houses live and breathe. <br/> <br/>The white room is bleeding to death. <br/> <br/>### <br/> <br/>(Previously a Bad Signal)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

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<div>There's something in the word "emotion" in terms of creativity that says "mediocrity" to me. <br/> <br/>I was re-watching the feature on the making of GODFATHER 3 from the DVD set the other day, which is a heartbreaking document. What was in Francis Ford Coppola is seen to have died, and only he and his well-trained cadre of sycophants don't see it. He talks about not wanting to go back the third time because he felt he'd "mined the emotional material of that family." In terms of story development, he rails at his team, "How do we say it emotionally?" <br/> <br/>"If we can do it in an emotional way," he jabbers on the phone in a tiny room, "we can kick it right over." One of the first script meetings is filmed. Diane Keaton, sharp as a switchblade, has fixed on something. "How does it END?" Coppola is at the head of the table. "Well, I have many things to resolve." "Yeah, but how does it END?" Cut. <br/> <br/>The long, horrible film proves Keaton right and makes Coppola look like an idiot. By the time an intermission comes in the interminable opera scene that forms the last dragging act, the Mafia are talking about saving people in jeopardy like they're <br/>suddenly the fucking Thunderbirds. Pacino emotes over people, corpses, houses and bits of furniture like the lazy old trouper he was in that phase of his career. Andy Garcia exults in the scenes of violence and looks terrified the rest of the time. Keaton knew her part was fucked from the start and acts like it. It's an awful thing to sit through, but it's a weirdly rewarding act, because it drives something home about writing. <br/> <br/>There was a comics writer, no longer working, who used to declaim to everyone that Stories Are Structure. He was and is wrong. Stories grow from your chosen rootstock, which is not the same thing. You can't just shoehorn in "emotion." If your characters don't breathe, it's not because you haven't stopped to consult a commitee about how to "say it emotionally." It's because you can't write anymore. If there is no "emotional material," it's because your characters are dead and you've got nothing to say. <br/> <br/>In comics, there's always talk of "characterisation." It's a bullshit term. It means "writing." Some of the best writers make the reader infer character by what their figures don't say and don't do. Decide who they are and what they do, and they will "say it emotionally" as a natural consequence of the writing. Sometimes they'll surprise the reader. Sometimes they'll surprise you. But it will be authentic. <br/> <br/>-- W <br/> <br/>(Previously a Bad Signal)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

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<div>I had to kill the pig. <br/> <br/>It was a GM Vietnamese potbellied pig that some freak had meatfitted with a voicebox and the frontal lobe of a grown-up <br/>crack baby. <br/> <br/>It scuttled across the carpet on fat little legs, firing hideous acidic turds out of its fortified arse like it was Satan's vending machine. I loaded the harpoon gun I'd borrowed from Sunil. There are a few parts of the world where you can legally hunt humans who have gone aquatic, and Sunil owed sexual favours to all of them. The pig turned, rasping "Fuckpig! Fuckpig! Fuckpig!" I'd not yet worked out <br/>whether he was talking to me or telling me his name, but it seemed to be the only word he knew. I'd been listening to it for two weeks. Two. Weeks. <br/> <br/>The harpoon locked down into the receiver chamber, and the air compressor hissed, charging the gun. <br/> <br/>I hefted the gun and took aim as the bastard dropped another shit on the carpet, burning another hole in it. "This is it, you disgusting fucking object. Melissa left me with a disease so unusual and horrible it does not have a name, a weird Japanese doll that sucks out its own urine, and you. I've had my urethra irradiated, I listened to the doll scream as I shoved it into a wood chipper, and now there's only you left. The pet pig." <br/> <br/>"Fuckpig!" <br/> <br/>The compressor stopped hissing. The gun's chip crooned to me, for no good reason, in the synthesised voice of Peter O'Toole: "You may kill things now, young man." I threw the receiver lock to open the barrel and fired at the pig's smoking anus. <br/> <br/>Of course I bloody missed. <br/> <br/>The pig hurled itself to one side like it was an action movie hero, rolling and coming up poised and ready on its foul black trotters. The harpoon thudded into one of my speakers. I fumbled another one into the chamber and slammed down the receiver lock, hoping there was enough push left in the compressor for another shot at the little crapmachine. I waved the harpoon gun at it. You couldn't see its eyes; they were dark wet slits surrounded by great folds and swells of warty pigflab. But you knew it was scheming. I edged between it and the clear run through my long thin apartment to the front door. I had it pinned here in the back bedroom. Nowhere to run. <br/> <br/>It feinted to my left like Ali, with a rasped "Fuckpig!" I pretended to follow the feint, and then snapped the gun back as it launched itself for the opening it expected between my right and the doorjamb. <br/> <br/>It realised I had it and pissed itself in mid-air, an evil green sprinkler. Twisted its immense gut around to carom off the wall. I kept a bead on it as it bounced off my bed - realised too late that it was aimed for the window. <br/> <br/>Fuckpig! and it hurled itself through the window. I ran to the sill, trying to keep my hands away from all the broken glass. The pig had launched itself with some force, I gave it that. There was a chance it could reach the shopfront awning on the other side of my narrow market street. The odds were better that it'd miss and splatter. But I don't like gambling, really, and this was a personal thing. <br/> <br/>I put a harpoon through the bastard pig from arsehole to breakfast-time, skewering it in mid-air. <br/> <br/>It dropped down into the market, landing on a fruit stand. Its guts let go and the awful flow dissolved all the apples. There was a storm of swearing in Croatian, and then the retching started. <br/> <br/>And, you know, this is as good as the next month or so got. <br/> <br/>### <br/> <br/> <br/>(c) Warren Ellis 2003 all rights reserved <br/>August 2003</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 1 reply </div>

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<div>Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=4902369 <br/> <br/>LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile?ViewProfile=&amp;key=85676 <br/> <br/>New short fiction: http://mistersleepless.livejournal.com <br/> <br/>Research weblog: http://www.diepunyhumans.com <br/> <br/>Main email address: warrene@aol.com <br/> <br/>Business website: http://www.warrenellis.com <br/> <br/>Email diary: http://www.flirble.org/mailman/listinfo/badsignal <br/> <br/>-- W</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 7 replies </div>

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<div>If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain -- <br/>do you also believe that television shows are made inside <br/>your television set? <br/> <br/>-- W <br/> <br/>(previously a Bad Signal)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 3 replies </div>

Unsubscribed 2004-04-11T00:29:12Z Unsubscribed http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/d3fe2518-20d8-41e1-9481-91e656d25569 2004-04-11T00:28:19Z 2004-04-11T00:28:19Z

<div>bad signal <br/>WARREN ELLIS <br/> <br/>I have hotshit broadband, these days. I can suck 1.44 meg <br/>out of a half-decent server like a crack whore de-spunking <br/>a virgin businessman. As it were. 1.44 meg is nothing. I <br/>can send that anywhere. I can dump it on free webspace <br/>without filling anything up, because, hey, it's only 1.44 meg. <br/>Back when I was working in web-animation, 1.44 meg <br/>was the studio's absolute upper limit of file size for a 3-minute <br/>Flash webisode. <br/> <br/>1.44 meg is, of course, a floppy disc. I imagine most of <br/>us still have floppy disc drives. <br/> <br/>Even on 56K, 1.44 meg is only a few minutes' worth of <br/>download time. <br/> <br/>http://www.floppyswop.co.uk is an art site with a good idea. <br/>Contributions are limited to 1.44 meg. It has to fit on <br/>a floppy. <br/> <br/>Floppies are/were viral. Distributable. <br/> <br/>With increased speeds, 1.44 meg is also distributable. It's <br/>emailable. It's quick to FTP into some webspace. <br/> <br/>I was reading the LiveJournal of Liz from the band SWARF <br/>earlier. She was looking for ideas to promote the band <br/>with. <br/> <br/>And I'm sitting here thinking, with some donated brainpower <br/>from someone who knows video and someone who knows <br/>Flash, they could put together a one-minute thing with <br/>visual and music and it'd come out at 1.44 meg. And they <br/>could put it out into the world and say, share it with your <br/>friends. <br/> <br/>Hell, produce a short piece of music. 1.44 meg. And say, <br/>there it is, it's under a Creative Commons license, spread <br/>it around like the clap. <br/> <br/>Because people will spread around good stuff for you. <br/>Most people get boring email. Most people get shit <br/>from Nigeria, and demands that they increase the size <br/>of their penis immediately. It's a golden little moment <br/>when you get a piece of art, that you've never seen before, <br/>that you'd never get from TV or radio, turn up from a <br/>trusted friend in your email box. <br/> <br/>Use http://www.fpdf.com or one of the other free PDF builders, <br/>and produce a 1.44 meg poster, handbill, pamphlet, postcard. <br/> <br/>Stamp the delivery webpage with a 1.44MB logo and link it <br/>to this letter as a text file, explaining it all. <br/> <br/>(Yes, I've been drinking. Shut up or I'll bite out your adrenal <br/>glands and chew them up like grass.) <br/> <br/>Just a thought. <br/> <br/>-- W <br/> <br/>(previously a Bad Signal)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

Unsubscribed 2004-04-11T00:28:19Z fishgoat23 http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/ef70fa0b-3775-4ab3-8b87-7352297bd389 2004-03-29T01:08:50Z 2004-02-27T07:47:43Z

<div>Was I the only one that was stupid enough to do a Google search on this? Then clicked on a link that launched a movie clip of a woman chugging down a pint of Ass Milkshake. There are somethings you can not unsee, man. Oh, my brain has been befouled. Stupid, stupid brain. Befouled brain.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 13 replies </div>

fishgoat23 2004-02-27T07:47:43Z http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/69c47261-5fda-4c71-9563-dc178e50cfbd 2004-03-08T22:29:00Z 2004-02-18T16:08:35Z

<div>Someone has leaked the solicit for Wizard Magazine #152, and it includes the following list of previews that will be included. The third is especially interesting: <br/> <br/>* Read 6-pages from Astonishing X-Men #1 by writer Joss Whedon (Buffy: The Vampire Slayer) and John Cassaday (Captain America) from Marvel Comics! <br/> <br/>* Get a 7-page preview of Catwoman: Roman Holiday #1, from DC Comics, illustrated by artist Tim Sale and written by Jeph Loeb for DC Comics. Loeb and Sale are the team that brought us Batman: Dark Victory, Daredevil: Yellow and Spider-Man: Blue. <br/> <br/>* Read a preview of Ultimate Fantastic Four #7 by the new creative team of writer Warren Ellis and artist Stuart Immonen from Marvel Comics.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 4 replies </div>

2004-02-18T16:08:35Z Markisan http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/8fc67186-d2ee-41df-9f8e-c774b8b919df 2004-03-06T20:20:28Z 2004-02-18T04:50:24Z

<div>On Bad Signal Warren mentioned he wrote an ep of the JL cartoon. Looking forward to seeing it.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 11 replies </div>

Markisan 2004-02-18T04:50:24Z Unsubscribed http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/b95a7bba-4d12-4147-a2e0-c8fb5b7d9e2e 2004-03-03T17:15:49Z 2003-12-28T15:13:04Z

<div>Still untitled, but for anyone who missed the announcement: <br/> <br/>Press release from publishers HarperCollins in New York: <br/> <br/>“Senior Editor Josh Behar has just aquired rights from Lydia Wills of Writers and Artists to the first novel by best-selling comic book writer Warren Ellis, who has authored two of DC's hottest franchises; The Authority and Transmetropolitan. This comic tour of the dark underbelly of American culture features a down-and-out private detective who is hired by heroin-addled G-men to find the lost (secret) Constitution to the United States. Publication is slated for Winter/Spring 05.” <br/> <br/>(Note, they wrote the release, not me.)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 6 replies </div>

Unsubscribed 2003-12-28T15:13:04Z Unsubscribed http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/359851dc-99c7-4158-9e78-6932b3a844db 2004-02-20T21:25:03Z 2004-01-30T00:42:10Z

<div>Movie/TV site CHUD posts the following rumour at <br/>http://www.chud.com/news/jan04/jan29global.php3 : <br/> <br/>"What's the coolest thing about the WB? I have no clue, <br/>but whatever it is, it won't be the coolest for long. <br/>"Mr. Reacher" tells us that the network will be shooting <br/>a pilot for Global Frequency in the spring..." <br/> <br/>I, of course, could not possibly comment. It's just a <br/>rumour. <br/> <br/>The GLOBAL FREQUENCY TV pilot script is actually <br/>really good. <br/> <br/>Adaptations are never exact when they occur across <br/>different media. US network TV is an entirely different <br/>beast to serial comics. It's one of those things you <br/>know going in, and if you're going to be bothered by it, <br/>well, why sell the option in the first place? It's not like <br/>it erases the original work. <br/> <br/>But, without wanting to be insulting to people who worked <br/>hard, it's not like I've been FROM HELLed or LEAGUE OF <br/>EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMENed. The pilot script <br/>is an expansion of the first issue, and, while it makes <br/>some obvious concessions to the form it's being adapted <br/>for (which it has to, otherwise it wouldn't be any good), <br/>it completely captures the tone, keeps some scenes <br/>entirely whole and doesn't change a damn thing about the <br/>central concept. Not a thing. John Rogers, the writer, <br/>did a brilliant job, and stayed in touch with me during <br/>every phase of the writing. Which, in and of itself, is <br/>unusual enough to be almost freakish. <br/> <br/>And there's one idea in there I so wish I'd thought of myself. <br/> <br/>Fingers crossed. <br/> <br/>-- W</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 22 replies </div>

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<div>Wrote the script for it back in the summer: <br/> <br/>http://www.1up.com/print_article/0,4372,a=113861,00.asp <br/> <br/>http://www.gamespy.com/previews/december03/coldwinterps2/ <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 3 replies </div>

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<div>http://deathboy.anti-goth.com/scott_deathboy/raverboy/revolution%20-%20scott%20deathboy%20(featuring%20Warren%20Ellis)%20(mastered).mp3</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 26 replies </div>

Unsubscribed 2004-02-03T19:27:41Z BaT http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/bd850542-259e-47bb-b6c1-fa56462ba477 2004-02-10T01:45:26Z 2004-02-10T01:45:26Z

<div>I know everyone thinks Transmet would be a great film and certainly and all - and that Global Freq is getting a series pilot, but what other work do you think may crossover into video/animation well? Personally, I was thinking that Orbiter would translate well into a movie (almost directly from the book, actually) and that Dark Blue is screaming to be a little filled out as a anime, that much violence should just not go to waste.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

BaT 2004-02-10T01:45:26Z Zabbadoo http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/5f2c3281-3ffe-46b3-a9c3-9fe80caa581d 2004-02-03T19:24:27Z 2004-01-14T11:59:02Z

<div>Why is it that both Reload and Grant's The Filth feature the assasination of the President of the United States? <br/> <br/>Does it have anything to do with this? <br/> <br/>RELOAD FILTH <br/>ER ADOL F HITL <br/>ADOLF HITLER <br/> <br/>just wondering <br/> <br/>p.s. <br/>why yes, I do have an enormous brain. An enormous crazy brain.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 5 replies </div>

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<div>Published by NATURE magazine in 2001 as part of their anniversary celebrations -- other participants included Sir Arthur C Clarke, Kim Stanley Robinson, Bruce Sterling: <br/> <br/>http://www.angelfire.com/grrl/opheliac_9/nature.html</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 1 reply </div>

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<div>Where I stack all my research: <br/> <br/>http://www.diepunyhumans.com <br/> <br/>Currently featuring ZEROFOUR: statements for 2004 by various creative types. <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 2 replies </div>

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<div>FORTHCOMING PROJECTS <br/> <br/>* SERIAL COMICS <br/> <br/>DESOLATION JONES <br/> <br/>Michael Jones was a British spy on the verge of being kicked out of Her Majesty's Secret Service for alcoholism. To stay in the service, he volunteered for a medical experiment called The Desolation Test. <br/> <br/>Today, he lives in Los Angeles, along with every other washed-up spy in the Western world. LA is a prison for spies. They're not allowed outside the city limits. That huge, alienated city is a secret zoo for spooks, an unknown nested community. Today, Jones is a private detective to that invisible imprisoned community, and to the people whose lives it impinged upon. Because he knows how the lives of spooks can impact on the innocent and the weak. And he doesn't want to see it happen to anyone else. <br/> <br/>The publishers are calling it "a PRISONER for the 21st Century." <br/> <br/>A longform serial intended to run to at least thirty-six episodes, DESOLATION JONES is to be published by DC Wildstorm from mid-2004. (January 2004) <br/> <br/>JACK CROSS <br/> <br/>His parents were rogue deep-cover spooks and political activists. He's an avowed left-winger with a foggy history of dissent. He's a freelance intelligence specialist who'd make James Bond wet himself. He also has a habit of cutting himself whenever he has to kill someone. His torso is a mass of cross-shaped scars, one for each murder he's had to perform. He works almost exclusively for an old friend in the National Security Council, in return for money, anonymity and protection from reprisal. He's an action hero with an agenda you won't find in a Tom Clancy novel. <br/> <br/>A longform serial intended to run to at least twenty-four episodes, JACK CROSS is to be published by DC Comics from mid-2004. (January 2004) <br/> <br/> <br/>OCEAN <br/>Something is floating in the alien water under the ice shell of Jupiter's ocean moon Europa. Hundreds of things. Weapons. A United Nations weapons inspector despatched to the scene discovers that there are worse things than weapons. Such as people. And history. <br/> <br/>A sf novel in six parts to be illustrated by Chris Sprouse and published by DC Wildstorm during 2004. (January 2004) <br/> <br/> <br/>* GRAPHIC NOVELS <br/> <br/>STEALTH TRIBES <br/> <br/> <br/>&amp;lt;i>People are obtaining things called "cloud drives" online. When they arrive -- a stack of six glassy ovals in a rack -- you plug them into your computer's USB port and then search for "index of /zt3" via stealthtribes.com. <br/> <br/> Download a piece of music. Save it to z:// -- your cloud drive. See the gas within the first oval darken as the file moves into it and unzips into the molecular storm. The file doesn't just hold music. It holds information. <br/> <br/>Take out the oval. Attach the spout to it. Run your lighter's flame under the oval -- heat activates the information -- and inhale. <br/> <br/>Smoke music. <br/> <br/>And the information encoded within it is carried into your brain, plugging in to the places it needs to be. <br/> <br/>Feel the data inside the music rearranging things. <br/> <br/>You're downloading special talents. <br/> <br/>All over America -- all over the world -- small knots of friends gather in rented apartments, bedrooms and basements, hitting the chat rooms and the message boards, learning how to find what's stealthy, learning the tricks, and changing. Staying in is the new going out. And who can blame them? Who'd want to be on these streets?&amp;lt;/i> <br/> <br/>A 100-page hardback graphic novel to be published by DC Vertigo in the last half of 2004. An artist is finally attached (after eight months), name to be announced. (January 2004) <br/> <br/> <br/>* PROSE NOVELS <br/> <br/>UNTITLED NOVEL <br/>Still without a title at time of writing, I have sold an original prose novel to Senior Editor Josh Behar at HarperCollins in New York. Concerning the Secret Constitution Of The United States, the perception of perversion, a detective who is an authentic Shit Magnet and how Benjamin Franklin killed an arse-probing alien with one punch, the novel is slated to be published in early 2005. (January 2004) <br/> <br/>* OTHER MEDIA <br/> <br/>GLOBAL FREQUENCY <br/>optioned for TV by The WB with a pilot script commitment, written by screenwriter John Rogers. If the script is approved, GF will go into pilot production. If the pilot is received well, GF will go to series, and I'll be writing one of the episodes. (January 2004) <br/> <br/> <br/>COLD WINTER <br/>PS2 videogame produced by Swordfish Studios: I consulted on the plot, wrote ten cinematic sequences for the game and provided other services. (January 2004) <br/> <br/> <br/>SPOKEN-WORD CD <br/>As yet untitled, production will begin this quarter on a spoken-word CD for Wasp Factory Records with music by Scott Deathboy. (January 2004) <br/> <br/>SENT PhoneCam Photography Exhibit <br/>I'm an invited artist to SENT, America's first phonecam art show. Other included artists include Penelope Spheeris and Steve Diet Goedde. Details here (http://www.sentonline.com/). <br/> <br/>####</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 2 replies </div>

Unsubscribed 2004-01-23T18:36:09Z Rob http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/3661da36-5385-495d-8517-aca50d91928d 2004-01-22T04:41:45Z 2004-01-21T07:25:00Z

<div>The grapevine told me earlier tonight that Warren is pondering "retirement" from graphic novels. What's this all about, then?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 3 replies </div>

Rob 2004-01-21T07:25:00Z Unsubscribed http://warrenellis.tribe.net/thread/d834ec6e-f1c1-4804-9a13-9e9eba44c237 2003-12-29T11:06:49Z 2003-12-29T11:06:49Z

<div>http://www.artbomb.net/brainpowered.jsp <br/> <br/>Updated every week, usually. Except when it's not. And since Hopalong Pesach, Artbomb Bloke is away burying relatives right now, it probably won't be updated again for another couple of weeks. But anyway. There it is.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

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<div>Every now and again at <br/> <br/>http://mistersleepless.livejournal.com</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://warrenellis.tribe.net">Warren Ellis Tribal Net</a> - 0 replies </div>

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