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Jul
20
2010
0 Warren Ellis posted this on his blog. I love the idea of using a bunch of bigoted dolts to raise money for charity. Particularly if that (or those in this case) charity would not be supported by the idiots in the first place. It is beautifully subversive without giving the WBC too much of a forum to spout their hate.
Okay, so, Fred Phelps and his family of hateful bigots are getting a lot of press for their planned appearance at (or near?) the San Diego Comic Con. The man lives for attention and confrontation. If you see him there, don’t sneer, don’t scream, don’t confront, don’t point and laugh–DON’T ACKNOWLEDGE. Ignore, ignore, ignore, ignore, ignore…
EXCEPT! We need some help in the form of a time-keeper or two, letting us know exactly how long the patron saint of backwards thinking and his family manage to stand and scream in the California sun. Then, by all means, do stare–at your watch! Make a note of what time it is and alert the internet that they’re there/still there. (But do it quietly and from a polite distance, will you?) Go get yourself a cold drink and check back every now and then until we have an approximate time count. Like… here would be good. Or on Twitter, with the hashtag #godlovesbatman
Why? Because in the spirit of love, we are pledging to donate $50 to amfAR if Phelps and his crew actually show up (often they don’t) and $10 an hour additional to amfAR for every hour they stay. And we’ll make our donation in Fred’s name.
We’d love you to join us.
(And we’d really love to be able to post a tally of how much we’ve raised.)
Repost far and wide, my pretties.
EDITED TO ADD:
We’ll be donating to amfAR, but Sam and Ginny have both suggested the Human Rights Campaign. Either seems appropriate.
Looks like the WBC is only scheduled for 45 minutes. (Lightweights!) If that’s the case, we’ll round up to $100–but times are tough and you shouldn’t feel like you have to do the same or not participate. $7.50 is better than nothing. $57.50 is peachy and cute.
There seems to be some confusion–you don’t need to be at SDCC to pledge. We’re doing an online donation via this link.[From warren ellis
Jun
11
2010
0I never really tire of saying that it is Freak Angels Friday. If only this webcomic were daily…
Jun
8
2010
0It’s cool, underground and admittedly some of it is a bit pants but I’m listening to a lot of dark doomy tunes that have been pigeonholed into the “genre” Witch House. It’s a blend of Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle, that sort of thing with NIN and modern house as imagined by some demonic sprite brought up on the scares caused by Italian horror movies. Once again Warren Ellis shows me the way with music and he has a bunch of examples on his site http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=9743.
I found a mix tape on Sound Cloud that I thought was worth sharing.
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Jun
5
2010
0I forgot to tell you… it was totally Freak Angels Friday yesterday and it was totally freaking awesome!
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Apr
6
2010
0The new column by @warrenellis is up and readable on the Internets. Go read it, for it is good.
Are you still here?
What?
A link?
Jeez have you people never heard of Google. http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2010/05/start/warren-ellis.aspx
Feb
24
2009
0This came from Warren Ellis’ blog. It is a wonderful piece of horror musical, which there is just not enough of these days. They just don’t write those Lovecraftian musicals like they used to.
Also on Mr Ellis’ site I found this little gem about immortal jellyfish http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=6960. There is a little more information on the Register Scary shit indeed. If you are afraid of tiny jellyfish that is.
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (Gollancz S.F.)