WARREN ELLIS LTD Posts

And here we go again. I hope you had a lovely summer. Autumn is now creeping in here. LTD is now on until at least the end of the year. Taking two and a half months off from logging things was part of getting some much-needed space back to myself; but the logging is part of my work practice, and now I am back to work.

TODAY:

• Meet the world’s hottest upstart weapons dealers
• Afghanistan quake
• Leonardo da Vinci was a wedding planner

OPERATIONS: Today is Labor Day in the US, which I presume is the day when they all sit down and think about what they’ve done to the spelling of the word “labour” – so I have a project follow-up email to write, and otherwise can wipe down my boards, make schedule adjustments and get ahead on a couple of thing while it’s all quiet over here.
STATUS: 8hrs 6m sleep and it does not feel like it, inbox 107, currently composed mostly of histamine, constant interruptions already
READING: My last light fun book of the year, OUR DEBTS TO THE PAST by Ed James (UK) (US+), before I get into all the dense and difficult books in my list for the rest of 2025
LISTENING: Dream Time with Zakia

THINKING ABOUT:

…given that in the course of history many have acted on beliefs in which many others did not believe, we must perforce admit that for each, to a different degree, history has been largely the Theater of an Illusion.

Serendipities: Language And Lunacy, Umberto Eco

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I am off the general internet this month, because we’re having a nice summer, I have a lot to do and I feel like just getting away from everything for a while.

My free weekly newsletter, Orbital Operations, continues to emit every Sunday morning. Please join me there, I’m still cranking out 1000 words a week there no matter how much I try to shrink it.

Email and messaging apps are still on, but, honestly, everything else is off. Peaceful summer.

I will be back here full time on September 1st.

I am off the general internet this month, because we’re having a nice summer, I have a lot to do and I feel like just getting away from everything for a while.

My free weekly newsletter, Orbital Operations, continues to emit every Sunday morning.

Email and messaging apps are still on, but, honestly, everything else is off. Peaceful summer.

Recently read:

• ANTIMEMETICS, Nadia Asparouhova (UK) (US+)
• THE SHORTEST DAY, Colm Toibin (UK) (US+)
• RED MOON, Kim Stanley Robinson (UK) (US+)
• THE FOGHORN’S LAMENT, Jennifer Lucy Allan (UK) (US+)
• 100 ARTISTS’ MANIFESTOS, Alex Danchev (UK) (US+)
• FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, Ernest Hemingway (UK) (US+)

It’s hot, I have a ton of shit to do and I’m all tapped out. These days, I try to recognise when I’m running on empty and stop pushing.

My free weekly newsletter will still be coming out every Sunday. But I am otherwise turning off the internet, getting on with work, going for long walks, making ice creams and sorbets, and looking for a good field to sit it for a while. I’ll be better at email, though!

It’s been hot all week, and tomorrow is forecast to be fully brain melting. Things are not getting done quickly enough. Please enjoy this photo of the boy telling me he’s hot too.

Susana Lopez wrote to tell me she has a new record out, and it’s gorgeous:

Okay, creative consult done, newsletter scheduled for Sunday, drinking a caffe Leccese, eating a bowl of mixed leaves, cold chicken thigh and puy lentils for my sins. Taking a few things off my boards that either are unlikely to happen or I don’t have the immediate time for, the latter of which I’m turning into digital reminders.

Paul Krugman manages at least one newsletter a day and I can’t write 100 words once a day here this week. I need to sort myself out. After I get these eight pages of roughs down.