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27mar25

Published March 27, 2025 by Warren Ellis

The sun is out. Not sure I’ll have the time to make the most of it, myself, but he’s rolling around on the grass like a happy idiot.

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OPERATIONS: Quick rewrite on deck, some breakdowns to knock out, wrapping up Sunday’s newsletter, a hundred emails to process – which I’m about to do, and maybe send some more, as I continue to fail to try to be better about being in contact with people.
STATUS: a geophysical artist I know has sent me an email entitled “cave cameras,” so god knows what he’s done this time. A few moments of frustration last night with my phone last night, my usual complaint that nothing on it works the way I want it to – why on earth would Fitbit not be accessible by Apple Health? Why do so few app makers produce widgets for their apps? Why isn’t this goddamn thing a glanceable terminal?


READING: THE NOTEBOOK, Roland Allen (UK) (US+)
LISTENING:

THINKING ABOUT:

When the copper returned to the station at the end of the beat, the duty officer could quickly inspect the notebook to verify that he had indeed performed his duty. That indoor role solidified into the rank of ‘inspector’; the officer whom we think of as an investigator was, originally, merely there to check the paperwork.

THE NOTEBOOK

MISSION CONTROL: I can be contacted via the Cheng Caplan Company. Link in masthead to join my free newsletter. Now: DESOLATION JONES: THE BIOHZARD EDITION, THE DEPARTMENT OF MIDNIGHT audio drama podcast, THE STORMWATCH COMPENDIUM. Forthcoming 2025: FELL: FERAL CITY new printing, THE AUTHORITY Compact Edition, The LIGHTS OUT Anthology.

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3aug24

Published August 3, 2024 by Warren Ellis

Pictured: today’s garden work.

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OPERATIONS: there is NO SIGNAL in the garden. It’s basically the 1970s out there, currently – continuing local network issues. Briefly organising delivery schedules for artists, publishers and myself and adding pending production deals to the boards
STATUS: Inbox 99, 7hrs 46mins sleep, sleeping heart rate of 64 (this is a note to self), readiness score of 86 which means I should be able to dig up some trees as well as cutting and lopping some back, and I will likely deprecate these details from STATUS next week

READING: EVERYTHING IS CINEMA: THE WORKING LIFE OF JEAN-LUC GODARD, Richard Brody.
THINKING ABOUT: from the Godard book:

I remember Godard asking me, for a scene of a car arriving at a railway crossing: “I only want the sound of the match.” Ordinarily, one would have put the sound of the car in motion and then braking, the character reaching for his cigarette then lighting it. This practice lent the voices and the discrete sound effects a peculiar intimacy, as if, like Bruno, the viewer were experiencing not a moment in full but a particular, keen, and pointed detail as Bruno remembers it.

MISSION CONTROL: I can be contacted via the Cheng Caplan Company. Link in masthead to join my free newsletter. Forthcoming 2024: THE DEPARTMENT OF MIDNIGHT, DESOLATION JONES: THE BIOHZARD EDITION, FELL: FERAL CITY new printing. 2025: THE STORMWATCH COMPENDIUM.

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A Little Splash Of Colour For a Dark May Morning – 31may24

Published May 31, 2024 by Warren Ellis

I could write a long list of all the things I don’t care about any more, but I don’t care about them enough to write the list.

TODAY:

Starburst galaxy:

Erin Hanson:

Even Nature can become depraved if people relentlessly incite it to do so . . . And Nature must have had an interest, taking an unscrupulous glance at our history where it discovered the perfect setting it needed to try out some new experimental form of life.

THE TWENTY DAYS OF TURIN (UK) (US+)
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And People Say I’m Crazy

Published December 30, 2023 by Warren Ellis

In 1946, University of Chicago researchers Anton Carlson and Frederick Hoelzel subjected rats to periodic food restriction and found, when they did, that those that went hungry every third day lived 15 to 20 percent longer than their cousins on a regular diet.

It’s not clear whether the pair applied what they’d learned to their own lives, but both lived relatively long lives for their time. Carlson died at the age of 81. Hoelzel made it to 74, despite having subjected himself over the years to experiments that included swallowing gravel, glass beads, and ball bearings to study how long it would take for such objects to pass through his system. And people say I’m crazy.

LIFESPAN, David Sinclair (UK) (US+)

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