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telemetry 27sep25

Published September 27, 2025 by Warren Ellis

Late Junction: Railway Junction

It’s “All aboard!” as Verity Sharp presents an eclectic selection of sonic odes to rail travel, 200 years on from the first ever passenger railway journey in the UK. Expect an archival adieu to the steam locomotives from Carnforth, Lancashire, echoes of a station piano recorded during a transit interlude, and a ticket inspector’s nod to the quiet solitude of the trans-European night train cabin in the form of contemporary field recordings.

A London Dreaming: Iain Sinclair’s Lud Heat At 50

Late Junction: radiophonic lullabies and distorted dreams

Jennifer Lucy Allan presents your weekly dose of adventurous explorations in sound. There’ll be distorted cello sounds from Seattle, composed by Nirvana’s cello player Lori Goldston, who hopes to give her listeners room to breathe and dream. Leo Chadburn also brings a dream-like labyrinthine recollection of misty quarries, disused railway lines, and shadowy monumental factory buildings, via closed-mic spoken word, vibraphone, wine glasses and drones. Plus a sonic dedication to “Radium Girls”, female factory workers exposed to radioactive luminous paint, courtesy of Phew, Dieter Moebius and Erika Kobayashi, composed in the shadow of the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011.

What Roland Allen, author of the excellent THE NOTEBOOK, uses.

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27sep25

Published September 27, 2025 by Warren Ellis

TODAY:

The mancub slept in his usual spot last night, has apparently eaten today, but is now back in his hideyhole under the bedroom sofa, because he knows in his evil little soul that today is the day I have to try and give him antibiotics. He informed me yesterday that I am permitted to feed him but we are no longer friends and I should no longer look directly at his royal personage.

OPERATIONS: Given I have to give pills to a small Tasmanian Devil twice today, I don’t fancy my chances for producing much material or keeping all my fingers.
STATUS: 7hrs 12m sleep, which is not an improvement. Short term memory still not working. I’ve put the Maven watch on today, as I don’t need to be across comms quite so much now everyone’s home for a bit.
READING: HERESY: JESUS CHRIST AND THE OTHER SONS OF GOD, Catherine Nixey (UK) (US+)
LISTENING: Bloomberg Daybreak Weekend podcast right at this moment.

MISSION CONTROL: I can be contacted via the Cheng Caplan Company or Inkwell Management. Link in masthead to join my free newsletter.

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11sep25

Published September 11, 2025 by Warren Ellis

It’s really turned into one of those “fuck me, that is a lot of news” weeks, hasn’t it? Even Paul Krugman’s taking a day off.

OPERATIONS: behind on all things, so today’s a dead run with no fun
STATUS: 8hrs 34m sleep which was NOT enough and I am waiting on a delivery of truffled salt to season venison burgers and fries with tonight because I am exactly that monster. And I just had to order a family member a ton of foreign currency for their holiday (that I am also paying for) and I feel like I just lost a kidney, except of course that my kidneys probably aren’t worth that much money
READING: CHOKEPOINTS, Edward Fishman (UK) (US+)

“To keep the English away from the Continent by blockade without possessing fleets is just as impossible as to forbid the birds to build their nests in our country,” concluded a contemporary report from Germany.


LISTENING: LE JARDIN music podcast is back with S4E1.
LAST WATCHED: lots of CNN, Bloomberg and BBC last night…

MISSION CONTROL: I can be contacted via the Cheng Caplan Company or Inkwell Management. Link in masthead to join my free newsletter.

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4sep25

Published September 4, 2025 by Warren Ellis

Supercat in flight here is rolling around on the lawn in the late summer sun, after having come to get me at 10.10 to tell me it’s morning and he needs his snack before we go outside. And then drooling on my face when I gave him some fuss.

TODAY:

OPERATIONS: I have to lock down the newsletter and ten pages of script today, no time to fart around. And I just got two big chunks of art to look through, which I probably need to do first.
STATUS: Inbox 98, barely 7 hours sleep, Gmail on iOS has stopped popping notifications AGAIN. Today I am back in a heavy workshirt for the first time since the end of May, as the chill starts creeping in. Putting the Apple Watch on because I have a feeling I’m going to need help keeping up today….
READING: OUR DEBTS TO THE PAST by Ed James (UK) (US+)
LISTENING: Dark Ambient Noisescapes

MISSION CONTROL: I can be contacted via the Cheng Caplan Company or Inkwell Management. Link in masthead to join my free newsletter.

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26feb25

Published February 26, 2025 by Warren Ellis

Back in the office with a ton of stuff to do while I wait out the weather. I’d rather be outside – my allergies are murdering me – but I have to catch up on a lot of things.

OPERATIONS: I have to do some work on and around the newsletter today, continue development on some things, and catch up on a lot of logging here.
STATUS: Inbox 101
READING: the terrifying ULTRA PROCE3SSED PEOPLE (UK) (US+). If I hadn’t already extensively modified my diet in the last couple of years I’d be under the bed crying.
LISTENING: Dark Ambient Noisescapes (In a realm where murk murmurs ineffable verities.) podcast
LAST WATCHED: Tried QUEER, which didn’t keep my attention first time around. Will try again at the weekend.

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. Forthcoming 2025: FELL: FERAL CITY new printing THE STORMWATCH COMPENDIUM, THE AUTHORITY Compact Edition, The LIGHTS OUT Anthology

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