Two Statements from Warren Ellis

From his Bad Signal mailing list:

Perhaps interestingly, and showing this message is eating its own tail, bloggers like Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds live or die on user donations sent via PayPal. I just wonder if people really use words like "pundit" in real life without vomiting.

I just wonder if these people have real lives. And am quite relieved that the UppityNegroPundit redirect seems to have expired. Really, goneaway, it's cool, no need to reinstate that. Honest.

If you think Britney Spears is sexy, you're a probable paedophile who masturbates over the imagined sound of Minnie Mouse having an orgasm.

Hullo, Oliver.

Want to know more? See Four Questions for Warren Ellis, a mini-interview at Bookslut by America's sweetheart Karin Kross:

Is there any movie, book, or comic (or one of each) you've seen or read this year that you wish you hadn't? What would you prefer to have seen, read, or done in their place?

Most of them. And I would rather have been forced to depilate a raging tiger with a toothbrush while trapped in a phone box with the bastard. 2003 was a real cultural dead zone, the likes of which I hope we do not see again in a hurry.

And you can pick up the Ellis-penned, Tom Baker voice-acted Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising videogame (for Windows only, alas) fairly cheap these days.

2032. The entire world is at peace for the first time. Together, the human race is moving to become a world civilization. Together, we are becoming great. Until the bombings start. A cabal of Old World magnates -- the now powerless financiers, the despots and Presidents, the death-loving military men -- are working together to destabilize the planet and return it to its fractured, hate-ridden war economy past. The past they understand, as opposed to the future they fear.

A demo is (supposedly) available from either of those previous links; I'm in Linux, on dialup, and didn't bother trying -- it's 113 MB, after all.