The Brigmore Witches is the end of Daud's journey and subsequently the last of Dishonored's post-release content. Does this follow up to the 'Knife of Dunwall' successfully tie us over until a 'Dishonored' sequel or does this final episode fail to send one of 2012's greatest out on a high note? Let's see, faithful reader.
пятница, 30 августа 2013 г.
четверг, 29 августа 2013 г.
SPEKTRMODULE: Podcast 29–Summerland
 | SPEKTRMODULE 29 Summerland 28 minutes and 7 seconds |
If you don’t know what you’re looking at: SPEKTRMODULE is a podcast of haunted, ambient and sleepy music I compile for my own amusement.
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1. logotone
2 “Sumor” (excerpt) – Chris Watson (album: In St Cuthbert’s Time)
3. “Dreamer Redeemer” – eyedoublecross (album: VITRIOL)
4. “Dissonance Alchemy” – Angular Dreams (album: Noospheric Aberration)
5. “Sumor” (excerpt)
6. “Labelled: ‘Untitled’ – Autumn 78 [Cassette Tape]” – Regina Back (album: Works From The Beynon School Of Audio Architecture)
7. “Myojin Waterfall” – Kazuya Nagaya (album: Utsuho)
8. “Sumor” (excerpt)
9. “Promises” – John Cohen (EP: Deaf Arena)
10. “Sumor” (excerpt)
11. “Forever” – Julianna Barwick (album: Nepenthe)
12. logotone
All previous SPEKTRMODULE podcasts live under this category header or at spkmdl.libsyn.com.
среда, 28 августа 2013 г.
Letter of Complaint to the Home Office
Sir,
I watched the BBC's program "Luther", a fly-on-the wall documentary about the Serious Crime Unit in London. Your detectives are a fine body of men, working hard to keep the public safe from satanists, diamond thieves and nutters armed with hammers. I salute them.
But what hideous neckties they all wear! Talk about a serious crime! I had to stop watching. And what's the point of even wearing a tie if you're going to subvert the whole idea by leaving the knot half-way down your front, like a teenage oik trudging unwillingly to school?
Is it any wonder that the streets of London are full of glue sniffers, if this is the example the police set?
I've voted Conservative all my life, but this is the final straw.
Yours faithfully, Maynard Dingethorpe  |
The Home Office replies:
суббота, 24 августа 2013 г.
RPGCast - Episode 276: "Manic Pixie Dream Girl"
The Vita gets all the games. Elder Scrolls Online wants all the money. Xbox One wants all the games. PlayStation 4 has all the indies. Finally, Nintendo takes away all the heart containers.
вторник, 20 августа 2013 г.
Ouya shows promise, but stutters and sputters
The Ouya is a pretty little game console, powered by Android, filled with plenty of free stuff and primed to be a part of your home gaming experience. But new things tend to have kinks that need to be worked out to better refine them, and the Ouya is very much in that boat right now.
понедельник, 19 августа 2013 г.
London Underground Pop Up Themed Pub opens in September
More celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the London Underground now include the opportunity to drink in a Tube themed bar. After a successful pop-up at the London Design Festival last year, Camden Town Brewery are installing a micro-brewery and bar at designjunction.
Running from the 19th - 22nd September 2013 you can apply for free tickets for the bar at The New Sorting Office on New Oxford Street. The pop up bar will be serving the new Metropolitan range of beers named after the first steam trains that ran on the London Underground. These were especially created for London Transport Museum by Camden Town Brewery.
The bar itself is designed by Michael Sodeau, and will have some wonderful London Underground heritage station tiles on display (which I first heard about on Ian Visits blog)
The tiles look so well suited to pubs, it'll be interesting to see whether they pop up in other pubs around London after this.
Special LED Lighting, suspended on Underground line coloured textile cables, by Nud Collection, will complete the Tube themed look as well as seating inspired by original Underground moquette patterns but given a whole new contemporary feel.
Opening hours for the pub are Thursday 19th - 10am - 8pm, Friday 20th 10am - 7pm, Saturday 21st 10am - 6pm and Sunday 22nd 10am - 4pm. Don't forget to apply for tickets, rather than simply turning up. I certainly look forward to enjoying a bottle of Fowler Wheat beer.
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Running from the 19th - 22nd September 2013 you can apply for free tickets for the bar at The New Sorting Office on New Oxford Street. The pop up bar will be serving the new Metropolitan range of beers named after the first steam trains that ran on the London Underground. These were especially created for London Transport Museum by Camden Town Brewery.
The bar itself is designed by Michael Sodeau, and will have some wonderful London Underground heritage station tiles on display (which I first heard about on Ian Visits blog)
The tiles look so well suited to pubs, it'll be interesting to see whether they pop up in other pubs around London after this.
Special LED Lighting, suspended on Underground line coloured textile cables, by Nud Collection, will complete the Tube themed look as well as seating inspired by original Underground moquette patterns but given a whole new contemporary feel.
Opening hours for the pub are Thursday 19th - 10am - 8pm, Friday 20th 10am - 7pm, Saturday 21st 10am - 6pm and Sunday 22nd 10am - 4pm. Don't forget to apply for tickets, rather than simply turning up. I certainly look forward to enjoying a bottle of Fowler Wheat beer.
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воскресенье, 11 августа 2013 г.
SPEKTRMODULE: Podcast 28 – Witchroom
 | SPEKTRMODULE 28 Witchroom 70 minutes and 42 seconds |
If you don’t know what you’re looking at: SPEKTRMODULE is a podcast of haunted, ambient and sleepy music I compile for my own amusement.
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@warrenellis / warrenellis@gmail.com / t-shirt? mug?
Please tell other people about this podcast for sleepy people if you like it. We are #SPEKTRMODULE.
1. logotone
2. “Tribal Zone”- Vasilisk (album: Tribal Zone)
3. “Eygptian Sports Network” - Egyptian Sports Network (album: Interstitial Luxor)
4. “SuperSymmetry” – Helicopter Quartet (album: Where Have All The Aliens Gone?)
5. “Dissipatas Dominis (CBG Main Theme)” - Ajoura
6. “Surrender” - Black Swan
7. “Sympathy for the Devil [Single/Instrumental]” - Dionysus
8. “Thistle synthesizes a Rust” - Beifuslied
9. “V (Vocal Improvisation) “ - Almias (album: Almias)
10. “Untitled I” - Bog Vider (album: Cahuilla)
11. “I AM JACK’S NIGHTLIGHT” – FOOD STAMPS
12. logotone
All previous SPEKTRMODULE podcasts live under this category header or at spkmdl.libsyn.com.
BREAKING NEWS: I was a sex worker
This morning I awoke to find a claim published in the Mail that I was not a sex worker.
It is a direct attack on my integrity as a writer, to claim that I lied. And I have been prepared.
When the case goes to trial, I will have to present evidence that I was a sex worker. Starting with this - an Archive.org snap of my first escorting ad from October 2003 (link NSFW).
(Readers of the first book may recall this was the session with the grumpy photographer I wrote about. As I have often said, it was that experience - being made to wear terrible lingerie, awkward poses, all the rest - that first made me think, 'hey, I should be blogging this.'
And if you read the third book, I made a reference to a restaurant on Old Compton Street that has the same name as my working name - that is, of course, Taro.)
I will also be presenting my bank records from 2003-04, showing the cash deposits from the money I earned as an escort, and tax records from the same years showing that this income was declared to HMRC and tax paid. Here is a sample:
I also have the notebook in which I recorded details of appointments, etc. In several instances I have been able to piece together entries from the notebook, deposits to my accounts, and the corresponding entries in the book. If pressed, I will name a client, but only as a last resort.
The Mail also claims I didn't own nice enough clothes so couldn't have been an escort!
That's from December 2003, and is the same red silk top I wore to meet the manager for the first time (as written about in the first book). The next is at Henley Regatta in July 2004, suit is from Austin Reed, the bracelet was a gift from a client.
The Mail claims I was in Sheffield when writing the blog, but I moved to London in September 2003 and started escorting in October, starting blogging a few weeks later. All of which is easy - trivial, even - to prove.
Oh, and the "former landlady in Sheffield, who did not wish to be named", where I supposedly lived for three years? Who apparently saw me in 'Oxfam jumpers'? Hmm... I lived one year in university accommodation (St George's Flats), one year in a shared flat with an absentee landlord I never met (Hawthorne Road), and one year on my own in a house let through an agency (Loxley New Road). All well before moving to London. So either the landlady is lying about the timing of my tenancy and having met me, or (shock, horror) they made it up.
There's much more but it would be boring to put it all here. It's amazing to me the MoS made no effort at all to match anything they printed against things that are easy to find and in the public domain. But that's by the by, and will come out in due course.
It matters because this is a concerted and direct attack on my work as a writer. When I was anonymous, being real was my main - my only - advantage. The Mail on Sunday have made some frankly nonsense claims, and I will be going to town on this.
Because I know people do not trust the word of a sex worker, that is why I saved everything.
I look forward to the opportunity to rebut all claims in court. (The MoS claim the trial is expected "within weeks." In fact it is scheduled for June 2015.)
It is a direct attack on my integrity as a writer, to claim that I lied. And I have been prepared.
When the case goes to trial, I will have to present evidence that I was a sex worker. Starting with this - an Archive.org snap of my first escorting ad from October 2003 (link NSFW).
(Readers of the first book may recall this was the session with the grumpy photographer I wrote about. As I have often said, it was that experience - being made to wear terrible lingerie, awkward poses, all the rest - that first made me think, 'hey, I should be blogging this.'
And if you read the third book, I made a reference to a restaurant on Old Compton Street that has the same name as my working name - that is, of course, Taro.)
I will also be presenting my bank records from 2003-04, showing the cash deposits from the money I earned as an escort, and tax records from the same years showing that this income was declared to HMRC and tax paid. Here is a sample:
I also have the notebook in which I recorded details of appointments, etc. In several instances I have been able to piece together entries from the notebook, deposits to my accounts, and the corresponding entries in the book. If pressed, I will name a client, but only as a last resort.
The Mail also claims I didn't own nice enough clothes so couldn't have been an escort!
That's from December 2003, and is the same red silk top I wore to meet the manager for the first time (as written about in the first book). The next is at Henley Regatta in July 2004, suit is from Austin Reed, the bracelet was a gift from a client.
The Mail claims I was in Sheffield when writing the blog, but I moved to London in September 2003 and started escorting in October, starting blogging a few weeks later. All of which is easy - trivial, even - to prove.
Oh, and the "former landlady in Sheffield, who did not wish to be named", where I supposedly lived for three years? Who apparently saw me in 'Oxfam jumpers'? Hmm... I lived one year in university accommodation (St George's Flats), one year in a shared flat with an absentee landlord I never met (Hawthorne Road), and one year on my own in a house let through an agency (Loxley New Road). All well before moving to London. So either the landlady is lying about the timing of my tenancy and having met me, or (shock, horror) they made it up.
There's much more but it would be boring to put it all here. It's amazing to me the MoS made no effort at all to match anything they printed against things that are easy to find and in the public domain. But that's by the by, and will come out in due course.
It matters because this is a concerted and direct attack on my work as a writer. When I was anonymous, being real was my main - my only - advantage. The Mail on Sunday have made some frankly nonsense claims, and I will be going to town on this.
Because I know people do not trust the word of a sex worker, that is why I saved everything.
I look forward to the opportunity to rebut all claims in court. (The MoS claim the trial is expected "within weeks." In fact it is scheduled for June 2015.)
четверг, 8 августа 2013 г.
Why Even a Big List Won’t Save You from Bad Strategy
A big question I get asked all the time here and on Copyblogger webinars (right after how to generate traffic or build a list), is “How can I get more people to respond/buy/subscribe?” In my previous post, I talked about what makes content truly successful, and I gave a big answer, but for this particular […]
воскресенье, 4 августа 2013 г.
SPEKTRMODULE: Podcast 27 – The Hedgerows Of Purgatory
 | SPEKTRMODULE 27 The Hedgerows Of Purgatory 37 minutes and 59 seconds |
If you don’t know what you’re looking at: SPEKTRMODULE is a podcast of haunted, ambient and sleepy music I compile for my own amusement.
Direct mp3 link. Or press Play on the player. iTunes link.
@warrenellis / warrenellis@gmail.com / t-shirt? mug?
Feel free to tell other people about this podcast for sleepy people if you like it.
We are #SPEKTRMODULE
1. logotone
2. “The Priory Bell (New Hall Priory, Chelmsford/Essex)” - The Canonesses Of The Holy Sepulchre (Album: Eternal Light)
3. “Trench Ritual” – Foie Gras (album: Innermost Shrine, Heavily Gilded)
4. “Dharmakaya” - Sir Richard Bishop & W. David Oliphant (album: Beyond All Defects)
5. “Brown Grass” - Motion Sickness of Time Travel (album: Slow Architecture)
6. “Act Two, The Cory’s Shearwater” - Lieven Marten Moana (album: Music from the Guardhouse)
7. “HUCKING FELL – 10-3-13” – Sean Breadin
8. “Favershell” - House in the Woods (EP: Bucolica)
9. “Where The Mission Bells Are Chiming (Down Beside The Sea) “- Julia Holter (project: Songs In The Key Of L.A.)
10. logotone
All previous SPEKTRMODULE podcasts live under this category header or at spkmdl.libsyn.com.
суббота, 3 августа 2013 г.
RPGCast - Episode 273: "Get Off The Mixer"
The internet conspires against the podcast this week. First it sends cats to attack the equipment, then it breaks Twitch.tv, and finally it takes out all of England's connectivity. But that won't keep our heroes from spending $500 on Jim Raynor.
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