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Music by new, unsigned or independent artists, curated by Warren Ellis at www.warrenellis.com.

Don’t LookYesterday

Someone called Julia, who plainly didn’t include her last name for fear of reprisals, sent me a link. It came with the message "I’m just sending you this because you posted that damned video of the couple fucking in the dead bear. Revenge is sweet!"

So, you know… I clicked it.

And it bears reposting, because it is instructional. People like the man in the video, you see, are all around you. Every day. Every single day, you bump into someone like this, and you don’t know it. You must understand the true nature of the 21st Century Western human.

It is here.

I am sorry.

Witch HunterYesterday

Been meaning to write something up about the general phenomenon for weeks, but a news story today kind of puts it front and centre:

Police in south-east Nigeria have arrested a man who claimed to have killed 110 child "witches".

See, this isn’t a cute funny story for silly season, and it’s not even "weird" in the way that gets it passed around the internet for lulz. What it is, is this:

Belief in witchcraft is strong across the country but a fear of child witches has become widespread in Akwa Ibom State since 1990s. Now children are blamed for all kinds of misfortune that befalls their families. They are abandoned or sold to child traffickers who then indenture them as house-workers in other parts of Nigeria or into prostitution. Others are violently exorcised to rid the child of the "demons".

Exorcism victims seen by CRARN in the past include a child who had nails driven into her head.

Earlier this week Mr Ikpe-Itauma said a six-year-old child was brought to their rescue centre after clambering out of a fast-flowing river. "The boy’s uncle was experiencing painful swelling in his legs," Mr Ikpe-Itauma told the BBC. "He concluded the child was

AXM: GHOST BOXES #2 PreviewYesterday

Six pages at CBR.

And remember: I don’t set the prices on Marvel comics.

Not TodayYesterday

Just a frightening shitload of things to get done today, so I’m just going to take a quick pass through FeedDemon and then disappear. I’m leaving Twitter on, but reserving actual brainpower for the hideous pile of work that has manifested itself today. So…

* This is now available for sale. I may have to dust the dead bats out of my wallet.

* D’Israeli’s poster for the Aviles comics festival. Click for embiggening options.

* Tristan Crane:

* Siege:

* How Kieron Gillen structures a piece of fiction. It involves a fridge.

* Comics artist Ben Oliver has star

Links for 2008-12-04Yesterday

• Scar literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  "Scar literature or literature of the wounded is a genre of Chinese literature which emerged in the late 1970s, soon after the death of Mao Zedong, portraying the sufferings of cadres and intellectuals during the the tragic experiences of the Cultural Revolution and the rule of the Gang of Four"
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