Bone, one of my favorite comics of all time, is currently being adapted as a serialized video game (and a cool looking one at that).

Click here to see!

And in even cooler news – Three new Bone novels, a trilogy titled Bone: Quest for the Spark, have been scheduled for release in 2011, detailing the adventures of new group of Bones in the valley.

BONE: Quest for the Spark is a slightly different kind of thing. It is not a comic; it’s a novel. A series of three novels written by Tom Sniegoski that follow a new generation of Bone characters into the Valley.

I was a bit unsure about this project when Tom first suggested it, but when I read the first book I laughed so hard, I agreed to do it. Scholastic was so blown away by it, that they decided to make it available in hardcover and wanted the illustrations, of which I think I’m going to do about twenty, full bleed and in color.

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Tall Tales, a graphic novel collecting both out of print and new materials, will be out in August.

The graphic novel will feature new Smiley Bone and Bartleby stuff by Jeff Smith!

Links

Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume

Bone Prequel: Rose

Bone Handbook

Boneville – The Official Bone Homepage

Bone Cover Gallery

Bone Fan Animation

Tall Tales

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(Mothman painting by Frank Frazetta)

Is there a connection between Mothman and Pazuzu?

This is an article by the always interesting Farah Yurdozu on the similarities between modern sightings of Mothman and the deities of ancient Turkey.

Pazuzu or Mothman?

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It’s a very cool science fiction vision for fans and believers of the ancient astronaut theory.

As for aliens in our more recent past. . .

I was very surprised by this next article, in which Farah discusses the Mary Poppins novels, and the intent by their author to write them as metaphors for the alien abduction experience.

Mary Poppins, Alien Abductions, and Gurdijeff

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(Pamela Lyndon Travers, author and creator of Mary Poppins)

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Steve Aylett has a new piece of short fiction up online called evernemesi.

. . .Any real writer will tell you that animals are the main thing standing in the way of the work. Once I was starting a new book and a bison put its head in the window and just stood there, more or less looking at the floor or into a space above it. It seemed perfectly content for the moment – and so was I. But as time passed without anything really changing I realised my day had been taken for ransom. Another time a badger jumped on to the keyboard and started shouting at me. And none of its ideas were fresh or original. Then there was the time a trapdoor opened and I fell into a cellar plagued with rats. As far as I could tell every single one of the thousand or so rats was exactly the same. Again, why the repetition of the same idea? It could be that they were different from each other in some subtle way I didn’t understand, but what could it be? Would they begin individually expressing different viewpoints and notions never heard before? Or simply attack me in the most boring way, each rat gnashing in roughly the same manner as its neighbour? I’ll leave you to guess which was the case.

More here.

Go read it, its hilarious.

He also has a story in the newest issue of Bust Down the Doors and Eat All the Chickens.

See also:

The Caterer Online Daily
LINT- THE MOVIE
Audio Recording of Steve Aylett’s Gigantic
Bust Down the Doors and Eat All the Chickens

Reading surreal fiction makes you smarter!

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A documentary on Grant Morrison is currently in he works by Sequart, which goes along perfectly with this transcript of one of Morison’s spoken word performances (and a few other things) I was about to post.

Grant Morrison’s Spoken Word Performance at Alternity

‘AS EVERY CHILD KNOWS, THE APOLLO MOON LANDINGS WERE FAKED UP IN STUDIOS BY TRAINED CHIMPANZEES WORKING FOR THE KODAK COMPANY; IF YOU LOOK AT THE FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPH OF EDWIN ‘BUZZ’ ALDRIN THROUGH A MAGNIFYING LENS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE OUT THREE CRUCIFIED ASTRONAUTS JUST BEHIND THE REFLECTION OF CAMERAMAN NEIL ARMSTRONG IN ALDRIN’S GOLD-PLATED HELMET VISOR…EVIDENTLY ALL STILL BREATHING DESPITE THE MOON’S ALLEGED LACK OF OXYGEN.’

NIGHTS LIKE THESE ALWAYS BEGIN WITH THE ARRIVAL OF A MYSTERIOUS TIME-TRAVELLING STRANGER INTENT ON DISMANTLING EVERYONE’S CHERISHED IDEAS ABOUT COSMOS, SELF AND IDENTITY AND TONIGHT WILL BE NO DIFFERENT SO DON’T GET YOUR HOPES UP.

DROWNED BELOW THE SOUR GREEN MOONS OF PARIS, THESE PRESSURISED CELLARS OF THE CAFE MOMUS ARE KEPT OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY AS A GIFT TO A POVERTY-SMITTEN BUT CULTURE-ENRICHING BOHEMIAN DEMOGRAPHIC. WE SELF-PROCLAIMED AESTHETES LIKE TO GATHER NIGHTLY IN THE NAVY BLUE SHADOWS OF PLACES LIKE THIS FOR PEER GROUP VALIDATION AND THE PERFORMANCE OF DIY POETRY. AND THIS TOO IS WHERE YOU’LL ALWAYS FIND ME AND MY INSOMNIAC DROOGIES QUACKING BACK THE MILK AND RAW ABSINTHE, OSMOSING CREAMY GREEN BOOZE IN THE STYLE OF THOSE FOR WHOM ONLY MINUTES REMAIN BEFORE THE PROPHESIED ARRIVAL OF TEN THOUSAND SUICIDE ARCHANGELS PROGRAMMED BY JEHOVAH TO KICKSTART THE APOCALYPSE.

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This is a piece Morrison did for Skin Two magazine – The Story of Zero. It’s a scifi fetish short, illustrated with photos. I still remember tracking that issue down when it first came out.

And for those of you who’ve been looking for Grant Morrison’s music. . .

A few songs from his old band The Fauves (not to be confused with the Australian Fauves) have recently surfaced online. Spirphone, the homepage of Morrison’s former bandmates Ulric Kennedy and Daniel Vallely, is currently hosting a Fauves site featuring an mp3 of Hello Cruel World.

Songs by three other bands Morrison played in, Jenny & The Cat Club, The Mixers, and DHK are also being hosted at the site, and all of it is worth checking out. Even the stuff he’s not in. The is a lot of great music at Spirophone.

For more of Grant Morrison’s vocals however, check the video below for The Fauves – Tortured Soul vs. Superman.

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This is a new short story I’ve just added to the site. It’s named after the chorus of an Underworld song.

Connector
Dean Verheyen

“You know,” said Lauren, “I think we have some bodies like that at the morgue where I intern.”

“Really?” Brad’s eyes widened, and his mind started to race. The idea of jacking into a dead person was one that had been floating around his brain for almost as long as he’d had his connector installed in it. Until now though, it had only been an idle daydream as Brad had never actually seen a dead body before, let alone had one presented to him by a cute girl in a tight skirt.

Lauren had never even considered the idea of connecting to the dead. Most of her time in the morgue was spent dissecting with her friends and trying not to think about zombies, but it was Friday night and she was out and feeling bad. The thought of getting into trouble late at night in the place where she worked and studied was too much fun to let fall from her mind.

They all had another two drinks each, and within thirty minutes of the bars throwing everyone out and locking the doors behind them, Lauren was experiencing an excited rush of adrenaline as she unlocked the doors to the science building on campus and let in her friends. Brad went through first, followed by Nadia and Alice, who walked in together, connected by a long purple cable at the back of their skulls. Nadia and Alice had barely been acquaintances before hooking up one night at a dance party. Since then the two of them had been linked almost constantly. Port-to-port when they were together and through the net when they were home. They even slept like that sometimes.

Next through the door was Derrick, who they had just met at the bar about two hours earlier. He was at least ten years older than the rest of them and so full of drugs that he was still wearing sunglasses indoors at two in the morning. He walked through in silence.

Lauren came in last and locked the door behind them as they stepped into the darkness. (more…)

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The newest issue of Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens has been released, and was instantly consumed by myself upon it’s arrival in my mailbox. Seventy-six pages of literary sexiness and bizarro brilliance, Bust Down the Doors and Eat All the Chickens should be on every magazine rack on the planet, right next to all those classic issues of Astonishing Tales and Assimov’s that wouldn’t stand a chance in comparison.

Featuring the dramatic tale of a giant mechanical Michael Ironside; a sky filled with enamel and a man on a date with the night itself; gun-toting lunatics that will make you laugh, and a piece of Friends fan fiction that is the scariest things I’ve read in ages.

Stories by:

D. Harlan Wilson
Blake Butler
Adam Breckenridge
Mike Young
Sam Pink
Matthew Simmons
Aaron Sitze
Cameron Pierce
Darby Lawson
Ofelia Hunt
Rhys Hughes

Edited by:

Bradley Sands

Issues 2 and 7, as well as two other anthologies, can be downloaded here. The newest print issue of Bust Down the Doors and Eat All the Chickens is available to order here.

Very cool.

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A 23-second commercial for Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, by Jay Verheyen.

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This a link to a teaser trailer for Lint The Movie, the film version of the biography of Jeff Lint by Steve Aylett – Lint (which was followed up by And Your Point Is?) The movie has an amazing line-up, starring Alan Moore, Mitzi Szereto, Stewart Lee, Bill Ectric, Andrew O’Neil, Mo Ali, and more. I had no idea this was even happening.

Lint the Movie – Teaser trailer.

An interview from Lint the Movie – Bill Ectric on his near encounter with the mysterious author.

Caty and the Major – The animated series from the mind of Jeff Lint, author of I Eat Fog and The Phosphorus Tarot of Matchbooks.

The Caterer – Jeff Lint’s 1970′s comic book madness.

Get That Thing Away From Me – The new comic by Steve Aylett.

Lint – The novel.

And your Point Is?

Everybody should read Steve Aylett, it’s an experience.

Bonus Link:

Steve Aylett’s Gigantic

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An audio archive of the works of Terence McKenna has been posted at Lance Rules, where you can also find archives of people like Bill Hicks and Timothy Leary, amongst others.

Terence McKenna is quite possibly my favorite philosopher of the 20th century. All current speculation about 2012 and the singularity have their origins his writings. McKenna talked about DMT and machine elves, hyperspace and dreamtime, shamanism and mushrooms, reality, language, and the end of time. I highly recommend all the files in the archive, and his books even more so. Food of the Gods, The Archaic Revival, True Hallucinations, The Invisible Landscape. All of them are brilliant. All of them should be read.

My favorite piece of Terence McKenna shininess is Alien Dreamtime, the album he did spoken word with music by Spacetime Continuum. You can find a video of it in the archive.

Terence McKenna Audio Archive

Terence McKenna Video Archive

Floating World Web’s Terence McKenna’s Pages

Terrence McKenna Land at Deoxy.org

The Terrence McKenna Vault at Erowid

Terence McKenna at Google Video

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Found via The Disney Blog, a DJ named Pogo has made a music video remixed brilliantly from Disney’s Alice in Wonderland into a cool little techno song called Alice.

Alice – Music Video

Alice – MP3 Download

He has three other Alice songs on his site as well.

Lost

UnBirthday

Bread and Butterflies

Links:

Cecil Hepworth’s Alice in Wonderland from 1903, free to download.

Jan Svankmajer’s surrealist retelling of Alice in Wonderland – Alice

Alice in Wonderland Art Gallery

An Alice Anthology

Mad Hatter and Alice in Disneyland

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