http://www.badmouth.net Look, Ma! No pants! Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:04:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.badmouth.net/tapping-a-crooked-vein/ http://www.badmouth.net/tapping-a-crooked-vein/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:38:47 +0000 Brian McDonough http://www.badmouth.net/tapping-a-crooked-vein/ British writer Warren Ellis is what you might've gotten if Hunter S. Thompson had ground up Philip K. Dick's brain and snorted it off the tattooed flank of a callipygian Suicide Girl. His debut novel, Crooked Little Vein, is a breakneck tour of America's tumorous underbelly, 280 pages of furious freight-train satire. With the keen eye of the irreverent outsider, Ellis goes on a crazy trip across the United States, hitting representative hot spots of American lunacy: Manhattan, Ohio, Texas, Vegas, L.A. He brings out a parade of sickos and psychos so acutely bizarre (the least of them is a clique of gay bodybuilders who enlarge their testicles with saline injections ... to kill an afternoon) that it threatens your suspension of disbelief—though I'd swear two-thirds of the weirdness has been documented online and linked to Ellis' often disturbing blog. Related posts:

1. Global Frequency

]]> http://www.badmouth.net/tapping-a-crooked-vein/feed/ 2 http://www.badmouth.net/global-frequency/ http://www.badmouth.net/global-frequency/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:06:28 +0000 Brian McDonough http://www.badmouth.net/?p=223 You're not alone -- you're on the Global Frequency Global Frequency was a 12-issue comic book series, released in 2003, now collected in two volumes. The concept? When the world, or the chunk nearest you, is about to be destroyed by something way beyond normal, members of a 1001-member worldwide network are summoned—whoever's nearest or most needed. A special cell phone rings, you answer it, and a woman you'll never meet says, “John Doe ... You're on the Global Frequency.” And you put down your bacon double cheeseburger and help your ad-hoc team save the world. Global Frequency is also a television pilot produced in 2004 and rejected by stupid, stupid TV executives in 2005. Then someone with the true spirit of the property leaked the pilot onto the Internet, where it became the hot BitTorrent of the early summer. The show is creating enough buzz that there's the dimmest hope it can pull a Firefly -- getting its still-warm corpse defibrilated by rabid 'Net fandom. Related posts:

1. Tapping a Crooked Vein
2. Animated Spider-Man Is Simply Spectacular

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