"An advent calendar of unpleasant Santa antics, with the occasional uplifting/confusing Santa action shot.

"Y’know, for kids."

Did you want a print copy of SHIVERING SANDS before Xmas?

Here’s Lulu’s shipping guide,which helpfully points out the dates you need to order by in order to receive a copy before that hated day.

There is still time.

And once you’ve done that, here’s the storefront for the book.

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Because if I don’t list these, I’m clearly never going to get around to looking at them properly:

CATALYST:

THE EDGE:

DOUSEE:

EATSLEEPDRAW:

NO:

LIVING URBANISM:

OUT YONDER:

("an exploration into the free health clinics of Appalachia")

JUSTINA VILLANUEVA:

("For two years, Justina Villanueva has been confined to the dark, moldy basements of New York City’s metal scene. She lives for the stench of tour buses and the aural warfare of death metal festivals. No gig is too small and no band is too loud."

I have a MagCloud RSS feed of new releases going straight to FeedDemon. The above is a topslice of the more interesting-looking stuff I’ve seen pop up there. I will get round to buying most of these before Xmas, with a bit of luck, once I’ve used the Preview function (which is still flaking out in IE8 for me, but working like a dream in Chrome) to flick through them.

It won’t be hard, soon, to regularly curate a list of stuff worth visiting MagCloud for.

A snapshot of what friends and acquaintances have been doing and looking at, via their Flickr accounts:

1. The Stilton Terrahawks, 2. buttons’ packaging, 3. Pill Lights, 4. , 5. P1010487, 6. The Seine at 4am

PUNCH.

In which I give my predictions for 2010, revealing the terrible truth about Peter Sallis, warn you about the imminent Planet Of The Robot Apes, and introduce you to Womb Couture.

I have here the sizzle reel for your new favourite TV show. It’s OCEAN’S ELEVEN. The Sixties original. In space. With Sean fucking Pertwee. Devised by old crony Mike Sizemore, directed by Steve Barron. It’s called SLINGERS.

This is the link to the sizzle reel. Go and watch it now.

(The bit with the gun cracks me up.)

And this is the SLINGERS category on Mike’s blog. All kinds of interesting stuff there.

1. I will never get over you, 2. tunnel, 3. Tiger Style, 4. untitled, 5. I would imagine so, yes, 6. Fishhead Revisited

I have a couple of friends in this one, if you’re in the LA area: