I Am Coming To France Next Week!

A recent cartoon for New Scientist

would be fun if for once characters in a scifi story landed on a planet and it was like desert or whatever and theyre like ooh... a desert world.... and the people who live there are like what? no? this is just a desert. planets are very big. they have multiple biomes

However frustrating the recent drama on the left has been (and it has been very frustrating), let's all remember how much worse it is on the right (and how much funnier, since I don't have a sense of dread every time one of these far-right idiots trips on his own feet). The Red text says, in French: "Live, 2024 legislative elections: a third preliminary investigation targets Eric Ciotti".

In the late 2010s, I once car-pooled with someone whose car 1. Had a cassette player 2. Only contained a Best of Queens cassette. I spend the whole car ride ( several hours) wondering if I should say something. Since this was in France and I had never met another French person who had read Good Omens without me recommending it first, I didn't say anything, but I still think about it from time to time.

Q: What inspired you to have Crowley’s Bentley tapedeck turn everything into “The Best of Queen”?

Neil: Back in the days when all cars had cassette decks Terry Pratchett and I both noticed and talked about the fact that we had The Best of Queen tapes in our car we could not remember bying. And our theory was: all tapes turn in The Best of Queen. (x)

Listening to these people talking themselves into doing the one thing they've been warned not to do is HILARIOUS. Well, maybe we SHOULD go down Copland Road...

fanart for part 7, the island

malevolent: the flame had a slight greenish hue to it

me: everything was bathed in bright green light, got it

The Shepherd's Crown, Lords and Ladies, and Don't Be Afraid, Just Start The Tape.

I have been trying to remember what Armand's death monologue was reminding me of and it's the elves in the Discworld.