...made me aware of Cookie Monster's deep introspection, thank you.
...suggested I go hot air ballooning, double thank you.
...put that leaflet concerning the Hermione replica ship project among the tourist attraction leaflet at the hotel, professional thank yous (how did I not know about this?).
...and thank you, scottbot, for telling me about the ( Read more... )

…well, she’s probably supposed to be at least 200, I think - reds live a long time and she was no teenager when John Carter first met her in 1865.

But it’s a hundred years since the first publication of Under the Moons of Mars (serialized from February to June, 1912 in All-Story). And what a hundred years it’s been.

I could wax poetic here but I won’ ( Read more... )

is in my rewrite of the previous post, which I then posted rather stupidly over there. In brief:

the Haitian Revolution is the great granddaddy of most of our horror tropes - possibly the very Matter of Horror as we understand it; the spectre of our white colonialism falling down before a black Spartacus revolt, combined with the spectre of the ( Read more... )

...since he moved it over here. But dammit I can't stay silent about this. Spreading rumours of a destined future emperor, an unknown army and magic flying machines in order to stir people into rebelling? It's totally a Scooby Doo plot from 1750.

Also, the human Sarlacc. Thanks Zak for turning me onto this subterranean design site.

Finally, hurrah ( Read more... )

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1. Thames Town is one of nine new towns being built outside of Shanghai as part of the 1 city-9 towns initiative passed by the Shanghai Planning Commission in 2001. All 9 new towns are themed: Swedish, English, Italian, Spanish, American, Dutch, German, traditional Chinese, and an ecological town.

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