Kittie is back with a new album, Fire. Metal Hammer says: "A supremely assured return from a band who are intent on creating something fresh, new and exciting."

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The idea had come to Queneau on a visit to Greece in the early 1930s. There he learned about the dispute between adherents of the two rival forms of the Greek language: the archaic, revivalist Katharevousa, harking back to classical Greek, and the modern, vernacular Demotic. Queneau recognised a similar gulf between literary French and the contemporary spoken language: 'I came to realise that modern, written French must free itself from the conventions that still hem it in.' What was needed was an overhaul, an attentiveness to everyday speech, which would bring about a new written language, a 'néo-français', corresponding to the language as it was actually spoken. from How to Speak Zazie [London Review of Books; ungated]

The article is eventually a review of Queneau's The Skin of Dreams Queneau, previously

Whether you're a wizard looking for a dark lair or a dragon needing a place to hoard gold, sorcerers and monsters alike need the Dungeon Flippers, fantasy real estate agents Maulie and Cleaveland. It's a new cartoon by Travis Fowler, and the pilot episode, "The Ace of Wands," is on Youtube. (17 minutes)

"And then I played with some other things." Conelrad Adjacent digs into the history of the classic film-within-a-film in The Parallax View (1974). (previously)