Lesbians, nature, books & cake

Published in the French magazine Le Magasin Pittoresque in 1856.

Good talker.

Project Hail Mary — 2026, dir. Phil Lord & Chris Miller

Why am I still angry.

With Hannah Einbinder in Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026).

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

My absolute favorite of the many fabulous pieces of Discworld opera poster art appearing on the corridor walls at the International Discworld Convention this past weekend.

and none of these people wanted to walk away from a guaranteed job, so very few of them ever quit. they just kept doing the same show eight nights a week... for twenty or thirty years... and by the time it finally closed last year most of these musicians (who had been working together for DECADES) hated each other and really really fucking loathed phantom. I can't stop thinking about it. it's indescribably hellish to imagine but also the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life.

can you imagine.

Here's the link to the full transcript. An absolute goldmine. The section on Phantom of the Opera starts in Act 2.

“Zombies killed [by zombies] her.” <— active

Evening light along the north rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona.