Why should you learn French?

(Edit: replaced first paragraph and link which mysteriously disappeared upon first publish.)
This one's for Arbi-everything-sounds-good-in-French-trista. I heard this on the radio yesterday, and had to find it. It's David Bowie's Space Oddity covered --in French-- by Lucien Midnight. Not just French, but Quebecois French. Which is like three or four kinds of awesome, right there.

Tangentially, it took me a while to find, so I also came across a great 1999 cover of same by Natalie Merchant (sorry, but it's in English!):

But, even more interestingly, how, HOW?! did I teach foreign language classes for so many years without realizing that ABBA actually had French, Spanish and German versions of most of their own songs?!?!
I'm picturing language lab exercises, class dance-offs in costume and 70's hair....so many possibilities...

• Waterloo en francais.
• Chiquitita en español.
• Ring ring auf Deutsch.

Happy Birthday to the Most Powerful Woman in the Universe!

She-Ra is 25.
I wish her (and all the other Princesses of Power with recent birthdays) many happy returns.

Awesome

Hat tip to LuckyBuzz, and to The Lazy Bloggers Post Generator.

"OMG! I just climbed out from under my rock and realised I have not updated this since people stopped clapping and Tinkerbell died... You would not believe how heavy that rock really is. Apologies to my regular readers! Even the little blue ones!

I am totally and utterly flat out with an awfully big adventure, waiting for the onshore winds, just generally being a pain to anyone unfortunate to cross my path. My day is a magical flight from crawling out of bed at 6.30 to way past dusk. I am wondering if I paid my electricity bill, but who cares?

I will try to remember I promised you I will write something that makes sense soon. No, really! What do you mean you don't believe me?"

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