Back in April, Laurence Simon set up his own “Avignon Edition” of the Carnival of the Vanities, because the official version was ghastly. He’s done it again. (And this time, the Carnival even contains a Gleeson post, which automatically makes it worth seeing!)

UPDATE Now comes Ferd the Cat, with yet another edition of the very same Carnival! I do believe this is the first three-way schism in the Carnival’s august history. In keeping with Simon’s “Avignon” terminology (a reference to the Great Schism of the West, which saw competing claimants to the papacy in Rome, Avignon, and Pisa), I think we shall have to dub Bruce’s the “Pisa edition.” (Correction: I mean Ferd’s, not Bruce’s. I get those two mixed up a lot, sorry.)