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Today I have a cold, and am consuming rather a lot of dextromethorphane. Therefore, I present to...
Mar 2nd
Mar 2nd
Roll on, printemps.
Yesterday we got misled by Google Maps — it happens — and went 20 blocks the wrong way...
Mar 2nd
Mar 1st
Phew
Okay, Perry Bible Fellowship isn’t shutting down completely. It’s just shifting to a...
Mar 1st
Austrian erection, French security guard.
Feb 29th
Chris Mooney enters the fray.
Feb 29th
Sarah, Peter and Y at the Palais de Tokyo.
Feb 29th
Erections'n'shit
Last night we met up with some friends and went to an opening at the Musée de l’Art Moderne....
Feb 29th
”So, what do you think of this shit?”
Feb 29th
Feb 28th
Nouveau Geeks
Last night was the Jens Lekman show at Nouveau Casino. Y, who’s been noticing how much airtime...
Feb 28th
Feb 27th
Left Bank Day
Yesterday was a rainy errand day in the 5th and 6th, parts of Paris that I get to maybe once a...
Feb 27th
Place St. Michel
Feb 27th
Sexman
So this charming young man has been popping up here and there on the Internet, as various people...
Feb 27th
Those Filthy French, part one of a series: a current poster...
Feb 27th
The U.S./Canada food aisle at Bon Marché. This what French...
Feb 26th
Chatelet metro.
Feb 26th
“There ought to be a telephone service for people […]...”
— Charlie Brooker is quitting...
— Charlie Brooker is quitting...
Feb 26th
Wire Wire Wire Blah Blah Blah
So that was a pretty good backlash we had going there for a while, huh? After bottoming out around...
Feb 25th
“When I say I’m confident, I am so because I understand...”
— Meanwhile, in, quite...
— Meanwhile, in, quite...
Feb 25th
Ignoring Raph Nader is the sane and sensible...
Feb 25th
Feb 24th
Feb 23rd
Mon Oncle
Dinner tonight at a local table d’hôte. You show up, they give you what they have. The food...
Feb 23rd
Mon Oncle Vigneron.
Feb 23rd
Rue de Belleville. Early evening, when everyone’s...
Feb 23rd
Feb 23rd
Victor Hugo once said that his favourite Paris restaurant...
Feb 23rd
“Imagine, if you will, a box. Then consider [Celine]...”
— Oliver Burkeman, in...
— Oliver Burkeman, in...
Feb 23rd
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Not because it’s particularly funny, but because anybody putting the boots to this crap gets a...
Feb 23rd
Oberkampf.
Feb 22nd
Blvd. Richard Lenoir, pigeon, duck.
Feb 22nd
Happy anniversary
It’s nearly six months since we moved here. And speaking as someone who’s moved around a...
Feb 22nd
Bastille.
Feb 22nd
The staff and owners of Le Baratin, our neighbourhood...
Feb 21st
The little fresh-air produce market that randomly pops up...
Feb 21st
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His Jimmy Stewart is appalling. Hell, his hamster is too hammy. And though I know I did read The...
Feb 21st
Ugly, farflung...
Gridskipper’s layout is annoying and clunky: those little paragraphs you have to click on and...
Feb 20th
Wall made of bananas: Aaaaaaaaauuuuuuggggghhhhhh.
Feb 20th
This is…not real, surely?
Feb 19th
Heh.
Feb 18th
Increasing velocity of time, space, hand-claps and power pop...
Feb 18th
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So now I have this to look forward to. (via Goldenfiddle) Because I’m really looking forward...
Feb 18th
Things learned today.
1) When a country declares independence, its new expatriates drive around the city with flags like...
Feb 17th
Feb 17th
Moreau’s bedroom.
Feb 17th
Moreau’s office.
Feb 17th
Feb 17th
Denis Savary.
Feb 17th
Art day
Today we went a-gallerying, first to the Gustave Moreau museum in the 9th, which several friends...
Feb 17th
Parc Belleville.
Feb 17th
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alexbalk:
Contrary to current popular opinion, which states that there are no such things as guilty...
Feb 17th
Reading:
It’s this now. Last week it was Matter, by Iain M. Banks, which was pretty good — his...
Feb 16th
Chez Janou
Feb 16th
Le Fooding
Chez Janou, a pretty, decent little Provençal bistro in the Marais that we had lunch at today, was...
Feb 16th
Exactly.
Feb 15th
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How smart can you be and still live?
Feb 14th
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The late Harry Nilsson. He’s footnote-famous as the guy Lennon spent his lost weekend with, or...
Feb 14th
Kids today
Feb 14th
Things I learned, or knew already but...
1) The new and final season of The Wire sucks irreversibly. 2) Listening to Godspeed You Black...
Feb 13th
Opulent and dusty, part 2.
Some shots from the Lisbon weekend.
Feb 13th
Rua Augusta, in the Baixa.
Feb 13th
The miradour in Graça.
Feb 13th
A view over Baixa to Castelo.
Feb 13th
Bairro Alto.
Feb 13th
The Worst
Feb 12th
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Professor Longhair’s “Big Chief.” Top tune, and an, um, innovative use of Youtube.
Feb 12th
Feb 12th
Like the turkey needs the axe
I am seriously missing my copy of The Lady Eve. And I Know Where I’m Going.
Feb 12th
Feb 11th
Opulent and dusty
Back from a few days in Lisbon, the city in Europe I most have a troubled crush on. I want to eke...
Feb 11th
Feb 7th
Sparrow's nest
I was always vaguely aware that Edith Piaf was born somewhere near our place. Today, on my way down...
Feb 7th
Me, until recently.
Feb 7th
Pinker and prouder than previous
The comedy beard/hair (see my very first post) is dead. Utterly unbearable. For everyone. The beard...
Feb 7th
Crash Wednesday.
alexbalk: I’m sure a bunch of college kids are devastated this morning after the realization that...
Feb 6th
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I loved this show when it still had edge.
Feb 6th
“He introduced the Transcendental Meditation movement to the...”
— Sexy Sadie is dead.
— Sexy Sadie is dead.
Feb 6th
Reading:
I’ve finished Then We Came To The End, another highly-praised work of recent literary fiction...
Feb 5th
Feb 5th
Feb 5th
Good for a junkie
Last night we went to the Zenith and saw Babyshambles. Not a huge fan of the band — it’s...
Feb 5th
Feb 5th
“Then We Came to the End: A Novel (Paperback)
by Joshua...”
— Amazon.com
— Amazon.com
Feb 3rd
Francophilia
Today we skipped our usual Sunday trip to the market at Place des Fêtes — I’m trying to...
Feb 3rd
Late Sunday lunch at the Cafe La Pause, in the 11th.
Feb 2nd
Notre Dame de la Croix, tucked away off Boulevard...
Feb 2nd
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Flower Traveling Band’s last show.
Feb 1st
The Capital of Japan is Detroit
Reading: The Peter Cook book (ah, whatever), by his first wife, was very bad indeed. At a certain...
Feb 1st
This guy's thing is better than mine.
Feb 1st