A cool thing I saw this summer: an old man painting a Rimbaud poem on a wall.


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Ten years of Festival America, and I've been there every time (looks like I lost some of the bracelets though).


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What is the best birthday cake for someone who studied Mayan epigraphy? One with glyphs written in Nutella on it, of course :


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France 33 - Ireland 10! My god, it was beautiful. We were just better at everything. Well, except the lineouts. I don't want to jinx it, so I won't even start to think about a G---d S--m, because it's a tradition for France to be good for just two weeks and then get thrashed by a boring England. We'll see. But it looks good. I can't believe our ( Read more... )

I'd like to know what twisted PR person decided it would be a good idea to choose a mean looking Sébastien Chabal teddy bear as poster boy for Valentine's day. It's on a giant billboard on the front of le Printemps:


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  Every time I pass by this shop I want to buy the matriochkas. But I guess 65 dolls is overkill:
  
  
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Uuuuuurgh, worst Christmas ever! My brother is getting divorced, and since he decided that only one week before Christmas it was too late to change plans, so my future-ex-sister-in-law still was at the dinner with my family. Lovely. Her family is not from Paris and my brother didn't want her to spend the holidays alone, I guess he was feeling ( Read more... )

I never had a facebook, never had a myspace, never cared much for these social networking sites... But through twitter, I got to meet an All Black and watch Saturday's Barbarians v. New Zealand game from the best seats in Twickenham. So I've changed my mind. God bless twitter ( Read more... )

I finally finished my scarf! It took me months, it took a lot of thread and a dozen needles, it probably cost me 5% of my eyesight, and I can't even count how many times I've sewn my own finger on it... But I'm happy with the result. It's inspired by Samoan siapo designs:


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  I signed up for a photography workshop at the Musée du Quai Branly, and I hope it will be really good and worth it because it's at the worst possible time, late Saturday afternoons, so I'm missing all the rugby. We're supposed to work on a project and end up with a coherent narrative and a series of photos... It's all new to me because usually I ( Read more... )