I came to Paris for a Surprise Party celebrating my father's 70th birthday. It was a tremendous success. I'm leaving next saturday morning. If you are around, I hope to meet you before then!

Je suis venu à Paris pour une Sauterie Surprise ( Read more... )

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1938. Un magnat de l'Opéra à privilège perd de l'argent à produire des opéras que nul ne veut regarder. Il fait faillite. L'État le rachète et éponge ses dettes à coups de millions pour qu'il puisse continuer à produire des opéras que nul ne veut regarder.

Décidément, le Front Populaire était activement occupé à perdre la guerre ( Read more... )

Je serai de brièvement retour en France du 19 juillet 2007 au 7 août 2007.

I will be having holidays in and around San Francisco, arriving on Sunday Dec 31 at midday, and leaving on January 8 at night. If you are nearby between these dates, I will be most glad to meet you!

In any case, I hope you are happily celebrating the Winter Solstice, Saturnalia, Gravmas, or whatever you like to call the gift-giving season.

NB: I ( Read more... )

Two signs of relative lack of civilization in Mexico. First, there are lots of security officers, public or private, everywhere; they are a symptoms of a high crime rate. Streets are much dirtier than in Boston; unhappily, I cannot vouch for Paris being better these days.

The mexican political leaders have always been the minority of mainly ( Read more... )

When downtown, be sure to go the Zocalo, the great central market plaza, with the presidential palace and the Cathedral, where the ruins of the Templo Mayor was recently unearthed. The ruins and their museum are well deserving of a two hour visit.
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Unlike what its name suggests, the museum of Bellas Artes doesn't have a lot of Fine Arts, but it still is well worth the short and cheap visit. You won't find classics there, but mostly copies of those Funny Arts that our XXth century ancestors used to call Modernwhere conceptual jokes replace the exaltation of natural shapes ( Read more... )

Right from the airplane's windowpanes ( Read more... )

There was a snowstorm eight days ago, and that's the precisely the time I chose to go out shopping for tidbits at Home Depot. I asked my way twice. The first time near the subway station, a very gentle man explained me the way, under the highway twice along a crooked itinerary. I try to follow his instructions. And then, along what was either the ( Read more... )