Maybe I wouldn’t say that the Musée des Arts et Métiers is my favorite museum in Paris. Suzie and I visited the Picasso Museum today, and afterwards I was thinking, of all the museums and exhibits I’ve been to in the last six months, which did I enjoy the most? The answer sort of surprised me — the most enjoyable experience, perhaps because I wasn’t expecting anything from it, was […]
I took the bus today to my favorite museum in Paris, the wonderful and interesting Musee des Arts and Metiers in the Marais. The fact that it’s my favorite museum probably proves that deep down (or maybe not so deep down) I’m a real nerd, as the museum is completely dedicated to the history of science and technology. The museum contains the collection of the Conservatoire National des Arts et […]
Here, one of my favorites, Jay Farrar of Son Volt … “highways and dreams together forever/in the minds of the free and the innocent” … And here, an excerpt from a concert I attended in Petaluma a couple of springs ago … we’ll know when we get there, if we’ll find mercy…
Time is winding down here, but we still find things to love about Paris. This weekend they were having a small Christmas market on the two blocks of Rue de Alésia east of our apartment, which consisted of stalls of vendors selling mostly delicious things to eat. We went to the market on Sunday, and by the time we traversed the two blocks, we were no longer hungry, having tasted […]
So I returned, after my horrible first experience at the Phonetics Lab, for a second session, because I’d paid for it (mostly) but also because I thought maybe the second time would be more useful and not quite so discouraging. Wrong. If anything, it was even worse. I was greeted this time by a friendly, vivacious, middle-aged woman whom I’ll call “D”, who asked me for the results of my […]
Chalk it up to the grey and the cold, the shortness of the days, the impending end to our time in Paris, a nagging cold, or a combination of the foregoing, but I haven’t felt much like writing lately. This is our last week at the Alliance Française; I’m acutely aware that the next few days may be the last we ever spend there, that the times I see my […]
Today had to be the low point of my time in Paris. Where to begin? Well, first of all, I’m getting sick, or am sick, or am fighting off sickness, I’m not quite sure which. I’ve picked up Suzie’s cold, which makes me feel like I’m running at fifty percent. This morning I woke up and my throat felt like sandpaper and I wondered how I could possibly get out […]
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, is a video worth a million? I don’t think so. Even so, here are a few recent videos, not particularly interesting in and of themselves, but they do give a sense of my life here in Paris. (Since most of you have high speed internet connections, I recommend going to the YouTube site and watching these in “high quality.) First, I visited […]
Last weekend we drove to Luxembourg to visit a friend of Suzie’s from high school. Longtime readers will recall that we made the same trip during our last visit to Paris, and encountered there the horrible Vaches Sauvages de Flaxweiler. This time, the plan was to have (belatedly, on Saturday) a real American-style Thanksgiving, with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, the whole, real deal. The trip had an inauspicious […]