1- The Caucasian Immigrant’s Confession: your cool-eyed bloggiste has turned into an addict of the 2007 French Presidential election race.  No matter how uninspiring the candidates may be.  So what’s the story on Sarko’s apartment renovations, on the shooting star trajectory of liberal candidate Bayrou—and speaking of fireworks, I can’t wait for Segolene’s rendezvous this […]

Oink oink oink for l’Annee du Cochon!  Long live Wilbur!  In China itself there may be some problems: a planet-threatening tsunami of babies, clandestinely conceived this year in order to take advantage of the luxurious auspices.  Also, worries about offending the muslim populations with too much joyful piggery.  But in Paris, home to perhaps 20,000 […]

A FEW WEEKS AGO the radio warned of a ‘tempete’ over all of Europe.  In fact bad things happened elsewhere, power failures and fatalities, but as in the riots of ’05 Paris appeared immune, a city in a bubble.  I walked & metroed over to the musee d’orsay.  The wind was simply wind.  Day very […]

THERE HAS YET to appear a US-media article that ‘gets’ Segolene Royal.  Apparently hypnotized–like a scarily high percentage of potential French voters–by her own suggestion, they embrace the Presidential candidate as a cross between Catherine Deneuve and Cardinal Richelieu. But Royal reminds me more of the girl who was the head of our class for […]