All Roads Lead To...
I'm back. Staying in the 7th arrondissement, where the tourists seem to know where they're going, but the statues are lost.
Went to my friend Emily's for dinner: Pouilly Fuissé, the greenest lettuce I think I've ever seen, three-cheese quiche from Gerard Mulot, a crunchy baguette that made me realize I like bread; I just don't like crappy baguettes, which are most of them...and these little cappucino ice cream pastries for dessert.
On the way home, a short walk from the 6th arrondissement (arrondissements=zip code areas) to the 7th, I noticed how Smart the French are. I didn't even start taking photos until I was about a third of the way home. But these are all the Smart cars (and one Mini, I think) I saw on the way back, and it was only about a third of a mile to where I'm staying:
For Paris fans, there's a fantastic new Paris blog, In Paris Now (soon to be called The Paris Blog) by LA and Paris' Laurie Pike. She posted the Charlie Hebdo link, and says this about the upcoming name change:
It’s not because our birth name made some people think we were a webcam inside a certain heiress’s vagina. (We’ll miss the traffic from that misconception.) But we are changing our name from In Paris Now to The Paris Blog. (Something Under the Bed Is Drooling was already taken, damn it!)
Are those the Burghers of Calais? We have a set back here in Pasadena, you know, a much shorter commute. Also-
http://tinyurl.com/br7bt
Crid at February 9, 2006 10:47 PM
Apparently, Google here isn't so smart:
And yes, I was a bit jetlagged so I couldn't remember, but I believe those are the Burghers themselves. Good art knowledge, Crid! Not that I'd expect any less. I'm going over there in a few minutes for the Giacommetti, etc. show, so I'll check to be sure!
Amy Alkon at February 9, 2006 11:38 PM
The VIIeme, how divine!!! You must call on Susan Spano...NOT.
Stu "El Inglés" Harris at February 10, 2006 7:31 AM
I'll look to the skies for smoke from the BBQ she uses to smoke out her neighbors, and avoid her.
Amy Alkon at February 10, 2006 1:00 PM
Thanks so much for posting about the Paris blog! I've been having a great time procrastinating by reading all about the travails of ex-pats buying houses and all sorts of other stuff. Wish there had been blogs when I lived in Paris...but it was so long ago that they still had the pneumatique service (vacuum tubes that whooshed your letters through Paris and were then hand-delivered). I think they closed it in 1984, the year after I left. Also in the realm of dead media, did anyone notice that Western Union discontinued it's telegraph service last month?
Pat Saperstein at February 10, 2006 2:25 PM
Et merci pour les nouvelles au sujet des tubes pneumatiques. Everybody tells me they didn't exist. I know they did!
Amy Alkon at February 10, 2006 7:19 PM
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