It’s the reason I enjoy the sound of keyboard, or more important, the sound of an ink nib scratching on parchment. Right, like I’m ever going to do it that way. Over one of the lengthy dining engagements in Paris, I fond myself talking about comfort zones, and taking one step outside of a comfort … One last image

Airsick bag notations: I have got to remember that international travel via “coach” – or as the British Rail tickets once said, “CHEAP,” just doesn’t work. Cattle class, although, I’m pretty sure that Texas cattle, as well as French cattle, all receive better treatment. Weird unrelated items: Sagittarius. Obviously, my favorite sign, but my old … Airsick bag notations

Stopped off at the Dali Exhibit. The surrealists always excite me. We live in the same world, at times. Like most of the time. Off to London’s Heathrow, and from thence to home. But stay tuned, saw [i]Measure For Measure[/i] at the National Saturday night. What an amazing experience.

“Eating, for the French, isn’t a matter of life or death – it’s all much more serious than that.” “I guess I didn’t know” (Crystal Method, [i]Vegas[/i], Busy Child) “We think the subtle-witted French Conjurers and sorcerers.” Shakespeare’s [i]Henry VI Part I[/i] (I.i.25-6) Dinner, the other night, we started at 7:30, more realistically, about 8:00, … I shore do like them French ways

With one extra day to do nothing, or rather, with nothing planned, we had a chance to shop at all those cute little stores on the West Bank. I’m pretty secure in my manhood, in that, I can carry around a couple of bags of girls’ stuff and not be too offended. However, I will … Paris, two items

9th Century English bishop who earned a reputation as the weather prophet. “Cool, look a military parade!” I exclaimed. “Kramer? Those aren’t military, those are riot police.” Some kind of party, huh? The fireworks? Not that it was ever on my list of “things to do in a lifetime,” but Paris on Bastille Day sure … Feast Day of St. Swithin

Wiki on [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day]Bastille Day[/url]. So that’s what I’ve go to look forward to. Pictures from Paris: Carte Noire on the train. That tower. On the tower. The way to see Paris: on foot. Left Bank. Everything’s closed, except, of course, for the Tour de Effiel. Effeil. Effeile. My French is badly inflected with too much … Bastille Day

To say nothing of the dog “Remember where we are: in France, amongst a fickle and wavering nation.” Shakespeare’s [i]Henry VI, Part I[/i] (VI.i.138) The tunnel under the English Channel. Fast train. I was wondering if I could really see fish while under the sea. “Bonjour (then a bunch of stuff in French I didn’t … To say nothing of the dog

St. Veronica was a patroness of laundresses – noted for wiping Jesus’ brow with a shroud, thereby imprinting the shroud, and the rest of that story is history. Ate dinner one evening at Thai place, I forget the name. I forgot the tube stop, too. But the evening’s libation (variation of ice tea) came with … Feast Day of St. Veronica