by phoenix | Aug 12, 2003 | Uncategorized
My advice for the down-at-heel in Paris. Step one, purchase a “what’s on in paris” booklet from a street news vendor (40 centimes). This will inform you of all the cool free happenings around town, including funky music at the new fake Paris-Plage (sand,...
by phoenix | Aug 8, 2003 | Uncategorized
I like Paris. I do. This is my third or fourth time here, and as cities go, I like it. Wide tree-lined streets, a language I speak well enough to understand 90% of what’s said around me by strangers at outdoor cafes, thus feeding my...
by phoenix | Aug 6, 2003 | Uncategorized
Can’t find punctuation on dumb french keyboards. A and Q reversed. Will updqte when back on own ‘puter. Argh. Have not typed hunt and peck for decades.
by phoenix | Aug 4, 2003 | Uncategorized
Wow. Guggenheim Bilbao: from Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons and a sidetrip to Calder. Four decades of art from the Broad Collection and a whole floor of the beautiful mobiles of Alexander Calder. And after years and years as a Situationist...
by phoenix | Aug 3, 2003 | Uncategorized
Welcome to the first night of my life in a location where there is active separatist terrorism (for those who don’t know, that’s the ETA who want the Pais Vasco (Basque Country) to secede from Spain). In the last week or so, there have been three bombs,...
