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U.S. Tour '13, Part 1: Barcelona to Bigos
The train from Montpellier wasn't full, but in my car the only people speaking French were the conductors. There was an older Swedish couple, reading a .PDF of the Sunday paper on their laptops, two...
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U.S. Tour '13, Part 2: Brooklyn and Art
Yes, it's a real nice hotel. Not cheap. And, while it's easily accessible to Manhattan by subway and water taxi (more on that in a moment), it's not easily accessible to the rest of Brooklyn, where the...
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U.S. Tour '13: Entr'acte
I finally made it to Austin, and look who I bumped into at the airport. We hadn't seen each other in something like 30 years and he still remembered me.photo by the lovely and talented Patricia...
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U.S. Tour '13, Part 3: Eating Louisiana
Hope you don't mind a bit of discontinuity here. I'm busy trying to sort out what bits of SXSW '13 belong here and which belong in my other blog, for which I get paid. Much of it will probably be...
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Good Friday In Barcelona
Oboy! More narrative discontinuity!On the plane to Barcelona from JFK, most of my neighbors were Delta flight attendants, headed to Barcelona to crew some future flights to the U.S. One of them was...
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Unpacking: Miettes and Other Observations From the U.S. Tour '13
For a number of reasons, this year's trip didn't lend itself to being blogged in great detail. Ah, but that's okay. I know you folks don't care about my personal and spiritual journeys, the little...
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The Ugly, The Bad, and The Good
I've inverted old Sergio Leone's formulation for the simple reason of leaving you, dear reader, with an uplift rather than a, um, downlift at the end of this post. And I'm writing the post because I...
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Merry Miettes of May (With Socialism and Rabbit Turds)
As I said in my last post, it's not like nothing's been happening around here, and besides the pretty much related stuff in the last post, there's been a bunch of miscellaneous miettes-like things...
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Sax and Violence and Other Month-End Miettes
I didn't see the flying saucer when it came into our courtyard, but boy, did I hear it land. So did a lot of other people. I should explain, for those who are just getting here, that I live in the back...
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As I Was Going To Saint-Gilles...
...I met a man with 40 eels. Wait, that's not right.But I did go to Saint-Gilles yesterday, because Elijah Wald, a writer I very much respect, was in the neighborhood, and that's where he was headed....
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The Mystery of the High Castle
If it should ever occur to you to visit me here in the beautiful Sud de France, and should you have the time and the money, and should various other factors work in our favor, I'd ask you to rent a car...
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Courtesy and Condescension
I was sitting at my desk Saturday mid-afternoon after coming back from the market, and was wondering what I'd do with the rest of the day (as I do all too often these days) when the phone rang. The...
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Bastille Day Miettes
I guess I should feel guilty about this, but every year on Bastille Day there is, just a few hundred feet from my head, a fine military ceremony out on the Comédie and yet, four Bastille Days on, I...
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Vacation (Not Much Of A)
The day started, as they sometimes do, with a (strawberry-flavored) East German condom and a bottle of vinegar. They were waiting for me next to the bathroom sink as a reminder. I was up at 5am, so I...
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When An Anniversary Is A Milestone
I had a pretty great day yesterday. My old friend Judy (well, she's not that old) and her new husband Lou (again, not that new, nor are they that newly wed) came to town and I showed them around and...
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A Few Words About Observation, With A Miette
Funny, he doesn't look MontenegranYesterday, having been awakened by the adrenaline rush following the blast occasioned by someone playing a radio at top volume at 7am and then forced out of bed by the...
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Administrivia
I actually wrote an article -- well, not a real article, but a short item on a performer who's playing a festival that a friend's paper is sponsoring -- yesterday, which makes perhaps the third one...
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Some of you have known this for a while, others have learned of it recently, and I suspect for most of you this is the first time you've heard it, but if everything goes as planned, I'll be moving back...
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The Move: T Minus 4 Weeks
Well, it's done. The die is cast. The journey begins with a single step. Um, probably other cliches I could come up with, but, to spare you, dear readers, will not.Thanks to a friend with a zillion air...
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The Move: T Minus 3 Weeks; The Avalanche Begins
Tossed: MacWorld Mac Secrets, 4th Edition, by David Pogue. Took a while to find it on the copyright page, but 1997. There was a reason I held on to this for so long: while a lot of the other...
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