Got the temp passport
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learnteachEasier than expected, but still a 3 hour jaunt today. Tonight is the big ball. Think I'll just go back to the hotel and nap.
It's been a bad week for museums but a good week for marching around Paris observing things, sitting outside of gay pubs sucking down a beer with the local bears, and being tres' amused by Paris.
Item 1: We believe that the fat people are bussed out every evening, if the local gendarmarie can catch them. That's the only rational explanation for a nation that eats as much butter as this one...this view is shared by all the fat people on the tour, who want me to be taken first so they can hotfoot it back to the hotel. (Edit for Clarity: There are no fat people other than tourists on the streets. The dinners can be huge. Where are all the fat people? Well, we believe... ...the other heavies on the dance tour are hoping when the police arrive with the bus they'll grab me first; I'm loud enough to give them time...)
Item 2: District Marais: Very happy arty jewish gay people, with GREAT piercing shops. Why do I feel so at home there? (Edit: The Marais is traditionally the jewish district, with lots of history including a museum. The gay district is the edge of the jewish district towards the river, that's why the gay jews are happy; they've got both subcultures in one place. If they're from New York; so much the better; it's the most obvious accent in the streets here. And there are a LOT of NY Gay tourists here right now. At least by aural sample in the Marais...)
Item 3: Comfort zone for John: Any bookstore. No, really, ANY bookstore. Jewish Mystics writing in French. The more outre' Taschen books. The opiate of this massive is a book.
Item 4: It is incredibly civilized to end the evening with a drink and polite conversation.
Item 5: Pointy shoes are still fashionable, but not on the young cute women who set fashion, more on the ones who look and follow fashion.
Item 6: I'm not fashionable in Paris. In any possible way. I'm so unfashionable I approach fashion from the other side. This makes me smile. (Edit: Both in weight, in my occasional laugh, and my current penguin clothes: for this trip I've brought pretty much white shirts and black wool slacks so that I can dress for the dances.)
Item 7: No item 7.
Item 8: I really, really like Paris--never thought I would.
Off for a cuppa and a snack, you know the food will be good as long as it's not McD. Perhaps even then, not that I'll ever know!
Hugsies!
PS: g0atface, you'd be a perfect flapper--the hair, the line, the smile. r0ckgirl (in Sacto) a gibson girl, callistoni a 1910's girl, etc.
It's been a bad week for museums but a good week for marching around Paris observing things, sitting outside of gay pubs sucking down a beer with the local bears, and being tres' amused by Paris.
Item 1: We believe that the fat people are bussed out every evening, if the local gendarmarie can catch them. That's the only rational explanation for a nation that eats as much butter as this one...this view is shared by all the fat people on the tour, who want me to be taken first so they can hotfoot it back to the hotel. (Edit for Clarity: There are no fat people other than tourists on the streets. The dinners can be huge. Where are all the fat people? Well, we believe... ...the other heavies on the dance tour are hoping when the police arrive with the bus they'll grab me first; I'm loud enough to give them time...)
Item 2: District Marais: Very happy arty jewish gay people, with GREAT piercing shops. Why do I feel so at home there? (Edit: The Marais is traditionally the jewish district, with lots of history including a museum. The gay district is the edge of the jewish district towards the river, that's why the gay jews are happy; they've got both subcultures in one place. If they're from New York; so much the better; it's the most obvious accent in the streets here. And there are a LOT of NY Gay tourists here right now. At least by aural sample in the Marais...)
Item 3: Comfort zone for John: Any bookstore. No, really, ANY bookstore. Jewish Mystics writing in French. The more outre' Taschen books. The opiate of this massive is a book.
Item 4: It is incredibly civilized to end the evening with a drink and polite conversation.
Item 5: Pointy shoes are still fashionable, but not on the young cute women who set fashion, more on the ones who look and follow fashion.
Item 6: I'm not fashionable in Paris. In any possible way. I'm so unfashionable I approach fashion from the other side. This makes me smile. (Edit: Both in weight, in my occasional laugh, and my current penguin clothes: for this trip I've brought pretty much white shirts and black wool slacks so that I can dress for the dances.)
Item 7: No item 7.
Item 8: I really, really like Paris--never thought I would.
Off for a cuppa and a snack, you know the food will be good as long as it's not McD. Perhaps even then, not that I'll ever know!
Hugsies!
PS: g0atface, you'd be a perfect flapper--the hair, the line, the smile. r0ckgirl (in Sacto) a gibson girl, callistoni a 1910's girl, etc.
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Date: 2005-07-28 10:34 am (UTC)Sure, the company's good, but the girl-watching must be low at a gay bar?
Non!
Date: 2005-07-28 11:00 am (UTC)I was sitting (just to the right of) the back door to the bar which led into the DVD room. From the looks of the door, more than that...
Now fighting the ticketing system; can't buy train tickets, gonna have to pay full ride at the stations. Easier to do but more expensive, it's frustrating when the buttons won't work because of java wonkyness.
Re: Non!
Date: 2005-07-28 11:02 am (UTC)Except for ones I steal from TM sources...generally I comment those.
Re: Non!
Date: 2005-07-28 11:51 am (UTC)Re: Non!
Date: 2005-07-29 09:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-28 02:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-28 04:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-28 09:28 pm (UTC)Non!
Date: 2005-07-29 09:15 am (UTC)Dorothy Parker
Date: 2005-07-31 05:45 pm (UTC)I love a martini
but two at the most.
Three I'm under the table --
Four, I'm under the host.
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Date: 2005-07-30 08:17 am (UTC)