~monday haiku~
Monday, May 24th, 2010sudden thunderstorm:
girls and homos leap and squeal.
Schöneberg greets spring.
who ess zess c.v.?
curi·ous {Old French curios} Drawn to investigate, prick up the ears, ponder for the sake of pondering. Enticed by mysteriously labeled bottles.
vo·luptu·ary {Late Latin volupturius} A lass devoted to the pursuit of pleasure. An unabashed epicurean, hedonist, libertine, sensualist, lotus-eater.
- everything here abouts:
Archive for the ‘joie de vivre’ Category
~signs of spring~
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010At the end of another dense editing day, we walked ourselves like a couple of pups through the twilight. Buds! Clouds! Vintage lingerie! It will be so good, as Whitman says, to finally “loafe and invite my soul.”
~paperback writer~
Thursday, April 1st, 201075,000 words, 350 pages. That, ladies and gents, is a novel!
We will walk into the sun now, I will buy it a coffee, and begin our new conversation:
is that really what I mean? is that all I have to say on the subject? is there a more lovely way to say it?
It will be longer, [...]
~hearticle~
Sunday, February 14th, 2010Perhaps any veracity in the myth regarding the allegedly endless words Eskimos have for snow (first perpetuated in Franz Boas‘ 1911 The Handbook of North American Indians) would simply reflect a need to stamp back the boredom of talking about it for weeks and months on end.
Valentine’s Day Greetings to you, from a hasn’t-been-frozen-enough-to-walk-across-in-thirty-years Wannsee [...]
~how ya gonna keep em down on the farm~
Friday, January 8th, 2010Tho’ you may think it strange/Wine and women play the mischief/With a boy who’s loose with change/They’ll never want to see a rake or plow/And who the deuce can parleyvous a cow? Oh how ya gonna keep em down on the farm/After they’ve seen Paree?
This post WWl tin-pan alley tune looped on my personal [...]
~aventures du louchette flâneurse: 47ème~
Thursday, December 31st, 2009New Years Eve! A Blue Moon! Le Réveillon de la Saint-Sylvestre (New Years Eve feast) at Bistrot Paul Bert! A relatively quiet and very tasty evening of foie gras (Alfonso), truffles (Kim), and a splendid wine from Languedoc-Roussillon (Côtes Catalanes) winery Le Petite Baigneuse, Grand Largue.
Then the fire brigade, who have a station just down [...]
~aventures du louchette flâneurse: 46ème~
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009A nighttime pilgrimage to the Tour Eiffel, by which I mean a five+ mile, three hour stroll through le Marais, past Notre Dame, and along the Seine. Heaven.
When we arrived at the foot of the tower, it began to practice for the first ever rainbow-hued 400 LED light show on New Years Eve. Some things, [...]
~aventures du louchette flâneurse: 41ème~
Friday, December 25th, 2009A very extravagant Christmas Eve spent on the Rive Gauche at La Coupole, a brasserie that opened in Montparnasse in 1927. The mood was lovely, humming and old-school. A birthday was righteously celebrated with singing and sparklers, our waiter took my camera and photographed the entire restaurant for us, and when someone dropped a large [...]
~aventures du louchette flâneurse: 36ème~
Sunday, December 20th, 2009Sunday morning snow storm and meeting my honey at the Gare de l’Est (built 1849, doubled in size 1931, a departure point for French troops in WWI). Or I should say judging by this photograph, I was unable to make it and sent my freezing, sleep-deprived crazy twin instead. Train forty-five minutes late, open-air interior [...]
~aventures du louchette flâneurse: 33ème~
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Snow! And more of it forecast for the next days. Low of 14 degrees. Can’t feel my nose. Now I’m really missing my honey. I send snow, Satie, and Cyd Charisse to Alfonso.
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