Let me take you through it…my year and a half in Paris as a single girl.

March 05. My First Frenchie: Stocky, manly, hairy. Drove a motorcycle and had a bigger ass than I did. Loved feeling tiny, but wasn’t enough- we had nothing to talk about.
April 05. The Poet: American, published, talented, emotionally unavailable. Became […]

There are some people in Paris who are trying to bring back Mardi Gras here in the capitale. After all, if Cologne, Nice, Venice, Munich, Rio, Binche in Belgium, New Orleans, and even Mobile, Alabama can have a great Mardi Gras, why not Paris? One good answer: Parisians. The same morose, reserved people with whom […]

If you’ve read my blog for a while (anybody?) you’ll know I’m addicted to the immune system suppressants, Haribo Togada.

Today while in a sugar low befuddled state, I picked up these look-a-like sweets from the local G20, but they’ve turned out to be a desperately poor copy. They’re actually *tiring* to chew!
Damn that jolly […]

Today was another one of those overly complicated recipes that involves disembowling live langoustines (crawfish). Why is it necessary to disembowl them alive, one might ponder? Because otherwise their fat black intestine gets cooked in with their sweet flesh and it’s very hard to remove and it doesn’t look pretty.
When I got my bowl of […]

The Paris Blog held its first get-together last night, a party that doubled as a housewarming for the blog’s HQ on Rue Nobel in Montmartre.

No shit—you’re the person behind No Place Like It?

I do Mostly Nonsense.

BFF!

Rik from Metropole Paris takes a group pic. But he had the best pose!

Susie Hollands (from I V Y […]

I was at the cheese store picking up some Saint-Félicien and saw that the woman standing next to me was an acquaintance of mine. She was buying this and that, “Je vous prends un peu de…” and finally she pointed to the Mont-d’Or Vacherin. It’s a delicious runny cheese that, like certain wines, champagne and […]

Ingrid Betancourt is a Franco-Colombian lady who ran for Presidency in Colombia in 2002. Unfortunately, on February 23, that same year, she got abducted by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc, in French). Since then (that is, for 4 years now…), she is being kept prisoner somewhere in Colombia together with 4 000 other […]

The Boy and I have been having lots of fun over the last 72 hours. One of us (me) had the great idea to change our telephone/internet plan. Instead of paying God-knows-how-much for our phone, and then 35 euros/month for our internet, I suggested we mesh the two and sign up with Neuf Telecom. They […]

…but I love it!

This weekend I went to a vegetarian meet-up that I found on Meetup.com. I got to the restaurant, and the hostess asked me which group I was with. When I said, “Avec meetup point com,” a very indignant fellow-veggie at a nearby table turned around and said in an alarmed voice and a heavy French […]