I heart Paris in the Springtime

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Very fun.

Here?

http://photov.wanadoo.fr/1/c/tbf/user=wophoto;uri=RQ5pjTFdjzZdlAZAJoG/n4p45stn0Q1NuwRKgnrwBEedv0iogAsPpi76dN7XB9c53+jcwBR6ukI=

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Looks like it! I can't tell from that angle. There was a semi-functioning jazz club on the ground floor and a small theatre over the street.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I did absolutely nothing but read, walk and watch movies. It was bliss!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

http://photov.wanadoo.fr/1/c/tbf/user=wophoto;uri=RQ5pjTFdjzZdlAZAJoG/n4p45stn0Q1N4RDMlXaAHb8WQybEb/nabSB6oN3xRnqp1Cl+UTGbre0=

I also lived here on the rue Jacques-Callot which was the setting for Zola's novel 'Thérèse Raquin' under it's old name, le passage du Pont Neuf.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

hm what happenned to my post. anyhow, i lived next door to here, where i got breakfast every morning, except saturday of course:

http://www.metropoleparis.com/2004/907/life907d.jpg

and it was a block away from l'as du felafel which is famous for being lenny kravitz's favorite felafel. they have signs and photos to prove it

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link

on rue des rosiers in the marais

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I can spend hours reading this

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/2707310549.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Phil, is that on Rue des Rosiers? My friend, Miles, and I used to go there on Sundays.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry, didn't see your clarification. That place is great.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, oh sunday afternoons were crazy. all the jewish teens would stand and pose and rev their motorbike/scooters.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

http://photov.wanadoo.fr/1/c/tbf/user=wophoto;uri=RQ5pjTFdjzZdlAZAJoG/n4p45stn0Q1NUWhie9QNK05b5D+XhHIJ/sXgo0sFRw5CcO0zGRFuGsI=

They used to have a bench outside.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I miss Chez Marianne on the Rue des Rosiers. That is where I discovered my great love for mezze.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link

i love how that street is jewish on the east side and gay on the west end. which was perfect for me seeing that most of my crushes are closeted jewboys.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:27 (nineteen years ago) link

errrrrm...

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:27 (nineteen years ago) link

le dictionnaire historique..that's what the homeless guys sell on the metro!!

i don't have any pictures of where i lived.

phil's use of "jewboys" bugs me.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link

errrrrm...

Stop it adam. You're married.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Not meaning to be flip, but some of my Jewish friends call each other "Jewboy".

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link

oh you're usually pretty easily bugged though. is it that offensive?

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2707310549/171-9377502-7209833

That street name dictionary was b-day present a zillion years ago.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link

From the Devil's Dictionary:

HEBREW, n. A male Jew, as distinguished from the Shebrew, an altogether superior creation.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

At least mine is.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link

All of this is subjective.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link

In the Jardin des Plantes, if you walk about halfway down the length of the park and turn to the left, there's a park bench that's almost completely shaded by an overhanging branch. It's nice to sit there and daydream or watch schoolchildren on excursions.

― youn, Thursday, 6 January 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link

But that was five years ago. I also like the Degas pastels at the Musee d'Orsay. The room they're in is all dark because they don't want the colors to fade.

― youn, Thursday, 6 January 2005 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm not easily bugged!

i just get the same vaguely queasy reaction to "i get crushes on jewboys" as i do to momus's "i really like the asian women."

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:05 (nineteen years ago) link

although i guess if curly black hair and six o'clock shadows turns you on, then there's no debate.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I spent three weeks here:

http://www.hostelz.com/pics/DSCF0084.jpg

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:25 (nineteen years ago) link

is that the mije? i spent a week there too

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I was going to ask if there was a book about the street names of Paris!

phil: yeah, it is.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Is that a nunnery, Rosemary?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 6 January 2005 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, I did stay with mostly girls.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 6 January 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link

That must have been tough.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 6 January 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I heart Paris in her video tape!

― CC72, Thursday, 6 January 2005 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.examiner.com/article/index.cfm/i/010505c_scoop

"Well, that's what she gets

Paris Hilton's jaw reportedly hit the floor when she crashed a party in Malibu on Saturday night and walked in to find guests huddled around a big-screen television watching a copy of her infamous sex tape."

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 6 January 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

look at all these guys talking about paris

anyone in paris, these days?

― RJG, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm in Barcelona, not Paris, but has anyone seen "Paris, je t'aime" - the absolute chimera of a film starring and directed by everyone? It made me fall in love with Paris again.

― danzig, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

haven't seen it but heard it was not good

you live in barcelona?

― RJG, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

It's wildly uneven and at times quite disappointing - esp Gus Van Sant and Wes Craven's parts, as well as a few of the French ones, also the film makes it seem like every second person in Paris is American - but because the shorts kept coming at you like shots of adrenalin, and because there were some genuinely great and wacky moments, it was a heady movie experience.

And yes, for the time being, I'm living in Barcelona.

― danzig, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

going to paris in early april .... anyone out there? favorite restaurants? can't-miss sights on a short three-day trip? (the next four days we'll be in prague)

we're staying in a hotel in the latin quarter near the sorbonne

any advice appreciated, merci!

― dmr, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 03:34 (sixteen years ago) link

It's been said before, but: catacombs.

― W4LTER, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm in Paris.

― admrl, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link

i'm not easily bugged!

i just get the same vaguely queasy reaction to "i get crushes on jewboys" as i do to momus's "i really like the asian women."

-- Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, January 5, 2005 7:05 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

Haha, you should meet my parents.

oh yeah Paris is supersympa.

― felicity, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

Piggybacking a stay in Paris in late April as my wife has s work conference, it's going to be so great, I love this city.

Can anybody advise, I plan to visit/photograph as many of the lovely passages in central Paris as I can, but are they all worth visiting?

― MaresNest, Saturday, 28 March 2015 13:33 (nine years ago) link

four years pass...

rough

Notre Dame, Paris, is on fire and it feels like the end of the world. pic.twitter.com/qYYk7ewipq
— Shiv Malik (@shivmalik) April 15, 2019

― ... and the crowd said DESELECT THEM (||||||||), Monday, 15 April 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link

#NotreDame Paris incendie https://t.co/3i36tym1nk
— Mathieu Bertolo (@MathieuBertolo) April 15, 2019

― ... and the crowd said DESELECT THEM (||||||||), Monday, 15 April 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link

Fuck, looks like it's a goner.

― Dan Worsley, Monday, 15 April 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link

astonishing.

― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 15 April 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link

Shit, hope they got everyone out.

― Matt DC, Monday, 15 April 2019 17:34 (five years ago) link

The spire was undergoing renovation so I wouldn't be surprised if it spread from there. It's tragic that such a thing could happen in spite of the painstaking precautions they no doubt took.

― pomenitul, Monday, 15 April 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link

oh my god

― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Monday, 15 April 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link

they've been doing work on the roof for a few weeks so this is probably connected to this.

I mean, a huge stone building is not just going to burn down. but the roof looks like it'll be gone. most of the top of the church, including the big spire, is only from the mid 19th century.

― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 15 April 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link

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